The Largest Awards Show in the State!
The 29th Elkhart Juried Regional exhibiton opens on Friday, October 12, and will continue through Sunday, December 9, 2007. This year the total awards to be given to artists will be $24,900 , with the $1,200 Best of Show Award donated in memory of the late Alice Akoglund . For the sixth year, a special Memorial Purchase Award will be given in honor of Mary Feddersen for Photography sponsored by Ron & Connie Monzey and Stuart & Paula Barb of Elkhart. The museum Staff and Trustees are grateful to these individuals for assisting in the growth of the collection while honoring the memory of these loved ones.
In addition to the above, many individuals and corporations help to make the Elkhart Juried Regional the largest (monetary awards) competition of its kind including the following Purchase Award Sponsors: Tom & Dottie Arnold, Baker & Daniels, Steve & Traci Bollero, Liz and Tom Borger, Brian & Jeanelle brady, Dr. Terry Bryant and Dr. Liz Elliot, Dr. Rick and Cindy Burns, Drs. Daniel and Linda Burns, Jack and Karen Cittadine, Todd & Christine Cornell, Stan and JUne Disher, Craig & Connie Fulmer, Ms. Tracy Jones, James & Neta Jones, Dr. Brian & Summer King, Mr. & Mrs. Brian Lake, Tim & Robyn Loughran, Dr. Wesley Mark and Dr. Mary Harder, David & Cynthia Marks, Mr. Darren Neer, Dr. David Regan, Paul Schultz & Margaret Forster, Dr. & Mrs. R. Daron Sheline, Dr. Bradley & Brooke Swanson, George G. & Abby Thomas, Warrick & Boyn, Robert Weed Plywood Corporation, and Bradley Vite Fine Arts.
Merit Awards this year will include the William & Jeanne Batten Award for Sculpture; D & M Glass Corporation; and the Christiana Smith Graham Award for Painting.
This exhibition is graciously sponsored by Lake City Bank.
MEMBERS, Guests, & Artists are invited to attend the OPENING RECEPTION for the 29th ELKHART JURIED REGIONAL on Friday Evening, October 12, 2007 from 7:00 to 9:00pm.
Fundraiser for The Muse of Music
The Midwest Museum of American Art is seeking funds to purchase, “The Muse of Music”, a 400 pound cast bronze sculpture by Harold “Tuck” Langland, Professor of Art Emeritus, Indiana University at South Bend. The sculpture has been on loan to the museum since 2004 and is located next to our beautiful 1912 Steinway grand piano. The decision has been made to purchase the “Muse” for $25,000 allowing the artist to recover his cost for casting and materials. We are excited to tell you that we are at more tham halfway to our goal and the “Muse” should belong to the museum by year’s end.
Thanks to the following donors for their generous gifts:
$20 – $249 Pat & John Bickart; Brian & Lisa Byrn; Marty & Wendell Culp; Jenannette Reedy; Willard & Alice Roth: Phyllis Warrick.
$250 – $999 Tom & Lois Dusthimer; Bradley Vite
$1,000 – $2,999 Bill & Katy Bissell; Drs. Dan & Linda Burns; Jack & Karen Cittadine; Tom & Dot Corson; Stan & June Disher; Mary Naquin; Phyllis & Dewey Welch
$3,000+ Ron & Connie Minzey
$10,000+ Cheryl Gruber Waldman
The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton 1930 – 1970 continues thru October 7
The painting, “Sheaves of Corn”, done in 1931 by Regionalist artist, Grant Wood, continues to tour from China to Moscow. The Midwest Museum of American Art is the only museum in Indiana to be asked to participate in the traveling exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum, New York. The exhibition, “Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation”, began its tour in Beijing and Shanghai, China. It was then requested to visit the Pushkin Museum in Moscow by the Russian/US relations. The exhibit is due to close in Russia by September 9 with an expected return of the painting by the end of the year.
“Sheaves of Corn” represents one of the flagship works of the MMAA Permanent Collection. With its current itinerary, the painting and the Midwest Museum of American Art in Elkhart, Indiana, will have attained global notoriety.
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The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to annouce future expansion of its American Art Pottery Collection. A major gift from R. Douglas & Barbara Grant will double in the size of the current Overbeck collection as well as add a significant number of Brown County pottery to the museum’s permanent collection. Currently, the museum contains the largest publicly held collection of Overbeck art pottery in the world. More information will be forthcoming in the next issue of the Museum Bullitin.
TRIBUTES
The Midwest Museum of American Art gratefully acknowledges gifts in honor or in memory of special friends. Notes of acknowledgement are sent by the Museum to those honored or to the families of those memorialized. Recent memorials include:
In Memory Of
JEANNE BATTEN (*by Christiana S. Graham)
VIRGINA BEARDSLEY (*by Paul & Betty Thomas)
ROBERT BOYER (*by Christiana S. Graham)
G. ED COMPTON (*by Christiana S. Graham, Geraldine Matin)
MILDRED HUNTER FILBERT (*by Christiana S. Graham)
WALTER HOLLAND (*by Nancy L. Brock, Jane Burns, Stephen & Jane Poe)
DR. MAX L. GERBER (*by Christiana S. Graham, Geraldine Martin)
FRANK LAPARA (*by Paul & Betty Thomas)
BETTY JANE MARTIN LAVRICH (*by Christiana Smith Graham)
JAMES L. MACUMBER (*by Byron M. Brady, Tom & Dot Corson)
AL J. SPAHN (*by Byron M. Brady, Willard & Virginia Chester, Dick & Anne Teckelo)
DELORES WATSON (*by Joan Grimes, Paul & Betty Thomas)
ROBERT WEED (*by John & Patricia Bickart, Richard & Patricia Beitelshees, Brian & Jeannelle Brady, Byron Brady, Jane Burns, Brian & Lisa Byrn, Tom & DOt Vorson, Wendell & Martha Culp, Margaret (Peggy) grant, Mary Helvey, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N. A., Patricia Morison, Charles & Cheryl Owens, Jr., William & Diana Reglein, Adrien & Celeste Ringuette, J.C. & Jeanne Wells, Mary Z. (Meege) Williams, Ken & Kathy Zienty
IN HONOR OF HELEN & MOE HEBB’S 55th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (*by David & Maria Solow)
(D.R.)