A Bi-Monthly nEWSlEttER By lonGViEW MUSEUM oF FinE ARtS WINTER 2011

Educate. Enlighten. Edify. Excite. Enjoy.

Magnetism of the CircleBURTON PRITZKER

“winter scene in east texas” by Dale Lindenberg – third Place, Landscape

2010 texas Bank and trust Photography contest

The dawn of each year brings an opportunity to chart a new course to find that road that will bring us

closer to our dreams.

Texas Rangeland & Other Series

Gallery Talk 6:30 PM

Members Only Reception 7:00 - 8:00 PM

Opera Performance 8:00 PM(free for museum members)

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215 E. Tyler Longview Texas 903.753.8103 www.LMFA.org

calendar of Events

JANUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 26

Burton’s Texas Rangeland & Other Series will be exhibited in Premier Gallery l and selections from his Pathfinder, Artifacts, Forgotten Planes and Metroplis series will be exhibited in Premier Gallery II.

Texas Rangeland & Other SeriesBlack & White Photography

@the core of my photography

lies the belief that “Everything is

also something else.” When I look

at anything through a camera,

I sense another world, another reality

beyond what I see. If the photograph

I take is successful, that ‘other world’

comes into being almost by magic,

a kind of alchemy. My aim is not to

record something, it is to reveal a

something else.

My focus is on the form and composition

of the subject, its placement in the

frame and the light that defines it.

Sometimes it is the quality of the light

itself or the absence of it, such as a

shadow, that seizes me. The focus may

also be on the emotional quality of

the form and light in their abstract

manifestations.

When the form, light and composition

are synchronous, in phase, there is

always a palpable feeling that tells

me I am on to something, at which

point I strive to simplify, to strip away

unnecessary elements that distract

from the essence of the experience.

I am called upon to tell a story and

convey a feeling with an economy of

means. Economy is power and I am in

its grip.

calendar of Events

inSiDE this issue

Every Tuesday, Wednesday* and Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. in the Premier II Gallery. Free to members and only $5 for non-members.*RESTORATIVE YOGA: 45 minutes of guided deep stretching poses (asana) and controlled breathing (prana). Pure relaxation!

YOGA

December 31 New Year’s Eve Pajama Party

January 15 - February 26 Burton Pritzker Texas Rangeland & Other Series Black & White Photography

January 21 Live Music Fine Arts Concert Series Featuring: Trout Fishing in America

February 12 Luncheon & Fashion Show Presented by the Friends Guild Food Provided by Lori’s Sweets and Eats 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

February 12 Wine Tasting First Sip 6:30 p.m. (FOR MEMBERS ONLY) Wine Tasting with Dinner 7:30 p.m.

march 5 - 20 Short Exposure Photography Show

march 25 Live Music Fine Arts Concert Series Featuring: Darden Smith

march 26 - aPrIL 30 51st Annual Student Invitational Ray Daniel, Juror Paintings in the Wrather Gallery

aPrIL 7 Downtown ArtWalk 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

may 14 “Cowboys and Indians” Works by Andy Warhol, G. Harvey, Gib Singleton, Earl Biss and selections from the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas

helps put the mmmm... in museummmm.

03 upcoming exhibit Invitation

05 calendar of events

07 Letter from the Director

09 Short exposure Photography exhibit

10 new & renewed memberships

13 President’s column

14 Valentine’s Day Luncheon & Fashion Show

15 Valentine’s Wine Tasting

16 niki’s note

19 Live music concert Series

20 Letter from the Guild President

21 breakfast with Santa

22 holiday Tea room & market

24 Gift Shop Treasures

25 memorials

26 membership renewal Form and annual Giving

Volume XV, Issue 1 WINTER 2011

PhOTOGRAPhY Paul Anderson, Marc Bailey, Niki Blaske,

Mike hawkins, Chip Peralta, Jo Popma, Sam Smead, Jim Tilley and John Wrather

EXhIBIT is published Bi-Monthly as a benefit for Museum members.

This project is sponsored in part by a grant from the City of Longview Commission on Arts and Culture.

DESIGN

STAff

EXECuTIVE DIRECTOR Renee hawkins

ASSISTANT TO ThE DIRECTOR Michelle Newby

ART EDuCATION DIRECTOR Niki Blaske

OuTREACh & DEVELOPMENT Patricia Jersild

WEEkLY VOLuNTEERS Joyce Allen, Jamin Bickel, Larry Courington, Carrie Ellingburg, Steve ford, Calvin hally, Shireen Johnson, Pollie king, Don Mitchell,

Margaret Partin, Noble Roberts, Bill Schroeder, Isabelle Seeger, Beverly Sheveland, Valencia Smotherman, hilda Stuker,

Sylvia Turk and Dantia utsman

Jane AkinsBobbie Atkinson

Jack BarkleyBetty Bodenheim

Evelyn BoldingLinda Buie

Dr. David Brown Suzanne Cookhoward Dunnholly forbesClaire foster

Carolyn fox-hearneLou Galosy

Neal Garlandkenneth W. Grams

Shirley Griffin

John hillierkeith honey

Nancy JacksonTiffany Jehorek

I. J. “Pete” LamotheJack Mann, Jr.Andrea Mayo

Stephen McDanielNancy Ivy MobleyGordon Northcutt

Ralph PelaiaBarbara Phillips

Eric RuffDorothy Robbins Skeans

Linda Ryan ThomasCharlotte Wrather

Advisory Board

ANuP BhANDARI

JILL BERNEY

JILL ChANEY

ShARON COX

MEL fISh

CINDY GRAhAM

ANNE huGMAN

INGRID JOhNSON

CAROL MANLEY

ELYSE McCOSkEY

GLENN McCuTChEN

AMY RIESTENBERG

LINDA STEBBINS

BRIDGETTE STONE

JIM TAChIAS

TROY ThIBODEAuX

JIM TILLEY

DANITA uTSMAN

ANA WALkER

ALEXANDRA WALTRIP

kAShA WILLIAMS

Board of TrusteesMission Statement

The Longview Museum of fine Arts is a non-profit

organization which seeks to create interest

in and promote knowledge of the visual arts throughout

the city of Longview and vicinity by exhibiting,

interpreting and preserving works of art and providing

educational opportunities to a diverse audience.

LMfA hours Tuesday - friday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturday, 12 noon to 4 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday

T 903.753.8103 f 903.753.8217 www.LMfA.org

fineart@LMfA.org

LMfA is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization operating for

the benefit of the public.

A $5 admission fee is charged for non members.

Children under 12 are admitted free.

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FROM THE DIRECTOR

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haPPy neW year! I hope 2010 was good to you, and I’m excited to share with you the upcoming events and exhibits for 2011 at the museum. We start in January with a black and white photography exhibit from Burton Pritzker–Texas Rangeland & Other Series in Premier I and selections from his Pathfinder, Artifacts, Forgotten Planes and Metroplis series in Premier II. Most of his work is a fresh take on an abstract view of everyday items. We’ll have some of his books on sale in our gift shop.

We welcome ten new board members this January! I’ll introduce them in our February newsletter, so we’ll look forward to that. Put February 12 on your calendar for the guild’s Valentine Tea Room and Style Show during the day, then that evening we’ll have our annual Wine Tasting! February will also be the kick-off for our annual membership drive. One of the projects in the works is to make sure members of the museum get special privileges. For instance, in December when we went to Crystal and Patrick Bowles house in Spring Hill for cocktails, next year Barbara Pool has offered her house. However, the cocktail portion of the evening will be FOR MEMBERS ONLY. We will also offer members 10% off all event tickets, so when the general public pays $75, you will only pay $67.50. It’s our way of saying thanks for being a loyal member of the museum and helping us maintain and keep going throughout the year.

In March, we’ll have our Short Exposure Photography Exhibit for two weeks, with an opening and closing reception. This year’s exhibit will be juried, with cash prizes awarded. That will move our 51st High School Student Invitational to open the weekend after schools get back from Spring Break. We hope in this way more students and teachers can attend the opening and see the prizes awarded. Our juror for that will be Ray Daniel, former curator of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, currently teaching at the North Texas State University in Denton. His contemporary paintings will be on display in the Wrather Gallery as you walk in the door, where we’ll have his gallery talk and award the students’ ribbons. This exhibit will be up through April.

You’re going to be excited about the Cowboys and Indians exhibit in May/June! Fourteen Andy Warhol prints will be on display from his “Cowboys and Indians” series, provided by a local collector. We will also have pieces from the Singleton - Biss Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe by sculptor Gib Singleton and painter Earl Biss, as well as pieces from Jack and Nelda Strong’s collection here in Longview. To finish out this exhibit, Cliff Vanderpool, director of the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas will be here to give a gallery talk and share pieces from their western collection. Cliff is the recent past president of Texas Association of Museums and I know you’ll enjoy hearing him speak.

Our East Texas Regional Art exhibit opening in July will feature the winner of March’s Short Exposure Photography exhibit on our newsletter’s front cover. That person, along with artists Shirley Blackman, Beverly Sheveland, Dennis O’Bryant, Stacy Deslotte, Connie Connally and Tony Reans will round out our show. It’s a wonderful mixture of talent that I’m sure you’ll love! This exhibit will remain up through our August 28 Casino Night at the end of the next month.

Remember the sculpture”Rock, Paper, Scissors” that we acquired and put on the Exhibit cover a few year’s ago? Kevin Box and Warren Cuellar collaborated on that piece, and they’ll both be bringing pieces for our September/October exhibit, including a 9’ rendition of “Rock, Paper, Scissors”! That should be an amazing exhibit, ending with our annual Spooky Art Show in October.

Then artist Nancy Lamb will round out our year with her beautifully vibrant party paintings. You can see examples of all of these artists’ works in our 2011 desk calendar that you should have received by now. If your case arrived crushed or broken, just let us know and we’ll replace it. Nancy’s painting is on the back of the August card to promote Casino night, as well as the month of December. But in 2012, our calendar will be all Nancy Lamb paintings for the entire year! We’re very excited about this project and look forward to handing these out to our members and visitors!

We try our best and know we can always do better next time, and are constantly trying to figure out how to do that. We want you to be happy with us, and we welcome your input. Thank you for your support as we look forward to 2011!

Sincerely,

Renee Hawkins, Director

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P H O T O G R A P H Y E X H I B I T

3rd AnnualSHORT EXPOSURE

The following have renewed their memberships or joined the

museum from October 15 - December 15, 2010. For those members with an asterisk beside your name,

we’d love to have your e-mail address!

BENEFACTOR Nancy Mobley

PATRONKeith and Diane Honey

AEP SWEPCO

Ralph and Anita Pelaia

SUPPORTERMartha and Robert Cargill

Lezli and Geoff Chappell*

Coors of Longview

Martha McIver

East Texans Against

Lawsuit Abuse

ADvOCATECrystal Bowles

Cathy and Gerard Cace

Susan and Michael Gill

Natalie and Mendy Rabicoff

SOBOL

Dianne Swank

Lorrie Thomas

CONTRIBUTORBrandy Armstrong

Liberty Tax Services

Genie and Jim Bartlett

Bartlett Fine Jewelry

Kathryn Booth*

Pat and Stephen Butter

Betty and Mike Clowers

Clowers Company

Claire Foster

Rebecca and David Houston

Ricky Ledbetter

Ledbetter Plumbing

Billy Martin

Shawn Mowles

Lisa and Billy Mullins

Cassandra and LeGrande

Northcutt

Karen and Kurt Ritch

ESA Consulting, LLC

Lana and John Robbins

Linda Robinett

DESIGNWORKS

George Thomas*

Becky and Ralph Warren

Lock Doc, Inc.

GENERAlJennings, Bryan and Priscilla Brennion*Alice and Jim CampbellJanis and Ray CottleKaren DeanMr. and Mrs. Vincent DulweberPeggy and Tony DuvallAngele and Tom Fanning*Holly and Scott ForbesMeg and Vance FreemanMr. and Mrs. Milton French*Sharon and Merle GrimesWalter Lee GuiceEllen and Frank HerbertTina and David HiettIva HolyfieldLou Anne and Bill HughesTim Lee*Kathy and Randall Northcutt*Lucy and Donald Peacock*Jerry Peisner Kathryn ReaganLinda and Douglas SmithMary Bob and Mike SmithBetty and Robert Sterrett

Kathy TittleJudy and Jimmy WalkerLanette and Jim Yancey*

INDIvIDUAlJaclyn Abernathy*Mrs. Henry AtkinsonJana Mitchell Bales Eleanor Colquitt*Rod Darden*Joyce EvansMs. Vera M. Garlough*Robert A. HarrisMec LacewellMr. Bob Lamon*Cindi-Marie LewisDonna MahurinGail Martin*Andee NortonSandra Palmer*Jan Pelton Smooth Body By JanKari Bishop PickeringEllen RemenchikSherry Kay RussellJo SkillmanVickie D. Steed Martha Thompson*Pat Wolfe

STUDENTMileah HallJesse Howell

COMPlIMENTARY Steve Bratteli* Hurwitz Mr. and Mrs. Gary Christy G. Christy’s, formerly Berry’s Framing

MEMBERShIPSNEW&RENEWED

Thanks for your support!10

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to see what’s happening in the local art scene.www.artslongview.orgBallet Symphony Orchestra Art Museum

Opera Symphonic Band Historical Museum

Children’s and Adult Theatre Group

Mall Wall Art These seven arts groups have banded together at

Longview Mall to show the community we have seven

great local artistic venues to follow. You can find the wall art

across from Hallmark where the Pretzel Time used to be.

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REALIZATION

Downtown merchants are committed to helping make Art Walk a success. This type of event helps with Longview’s renewed status as a Main Street City. The Main Street program encourages all downtown merchants and businesses to participate by exhibiting an artist, screening a film, or showcasing your own art collection.

For more information, visit ArtWalkLongview.com

Get creative - it’s art night!

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PRESIDENT’S COlUMNPut on your seat belts and enjoy the ride because 2011 has many fun and interesting things in store. The LMFA staff and Board of Directors have been hard at work to present an exciting schedule of exhibits and events. Now all we need is YOU, our members, to complete the fun. Without YOU, our doors would be closed and the lights would be off. YOU are the heartbeat of the museum, our raison d’etre.

I am honored to have the opportunity to serve as the LMFA’s new president. Our outgoing president, Frank Chaney, had an outstanding year. In, fact, Frank loved it so much he served as president for two years in a row. We owe him a debt of gratitude and will always love to see him grace our threshold. My goal this year is to maintain the upward momentum and continue to involve as much of the community as possible so that the museum serves as YOUR museum. With the help of a committed Board of Directors, active Friends Guild, outstanding staff, and YOU, anything is possible!

So, mark your calendars with the enclosed events and actively participate in all the museum has to offer. I have learned so much over the years during the gallery talks at the museum; the blending of the love of fly fishing and art, an artist’s rendering of African dreams that existed only through oral tradition, and even a nationally recognized artist and child prodigy that discovered that although she could not draw, she could paint. There truly is something for everyone.

The new front awning lights are flashing and we are looking forward to all that 2011 will bring!

Sincerely,

Cindy Graham

LMFA President

S P E C I A l

T H A N K S

We’d like to thank Wells Fargo Advisors, East Texans

Against Lawsuit Abuse and Bud Dunn for promoting and

providing support to us this year with our exhibits and

events. As always our board members and Friends’ Guild

do so many wonderful things in their spare time, and we

appreciate the many gifts of time and money that help the

museum run smoothly. Terry Hawkins, Jack Mann, Kasha

Williams, Danita Utsman, Anne Hugman, Nancy Mobley

and Charlotte Wrather have donated time and/or money

to special projects so we especially want to thank them,

and Frank Chaney for being our board president in 2010.

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Luncheon / style show

FEBRUARY

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You’re Invited to a

FIRST SIP Presented by board member Sharon Cox. 6:30 PM ....................................$50 per person(FOR MEMBERS ONLY)

WINE DINE The Wine Tasting will feature wines from Inwood Estates Vineyard. Dinner will also be served. 7:30 PM ....................................$75 per person

Name ______________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________

Phone _____________________________________________________ E-mail _____________________________________________________ PLEASE RESERVE: ____ places at the First Sip with Sharon Cox $_______ @ $50 per person ____ places for the Wine Tasting @ $75 per person $_______

____ LMFA Membership Look for membership levels at www.LMFA.org $_______

My check is enclosed. ______ TOTAL $_______ Please charge my Visa____ MC____ Discover ____ AMEX ____ #______________________________________Exp. Date:____________

Call 903.753.8103 or check online at www.LMFA.org for more information.

Please fill out, cut out and mail back in with the inserted envelope.

V A L E N T I N E ’ SV A L E N T I N E ’ S

Niki’s NotehaPPy neW year! I am So excITeD abouT 2011.

We’re hoping to add another canopy to our outside facade and put a

big ArtWorks logo over the old hardware building next door. We’ll be

moving the front door to the left side to make the space wheelchair

accessible. We’ll also have a wall inside thanking all of our donors for

making this project possible. There will be a space for children’s art

to be displayed, a huge classroom with concrete floors, skylights, tin

ceilings and best of all – a huge concrete sink for cleanup and real

public restrooms! This space will connect to the main museum through our art library and we’ll

have a modern lecture hall and meeting room in the back! The more we collect, the more we can

do and the sooner we can get going! If you’d like to help with this project, just talk to me, Renee,

Michelle or any of our board members.

We had a super Breakfast with Santa, as well as a wonderful Holiday Tea Room and Market. You

can see the beautiful tables decorated in different country themes accented by Marge Kimbrough

Dome’s dolls, and some of the market booths we had for our guests’ holiday shopping in this issue.

We do have some sadness to report with the loss of Carter Mayes, a young guest that was here

with his mom, brother and sister at Breakfast with Santa, who was killed later that day in a car

accident. We are also saddened by the loss of one of last years LMFA Student Board Members,

Jeremy Bethune, who represented Spring Hill High School. It is so hard to suffer the loss of loved

ones, especially over the holidays and we want to extend our sincere sympathy to these families, as

well as Advisory Board member Lou Galosy and his wife Jane Cunningham with the loss of their

daughter Lee in Taos at the end of November.

I look forward to 2011 being a year of healing, repair and growth.

Thank you for all you do for LMFA

Niki Blaske, Art Education Director

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – arISToTLe

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The Holiday Tea Room is now part of our memories, and what great ones we can recall later! There are so many to thank, and hopefully I won’t forget anyone. Beginning with:

• The many members of LMFA Friends who worked so hard to set up, serve and stayed to clean up

• To the members of the LMFA board who showed up in great numbers to help on Friday

• To Mary Murdoch for agreeing to chair the Holiday Tea Room this year

• To the LMFA Staff for all their support during the preparation and execution of the tea room

• To Adam Wagner and Perfect Catering for such delicious food every day

• To Charlotte and John Wrather, the backbone of the kitchen staff during the tea room; along with Janie Tate and Dawn Craig, from their office. • To the many designers who decorated such outstanding tables and really set the stage for our Christmas around the world. (Some have already asked about next year and suggested a theme, and have requested to design a table for next year.)

• To the musicians who entertained each day

• To Tom Bell and Patricia Newman from Kirby’s Wholesale who donated 10 dozen soup spoons to our tea room inventory

• To the vendors who added so much to our holiday spirit and offered such a variety of items for shoppers

If I have omitted any one person from my “thank you” list, I apologize and chalk it off to my tired brain that has not completely recovered from such a wonderful week!

Plans have been formulated for our next opening on January 15th. We are continuing our journey around the world and will be enjoying Italian food. Debbie Sadler has already selected a menu that promises no one will go home hungry!

The menu has also been planned for the Valentine’s Day Luncheon on February 12, 2011. Lori’s Eats and Sweets, from Gilmer, will prepare a three salad plate which will include chicken salad, broccoli salad, and fruit salad. I can attest that all three of these salads are delicious. Anything else that will be included will just be window dressing.

We still have a long list of items on the wish list, so look for it in this issue and see if you can help us out with anything. We are continuing to work on the organization of our pantry at the museum. We will be rounding up all serving dishes that have been brought to the museum for previous openings. Since our space is so limited for now, any of those items not claimed and taken home will be donated to some of the non-profit resale shops.

In closing, I want to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year. See you at LMFA next year.

Sincerely,

Danita Utsman, President, Friends Guild

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We would like to thank all of those who

are responsible for making

Breakfast with Santa possible.

France

Italy

Spain ARCTIC – Debbie Sadler

Asia – Crystal Bowles

Austria – Jo Popma

Colonial America – Renee Hawkins & Michelle Newby

France – Jennie Coleman of Ooh La La Designs

Guatemala – Shirley Williams

Holland – Cherry Sikes of Colonial Village and Hamill's Florist

Ireland – Dr. Mary Andrews

Israel – Tiffany Jehorek and Carol Manley

Italy – Jack Barkley and Sharon Cox

Korea – Tena Crutcher, Cynthia Mills, Debbie Silverthorne (Zonta)

Scandinavia – Nancy Peralta and Lorrie Thomas

Spain – Marcia McDaniel

Arctic Colonial America

Guatemala

Asia

Holland

KoreaIsrael

Ireland

Scandinavia

Austria

Joyce AllenAnup Bhandari

Niki BlaskeDavid BrownFrank Chaney

Jill ChaneyDawn Craig

Peggy DuVallRobin Fruia

Mel FishCindy Graham

Lucinda HamiltonBarbara HawkinsRenee HawkinsTiffany JehorekDonna KearnsSimone Kibbe

Jane LewisCarol Manley

Glenn McCutchenCarol Meyer

Nancy MobleyMary Murdoch

Michelle NewbyMargaret PartinNancy PeraltaSally RathbunIsabelle Seeger

Jamie SharpCarlyn Short

Wanda SinclairJim TachiasJanie Tate

Lorrie ThomasJim Tilley

Danita UtsmanKasha Williams

Charlotte WratherJohn Wrather

We also like to thank everyone who helped out with the holiday

tea room like our cute little Suzy along with:

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• M E M O R I A L S •

Without LMFA, there would be one less

venue for having weddings, receptions,

parties and music concerts in

town. And wouldn't downtown

be a little less lively without us?

What would our community

be without an art museum?

Ten lovely people volunteer

their time every week to come

greet visitors and give tours.

We open at special hours so school classes

can tour and do art projects. We offer classes

of many media during the summer for all

ages. Where would you go for those classes

if not here? Where could you see the most

recent art offered by both

regional artists and artists

worldwide by driving such

a short distance? Where

could you take your family

and friends when you need a

dose of culture? We have an

art library, holiday events and

opportunities for children and adults to grow

and learn and enjoy. Come by today and take

advantage of your local art museum!

STOP & SHOPStop by LMFA and shop from our wide selection of items:We have needlepoint kits on sale for $5 each.

Jewelry and small sculptures by “Dirty Pearls” are now being sold in our gift shop.

Dolls given by Marge Kimbrough Dome from all over the world are being sold in our gift shop.

Books by local historian, Van Craddock, are being sold in our gift shop for $21.99.

We also have crosses by CeCe Bode and Charles Arnold, jewelry by James Hayes and CeCe Bode, beautiful glass vases by Raymond Rains and so much more.

WHERE WOUlD YOU GO?

We have a great gift shop that supports artists’ books,

jewelry and art.

GifT SHOP Treasures

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• M E M O R I A L S •

AMELIA LEE CUNNINGHAM1952 - 2010

CARTER kEITh MAYES2004 - 2010

Carter was a guest at

LMFA for the 2010

Breakfast with Santa.

JEREMY GLENN BETHUNE

1991 - 2010Jeremy was on the LMFA

Student Board in 2009-2010

representing Spring Hill High School.

Lee Cunningham was a great

artist. I’m so proud we were

able to show her work here in

the 2008 East Texas Regional

Artists exhibit. She had a flair

for the exotic and eccentric,

as shown in her masks she let

us borrow for the Halloween

Spooky Art show as well as a creativity that came out in her sculpture and paintings mixed with

her socks, undershirt or whatever she decided to add to the canvas while she was working. She

was on her way to proving herself in the artists’ mecca, Taos, NM, when she was taken too soon

in a car wreck at the age of 58. Lee, we will miss you and all of the talent that lies within you.

Jane and Lou our sincere sympathy for your loss.

Amelia Lee Cunningham (left), along with her mother Jane Cunningham (right) and her stepfather Lou Galosy (far right), attending an event at LMFA.

IN MEMORY OF AMElIA lEE CUNNINGHAM

by Marjorie Bivins

by Shirley and Clint Blackman

by Kitty Booth

by Mr. and Mrs. George Buckstaff

by Pat and Stephen Butter

by Eleanor Colquitt

by Claire Foster

by Mary and Harold LeTourneau

by Mrs. John W. Turk

Longview Museum of Fine Arts would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of Amelia Lee Cunningham, Jeremy Glenn Bethune and Carter Keith Mayes.

Treasures

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Please remember as a member of LMFA you can come here for free and bring a guest – your

membership is a marker of your dedication to the arts and your community. Without your

support, it makes it very difficult to pay the monthly insurance, utilities and salaries, much

less be able to plan and carry out programs. We could not plan wine tastings, casino nights,

street dances and galas without your support! We also could not maintain our sculpture

garden without your support! So take advantage of the wonderful food and drinks our

dedicated guild provides at the private artist receptions six times per year for members only.

SUPPORT lMFA

A gIft in honor or in memory of a loved one is truly a living tribute. It honors the person and is an investment in the museum and in our community by supporting the museum.

A trIbute is a great way to honor a person or celebrate a significant accomplishment and, in addition, is a meaningful gift to give to the person "who has everything" or is hard to buy for.

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