July, August, September 2013

MFA Transformed: A Landmark Renewed

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Director’s Welcome

Dear Friends,

This summer you can visit our national parks – at the MFA. Curatorial Assistant Sabrina Hughes has organized the stunning Pleasure Grounds and Restoring Spaces: Photographs of our National Parks. This exhibition features some of the best images in our collection by the likes of Ansel Adams and Florida’s own Clyde Butcher and Jerry Uelsmann.

Color Acting: Abstraction since 1950 is just as impressive. As the title suggests, this exhibition is bursting with color. Katherine Pill, our new Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, has taken a fresh look at our collection and has borrowed several cutting-edge, contemporary works. This show will change the way you perceive and experience color.

We also have a wealth of summer programs – our Marly Music concerts, our Dinner and Jazz Series, Coffee Talks with the ever popular Nan Colton, and UNCHartED: Random Acts of Culture on Thursday night, including “The Great Outdoors” on July 18. Bring the entire family for the fly-fishing demonstrations, campfire stories, music, and more.

As you probably know, we are in the midst of renovating and transforming our galleries, The Great Hall, and the Marly Room in the original building. At the end, we will reinstall our extraordinary collection. The art – and our interior – will shine.

We could not present so many exciting exhibitions and educational programs without the support of you, our members. You have already received a letter asking you to contribute to Annual Giving, and many of you have already responded – generously. Thank you so much. If you have not yet donated, please consider sending your gift today. We need your help.

I look forward to seeing you at the Museum.

Sincerely,

Kent LydeckerDirector

On the cover:Magical light will illuminate The Great Hall by

the end of the renovation project.Museum Photographs: Thomas U. Gessler and Bridget Bryson

Stuart Society President Charlotte Kendall (left) presents the historic check to President of the Board Howard Mills and Curator of Public Programs Anna Glenn at the final general meeting of the season on May 16. This impressive

contribution will support exhibitions and educational programs.

Entire families enjoyed Painting in the Park on April 28 on the north lawn. Singers from Opera Tampa performed. Amley and Amley Orthodontics was the sponsor. All

Museum educational programs are supported in part by The Stuart Society.

New Summer Admission Fees

The Museum of Fine Arts is opening its doors – wide – this summer. Admission is now $10 for everyone through September 30, 2013. Groups of 10 or more adults pay only $8 each and groups of 10 or more students, $4 per person.

On Thursday nights, when the Museum presents “UNCHartED: Random Acts of Culture,” college students with current I.D. pay $5 or can buy one admission, get one free.

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The MFA is renovating the galleries housing our distinguished collection. We are replacing tired and worn carpeting and wall-coverings. In select galleries, solid-wood floors will shine.

Lighting will be enhanced and made more energy-efficient. The interior of the original building, designed by John Volk and Associates, will be revitalized. Museum Founder Margaret Acheson Stuart (1896-1980) played a major role in designing “a museum for St. Petersburg.” The galleries in The Frick Collection in New York were her inspiration. Striking details, hidden for many years, will once again emerge. Just a few follow:

• The Great Hall has a skylight. Magical light will enter this space, providing a link to The Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory.

• Scrims will be removed on the windows facing Beach Drive, revealing artistic grillwork. Filtered light will enter the galleries and strategic lighting at night will encourage pedestrians to look inside.

• The Marly Room, added in 1974, has a window at the back of the stage that will be restored, giving this elegant lecture and concert hall a new personality, but one that harks back to the original architecture.

• The ancient Antioch mosaic will be installed on a wall, receiving the attention it deserves.

The goal is to open up the Museum to its spectacular setting and to spotlight the collection like never before. The MFA’s treasures will be reinstalled in fresh, imaginative ways. More African and ceramic art, to name just two areas, will come out of storage. The spaces and lighting will enliven the art.

Design AdvisorThe Museum has reached out to one of the most respected designers in the field to guide this project. Jeffrey Daly, now leading his own firm, was the former Chief Exhibition Designer and Senior Design Advisor to the Director at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for more than 28 years.

Mr. Daly worked closely with the legendary Philippe de Montebello and led the famed renovation and installation design of the Greek and Roman galleries. Architectural Record wrote that “the Met’s new Greek and Roman Galleries by Jeffrey Daly, sun-flooded and majestic, merit a high place among recent museum successes.” He did similar honors for the galleries of Egyptian art, twentieth-century works, and Southeast Asian and Chinese objects, and collaborated with curators on more than 1,000 exhibitions. His designs for Diana Vreeland’s major costume shows received rave reviews, and he produced the installation design for Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.

In addition, Mr. Daly has led consultations and projects for Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, also in that city; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina; and the Miho Museum in Kyoto, Japan, where he consulted with the great architect I.M. Pei. He was involved in the premiere installation of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and is the annual designer for New York’s Winter Antiques Show.

The ancient Antioch mosaic, weighting approximately 1,000 pounds, had to be moved to renovate the galleries. It is now safely resting below the Marly Room stage.

The windows facing Beach Drive will once again let in filtered light and reveal beautiful grillwork. Generous supporter Arlene

Fillinger Rothman, who has underwritten the restoration of the windows, is pictured with Facilities Manager J.P. Fatseas.

Get InvolvedMake a DifferencePlease join us as we transform the original building. There are many giving levels for individuals, corporations, and foundations. As the gifted American artist Robert Henri wrote: “Art when really understood is the province of every human being.” Please contact Associate Director for Advancement Don Howe for more information: don@fine-arts.org or 727.896.2667, ext. 231. All queries will be held in the strictest confidence.

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Pleasure Grounds and Restoring Spaces: Photographs of our National ParksThrough Sunday, October 6

At once seemingly untouched and ripe for development, the American landscape has always fueled the imagination of artists. In the face of rapid industrialization, President Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and naturalist John Muir (1838–1914) led the urgent call to protect America’s bounty.

I want to show people that there is a unity between all undisturbed natural places, whether the peak of a renowned mountain range or a steam-bed in an urban watershed.

— Clyde Butcher

Photography not only inspired conservation, but also popularized new tourist sites, aligning nature with American values. Many photographers like Ansel Adams, who is represented by four of his most stunning and famous photographs, have been very influential in defending our environment.

Pleasure Grounds and Restoring Spaces, organized by Curatorial Assistant Sabrina Hughes, primarily features images depicting national and state parks and landmarks. The earliest date from the 1860s, including albumen prints by Carleton Watkins, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, and William H. Jackson and an ambrotype of Niagara Falls by Platt D. Babbitt. These images were created to elicit and satisfy the curiosity of the public and for government and commercial topographical surveys. For the first time, spectacular Western sites were seen by a wide audience largely unable to travel to these destinations.

Iconic vistas by Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter urged viewers to heed the call of conservation. Aaron Siskind and Brett Weston abstracted elements of the landscape, narrowing the focus and offering a modernist perspective. Jerry Uelsmann, who established the photography program at the University of Florida, and John Pfahl impose their own style rather than recreate popular views. Florida meets the West in Uelsmann’s richly imaginative Flamingos Visit Yosemite (1985).

Floridian Clyde Butcher’s two large-scale photographs in the exhibition spotlight the state’s wild beauty – a beauty always under pressure from developers. His magnificent Ochopee #2 (1985) is of the greater Everglades, which has inspired some of his best and best-known work.

The exhibition spans a century and also reveals how key donors have built the Museum’s important photography collection. They include Carol A. Upham, Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee Drapkin, and more recently, Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew. Their passion for the art form has transformed the Museum’s entire collection.

Platt D. Babbitt (American, 1822-1872)Niagara Falls (about 1860)

AmbrotypeGift of Bonita L. Cobb in honor of Dr. Jennifer Hardin

CURRENT | UPCOMING | EXHIBITIONS

Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park,

California (about 1940, printed about 1970)Gelatin silver print

Museum Purchase with funds provided by National Endowment for the Arts and Fine Arts Council of Florida grants

Photo used with permission of The Trustees of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. All Rights Reserved.

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Color Acting: Abstraction Since 1950Saturday, July 6-Sunday, September 22

Painting is color acting. The act is to change character and behavior, mood and tempo.

— Josef Albers

Painter, teacher, and color theorist Josef Albers (1888-1976) wrote that “color is the most relative medium in art,” as there are endless factors that change the way we experience it. Color is never seen as it “really is.”

This exhibition examines what Albers has called the “discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect” in the experience of color. Technically, we see color via photoreceptors in our retinas. But that does not encompass the psychological effects of color or its inherent optical illusions.

Drawn primarily from the MFA collection, Color Acting presents both formal and more expressionistic explorations of color. Many works encourage a sense of viewer participation. Gene Davis (1920-1985) urges the audience to “enter the painting through the door of a single color, and then you can understand what my painting is all about.” His work also has a musical dimension. The vertical lines in his large canvases can be seen almost as piano strings, and there is a rhythm to his oeuvre.

Like Davis and Albers, Israeli artist Yaacov Agam (born in 1928) was represented in the famous Op Art exhibition The Responsive Eye (1965) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which examined modes of visual perception. Agam’s two prints in Color Acting reveal his vibrant palette and playful sense of pattern.

The two contemporary photographers with works in the exhibition – Jessica Eaton (born 1977) and Jessica Labatte (born 1981) – engage explicitly with the theories of Albers. Eaton’s cfaal 279 (2012) depicts multicolored nested cubes that recall Albers’s Homage to the Square series. But her work has a hazy glow and an imprecision to the geometry, indicating her own intricate approach.

Labatte’s Cross Processed series refers to Albers’s legacy as a color theorist and teacher. Cutting up Color Aid papers (a teaching tool popularized by Albers) into variously sized triangles, she creates small, abstract compositions using harmonious color techniques. After photographing these compositions, she “cross-processes” the film, resulting in unexpected color combinations. She subverts conventional color theory and achieves surprisingly beautiful results.

Color Acting also features work by Richard Anuskiewicz, Ilya Bolotowsky, Leon Berkowitz, Norman Bluhm, Martin Canin, Robyn Denny, Helen Frankenthaler, Stanley William Hayter, Hans Hinterreiter, Fredric Karoly, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Joan Mitchell, Ludwig Sander, and Frank Stella. Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, has organized the exhibition – her first at the MFA.

Josef Albers (American, born Germany, 1888-1976)I-Sj (1973)

Silkscreen on paperGift of Linda H. Brink

©2013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jessica Eaton (Canadian, born 1977) cfaal 279 (2012)

Archival pigment printCourtesy of M+B Gallery

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Mixing Metaphors: The Aesthetic, the Social, and the Political in African American Art, Works from the Bank of America CollectionProvided by Bank of America’s Art in our Communities Program

Opening Saturday, October 5

Carrie Mae Weems’ compelling photograph May Flowers (2002) is featured in this important exhibition of more than 90 works by 36 artists. This is the largest exhibition of African American art ever presented at the MFA. The image is courtesy of the artist and the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

Corporate, Foundation, Government, and

Individual SponsorsThe Museum is grateful to the following organizations and individuals for supporting exhibitions, educational programs, and operations:

President’s Circle ($100,000 and above)The Stuart Society of the Museum of Fine Arts

State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and

Culture

Benefactors ($50,000-$99,999)Tampa Bay Times*

Patrons ($25,000-$49,999)Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club*

Sponsors ($15,000-$24,999)Bank of America

Ceviche Tapas Bar and RestaurantArlene Fillinger Rothman Fifth Third Private Bank**

Wells, Houser & Schatzel, P.A.*

Partners ($10,000-$14,999)City of St. PetersburgTampa Bay Lightning

Sustainers ($5,000-$9,999)Destiny Transportation*

Franklin Templeton Great Bay Distributors*

Northern TrustPolywogs

RBC Wealth ManagementSterling Research Group, Inc.*

Westminster Communities of St. Petersburg

Associates ($2,500-$4,999)Dr. Edward and Mrs. Margaret Amley

Cowles Charitable TrustHype Group, LLCJabil Circuit Inc.

NAC Design & Distributing SolutionsMrs. Mary L. Shuh

U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management

Contributors ($1,000-$2,499)Amley & Amley Orthodontics

The Frank E. Duckwall FoundationOlympia Catering & Events*

Please contact Director of Development Brooke Manetti at 727.896.2667, ext. 250, or via email,

bmanetti@fine-arts.org, to learn more about the benefits of becoming a Museum sponsor.

*In-Kind Donation**Partial In-Kind Contribution

Board of Trustees 2013Mr. Clark MasonMrs. Glenn MosbyMr. Cary P. Putrino, J.D.Mr. Frank J. (Sandy) Rief III, Esq.Mr. Robert B. StewartMrs. Jean Giles WittnerMr. Anthony Zinge, J.D.Mrs. Margaret Amley,

President, The Stuart SocietyDr. Kent Lydecker, Director

Honorary TrusteesMrs. Isabel Bishop, Honorary

Memorial TrusteeMr. Seymour A. Gordon, Esq.Mr. Charles HendersonMrs. Nomina Cox HortonMr. Peter ShermanMrs. Carol A. Upham

Executive CommitteeMr. Howard Mills, J.D.,

PresidentMr. Marshall Rousseau,

President-ElectMs. Ellen Stavros, SecretaryMr. Harold E. Wells Jr.,

TreasurerMr. Roy BingerMr. Robert ChurutiMs. Mary Alice McClendonMr. William H. Stover

TrusteesMr. Gary DamkoehlerMrs. Royce G. HaimanMrs. Hazel C. HoughMr. Jackie Joyner Jr.Dr. William D. Law Jr.Mr. Mark T. Mahaffey

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Store SpotlightGames, puzzles, art activities, and books will keep your children engaged during the summer. The Store has some of the most imaginative gifts for children in the Tampa Bay area. A Coloring Book: Drawings by Andy Warhol is ideal for young children and budding artists. These drawings were created for fashion advertising. Think tanned snakes, alligators, and lizards. Think leather goods. Remember Andy’s drawings and prints of shoes?

These drawings are fanciful, not scary. As Warhol himself suggests, “You will want to frame these or perhaps send them to someone you want to make happy.” This coloring book will definitely make children – and adults – smile.

The Store’s choice selection of books includes photography collections by Florida’s own Clyde Butcher and Carlton Ward Jr. Butcher’s Apalachicola River: An American Treasure is gorgeous and serene, and Ward, an eighth-generation Floridian from a pioneering ranching family, documents Florida Cowboys: Keepers of the Last Frontier. Most Floridians will be surprised by the state’s cowboy culture, captured brilliantly in Ward’s images. Watch for announcements of book-signings in the coming weeks and go to the second floor to see two of Butcher’s large-scale photographs.

The Store is open throughout the Museum’s summer renovation. If you have not seen the Store lately, you have not seen the Store, where you can find diverse works by local artists – from Duncan McClellan’s glass art to Sarah Thee Campagna’s CyberCraft Robots. And don’t miss the annual Beach Drive Sunrise Sale on July 18.

LECTURES | TALKS | SPECIAL EVENTS

Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and visit our website for updates on educational programs. Support is provided in part by The Stuart Society, the MFA Education Committee, Westminster Communities of St. Petersburg, an anonymous donor, and the City of St. Petersburg.

Lectures and Gallery Talks

FREE with Museum admission

Assistant Curator of Art after 1950 Katherine Pill on Color Acting: Abstraction Since 1950Sunday, July 14, 3 p.m.

Ms. Pill introduces her first exhibition at the MFA. She is committed to making contemporary art accessible to and enjoyable for everyone and has taken an active role as an educator and writer. She holds a dual MA in art history, theory, and criticism and arts administration and policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Panel Discussion with artists Jessica Eaton and Jessica Labatte, chaired by Ms. PillFinal Day of Color Acting, Sunday, September 22, 3 p.m.

Both artists, represented in Color Acting, discuss their work, the larger implications of the exhibition, and the influence of Josef Albers. Ms. Eaton has shown her work around the globe and has created public art installations, including Flash Forward Festival 2010: Cubes for Albers and LeWitt in Boston. She received the Photography Jury Grand Prize at the 2012 International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères, France and her work has

Students from the “Journeys in Journalism” project involve Director Kent Lydecker and Director of Development Brooke Manetti in one of their assignments. The students produce their own

news magazines. The Museum displayed some of the students’ photography at the “Through Our Eyes” reception on May 2.

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FREE sample of Margaret Ann’s Gourmet Cookies. This snack is available for Art Bite guests only.

August 12: Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, on Volumes (1972) by Richard Anuskiewicz.September 9: Mary Szaroleta, Associate Curator of Public Programs, on Platt Babbitt’s Niagara Falls (about 1860), an historical perspective. October 14: Director Kent Lydecker on a selection from Mixing Metaphors.

A Colorful PartyThursday, July 11, 6-9 p.m.Members Free, Guests $10 each

See Color Acting and enjoy delectable bites by Ceviche Tapas Bar & Restaurant. Cash bar will be available. DC9V + Bradley Kokay will present an improvisational, mixed-media performance, exploring the relationship of color to sound. Complimentary valet parking on Beach Drive. RSVP: reception@fine-arts.org or 727.896.2667, ext. 210.

HOT GATHERINGSCOOL CONVERSATIONSA DMG Visiting Glass Artist Series

Sponsored by The Duncan McClellan Glass Project

Sunday, September 15, 2 p.m.: Hyungsung Cho and David Thai

Mr. Cho has taught and exhibited widely in Korea, Japan, and the United States and has received numerous grants, scholarships, and awards. He earned his MFA in studio glass from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, his MA in glass design from Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea, and his BFA in environmental design and plastic arts from Namseoul University in Chon-an, Korea.

been reviewed in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the British Journal of Photography, among many other publications.

Ms. Labatte has had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Humble Arts Foundation in New York. She has been represented in a wealth of group exhibitions, including The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. She has been a “Critic’s Pick” in Artforum. Ms. Labatte holds both her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton

Sponsored in part by:

Second Wednesday of the month.Free with Museum admission.

The Museum’s popular performing artist-in-residence continues her entertaining presentations. Ms. Colton, a crowd favorite, writes her own scripts, inspired by special exhibitions, the Museum collection, and themes and people related to both. Enjoy refreshments at 10 a.m., Ms. Colton’s performance at 10:30, and a general docent tour at 11:15.

July 10: “Summer Shorts – A Seasonal Tale,” held in the Bayview Room on the second floor.August 14: “Georgia O’Keeffe in Yosemite: It takes time to see”September 11: “Frida Kahlo – I Paint My Own Reality”October 9: “Mixed Metaphors – Memories of Growing Up in South Africa”

Monday Art Bites

Second Monday of the month, 1 p.m.Free with Museum admission.

Sample treasures from the collection in these 30-minute talks. Then stay for the 2 p.m. docent tour to explore more of the MFA’s stellar collection. On your way out, visit the MFA Store for a

Artist and educator Valerie Scott Knaust introduces students and parents to the MFA collection in

the “Magic Carpet” program. This

year-long initiative also helps pre-K and

kindergarten students develop linguistic

skills. Students lead their parents on a

tour at the end.

Visitors enjoy the poetry reading in the Membership Garden on May 9.

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Mr. Thai emigrated from Vietnam in 1985, is now an instructor of glassblowing at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, and has shown his work in both Canada and the U.S. He graduated from the Crafts and Design Glass Program at Sheridan College in Canada.

Sunday, October 13, 2 p.m.: Susan Rankin and Rob Stern

Ms. Rankin, an instructor at the Haliburton School of the Arts in Ontario, draws her forms in charcoal first and has been inspired by classical forms, select decorative arts, and the history of glass itself. She is represented in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, and Flemish Centre for Contemporary Glass Art, among others.

Mr. Stern’s aesthetic resides where humans and nature interact, between random organic patterns and angular hewn planes. His work pushes the traditional boundaries of the medium. He has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Miami, and San Jose State University. He conducts regular workshops at the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, Turkey and at the famous Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, where he is a teaching assistant.

Team “Picasso” was the winner of the Museum’s first trivia night, part of UNCHartED’s Use Your Noodle evening. They are (left to right) Averill Summer, Juliana Gonzalez, and Robert Summer. Special thanks go to Alesia Restaurant for providing the delectable bites.

Gather with movers, makers, and forward thinkers to get an offbeat art fix or to pick up a creative craft. A wine/beer cash bar and delectable bites add to this fun Thursday night out. UNCHartED is included in regular Museum admission. College students with valid ID receive two-for-one admission.

Random Act 7.18.13: The Great Outdoors – Celebrate the national parks exhibition with saltwater fly-fishing demonstrations by Bill Jackson’s Shop for Adventure, S’more Cupcake demonstrations (6-7 p.m.), campfire stories (7-8 p.m.), music, and more.

Random Act 7.25.13: Watercolors – Looking for a fun night out with friends or your significant other? Paint with watercolors in the Museum. An instructor will be on hand.

For more UNCHartED events and updates, please visit our website. Random Acts are subject to change.

Youth & FamilyFirst and third Saturday of the month, 10 a.m.Ages three and older.$5 per personBring a towel or yoga mat.

Kidding Around Yoga utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories, and more. The class is designed for children, but families are welcome. Practicing yoga with everyone in the family creates a special bond.

MFA: Make and Take Saturday

Third Saturday of the month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Free with Museum admission. No registration necessary.For ages five and older.

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Entire families are welcome.

July 20: Gyotaku – Create your own fish print.August 17: Back-to-School Backpacks – Design your own back-to-school bag.September 21: Art Shades.

Family Tours

Saturdays, 11 a.m.

Bring the family for a docent tour that will open up exciting new worlds. Participants receive a postcard reproduction of a work from the collection to take home.

Ayanna Steele of Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School won the 2013 Artistic Discovery Best of Show. She is congratulated by (left to right): Susan Castleman, the Visual Arts Supervisor for the Pinellas County Schools; Shirley Miaoulis of Congressman C.W. Bill

Young’s office; Ayanna’s mother Shauntae Steele; and Director Kent Lydecker. Ayanna’s work will be displayed for a year in the U.S. Capitol.

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The Marly Music Series continues with two exciting concerts in August. Tickets are first-come, first-served and cost $20 for adults and $10 for students 22 and younger with current ID. Museum admission is included.

Marly Music Society members pay only $15 per concert. Please consider joining the group to support the series. You must be a Museum member to join. A special reception for Marly Music Society members only will be held after pianist Adam Neiman’s performance on August 25.

The Music Committee, chaired by Dr. Richard Eliason and co-chaired by Demi Rahall, plans the series. Vicki Sofranko is the staff coordinator. Concerts are sponsored in part by the Estate of Mrs. Elvira Wolfe de Weil, and the Tampa Bay Times is the media sponsor. For more information, please call 727.896.2667 or visit the website, www.fine-arts.org. The concerts are at 2 p.m. on these Sundays:

August 18 David Burgess, guitarOne of the world’s outstanding guitarists, David Burgess has won top honors in many international competitions and received the first Andrés Segovia

Fellowship. As a result, he received private classes from Mr. Segovia until the maestro’s death in 1987.

Mr. Burgess has performed around the globe and has been a soloist with the American Chamber Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York. With the Virtuosi, he recorded Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez on the CBS Masterworks label.

He began studying guitar at the Estudio de Arte Guitarrístico in Mexico City with the renowned Argentine guitarist Manuel López Ramos and earned his BA in music from the University of Washington. He was also awarded a Diploma di Merito on a full scholarship from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. At the Museum, he will play eight works, all by Brazilian composers.

August 25 Adam Neiman, pianoAdam Neiman began receiving standing ovations as a teenager. In 1995, he became the youngest artist ever to win the Gilmore Young Artist Award and the following year added the Young Concert Artists International Auditions to his long list of accomplishments.

Since then, Mr. Neiman has been a soloist with many major orchestras, including the Chicago, the St. Louis, San Francisco, Houston, and the National Symphony. His solo recitals have garnered critical praise internationally. The New York Times has written that “his technique is imposing…he balanced sheer power with a high sense of drama.”

His live performance of the Brahms Rhapsodies (Op. 79) at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival on NPR’s Performance Today was nominated for a Grammy. He was a featured artist in the PBS documentaries In the Key of G and Playing for Real, which also aired on Bravo and Ovation.

A two-time winner of The Juilliard School’s Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, he received the Rubinstein Award upon his graduation in 1999. That same year, he was honored with the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

A composer, as well as a performer, Mr. Neiman will play his Nocturne (2010) and his Étude-Caprice (2011) at the Museum. He describes the former as “dark, brooding, and pensive” and the latter as “a wild, fantastical, diabolical ride with non-stop motion.” He will also perform Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a Theme of Diabelli, Op. 120, and Ginastera’s First Piano Sonata, Op. 22.

Sixth Annual

Dinner & Jazz SeriesSponsored by

Friday evenings from July 26-August 30 at 6:30 p.m.Museum Members and guests, $5Nonmembers, $10Includes MFA admissionMFA Café will be open for dinner. For reservations, please call 727.896.2667, ext. 258, or 727.822.1032.

July 26: Dan McMillion and the High Octane QuintetA star of the Seabreeze jazz label, Dan McMillion leads these musicians who always live up to the name “High Octane.” His Jazz Orchestra recorded the Grammy-nominated CD Got the Spirit in Tampa.

Music in the Marly

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August 2: IMPROMPTUWith roots in gypsy jazz, this popular ensemble plays music ranging from bebop to bossa nova.

August 9: New York Guitar CatsAnother audience favorite, the Guitar Cats favor contemporary jazz and modern harmonies, with bebop, blues, and rock added for good measure.

August 16: Cannonball/Coltrane Tribute QuintetThis group pays a swinging tribute to two of the greatest jazz saxophonists ever – Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane.

August 23: Sasha TuckThis versatile vocalist, composer, and arranger has performed at more than 100 venues and festivals, including the Morton H. Myerson Symphony Center in Dallas. She has been influenced by

greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday and holds a master’s degree in jazz studies from the University of North Texas.

August 30: Stolen IdolsThe tropical mood jazz of Stolen Idols will take you to gorgeous beaches, South Sea islands, and Far East gardens – all in one night. You will never forget the journey.

New TrusteeSt. Petersburg native Clark Mason brings extensive financial and investment experience, as well as knowledge of the community and art, to the Board. He will serve on the Museum’s Development Committee.

Mr. Mason joined William R. Hough & Co. in 1996, where he served as a Vice President, establishing and managing relationships with private clients. In 2004, William R. Hough & Co. was acquired by The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). For RBC Wealth Management, he has continued to consult with and manage assets for both private clients and institutions. He began his career in 1993 as a Vice President with Bankers Insurance Corporation in St. Petersburg. In addition to his business experience, Mr. Mason has been an avid art collector and involved with arts organizations throughout his career.

Community involvement has been a priority for Mr. Mason. He has served on the boards of the St. Petersburg College Foundation and the Suncoast Children’s Dream Fund. He holds his BA in history from the University of South Florida, Tampa.

In memory of Macie Bush, mother of Glenn Mosby

David ConnellyMaggi McQueen

In memory of Martha ChiveDr. John E. Schloder and

Terence Leet

In memory of Fran DavisJoane Miller

In memory of Nancy EllisDr. John E. Schloder

In memory of Donna FraleighDr. John E. Schloder

In honor of Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert’s birthday

Bruce and Mary Ann MargerIra and Beverly Mitlin

In memory of Flora KennoyDr. John E. Schloder

In honor of Toni LydeckerSPYC Ladies Beach Club at

Pass-A-Grille

In memory of Frank NorthRep and Simone DeLoach

In memory of E.B. PorterMs. Gloria Lewallen

In memory of Paul Rousseau, brother of Marshall Rousseau

David ConnellyMarshall Rousseau In honor of Mel and Betty

Sembler’s 60th wedding anniversary

Dr. Sidney and Dotty Feinberg

Bruce and Mary Ann Marger

In memory of Lynn StricklandDr. Jack and Mrs. Marilyn

FriemanCharles and Frances Parsons

In memory of Herb Tempelmann, husband of Sheila Tempelmann

Jacqueline Ley and Dr. William J. Brown

David ConnellyLouise and John GarriguesIrwin and Patti NovackMary Shuh David and Carole Stein

Students from Blossom Montessori School for the Deaf dress as the artists they discovered in their visits to the MFA and the Salvador Dalí Museum. In the year-long “Strokes of Genius” program, the

students enhance their understanding of American Sign Language and Common Core standards through art. Do you recognize Jimmy Ernst, Martin Canin, George Bellows, or Paul Seide?

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The Stuart Society made history at the final meeting of the season on May 16. President Charlotte Kendall presented a $500,000 check – the largest ever – to President of the Board Howard Mills and Curator of Public Programs Anna Glenn to support educational programs and exhibitions. The two presidents and others recognized the dedication of officers, event and committee chairs, provisionals, and many members for working tirelessly to make this moment possible.

Even at this meeting The Stuart Society was looking ahead. Mrs. Kendall passed the gavel to Margaret Amley, the 50th president. Provisionals became active members and event chairs requested support. Tickets were already being sold for the SMartLY Dressed Fashion Show on November 8. The Stuart Society never takes a summer vacation.

In addition to Mrs. Amley, the new officers are: President-Elect Gail Phares, Vice President Maggi McQueen, Recording Secretary Jane Beam, Corresponding Secretary Sue Froid, Treasurer Ginger Grimes, and Parliamentarian Elise Minkoff. The standing committee chairs follow: Glenn Mosby (Ways and Means), Chris Hilton (Volunteer Activities), Carol Piper and Lynn Cox (Provisionals 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 respectively), Susan Lahey (The Scene), Carol Russell (Programs), Mary Evertz (Publicity), and Parsla Mason (Nominating).

The event and project chairs are: Carol Fisher and Elise Minkoff (SMartLY Dressed Fashion Show); Dimity Carlson, with Patricia Rossignol and John William Barger III as the contributing chairs (Wine Weekend); Kathy Whittemore and Jane Schaumberg (Affaires d’Art); and Lorraine Danna (the Brick Project). The 2013-2014 provisionals have selected the SMartLY Dressed Dress Rehearsal as their project. Natavidad (Nata) Cibran and Audrie Rañon are the chairs.

Dale Wybrow and Elizabeth Walters-Alison are the coordinating chairs of Art in Bloom 2014, and Betty Shamas will oversee the installation of the floral designs. Becky Wells, Gail Pyhel, and Whitney Shouppe are chairing “Flowers After Hours,” the preview party, and Glenn Mosby and Martha Buttner, the luncheon. The reservations chairs include: Chris Hilton (Affaires d’Art), Joann Barger (SMartLY Dressed), Gail Phares (Wine Weekend), and Nancy Dunn (Art in Bloom Luncheon and “Flowers After Hours”).

The stellar schedule features SMartLY Dressed (November 8, 2013) and Wine Weekend (February 7-9, 2014), as well as a wide variety of Affaires d’Art throughout the season. Art in Bloom is set for March 7-11. The Luncheon will begin the spring celebration on Friday, March 7, and “Flowers After Hours” will be held on Saturday, March 8.

Stuart Society President Charlotte Kendall (left) passes the gavel to Margaret Amley, the 50th president.

The new Stuart Society officers are (left to right): Parliamentarian Elise Minkoff, Corresponding Secretary Sue Froid, Recording Secretary Jane

Beam, Vice President Maggi McQueen, President-Elect Gail Phares, and President Margaret Amley. Not pictured is Treasurer Ginger Grimes.

The Stuart Society ProvisionalsThe Stuart Society and the Museum welcome these accomplished provisionals, an encouraging sign for the future.

2012-2013New Stuart Society Active MembersJane BaldwinJudy BistanyMary Lee HanleyGinny McCarthyKaren McCollumCary Thomas RahallKathy WhittemoreDenise Williams

2013-2014Shannon BortonElizabeth BradleySidney ChaneyJackie ChapmanNatavidad (Nata) CibranDeann CoopLinda DowPascale Durand

Stephanie Massari DyerShari EllisRebecca Nannen HearnLynda JollayPam LevittToni LydeckerDawn MacLarenMonica MasonCarol NelsonMary Jo NelsonMary R. RaineyBecky RamseyAudrie Cuddy RañonSusan ReiterCarolyn Hensley ReynoldsMaria (Toni) RicheRachael RussellStephanie S. SandersEvelyn (Eve) SawickiCarolyn K. Warren

The Plaza of Honorat the Bayshore entrance to the Hazel Hough Wing

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Preview Party

Saks Fifth Avenue, SarasotaWednesday, October 24

The 2013-2014 Provisionals ProjectTransportation from the MFA

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New MembersMarch 4-May 31

Director’s CircleEdwards, Bill and JoanneHough, William R. and HazelJames, Tom and MaryMahaffey, Mark T. and

Marianne

FounderCuster, William and Lori

SustainerJones, Peter and Marylee

BenefactorDonovan, GeorgeHolden, Reid and Shona

FriendHamilton, Amy and KatherineKlavans, Scott and JulieWerner, Joseph and Suzanne

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StephanieSembler, BrentSennott, LinnSilverman, JillSimmons, KellyShamas, JulieStull, AudreyTaylor-Clark,

LucianaTeal, JeffreyTendrup, AlisonTierney, PatriciaTownsend,

ShawnUpshaw, AbagailWarren, Carolyn

Robin Roberts, Director of Business Development for Ceviche Tapas Bar and Restaurant, presents a $16,000

check to Associate Director for Advancement Don Howe. Ceviche held a fundraiser for the Museum on May 16.

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Member Profile: David HoffmanMFA DocentSocial studies teacher for 30 years and then researcher and director of web publishing for the Anti-Defamation League

Q: When did you join the Museum and why?

A: My wife and I became members shortly after we moved to the area in 2006. We joined because the MFA is a terrific museum. It has a fine collection, interesting programs, and special exhibitions and is a very human-scaled place. We also believe in supporting the arts.

Q: Who are your favorite “top three” artists?

A: I don’t have a top three. I have very eclectic tastes. As a docent, I take tour groups through the collection and everywhere I look, I find something that I love.

Q: What do you like best about the MFA?

A: As I said, it is very human-scaled. But it’s not only the art. The MFA staff is wonderfully friendly and accessible.

Q: What do you enjoy most in the MFA Café?

A: If pinned down, I would say the croque madame, but the Café also makes a dynamite hamburger.

Q: What is one thing that would surprise people about you?

A: In 1996 I wrote one of the earliest monographs about how extremists use the internet.

Collectors Circle Elects New President

Seymour Gordon, one of the most respected and beloved figures in the Museum’s history, has been elected President of the Collectors Circle. He is a past President of the Board of Trustees and was named an Honorary Trustee in 2011 when he stepped down.

Mr. Gordon was first elected to the Board in 1994 to provide legal advice and later served as Vice President (1998-2008), working closely with then President Carol A. Upham. He was President from 2008-2011 and was then named an Honorary Trustee. He continues to attend nearly all Board meetings.

In addition, Mr. Gordon and his wife Susan completed the year-long art history class and docent training and have conducted tours since 2007. “I knew a lot about the Museum’s business affairs, but through the docent course, Susan and I came to appreciate the collection even more,” Mr. Gordon said. “It has also been rewarding to meet more of our visitors and to hear their reactions to the art in the galleries.”

Mr. Gordon is only the fourth president in the history of the Collectors Circle. Demi Rahall was the founding president (1995-2005), followed by Mary Alice McClendon (2005-2010) and Barbara McCoy (2010-2013).

The Collectors Circle has provided funds to acquire many significant artworks. Perhaps the most important is Childe Hassam’s The “Home, Sweet Home” Cottage, East Hampton, L.I. (1916) to celebrate the Museum’s 40th anniversary and the Collectors Circle’s 10th. Others have included Randall Davey’s Portrait of Paul Robeson (about 1920-1925), Fletcher Martin’s The Undefeated (about 1948), and Stiletto Fusion (2007) by innovative glass artist Michael Glancy. Individual members have also donated funds to acquire works that have filled gaps in the collection.

The Collectors Circle presents an impressive lecture series, sponsored by

Northern Trust and open to the public. The group also conducts study trips to other museums, galleries, auction houses, art fairs, and private collections, sponsored this year by RBC Wealth Management. At Collectors Choice, a spring gala, members vote on a work to enter the collection.

“I want to extend an invitation to all Museum members to join,” Mr. Gordon said. “You do not need to be an art collector. Education is a central part of our mission. We are all seeking to learn more about art and to do what we can to strengthen our collection. We especially welcome your participation and ideas as we approach the Museum’s 50th anniversary.”

Glass Conservatory Named in Honor of Mary Alice McClendon

Donor, trustee, and past Collectors Circle President Mary Alice McClendon received the surprise announcement from her son Bill at Collectors Choice XII on April 19 that the Conservatory was being named in her honor. Mrs. McClendon is one of the most generous donors in the Museum’s history.

The Conservatory, at 6,180 square feet, connects the original building and the Hazel Hough Wing and has opened up the MFA to its magical setting on the bay. It is now the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. Mrs. McClendon, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, and her late husband Doyle, a past trustee, provided substantial gifts for the construction of the Wing. Another link between the past and the future – the bridge on the second floor – is named for past Board President Carol A. Upham, a major figure in the life of the Museum.

Mary Alice McClendon looks at the proclamation announcing April 19 as Mary Alice McClendon Day with

St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster.

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“Mary Alice McClendon fell in love with this exceptional museum at first sight,” said MFA Director Kent Lydecker. “As a leader and an inspiration, she continues to have a major impact on the life of the MFA. The Board of Trustees and I now have the distinct pleasure to recognize her many contributions with this naming.”

Mrs. McClendon individually and with her late husband has given many important artworks to the collection. They include the MFA’s first work by Andrew Wyeth, Wisteria (1981), a watercolor, and Léon Bonnat’s Precious Moments (1880) and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre’s Portrait of Julia Foster Ward (1880), both large-scale paintings.

The McClendons also contributed extensively, along with others, to allow the Museum to acquire its first painting by Childe Hassam, The “Home, Sweet Home” Cottage, East Hampton, L.I. (1916). Mrs. McClendon gave a Japanese Meiji-period vase in honor of now Director Emeritus Dr. John Schloder upon his retirement.

Mrs. McClendon has gifted additional decorative art objects from around the globe to the Museum. They include a virtuoso cameo glass Lily Vase (about 1890) by Thomas Webb & Sons (British); a gilt bronze lamp/sculpture, Le Jeu de l’Echarpe (The Scarf Dancer), about 1900, by Agathon Léonard (French); and a polychrome plaster relief, The Orchid (Portrait of Mary Shephard Greene), about 1892, by Herbert Adams (American).

The collection has always been Mrs. McClendon’s priority. She holds a BFA in sculpture from the University of Oklahoma and her MFA from George Washington University. She has brought her education and creative spirit to bear on her role as a collector and as a member of the Museum’s Accessions Committee. She also serves on the Marly Music Committee.

Members of the Collectors Circle selected prints of poppies and an early twentieth-century book of flower studies at Collectors Choice XII on April 19. This year three groupings, instead of individual works, were presented. Photographs, prints, and a ceramic bowl centering on New Mexico and three contemporary works were presented, in addition to the poppies.

The prints of poppies range from the eighteenth to the turn of the

twentieth century. Jeannie Ford’s book was published in 1906. All will be part of The Poppy in Art, 1740-1940: Reality and Dreams, which Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin is organizing for the Museum’s 50th anniversary in 2015. This major exhibition was inspired by the Museum’s brilliant Poppy (1927) by Georgia O’Keeffe and will also feature works by Monet, Redon, Hassam, and Prendergast and decorative art objects by Gallé, Tiffany, and Lalique, among others.

And the Winners are

Collectors Circle Corporate and Foundation Sponsors

Astral ExtractsFifth Third Private BankHelen Torres FoundationNorthern TrustRBC Wealth Management

Pierre Joseph Redouté (French, born Belgium, 1759-1840)Poppy (about 1835)

Hand-colored stipple engraving on paperMuseum Purchase with funds provided by the Collectors Circle

(Left to right) Lauren Constantino and her husband Bill McClendon, Bill‘s mother Mary Alice McClendon,

and Lauren’s mother Debbie Constantino.

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Waves Clock To Capture Attention in the Conservatory

Michael Bell-Smith’s Waves Clock (2012) will be projected on a screen in the glass Conservatory. Generated by a unique software program, the work depicts bright blue waves crashing towards shore, with a generic white analog clock, keeping real time, meandering slowly across the scene.

These images each address the cycle of time, both natural and mechanical, but are visually disjointed to an almost comical degree. It is difficult to focus on either one without being distracted by the other – a fitting reflection on our media-saturated times. This innovative work was part of the contemporary group at Collectors Choice. Trustee Hazel and William R. Hough once again stepped forward with funds to acquire Waves Clock.

Sponsored by

Special Gifts in honor of Mary Alice McClendonLauren Constantino and Bill McClendon

Hazel and William R. HoughCynthia Astrack

Hillary Carlson ConeMardi Johnson

Monika and Fred MacFawnBarbara and Fred McCoy

Mary B. and Dr. Richard E. PerryDemi and Sam Rahall

Marshall RousseauDr. John Schloder and Terence Leet

Paulee SpringerCarol A. Upham

Lynell and Robert BellJacqueline Ley and Dr. William Brown

Bonita CobbSusan and Seymour Gordon

Helen HameroffWilliam Knight ZewadskiSimone and Rep DeLoach

(Left to right) New Collectors Circle President Seymour and Susan Gordon, Associate Director for Advancement Don Howe, and new Stuart Society President Margaret and Dr. Edward Amley. Both Mr. Gordon and Dr. Amley are past MFA Board presidents.

(Left to right) Trustee Hazel Hough, Marion Ballard, and William R. Hough at Collectors Choice XII.

Lynell Bell meets Neptune (Walter Bowen) at Collectors Choice. The theme was “The

Wonderful World of Under the Sea.”

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New and reelected officers were announced at the Annual Membership Meeting on May 6. They follow: Howard L. Mills, the new President, has served the last two years as President-Elect. Mr. Mills has impressive financial and administrative experience, as well as a great interest in art. He and his wife Bernadette are collectors of African American and contemporary art.

Since 2006, Mr. Mills has been Corporate Credit Manager and In-House Counsel for Tampa Armature Works, a dynamic “electric power solution” company with four subsidiaries and 15 sales locations throughout Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. From 1997-2004, he was Director of Financial Administration for the Columbia University Medical School’s affiliation at Harlem Hospital. In that capacity, he coordinated $70 million annual audits and monitored a $70 million contract with New York City. He also balanced a $70 million operations budget and oversaw an $8 million faculty practice plan.

Prior to 1997, he was Budget Director and Deputy Budget Director of Harlem Hospital. As Budget Director, he was responsible for a $250 million operating budget. He reviewed all cost reports for Medicaid and Medicare compliance and chaired the Patient Focused Care Initiative of the Departments of Surgery and Medicine. He has also worked for the New York City Finance Department, the New York State Labor Department, and the U.S. Census Bureau as the Assistant Director of the Brooklyn Region.

Mr. Mills is a 2007 graduate of the Leadership Tampa program, sponsored by the Tampa Chamber of Commerce, and continues to function as an alumnus. He is a U.S. Army veteran, reaching the rank of First Lieutenant. He holds his BS in business magna cum laude from Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York and his J.D. from the Rutgers University School of Law, where he was awarded a Distinguished Grade in Administrative Law.

Marshall Rousseau, one of the area’s most accomplished arts administrators, has been elected President-Elect. He was Director of the Salvador Dalí Museum from 1991-2002 and is now Director Emeritus. He renovated the Dalí to show more art, transformed the store, and initiated a lending program to bring works from museums around the world to the area. He dramatically increased the Dalí’s special exhibitions, attendance, and store sales.

Mr. Rousseau has also been President of The Florida Orchestra and recently, was Interim Director of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. He was influential in the search for a new director. He is an adjunct professor of museum studies and Director of Community

Collaboration in the Arts at Eckerd College.

Mr. Rousseau came to St. Petersburg in 1973 as Senior Vice President for Robinson’s of Florida, a fashion department store. He directed the advertising, public relations, special events, and visual merchandising division and partnered with many arts and community organizations. The store sponsored the Scholastic Art Awards, for example, which nurtured young artists, including Christopher Still. He began working at Robinson’s nine months before the first store opened and left 13 years later when there were 10 stores from Orlando to Naples.

Through his board membership, Mr. Rousseau has had an impact on nearly every major arts organization in the area. He has been Vice President of the Dalí board and a board member of the Ringling, Ruth Eckerd Hall, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and the Palladium Theatre, among others. He holds his AB in English, with a minor in philosophy, from Valparaiso University in Indiana, which has named him a Distinguished Alumnus.

The Stavros family seemingly has philanthropy and community service in their DNA. One of the Museum’s galleries is named in honor of Gus and Frances Stavros and family. Their daughter Ellen Stavros has been reelected Secretary.

For six years, Ms. Stavros was Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Florida House on Capitol Hill. In that role, she served as a key contact with Florida business, educational, and civic leaders in Washington, D.C. The Florida House, a nonprofit, serves all Floridians and is the state’s “embassy” in the U.S. capital. In that role, Ms. Stavros greatly increased private support to restore this unique institution to the black and to enhance educational initiatives. She worked closely with the Florida congressional delegation throughout her tenure.

Previously, Ms. Stavros served as Office Manager for Congressman Mike Bilirakis in Washington. She has also been a special events coordinator and a social studies teacher in the Pinellas County schools. She has been an MFA docent, Vice President of the Ruth Eckerd Hall Pact Professionals, and very involved with the Pinellas Education Foundation.

Ms. Stavros has served on the boards of the Blossom Montessori School for the Deaf, Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay, and the Florida House. She holds both her BA and MA from the University of South Florida, Tampa, which has also benefited from the generosity and guidance of the Stavros family.

Harold E. (Hal) Wells Jr., who is returning as Treasurer, also comes from a family that has been involved with the MFA for many years. His mother Ann has been active in The Stuart Society and is still a member. His wife Becky has been a Stuart Society provisional and reservations chair and is one of three chairs of “Flowers After Hours,” the preview party for Art in Bloom 2014.

Mr. Wells has enjoyed a highly successful career in business and banking. He was Vice President, Commercial Lending/Private Banking, at Synovus Bank in St. Petersburg. During his tenure, the department became the second fastest-growing private banking team in Synovus Financial Corporation, at one point garnering $180 million in assets over a 14-month period.

For 12 years, Mr. Wells was the President/Owner of Precision Metal Parts, also in St. Petersburg. Under his leadership, sales increased from $1.7 to $6.1 million and employees from 18 to 55. Precision Metal received awards for quality and delivery from General Motors, Dana Corporation, and Sun Hydraulics.

He has also been Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending for United Bank and Trust and for 10 years was President/Owner of Star Distribution Systems in Tampa and Lakeland. Mr. Wells established this start-up company, which became the largest public warehousing operation in the Southeast. Sales grew to $10 million. Mr. Wells holds his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The new Board officers are (left to right): Secretary Ellen Stavros, President Howard Mills, President-Elect Marshall Rousseau, and Treasurer Harold (Hal) Wells Jr.

MFA Board Elects Officers

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Pleasure Grounds and Restoring Spaces: Photographs of our National ParksThrough October 6

Color Acting: Abstraction Since 1950July 6-September 22

Mixing Metaphors: The Aesthetic, the Social, and the Political in African American Art, Works from the Bank of America CollectionProvided by Bank of America’s Art in our Communities ProgramOctober 5, 2013-January 5, 2014

Family Tours, Saturdays, 11 a.m.

JULYThursday/4Annual Fourth of July Celebration, 6 p.m.

Saturday/6Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.Color Acting: Abstraction Since 1950 opens.

Wednesday/10Coffee Talk: Nan Colton’s “Summer Shorts – A Seasonal Tale,” tour, and refreshments, 10-11:30 a.m.

Thursday/11A Colorful Party, 6-9 p.m.

Sunday/14Gallery Talk: Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, on Color Acting, 3 p.m.

Thursday/18The Annual Beach Drive Sunrise SaleUNCHartED: Random Acts of Culture – The Great Outdoors, 5-8 p.m.

Saturday/20Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.MFA: Make and Take: Gyotaku – Create your own fish print, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Thursday/25UNCHartED: Random Acts of Culture – Watercolors, 5-8 p.m.

Friday/26Dinner and Jazz Series: Dan McMillion and the High Octane Quintet, 6:30 p.m.

AUGUSTFriday/2Dinner and Jazz: IMPROMPTU, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday/3Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.

Friday/9Dinner and Jazz: New York Guitar Cats, 6:30 p.m.

Monday/12Art Bite: Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, on Richard Anuskiewicz’s Volumes (1972), 1 p.m.

Wednesday/14Coffee Talk: Nan Colton’s “Georgia O’Keeffe in Yosemite: It takes time to see,” tour, and refreshments, 10-11:30 a.m.

Friday/16Dinner and Jazz: Cannonball/Coltrane Tribute Quintet, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday/17Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.MFA: Make and Take – Back-to-School Backpacks, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Sunday/18Music in the Marly: David Burgess, guitar, 2 p.m.

Friday/23Dinner and Jazz: Sasha Tuck, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday/25Music in the Marly: Adam Neiman, piano, 2 p.m.

Friday/30Dinner and Jazz: Stolen Idols, 6:30 p.m.

SEPTEMBERSaturday/7Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.

Sunday/8Concert: O Som Do Jazz, 2 p.m.

Monday/9Art Bite: Associate Curator of Public Programs Mary Szaroleta on Platt Babbitt’s Niagara Falls (about 1860), an historical perspective, 1 p.m.Stuart Society Board Meeting, 2 p.m.

Wednesday/11Coffee Talk: Nan Colton’s “Frida Kahlo – I Paint My Own Reality,” tour, and refreshments, 10-11:30 a.m.

Sunday/15Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: A DMG Visiting Glass Artist SeriesHyungsung Cho and David Thai, 2 p.m.

Saturday/21Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.MFA: Make and Take – Art Shades, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

DATES to RememberSunday/22Color Acting Panel Discussion with artists Jessica Eaton and Jessica Labatte, chaired by Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, 3 p.m.Color Acting closes.

Thursday/26Stuart Society General Meeting, 10 a.m.

OCTOBERFriday/4Members’ Opening for Mixing Metaphors, 6-8 p.m.

Saturday/5Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.Mixing Metaphors opens to the public.

Sunday/6Pleasure Grounds and Restoring Spaces closes.

Wednesday/9Coffee Talk: Nan Colton’s “Mixed Metaphors – Memories of Growing Up in South Africa,” tour, and refreshments, 10-11:30 a.m.

Sunday/13Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: A DMG Visiting Glass Artist SeriesSusan Rankin and Rob Stern, 2 p.m.

Monday/14Art Bite: Director Kent Lydecker on a work from Mixing Metaphors, 1 p.m.

Saturday/19Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m.MFA: Make and Take, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Pleasure Grounds and Restoring Spaces: Photographs of our National Parks

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