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MESSAGEMARK MASUOKA

DON’T BE AFRAIDFor some, just thinking about contemporary art makes them want to scream. For others, contemporary art is a vivid reflection of our contemporary culture and current events, representing the art of our time. So why does contemporary art scare people? At the Akron Art Museum we address this challenge by breaking down barriers, building bridges and bringing to light an understanding that art comes from artists, and artists are essential threads imbued into the fabric of our society. Contemporary art is firmly rooted in the historical context of art history or even in direct rebellion or reaction to the past. Whatever the case may be, (contemporary) art is not created out of thin air. Rather, it starts with an idea and an inspiration that ultimately transforms the way we see the world. It brings together a collective visual memory that can be shared, explored and activated in an effort to deepen our cultural conscience and amplify civic engagement.

We are committed to fulfilling our mission to enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.As the Akron Art Museum prepares once again to take a bold step into the future with the addition of our Bud and Susie Rogers Garden, we are committed to fulfilling our mission to enrich lives through modern and contemporary art. We accomplish our objectives through our innovative public programs, exhibitions and events that are informative, inspiring and at the intersection of contemporary art and life. The Akron Art Museum is a critical cultural and economic boost to the ecosystem of downtown Akron. The museum continues to draw visitors to Akron from near and far and as a result has bolstered the local economy and creative community.

Our actions are bigger than our words, and this summer we kick off a series of events, programs and exhibitions that can only be described as a summer to remember. Not since

the opening of our expansion in 2007 has the Akron Art Museum jam-packed its schedule with the intent to bring to life the cultural vibrancy of our community. Our summer season begins on Saturday, May 28th with the opening of Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, an exhibition that will highlight the creative genius of artist extraordinaire and Akron native Mark Mothersbaugh. On Saturday, June 11th we soar into the summer with our 21st Annual Auction—an art, food and wine gala, which is the museum’s largest fundraising event of the year and one of the most exciting cultural events of the season.

Against the backdrop of the second year of Inside|Out installations across the city and in Barberton and Kent, the museum will celebrate the public dedication and opening of the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden on Saturday, July 16th. We invite you to enjoy a full day of music, dance and performances by community artists and arts organizations and hands-on activities for kids and families. To cap off the celebration, join us for a memorable evening concert in our new outdoor community space.

And if that isn’t enough, immediately following the opening of the garden, we are proud to present in partnership with the City of Akron, the 32nd annual Downtown at Dusk concert series in our new Bud and Susie Rogers Garden plaza. This year, we are pulling out all the stops and presenting an incredible line-up of local and regional bands and musicians. As always, the concerts are held on the museum’s Free Thursdays—so grab your lawn chairs and picnic blankets and enjoy seven weeks of extraordinary music with free admission to the museum’s galleries.

So as you can see, there is nothing to be scared about, other than missing out on all the fun and excitement in what will truly be a memorable summer at the Akron Art Museum.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS I 2015 - 2016

Chris Myeroff- President Richard Harris- Treasurer

Fred Bidwell- Vice President Drew Engles- Vice President

Steven Radwany- Vice PresidentAlita Rogers- Secretary

C. Gordon Ewers- Past President Myriam Altieri Haslinger- Past President

Dianne R. Newman- Past PresidentRory H. O’Neil- Past President

Myrna BerzonAndrea Rodgers Bologna

Jeffrey BrunoGeorge Daverio

Tamara FynanLinda Gentile

Cathy C. GodshallPamela Kanfer

Nicholas KatanicSusan Klein

Bill LipscombPhilip A. Lloyd

David L. PellandDuane C. Roe

Bruce RowlandMichael D. RussellElizabeth Sheeler

Debra Adams Simmons

HONORARY DIRECTORS W. Gerald Austen

Sandra L. HaslingerMichael Mattis

M. Donald McCluskyMargaret McDowell Lloyd

C. Blake McDowell IIIThomas R. Merryweather

DIRECTOR OF DESIGNJoseph Walton

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PULPThrough July 31, 2016

Pavel Banka, “One Person Story”, 1982, toned gelatin silver print12 1/2 x 9 1/8 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of Fernando Barnuevo 2007.169

ON THE COVERTerry Allen, Cursor, 2000, lithograph on paper, 42 x 32 1/2 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Museum Acquisition Fund2010.6

NEO GEOThrough April 24, 2016

Kristina Paabus, 4.5h, 2012, graphite, oil and ink on panel10 x 10 in., Courtesy of the artist

SNACKThrough September 3, 2016

John Baeder, Red Robin, 1980, screenprint on paper, 15 3/8 x 25 ½ in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of Adam E. Schuster 1996.43

ANIMAL AS MUSEMarch 24 - August 14, 2016

Robert Stivers, Pig, from Series 5, 1996, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2006.325

Through April 24, 2016Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

The artists featured in NEO Geo use an array of different processes, both unconventional and traditional, to realize their explorations of geometric abstraction. Erik Neff and Gianna Commito employ the time-tested methods of applying paint to canvas and panel, while Paul O’Keeffe fastens layers of translucent acrylic pieces together using a plastic-melting solvent. Five other artists featured in NEO Geo combine traditional methods—whether printmaking, weaving, ceramic, paint or photography—with digital tools, putting a contemporary spin on established media.

Kristina Paabus uses a digital device to draw on top of her monoprints. To create works such as Don’t Know, Don’t Care and Something to Believe In, Paabus outfits a plotter, a device intended to cut vinyl, with a marker and uses a computer to instruct the machine to make marks on top of the dots, lines, swirls and sprays of color she applies using a stencil. “I use common and familiar drawing tools

in the machine to create lines that would be impossible by hand, but in translation often also demonstrate a glitch in the system,” Paabus says.


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Last summer, Amy Sinbondit spent two weeks as a resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine building a 3-D printer. Digital modeling and 3-D printing present the artist with new ways to push the limits of clay, her chosen medium. “Making 3-D modeled forms forced me to build differently than I would with clay but gave me many new ideas to take back to build,” Sinbondit says. The results of that experience are on display in NEO Geo—the hollow cylinders that form her newest work in the exhibition, Singularity, were inspired by the grid 3-D printers use to support the objects they create.

Janice Lessman-Moss designs her tapestries with Photoshop. The software allows the artist to generate patterns that simulate the warp (longitudinal) and weft (lateral) threads in weaving. She sees a connection between the warp/weft binary that serves as the basic structure of weaving and the 1s and 0s that make up binary code, the basic structure of computer language. “The pixels on the computer screen are transformed into binary code that is reproduced by the intersection of threads on the loom,” Lessman-Moss explains.

Natalie Lanese used a digital tool associated with social media to develop the final design for her installation, Depthless Without You. Working with a team of assistants, the artist painted chevrons and stripes directly on gallery floors and walls. “After making small sketches and color studies, I cut up the small paintings into pieces, which I arranged in various patterns, overlapping and experimenting with different intersections,” Lanese explains. “By chance,

Kristina Paabus, Something to Believe In, 2015, screenprint and marker, 23 x 17 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Janice Lessman-Moss, #446, 2015, cotton and wool, 73 x 66.5 in. Courtesy of the artist.

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ARTISTS’ DIALOGUE: GIANNA COMMITO, ERIK NEFF, AMY SINBONDIT AND AMY YOES Thursday, March 31 • 6:30 pmJoin three NEO Geo artists and New York artist Amy Yoes for a conversation on the role of geometric abstraction in their artistic practices.

GALLERY TOUR: PAUL O’KEEFFE Thursday, April 21 • 6:30 pmJoin NEO Geo artist Paul O’Keeffe as he leads a tour of the museum’s collection. O’Keeffe brings his point of view as a former student of collection artist Anthony Caro.

I plugged photos I had taken of various arrangements into Instagram’s Layout app, which allows you to manipulate images by adjusting scale, mirroring and flipping.” Layout gave Lanese the ability to quickly generate an endless number of designs she could select from to complete her installation.

Michelle Murphy arranges eyeshadow palettes to mimic Op Art, a type of geometric abstraction in which complex, repeating patterns create illusionary effects. She then photographs the makeup, and uses software to enhance optical reverberations in some works. For Murphy, this combination of physical and

digital methods is natural. “I have spent many years alone in the cold black cubes of darkrooms with my nocturnal eyes wide and fixated on creating that one perfect print. As these facilities became less available I was simultaneously learning digital methods,” Murphy says. “My connection to analog and digital processes provides the opportunity to

connect my artwork to a specific history or to a contemporary discourse. I don’t ever imagine limiting myself to one method of working creatively.”

Whether through an established, refined method or through innovative processes and new technologies, the artists in NEO Geo use the basic building blocks of design—shapes, lines and colors—to explore the potential of geometric abstraction.z Theresa Bembnister, Associate Curator

NEO Geo is organized by the Akron Art Museum and generously supported by Myrna Berzon, Dianne and Herbert Newman, Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust and Harris Stanton Gallery. Media sponsorship is provided by WKSU 89.7 and Western Reserve PBS.

Michelle Marie Murphy, Turbulence, 2015, chromogenic print on metallic paper, 30 x 40 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Installation view of ceramics by Amy Sinbondit and paintings by Gianna Commito. Photo by Joe Levack

Installation view of sculpture by Paul O’Keeffe. Photo by Joe Levack


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SNACKThrough September 3, 2016Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Few things inspire nostalgia in the same way as food. We may harbor a sentimental yearning for a favorite restaurant that is now shuttered, a dish prepared by a beloved relative who has long passed away or a treasured childhood sweet. Artists in Snack, particularly those working in the style of photorealism, depict food and the places it is purchased or enjoyed in ways that express nostalgia, humor and other delights of culinary desire. As the style’s name suggests, artists working in photorealism use photographs as the basis for their detailed depictions of their subjects. They don’t always employ photographs absolutely, but rather make decisions about which features to include or use their imaginations to produce new elements for their compositions. The amount of specificity allows their work to appear to be documents of architecture and customs quickly disappearing from American life.

John Baeder’s screenprints depict at-risk roadside diners from last century, which are increasingly outmoded by fast food chain restaurants. Drives from the young artist’s home in Atlanta to his college town of Auburn, Alabama, instilled in Baeder a romance for back roads and their quirky architecture. Charles Bell is attracted to subjects that have connotations of childhood, such as toys or candy. His large-scale colored pencil drawing of a gumball machine, a subject he began exploring in 1971, is a colorful treat for the eyes. Don Eddy’s lithograph Strictly Kosher captures in excruciating detail a stunning array of reflections of early 1970s New York City in the storefront window of a kosher market. The artist completed the print the year after relocating to the Big Apple from sunny Southern California.

Photographers Louis Stettner, Stephen Tomasko, Robert Doisneau and Philippe Halsman capture marketplaces, stands, grocery stores and diners at particular moments of the past. Their work is on display in Snack alongside other artists who explore food through humor or pop culture, including Claes Oldenburg, Ralph Steiner, James Rosenquist, John Sokol, Ken Heyman, Kristen Cliffel, Andy Warhol, Sandy Skoglund, the Guerrilla Girls, Mike Sobeck, Brandon Juhasz and Jinsoo Song. z Theresa Bembnister, Associate Curator

This exhibition is organized by the Akron Art Museum.

Top: Charles Bell, Pleasant Tasting, Gumball #16, 1985, colored pencil on paper, 56 ½ in. x 39 ½ in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Purchased with funds from Dale C. and Alexander Zetlin Jones 1985.63

Bottom: Don Eddy, Strictly Kosher, 1973, lithograph on paper, 24 1/8 in. x 20 1/8 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Purchased with funds from the L.L. Bottsford Estate Fund 1975.7

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Top: Richard Misrach, Playboy #38 (Warhol), 1990, chromogenic print, 23 ½ x 18 ½ in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Anonymous Gift 2001.9

Bottom: Judith Golden, Untitled from the Magazine series, 1975, hand-colored gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of the artist 1998.41

PULPThrough July 31, 2016Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

In popular culture, the word “pulp” is almost always followed by “fiction.” Director Quentin Tarantino’s landmark 1994 film by that name capitalized on the lurid plots that defined a genre of cheap publications popular in the first half of the 20th century. Pulp fiction, or pulp magazines, were printed on rough wood pulp paper and sold for a few cents per copy as entertainment for the masses.

Today, cheap paper ephemera continues to be produced and distributed on a large scale—daily newspapers, glossy monthly magazines, weekly tabloids, advertising posters and billboards are just some examples of paper products meant to be seen, then discarded. Typically mundane, their content reflects aspects of the cultures they serve, and can offer a wealth of possibilities to artists who analyze those cultures with a critical eye.

Richard Misrach discovered two disheveled copies of Playboy magazine while photographing in the deserts of Nevada in 1990. The cover images of women had been used as practice targets, but the pages inside were also shot through with bullet holes. As the artist described, “The violence that was directed specifically at the women symbolically penetrated every layer of our society.” In his photographs, including one of a mutilated advertisement starring Andy Warhol, Misrach comments on American cultural violence. “Despite the fact that they were just pieces of paper,” notes the artist about his subject matter, they “elicited a powerful and uncanny visceral response.”

Also attuned to the power of paper ephemera to reflect and impact society was Judith Golden. In her 1975 Magazine series, Golden photographed herself through torn or cut glamour shots from magazines, creating a direct comparison between the printed pages and her own face. She colored these black and white photographs by hand, mimicking the heavy make-up and retouching of images of women in mass media that encourages conformity to certain ideals and standards of beauty.

PULP also includes photographs in which paper ephemera offer aesthetic rather than critical possibilities, becoming material for abstracted compositions by Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind or playing a role in personal reflections and explorations in the photographs of Pavel Baňka and Gloria DeFilipps Brush. z Elizabeth Carney, Assistant Curator

This exhibition is organized by the Akron Art Museum.


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Pavel Banka, Portrait of J.V. - after Leonardo, 1983 (printed 1989), toned gelatin silver print, 12 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of Fernando Barnuevo 2007.170

Below: Keiko Minami, A Girl, 1961, engraving on paper, 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo 1961.67

ANIMAL AS MUSEMarch 24 - August 14, 2016 Corbin Family Foundation Gallery

As animal-communicator and veterinarian Doctor Doolittle said, “But, I like animals better than people!” Artists such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol were not only sentimental about their cultivated mutts, but relied on them to help fuel their creative wanderings. Archie the dachshund may seem an unlikely source for ideas, however, the unfettered mind of our furry companions can help us re-engage, melting our anxieties with a mere wag of the tail.

Animal As Muse showcases artwork from the Akron Art Museum’s collection that features artists’ conceptions of animals in the roles they play in humans’ lives. Wiggling their way into iconic paintings and photographs, animals appear throughout art history, serving as background detail, faithful companions and portrait-worthy subjects.

Beyond the museum walls, animals also weave their way into our lives, intriguing us, encouraging shared conversation and even shaping a child’s first sounds, words or friendships. The menagerie of artwork included in the exhibition features shy to brazen animals. From Beth van Hoesen’s yogic, process-yellow canary affectionately named Fred, to Pavel Banka’s lunging weasel in Portrait of J.V. – after Leonardo, artists have much to say about our relationships with animals. Other artists whose work is featured in Animal As Muse include Joseph Cornell, Helen Levitt and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Come. Sit. Let’s talk animals. z Amanda Crowe, Educator, Early Childhood and Family Programs

All FY16 Corbin gallery exhibitions are organized by the Akron Art Museum and supported by a generous gift from The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation. Additional support provided by Brouse McDowell, LPA.

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MARK MOTHERSBAUGH: MYOPIA May 27 - August 28, 2016Akron Art Museum and MOCA Cleveland

Co-founder of the New Wave band DEVO, Akron native Mark Mothersbaugh has made art since the early 1970s and continues to the present. Mothersbaugh’s work combines cultural criticism and personal expression through drawings, films, paintings, sculpture and music. At once an artist, musician and tinkerer, he offers a key to understanding the current state of art, with its hybridity, subjectivity and fluid boundaries. Myopia, the artist’s first retrospective, reveals Mothersbaugh’s distinctive artistic voice and also asserts his role in the intersecting legacies that have formed contemporary culture. Almost all of Mothersbaugh’s visual art originates with drawings on postcards, which he has been producing daily since the 1970s. These drawings are filled with fantastical characters and surreal scenes. They are typically rendered in pen and ink in an impish comic book style, which grew out of the Underground Comix movement that spread throughout the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 70s. His postcards, which now exceed 30,000 in number, provide the basic imagery for Mothersbaugh’s paintings, prints, graphic woven rugs, videos and sculptures.

Throughout his career, Mothersbaugh has embraced the handmade, and has also incorporated the slick elements of consumer culture. With a continuous assault on the de-humanizing nature of our highly technological society, the artist’s work asks the question: how can we be ourselves in the face of an impersonal, consumer-driven society? His answer is complex.

Mothersbaugh doesn’t simply advocate for a war of the organic against the mechanistic. He also doesn’t maintain a simple, ironic distance from the synthetic nature of modern society. Instead, the artist insists there is room for individual creativity in consumer society. Sometimes his viewpoint is dark and cynical while other times it is playful and light, but he always makes the case that it is possible to find personal pleasure and artistic expression in the realms of both technology and the handmade. The band DEVO, with its homespun robotic image, is one articulation of that aesthetic vision, which takes a multitude of forms in Mothersbaugh’s larger body of work.

The Akron Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland are proud to present Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, which traces the artist’s 40-year-long career. Myopia at the Akron Art Museum focuses on the artist’s daily creative practice, including an installation of 30,000 postcard drawings. Examining the artist’s interest in mutation and mirroring, the Akron presentation will include installations of mirror-image photographs and ceramic sculptures Mothersbaugh refers to as “Roli-Polies.” It also investigates the aural dimensions of the artist’s practice, including audio stations with original music scores.

Taken together, Mothersbaugh’s unified body of work reveals the artist’s persistent attempt to navigate the conflicting forces of cynicism and freedom, and irony and originality. Like his early work with DEVO, the artist explores the complex relationship between what is synthetic and what is authentic. z Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

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Mark Mothersbaugh, Anita’s First Boyfriend, 2004. Corrected photograph, edition four of twenty, 11 x 11 in. Courtesy the artist.


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KNIGHT PURCHASE AWARD: ANDREA MODICASince 1990, the Akron Art Museum’s outstanding photography collection has been significantly enriched by acquisitions made possible by the Knight Purchase Award. New acquisitions of work by Andrea Modica, the 2015 recipient and presenter of this year’s Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture, include eight photographs purchased by the museum and another four received as gifts from the artist. Ten of the new photographs were taken in Italy, which has played an important role in Modica’s work and was a focus of the museum’s recent exhibition Andrea Modica: Extended Moments. These include two early views from a village in Sicily where Modica traveled on a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship in 1990, as well as portraits made on subsequent visits when she was invited to conduct workshops in Bologna and rural Tuscany.

Since reconnecting with a former boyfriend in Italy in 2007, Modica’s visits to Italy have become more frequent. Among the new subjects she is exploring are still life compositions featuring a variety of silver-colored objects that she finds strewn throughout Francesco’s mother’s home. As well, Modica is undertaking a series of studies of horses immediately following surgery. Lucky, Standardbred Trotter, Castration, Bagnarola di Budrio, Italy, is unsettling in its vulnerable depiction of a prized animal.

Andrea Modica’s photographs consistently reveal an exquisite eye, imagination and impeccable craftsmanship. While working with the cumbersome 8 x 10 inch view camera that requires her subjects to participate in the creation of the images she captures, Modica’s openness to what they bring allows her to achieve what she describes as “a marriage between the photographer and what the world brings to the picture.” z Janice Driesbach, Chief Curator

YEAR END GIFTSThe majority of works of art that enter the museum’s collection come from generous donors—often dedicated collectors, the artists themselves, or their friends or heirs. The end of 2015 brought artwork to the museum from collectors Barbara Tannenbaum and Mark Soppeland, Carl and Joan Schneider, Robert Haile, the estate of Clifford and Judith Isroff, and artists Angelo Merendino, Butch Anthony and Andrea Modica. Of the 125 total artworks recently added to the collection, 95 are photographs and all but eight are gifts.

Unusual this year is a long term commitment and a generous number of works coming from a single donor. George Stephanopoulos is one such donor. After he spent his adolescence in nearby Pepper Pike, Ohio, Stephanopoulos became known for

his work in national politics and as a journalist on ABC news. He has given 275 photographs to the museum’s collection over the course of a decade, with 67 given this year. Previous gifts have been displayed in several group exhibitions and have also made possible recent exhibitions focusing on the work of Robert Stivers, Patrick Nagatani and Herman Leonard.

This year’s gift is the beginning of a multi-year commitment from Stephanopoulos of mid-20th-century documentary photographs featuring labor and manufacturing themes. It adds three new photographers to the collection—Paul Caponigro, Edward Quigley and Jacques Lowe—and depth to three artists already in the collection, Ilse Bing, Flip Schulke and Danny Lyon. Lyon’s first photographic series, a document of the Civil Rights Movement made when Lyon was the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, join other series by this key American photographer. Lyon’s Bikerider series, Texas Prison images and newly acquired civil rights documentary photographs—the first three major bodies of work which solidified his fame as a preeminent photographer for social justice—are now represented in the Akron Art Museum collection. z Arnold Tunstall, Collections Manager

Danny Lyon, Bob Zellner, Bernice Reagon, Cordell Reagon, Dottie Miller (Zellner), and Avon Rollins, Danville, Virginia, 1963 (printed later), gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of

George Stephanopoulos 2015.82

Andrea Modica, Lucky, Standardbred Trotter, Castration, Bagnarola di Budrio, Italy, 2014, platinum palladium print, 8 x 10 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Knight Purchase Fund for Photographic Media

2015.124

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COLLECTION FEATURE: GIFTS FROM THE CLIFFORD AND JUDITH ISROFF ESTATEA recent gift of nine artworks from the estate of Clifford and Judith Isroff significantly enhances the Akron Art Museum’s holdings of American art from the 1980s and 90s. Prints by Andy Warhol, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Robert Longo and Robert Rauschenberg allow the museum to more fully represent graphic art of the late 20th century.

Four works from the Isroff estate are currently on view in the Haslinger Family Foundation Galleries: Alex Katz’s Standing Ada and Pas De Deux and Robert Longo’s Meryl and Jonathan. Katz, an artist new to the collection, is best known for his portraits executed with an economy of shape, tone and line. Each section of the multi-part screenprint Pas De Deux, from 1993, depicts a different couple, all friends and associates of the artist. Named after a type of ballet in which one male and one female dancer perform together, this work highlights the nuances of physical contact. In Standing Ada from 1988, his hybrid print/sculpture—or “cut-out,” as the artist referred to his two-sided image screen-printed on freestanding aluminum plates—Katz portrays his wife Ada nearly life sized.

Robert Longo’s lithographs Meryl and Jonathan, both from 1988, are based on large charcoal drawings the artist executed for his late 1970s and early 1980s series Men In The Cities. The museum exhibited works from this series in Longo’s 1984 one-person exhibition Drawings and Reliefs. These featured men and women in formal dress contorting their bodies ambiguously, perhaps falling, writhing in pain or dancing ecstatically. Longo held photo shoots on the roof of his building for the reference shots for his drawings. He photographed his models’ contorted poses after throwing tennis balls at them or moving them with ropes.

Long-time supporters of the museum, Clifford and Judith Isroff received the Bert A. Polsky Humanitarian Award in 2001 for their service and commitment to the Akron community. Judith served on the Akron Art Museum’s Board of Trustees for 22 years, and was the board president from 1990 to 1992. Active philanthropists, the Isroffs championed key organizations in the region, including Leadership Akron and the Akron Jewish Community Federation, among many others.

The Isroffs worked in concert with museum staff to select and care for their personal collection. Exhibitions at the museum inspired them to acquire works such as Andy Warhol’s 1980 screenprint Albert Einstein, part of the artist’s Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century series, which was exhibited at the museum in early 1981. Along with Einstein, the series featured portraits of notable Jewish writers, actors, musicians, politicians and a philosopher. Warhol referred to his subjects, which reflected his interest in fame and celebrity, as his “Jewish Geniuses.”

Judith Isroff was instrumental in the selection of Robert Rauschenberg’s Soviet/American Array series for the museum’s 1993 Knight Purchase Prize for Photographic Media. She and her husband simultaneously acquired Soviet/American Array V, 1988-1990, which they donated to the museum in 2007. z Theresa Bembnister, Associate Curator

Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, 1980, screenprint on paper, 39 x 31 ¾ in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of Clifford and Judith Isroff 2015.23

Right: Alex Katz, Standing Ada, 1988, screenprint on aluminum, 65 x 10 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of Clifford and Judith Isroff 2015.16


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WATCH INSIDE I OUT GROW IN 2016Are you ready to go on an art hunt? Get your maps and GPS prepped for spring. Inside|Out is returning for a second year in the sunshine and it’s going to be bigger and better. Not only are we adding two additional communities in 2016, but we are also adding ten new artworks to be installed at outdoor locations throughout Akron and beyond. In 2015, we installed thirty reproductions in five neighborhoods in Akron and in neighboring city, Cuyahoga Falls. This year, the forty artworks will be journeying even further, to six Akron neighborhoods and two nearby cities. Each community will receive ten temporary outdoor installations for approximately three months. The high-quality, framed reproductions of iconic artworks from the Akron Art Museum’s collection will be dispersed throughout each community, some on walls of businesses or organizations and some free standing in parks and gardens, creating the feel of an open-air gallery.

Starting in April, look for outdoor art in the city of Barberton and the Akron neighborhoods Firestone Park, Kenmore, and Northwest Akron & Wallhaven. The forty reproductions will be removed from their spring locations after the Fourth of July and installed in new fall sites starting in August. Our fall communities include Kent and the Akron neighborhoods of the Merriman Valley, Goodyear Heights, and South Akron & Summit Lake. The installations will be in these locations until the end of October.

The Akron Art Museum staff will plan events, tours, and activities with community partners from each neighborhood or city. A schedule of each community’s events and downloadable maps of the installation sites will be available in April on our website at AkronArtMuseum.org/inside-out.

Want to know which new artworks were added this year? You’ll need a map to find out. Paper copies of the maps can be found at the museum and in stores, businesses and organizations within the eight communities.

Hint: Check the hashtag #InsideOutAkron on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to see clues as to where you can find them. Updates and additional information about the project will be posted on the museum’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. Happy hunting!z Roza Maille, Inside I Out Project Coordinator

Top: Cuyahoga Falls Mayor Don Walters enjoying Inside|Out artwork reproduction of Riverside Plant by Carl Gaertner at Flury’s Café. Photo by Jeffrey R Stroup Photography.

Bottom: Spin Off Cyclists Bicycle Club stop by a reproduction of Landscape with Yellow Clouds by William Sommer at the Mustill Store. Photo by Tom Bilcze.

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CHOICE AT TRANSFORMER STATION In addition to Inside|Out, which brought high quality reproductions of artwork from the museum’s collection into Akron’s neighborhoods and outdoor spaces, the Akron Art Museum shared original works from the collection with other Ohio institutions last summer and fall.

From September through the end of 2015, Choice: Contemporary Art from the Akron Art Museum brought highlights from the museum’s collection to Cleveland audiences at the Transformer Station. The installation celebrated prescient purchases, including Julian Stanczak’s Dual Glare, acquired in 1970, and El Anatsui’s Dzesi II, acquired in 2006, and reflected its commitment to displaying works by artists working in our region alongside those by artists with studios across the nation and globe. Evocative compositions by Lorna Simpson, Hiroshi Sugimoto and other contemporary photographers reflected the museum’s longstanding commitment to photography. Transformer spaces, very different from our Coop Himmelb(l)au designed galleries, offered opportunities to see works in new ways, as well as to introduce viewers to the quality of our collection.

Fred Bidwell, co-founder of Transformer Station said, “It was a real privilege to share masterworks from the Akron Art Museum at Transformer Station. I think that the quality of the works in the show was a revelation to many in Cleveland and for those who visited from Akron, they saw familiar works in a new light.”

Akron Art Museum Executive Director and CEO Mark Masuoka added “Choice is also a part of an extensive community engagement initiative we have been undertaking to share the museum’s collection with communities outside of Akron. In doing so, we’re inviting the public back to Akron to further experience the museum’s collection, its world-class architecture and its new public garden space.”

The Akron Art Museum also loaned William Sommer’s watercolor Cows to the Springfield Museum of Art last summer for its exhibition The Best of Ohio’s Regionalists and Painting Around Mount Zion by Jim Dine to the Columbus Museum of Art for the inaugural exhibition in its newly-constructed 50,000 square-foot addition. A native of Cincinnati, Dine was one of six artists featured in Keeping Pace: Eva Glimcher and Pace/Columbus, which was on view from October 25, 2015 through January 17, 2016. Painting Around Mount Zion was featured alongside works by Jean Dubuffet, Louise Nevelson, Lucas Samaras, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol and was viewed by more than 88,000 visitors.z Janice Driesbach, Chief Curator

Choice installation views. All works Collection of Akron Art MuseumTop: El Anatsui, Dzesi II, 2006, aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wire, 117 x 195 x 8 in., Purchased,

by exchange, with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Reed II 2006.25; Matthew Kolodziej, Good Neighbors, 2009, acrylic and ink on canvas, 102 x 144 in., Museum Acquisition Fund 2009.28; Middle: David Salle,

Poverty is No Disgrace, 1982, oil, acrylic, charcoal and chair on canvas, 98 x 205 x 20 in., Museum Acquisition Fund and gift of Larry Gagosian 2000.45 a-d; Al Held, Skywatch I, 1972, acrylic on canvas,

60 x 60 in., Purchased with funds from the L. L. Bottsford Estate Fund 1973.14; Bottom: Julian Stanczak, Dual Glare, 1970, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 96 1/8 in., Museum Acquisition Fund 1970.48; George Segal, Girl

Sitting Against a Wall II, 1970, painted wood, plaster and glass, 91 x 60 x 40 in., Purchased with funds from the Fiftieth Anniversary Gala 1972.20 a-c; Scott Miller, Untitled, Sept. 6, 1988, oil on canvas,

48 1/2 x 33 3/8 in., Gift of Mark Soppeland 1995.15


EXHIBITIONS

NEA AWARDS $20,000 TO AKRON ART MUSEUMThe Akron Art Museum has been awarded a $20,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in support of its upcoming exhibition Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space. The exhibition, which is scheduled to open in the fall, explores the studio practices of contemporary sculptors for whom working in two dimensions is an essential component. Participating artists include Mark Fox, Anne Lindberg, Nathalie Miebach, John Newman, Judy Pfaff and Ursula von Rydingsvard. Art Works grants support the creation and presentation of new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts and public engagement with the arts in thirteen arts disciplines. The Akron Art Museum is one of 56 museums across the United States to receive the award this fall. Chief Curator Janice Driesbach said “We’re honored to be the recipients of an NEA grant for Intersections. This exhibition is an important part of the Akron Art Museum’s ongoing and innovative efforts to foreground the work of significant artists in ways that allow visitors a deeper understanding of their work and creative process.”

Artists featured in Intersections were selected for the diverse ways they approach their works in two and three dimensions, as well as for their mastery of line and form. They use an array of materials and processes in their work, among them suspending thread, weaving reed and wood, extruding metal, and casting bronze and glass. Their work on paper variously serves as two-dimensional reflections of lines in space, musical scores incorporating weather data, studies for and renderings of completed compositions and parallel practices. Each artist will be represented by a series of recent works in a discrete space.

NEA Chairman Jane Chu comments “The arts are part of our everyday lives—no matter who you are or where you live—they have the power to transform individuals, spark economic vibrancy in communities, and transcend the boundaries across diverse sectors of society. Supporting projects like the one from the Akron Art Museum offers more opportunities to engage in the arts every day.” z Janice Driesbach, Chief Curator

John Newman, Friction and fiction in purple and red, 2015, Japanese paper, coconut fiber rope, nylon microfilament, twigs and vines, acqua resin, wood, wood putty, aluminum screen, paper mâchè, plastic, lead and acrylic paint, 32 x 15 1/2 x 14 in., Courtesy of the artist

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CREATIVE PLAYDATESThursdays • 11:15 am – 12:30 pmFor 0-5 year olds and their grown-ups

Little ones learn best through intuitive, open-ended play that feeds their senses. Follow your child’s natural instinct to wiggle, squeal and make a mess while exploring the creative process. Stretch your imagination, meet new friends and create a masterpiece to carry home!

Delightful Goop Thursday, March 3

Hoot for Fruit: Edible ArtMakingThursday, April 7

Fur, Feathers, Fins...and a Wild Tea Party! (Dress on the wild side and join us for tea)Thursday, May 5

FREE for members. $10/non-member child. Registration required at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration or call 330.376.9186.

Creative Playdates are made possible with support from the Robert O. and Annamae Orr Family Foundation.

ART TALESThursdays • 11:15 am – 12:30 pmFor all ages and their grown-ups.

Engage your tiny book lover in an interactive storytelling experience where art and story become one through song, rhyme and imagery. After the book ends, we’ll keep the story going with related art activities in the lobby.

An Extraordinary, Ordinary Box Thursday, March 17

Pajama Pizza Party(Wear your pjs and join us for the poetry of pepperoni) Thursday, April 21

Tweet, Bark, Meow: Animals that WowThursday, May 19


Story Time is made possible with support from the Robert O. and Annamae Orr Family Foundation.

fAMILY DAYSFor all ages and their grown-ups

Spark! Family Film FestSaturday, March 19 • 12 – 4 pm

The Akron Art Museum and The Nightlight Cinema invite parents to

bring their young film connoisseurs to the museum for an afternoon

of engaging, high-quality family films in the Charles and Jane Lehner

Auditorium. Hands-on, film-inspired art activities in between the films

are also part of the day’s festivities. Showtime begins at 12 noon

(series of shorts) and continues at 1:30 pm (full-length feature).

FREE museum admission and activities. No registration required. For more information

go to AkronArtMuseum.org/calendar or call 330.376.9186.

Family Days are made possible with support from the Dominion Foundation, the R.C. Musson

and Katharine M. Musson Charitable Foundation, and George and Sue Klein.

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KIDS STUDIOSaturdays • 1 – 3 pmRecommended for ages 7-12

Welcome to our studio—where students gain a fresh

perspective in thinking creatively. Learn how to work

like a professional artist by exploring unique materials,

experimental processes and extraordinary works of art,

while building skills and confidence along the way.

Paper Sculpture TerrariumSaturday, March 12

Snack Attack! The Artful Arrangement of Food Saturday, April 2

Sit, Shake, Stay: Wild and Furry Flip Books Saturday, May 14

FREE for members. $10/non-member child. Parents are welcome but

not required to stay. Registration required at AkronArtMuseum.org/

eventregistration or call 330.376.9186. (Parents may attend March 12 and

May 14 Second Saturday Curator Gallery Tours at 1:30 pm. FREE.)

Kids Studio is made possible with support from the Charles E. and Mabel M.

Ritchie Foundation.

TOTS CREATESaturdays • 10:30 am - 12 pm

Recommended for 2’s and 3’s, and their grown-ups.

Little hands need to be creative, too! Toddlers explore

different mediums, textures, colors and shapes, while

making a beautiful mess. Dig in and discover a multi-sensory

experience while fostering your tiny artist’s independence and

imagination!

Dough Nests and Sprinkle Eggs Saturday, March 12

Sumi-e (Ink Wash):Painting with NoodlesSaturday, April 2

Jammin’ Animal PrintsSaturday, May 14

FREE for members. $10/non-member child. Registration required at

AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration or call 330.376.9186.

Tots Create is made possible with support from the

Charles E. and Mabel M. Ritchie Foundation.

ART BABESAM Sessions: 11:15 am – 12 pmPM Sessions: 1 – 1:45 pmFor 0-18 month olds and their grown-ups

Join baby friends for tummy time play and a pint-sized stroll through the galleries. Explore sensory activities related to color, texture, light and sound that will awaken your baby’s curiosity and give you both a one-of-a-kind bonding experience.

Block Building with Pee Wees Thursday, March 24

Lil’ Crunchy Puffs: Busy Babies and Their Snacks Thursday, April 28

Fur Baby Companion: First Friends Thursday, May 26


Art Babes is made possible with support from the Robert O. and Annamae Orr Family Foundation.


THROWBACK THURSDAY ARTS & CRAFTS FOR ADULTSCelebrate Throwback Thursday by indulging in your favorite kid crafts inspired by art museum exhibitions. Grab a fancy cocktail and a friend and de-stress with a fun, monthly throwback art activity. These evenings are just for adults. Admission includes one signature cocktail and all crafting supplies for this artist led experience.

NEO Geo-inspired Macramê Thursday, March 17 • 7-9 pmWhat better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than flexing your green thumb? Say good-bye to green beer and meet up at the museum for a Guinness and an evening of throwback crafting. Create a macramé hanging planter with acclaimed plant designer Sommer Tolan, whose hanging planters were featured in the book Rooted in Design. This seventies fad is back with a modern, grown up twist.

Snack-inspired Model Magic Food Thursday, April 28 • 7-9 pmAre coloring books your go to de-stressor? Take it to the next level and get three-dimensional during this installment of Throwback Thursday. Create a model magic sculpture that would have Claes Oldenburg and Anthony Bourdain salivating. Join smARTStudio maven Jen Davis for this fun snacktivity.

Throwback Thursday is $15 for members and $20 for non-members. Registration required at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration.

YOGA IN THE GALLERIESSelect Thursdays • 6:30 pmMarch 10 • April 14 • May 12 • June 9 The transformational power of yoga for individuals, relationships and communities comes alive in the Akron Art Museum’s galleries. Combine breath, flow and art in a beginner friendly series taught by a certified Nirvana Yoga instructor. Bring your own mat. No water bottles permitted in the galleries.

Yoga in the Galleries is $10 for non-members and free for members. Registration required at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration.

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FREE EVERY THURSDAYALL DAY • 11 am - 9 pmSpend Thursdays at the Akron Art Museum—it’s free all day and all evening. Check our website for the most up-to-date information on what is happening on any given Thursday and the rest of the week.

Free Thursdays are generously supported by the J.M. Smucker Company.

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SECOND SATURDAY CURATOR GALLERY TALKSWant to know more about the contents of Philip Guston’s Opened Box? Love the rainy season and want to learn more about its representation in a work of art? Or, maybe you would like to feed your humorous side with works by regional photographers Brandon Juhasz and Stephen Tomasko.

Get an insider’s look at artworks in the museum’s collection on the second Saturday of every month, with curator-led tours. Free with gallery admission. Admission fee waived for guardians of same-day Kid’s Studio Class participants.

PHILIP GUSTON By Associate Curator Theresa BembnisterSaturday, March 12 • 1:30 pm

APRIL SHOWERSBy Chief Curator Janice DriesbachSaturday, April 9 • 1:30 pm

PAPER STEAKS AND LEMON SHAKESBy Collections Manager Arnold TunstallSaturday, May 14 • 1:30 pm

DIY NOTE CARD CLASS WITH JENNIFER DAVIS OF smARTStudioThursday, March 24 • 6-8 pmFun Fact: The Shop at the Akron Art Museum sold nearly 1,000 note cards last year. We know that you love note cards. Join Jennifer Davis of smARTStudio to make your own geometric block print and create a set of note cards while learning about the block print process.

For Adults. $20 for members. $25 for non-members. Registration required at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration.

GALLERY TALK: PULPThursday, April 7 • 6 pmExplore the diverse artworks in PULP. Exhibition curator Elizabeth Carney will discuss the central theme of discarded paper as subject matter in relation to photographs and prints dating from 1926 to the present. Learn about connections between artists such as Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, the works of Judith Golden and Richard Misrach, and more. Meet for this walking tour in the Bidwell Gallery (gallery chairs will be available). Free and open to the public.

Richard Misrach, Playboy #97 (Marlboro Country), 1990, Chromogenic print, 20 x 25 in. Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of the artist in honor of Barbara Tannenbaum 2010.53

Philip Guston, Opened Box, 1977, oil on canvas, 67 1/4 x 110 1/4 in. Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Purchased, by exchange, with funds raised by the Masked Ball 1955-1963 1980.49

Below: Stephen Tomasko, Untitled from the series Fairgrounds, 2013, pigment print, 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of the artist

Akron Art Museum Exclusive Note Cards $2.95 each


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READING UNDER THE ROOF CLOUD BOOK CLUB: DELICIOUS! BY RUTH REICHL Thursday, March 24 • 6 pmJoin the Reading Under the Roof Cloud book club for a mouthwatering read—legendary food writer Ruth Reichl’s first foray into fiction, Delicious! The former Gourmet magazine editor’s book takes readers into the world of character Billie Breslin, who abandons college to work as assistant to the editor of Delicious! Magazine. When Delicious! is unceremoniously folded by its parent publisher, Billie is the sole employee kept on to honor the magazine’s guarantee: “Your money back if the recipe doesn’t work.” Between phone calls from wacky subscribers, alone in the yawning old mansion headquarters, Billie discovers a hidden room and a cache of quirkily cataloged letters from a young girl to Delicious! writer James Beard during WWII. The discussion will conclude with a tour of the exhibition Snack.

Registration required at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD BY JENNIFER EGAN Thursday, June 30 • 6 pmJoin the Reading Under the Roof Cloud book club for a discussion of A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Penn/Faulkner Award Finalist. Aging punk-rocker and record executive Bennie stars along with his troubled young assistant, a kleptomaniac named Sasha. Nonlinear chapters shift between the past, present and future, introducing a host of supporting characters and revealing how time, often interpreted as the goon in the title, changes us all. The discussion will conclude with a tour of Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia.

Registration required at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration

AFTER SCHOOL SNACK: TEACHER WORKSHOPIf all that educating has left your stomach grumbling and your brain a bit fried, head down to the museum to load up on a delicious professional development offering led by one of the artists from our tastiest exhibition, Snack.

KRISTEN CLIFFEL Thursday, April 28 • 4:30 pmSculptor Kristen Cliffel loves to feed a crowd. She can be found mixing up mojitos at the museum, whipping up a birthday cake at home, or creating bittersweet ceramics in her studio. Let Cliffel guide you through some tasty techniques to create an artwork of your own delicious design. Then, be nice and take your sweet skills back to your classroom to share with your students.

FREE for educators. Each participant will receive professional development paperwork to submit to his/her LPDC.

Register online at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration or by calling 330.376.9186 x247

Kristen Cliffel, The Dirty Dozen, 2010, low fire clay, glaze, lustre, wood and lucite, 32 x 23 x 23 in. Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of the artist in honor of Mitchell D. Kahan 2012.102 a-n

Available in the Museum Shop: Delicious! by Ruth Reichl $16A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan $15.95

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WORKSHOP: ENERGY DOME PLANTER Thursday, June 2 • 6:30 pmThe red DEVO energy dome has been called many things by those unfamiliar to this Akron band’s history—most often an “upside down flower pot.” Here’s your chance to embrace the misconception and create a flower pot that looks like an upside down red DEVO energy dome. Gear up for the garden with artist and Studio 2091 gallery owner Amy Mothersbaugh. Class participants will decorate a ter-racotta flower pot to look like a dome, and even place a plant inside. All materials provided. Got an uncontrollable urge to put that flower pot on your head? If you have a DEVO energy dome, wear it while you work. Energy Domes are available for purchase in the Museum Shop.

$15 members and $20 non-members Register at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration.

WORKSHOP: ZINES WITH AMY MOTHERSBAUGH Thursday, July 7 • 6:30 pmZines are here and taking over the world with conventions and expos popping up all over that celebrate the self-publishing industry! A zine is a cool, self-published, small magazine that contains images, words and anything else you want to share. Join the zine craze and learn about some of Mark Mothersbaugh’s early adventures in zine-making with artist Amy Mothersbaugh. Participants are encouraged to bring images and scraps you would like to personalize your zine with, but materials will also be provided. On display that night will be zines by many current artists, including some famous local artists’ and musicians’ works. $15 members and $20 non-members Register at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration.

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SLIDE JAM: SNACKThursday, May 5 • 6:30 pmAre vegetables the new meat? How does a food photographer create such mouthwatering photographs? How are regional chefs transforming the local farming movement? Hear quick, informal talks from chefs, foodies, photographers and other movers and shakers in the community inspired by food and the exhibition Snack. This installment of Slide Jam is curated by Edible Cleveland and the Countryside Conservancy. Visit Facebook or AkronArtMuseum.org for more information about the speakers.

KICK OFF PARTY: HIGHLAND SQUARE MARKET Thursday, May 19 • 7 pmCelebrate the first Highland Square Farmers Market with a snack worthy celebration. We’ve asked a local chef to lead a cooking demonstration using ingredients purchased at the market. Enjoy a cocktail, explore the Snack exhibition and mingle with market goers and purveyors. Managed by Countryside Conservancy, the Thursday market features over 20 local food vendors and takes place at the intersection of West Market and Conger Avenue in Akron from 4-7 pm.

DEVO Energy Dome from Atom Age Industries Inc. $32


AKRON COFFEE ROASTERS COFFEE BREW BASICSThursday, March 10 • 5:30 pmBrewing coffee shouldn’t be too difficult. A focus on four main variables will generally ensure a positive result (coffee, water, ratio, time). We will discuss each of the variables and present demonstrations on proper brewing techniques. We will sample properly and not-so-properly brewed coffee.

COFFEES AROUND THE WORLDThursday, April 14 • 5:30 pmGeography is a big factor in how a coffee tastes. We will discuss the history of coffee distribution around the world, the current major coffee growing regions, and the general characteristics of coffees from each of these regions. We will sample coffees from different growing regions.

COFFEE ROASTING BASICSThursday, May 12 • 5:30 pmCoffee roasting is part art and part science. We will discuss the basics of the coffee roasting process and how roast approach affects the flavor of coffee. We will sample coffees with a variety of roast levels and flavor profiles.

COFFEE CUPPINGThursday, June 9 • 5:30 pmCoffee professionals use coffee cupping (essentially slurping coffee from a spoon) to assess coffee quality and character when purchasing and roasting coffee. We will discuss the coffee cupping process and participants will have the opportunity to practice their slurping techniques with coffee samples.

Pastries will be provided by West Side Bakery. Registration required at AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration.

EAT AT THE CAFÉWednesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm and Thursday 11am – 9pm

MAKE A RESERVATIONThe museum café can be reserved for meetings and gatherings of up to 30 people. Boxed lunch options are available. For more information please call 330.376.9186 x212 or email us at [email protected].

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CREATING AN URBAN ART OASIS With relatively warm winter temperatures in Akron, construction of the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden has proceeded well beyond its originally scheduled winter break. The unusually warm winter has provided the opportunity to continue to prepare and pour many of the concrete retaining walls for the garden’s plaza and green, as well as our exciting new feature wall which anchors the south end of our green space with a backdrop that is bursting with endless possibilities. It seems like every day we experience dramatic changes to the garden as we watch it grow and transform downtown Akron. As we prepare for this transformative moment, plans are well underway to become Akron’s new cultural and civic commons. We are also developing programs, projects and events to expand our capacity to enrich lives and provide meaningful art experiences for everyone.

The garden is symbolic of how the arts have generated a ground swell of enthusiasm in the rejuvenation of our city. With every step we take to make Akron a richer and more vibrant city, we continue to chart a path towards living a more creative life. So whether we are designated as a new urban trail head for bicyclists on the Towpath, a lunch time get-away for downtown workers or a weekend retreat for suburban dwellers, the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden will help to reimagine our role as a 21st century art museum by enriching and engaging our community.

We look forward to sharing the garden with you on Saturday, July 16th for a public dedication and celebration. Thank you for your support and we’ll see you in the garden.z Mark Masuoka, Executive Director and CEO

Akron Art Museum Staff, Board Members and State and Local Representatives view the progress on the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden, Photo by Bruce Ford


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lecture and book signing; 7 Experiencing Paul O’Keeffe’s sculptures in NEO Geo; 8 2016 MLK Jr Day; 9 2016 MLK Jr Day; 10 The Fourons performing at the NEO Geo opening

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MEMBERSHIP

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: JILL CABECity: Akron (West Hill)Occupation: Librarian How frequently do you visit the Akron Art Museum?Not as often as I would like - about two or three times a year.

What benefit of membership do you appreciate the most and why? I enjoy the newsletter and the opportunity to participate in the life of the museum as a community member.

Are there particular works of art in the collection or current/past exhibitions that are special to you? Which ones and why? I know not everyone loves her, but I am fond of Linda. Also “our Elvis”—the Warhol. Often I will read about an artist and think, “Oh, we have that!” and of course what I really mean is that it’s an artist in the collection of the museum, but it feels like “we.”

The museum does a fantastic job with exhibits on illustrators— specifically the Ezra Jack Keats exhibit, but also Leo and Diane Dillon and Kadir Nelson. Those were wonderful. The Friedlander exhibit was very moving too—it portrayed our parents and grandparents at work in a way that was respectful, illuminating and offered them the dignity and beauty they deserve.

Do you have a story or memory that you would like to share about the Akron Art Museum? Many years ago I saw the photographic exhibit by Ralph Eugene Meatyard and it really was a life-altering experience for me. Before that exhibit I thought photographs were what you took at Christmas, or on vacation. Here was a person who changed the way I could see the world using photography as his medium. I was young and open and had the right experience at the right time. The museum gave me that and it has never left me.

That’s the museum’s mission as far as I’m concerned—show us the world in ways we could not imagine for ourselves here in Akron. Blow our minds.

AKRON ART MUSEUM MEMBERSHIPGive the gift of an Akron Art Museum membership to your friends, colleagues and family. This artfully selected gift truly keeps on giving, allowing recipients to enjoy contemporary art, films, lectures, classes, workshops and special events year round, while supporting the museum’s mission to enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.

Memberships begin at just $50 for an individual and $75 for a household. Your recipients will enjoy:

• Unlimited admission to the collection and all exhibition galleries for one year• Invitations to exhibition preview events• Free registration for Live Creative programs for families and children• Discounts in the museum store and on educational workshops, lectures and programs• Invitation to exclusive Members Only events such as day trips, family events, weekend art getaways, behind-

the-scenes tours and wine tastings• Subscription to the museum’s quarterly magazine• Free parking in the High/Market Street Parking Deck

For more information on membership levels and benefits, or to purchase a gift membership today, call 330.376.9186 x225 or visit AkronArtMuseum.org/memberships.


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MEMBERS ONLY: GLASS BLOWING WORKSHOPTuesday, April 5 • 6 - 8 pmAkron Glass Works - 106 N. Main Street - Akron OH 44308

Craft and blow your own glass paperweight with the help of glass artisan Jack Baker at this exclusive workshop for museum members only. Enjoy refreshments and an evening of camaraderie as our small group creates one-of-a-kind masterpieces. No experience necessary. Must be at least 15 years old (accompanied by an adult).

Cost: $65 per member. Registration and payment are required in advance. Fees are non-refundable. To reserve your space, contact Development Officer Michael Derr at [email protected] or 330.376.9186 x214 by Friday, March 25, 2016.

MEMBERS TOUR: CINCINNATISaturday, May 7, 2016Did you miss your chance to see the incredible Do Ho Suh Passage exhibition when it was at MOCA Cleveland? Or maybe you’d like to see the installation again in a new setting. Now’s your chance. Members will travel by chartered bus to Cincinnati for a day of modern art at the Contemporary Art Center. Following a gourmet lunch, we will visit the electrifying American Sign Museum, the largest public sign museum of its kind. Featuring more than 5,000 items that are a part of its collection of vintage signs, you’ll be delighted by the sights around every corner. Be sure to check out the 20-foot-tall fiberglass genie, a Howard Johnson’s sign from Times Square and lavishly hand painted signs from the last century.

Cost: $120 per member and includes chartered bus to and from Cincinnati, admission to the Contemporary Art Center and the American Sign Museum, gourmet lunch and snacks throughout the day.

To reserve your space, contact Development Officer Michael Derr at [email protected] or 330.376.9186 x214 by April 8, 2016.

UPDATE: RECIPROCAL MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONSWe’ve updated our Membership website to allow you easier access to full lists of reciprocal museums and institutions. Visit AkronArtMuseum.org/support and click on the Reciprocal Museums graphic. Members at the $100 level have reciprocal privileges at Ohio Art and ROAM institutions. In addition to those institutions, Members at the $150 level have access to the Mod/Co museums and institutions.

Always contact the reciprocal museum prior to your visit as some restrictions may apply.

To increase your individual or household membership level to enjoy these reciprocal benefits at 285 museums around the country and Canada, please call 330.376.9186 x225.

Do Ho Suh, Passage (detail), installation view at Cincinatti Contemporary Art Center, 2016

WELCOME TO OUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS

TAMARA FYNANTamara Fynan is Vice President of Marketing Services and serves as a Corporate Officer at The J.M. Smucker Company. She oversees the development of all advertising, digital marketing, public relations, consumer promotions, package design and branding efforts for the company. She has over twenty-five years experience working on its portfolio of over 45 brands, including the iconic brands Smucker’s, Jif, Folgers, and Pillsbury. She serves on the Board of Sauder Woodworking Company, the largest manufacturer of ready-to-assemble furniture in North America. She has been a juror for the Pentawards, a worldwide package design competition. She is a graduate of Northwestern University where she studied economics and art history. Tamara and her husband, Martin, live in Bath. They have four grown children and are excited new grandparents to grandson, George.

BILL LIPSCOMBBill Lipscomb has been a member of the Collections Committee of the Akron Art Museum for a dozen years. A consultant to nonprofits, he has assisted numerous arts, environmental, education, social service, civic and health care organizations, particularly on fundraising projects, and serves as a trustee on the boards of two grant-making foundations which support the arts and the environment. He has served as the President of the Intermuseum Conservation Association and the Cleveland Artists Foundation, now ARTneo. Lipscomb has collected photography for over twenty-five years and was a founding trustee and President of the Friends of Photography of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has donated numerous photographs to the CMA and the Akron Art Museum. Bill and his wife, Peggy, live in Shaker Heights. Their son, Zach, is a college sophomore.

DAVID PELLANDCurrently co-chairing the 2016 Akron Art Museum Annual Auction and serving on the Finance Committee, David Pelland lives with his wife Jillian and their 4 children on their horse property in Sharon Township. David is a Certified Financial PlannerTM and successor of Bear/Pelland Associates, the family business started in 1971. Committed and involved in our community, David serves in numerous capacities to develop the arts and collaborative efforts towards the greater good. He has a strong appreciation for art and architecture, and is drawn to minimalist and contemporary reflections in both. There is a multilayered, nuanced simplicity that he appreciates every day in his work and in his life that is similarly reflected in the very building in which the Akron Art Museum is housed.


ARTWORKS BUSINESS MEMBERSHIPSFor over 90 years, the Akron Art Museum has been able to realize its vision thanks to the dedication of the community. Demonstrate your company’s commitment to the arts with an Art Works Business Membership at the Akron Art Museum. Corporate support is critical to the Akron Art Museum’s ability to present its world-class exhibitions and acclaimed education programs. In return for your generous support, our Art Works Business Membership program provides special benefits and recognition specifically designed to meet the needs of your business. Join the growing list of companies like Akron Children’s Hospital, Brennan, Manna & Diamond, LLC, Ohio CAT, Stratos Wealth Partners, the J. M. Smucker Company and TKM Print Solutions in demonstrating support for the arts in our community.

Join online at AkronArtMuseum.org/memberships or call Development Officer Jeneé Garlando at 330-376-9186 x222.

MEMBERSHIP

The Akron Art Museum extends its sincere appreciation to the following funders for their generous support this year:

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MEMBERSHIP

ARTWORKS BUSINESS MEMBERSHIPBrennan, Manna & Diamond, LLC

Stratos Wealth Partners

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE CRYSTALMr. and Mrs. Dean Barry

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE GOLDDr. Michael Frank

Mr. and Mrs. David Logsdon

SUSTAINERMr. and Mrs. John A. Mogen

SPONSORDr. & Mrs. Todd F. Breaux

Mr. and Mrs. David Hunter

CONTRIBUTOR-PLUSMr. and Mrs. David Basinski

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Coyle

Dr. and Mrs. David Cutler

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Donohoo

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fischer

Dr. and Mrs. John H. Gerstenmaier

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Lobalzo

Dr. and Mrs. John B. Saks

Mr. Lee A. Simpson

Mrs. Richard W. Staiger

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Victor

Ms. Jenny Wilson and Ms. Merrilee

Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Yeager

CONTRIBUTORAlex Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Crookes

Ms. Jacquelyn Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Phil Eckert

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Sain

Ms. Mary E. Fulton

Ms. Karen M. Gil

Mr. and Mrs. John Hoover

S. Jefferies

Mr. Steve Levey

Mr. and Mrs. William Moss

Mr. Caleb Pinkava

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Price

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Puffer

Mrs. Kristan Rothman

Ms. Nancy Stanforth

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Swartz

Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Verdoorn

Mr. Larry Wallerstein

Ms. Lisa Zwick

GENERAL/FAMILYMrs. Linda Aring

Ms. Shara Blagrave

Ms. Aisha Harris Bradford

Mr. and Mrs. David Burkholder

Ms. Melissa Clark

Ms. Kim Cousino

Ms. Annette Cryder

Jordan Culbertson

Ms. Jennifer Cummings and

Mr. Daniel Flave

Ms. Donna Foradori

Mrs. Samantha Damoulakis

Ms. Sara Drowlette

Mrs. Susan Frerichs

Ms. Jill Ghosh

Ms. Nattakan Hansumrittisak

Ms. Karla Hess

Ms. Kelli Hons

Mrs. Justine Ingersoll

Dr. Lindsay Kahlenberg

Mr. Michael Kaminsky

Mrs. Leslie Kepple

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Kilgore

Mrs. Bobbi Kirkbride

The Akron Art Museum extends a warm welcome to the following members who recently joined the museum or increased their membership level:

Akron Community Foundation

The City of Akron

Art Works

B.W. Rogers Company

Berlin Family Foundation, Inc.

Brennan, Manna & Diamond, LLC

Browse McDowell, LPA

Burton D. Morgan Foundation

C. Blake Jr. & Beatrice K. McDowell Foundation

Charles E. & Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial

Foundation

Dominion Foundation

GAR Foundation

Gertrude F. Orr Trust

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

House of LaRose

Jean P. Wade Foundation

John A. McAlonan Fund

John P. Murphy Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust

Laura L. & Lucian Q. Moffitt Foundation

The Lehner Family Foundation

Lloyd L. & Louise K. Smith Foundation

M.G. O’Neil Foundation

Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation

Mary & Dr. George L. Demetros

Charitable Trust

The Mary S. & David C. Corbin Foundation

Ohio Arts Council

OMNOVA Solutions Foundation

PNC Foundation

R. C. Musson & Katharine M. Musson

Charitable Foundation

Read Family Fund

Robert O. & Annamae Orr Family Foundation

Rogers Family Foundation

Sally A. Miller and Joseph G. Miller Family

Foundation

Sandra L. and Dennis B. Haslinger Family

Foundation

Sisler McFawn Foundation

The J.M. Smucker Company

Stratos Wealth Partners

Toby D. Lewis Philanthropic Foundation

Welty Family Foundation

Western Reserve PBS

WKSU 89.7

Ms. Emily Knight

Mrs. Teresa R. LeGrair

Ms. Annette Lowe

Mr. and Mrs. David Maggiore

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin McMahon

Ms. Tara McMillen

Ms. Connie Michaels

Ms. Lindsey Mitchell

Mr. Robert Murray

Ms. Julie Pagano

Ms. Sandra Palmier

Dr. Nirali Patel

Britt Petro

Mr. and Mrs. George Poulos

Mrs. Marjorie Ranftl

Mrs. Amy Rauh

Ms. Sherry A. Simms

Mrs. Kristin Reminder

Mr. Michael F. Resch

Mrs. Evelyn Rizzo

Mrs. Teresa Roush

Ms. Janis Salas

Dominica Sanchez

Mr. Jason Schmidt

Mr. and Mrs. David Shiner

Ms. Abbey Singharath

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Sloan

Mrs. Molly Stover

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Sullivan

Mrs. Amy Swegan

Mr. Andy Troutman

Mr. Anderson Turner

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker

Mrs. Danielle Warner

Ms. Kristen Weber

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Weyrauch

INDIVIDUALMs. Caitlin Ballinger

Ms. Nancy Bisson

Ms. Melanie Boyden

Ms. Sarah Church

Ms. Rebecca Cross

Ms. Erica Greim

Ms. Laura R. Held

Mr. Mark Keffer

Mr. John Knapp

Ms. Louisa J. Kreider

Dr. Jan Manes

Ms. Loren Masterson

Mrs. Lorraine McCarty

Mr. Keith Norris

Devin Reany

Ms. Teresa Roth-Vogel

Mr. Thomas Steffensen

William Sommer, Landscape with Yellow Clouds, c.1915, oil on composition board, 24 x 30 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum 2004.59

The Akron Art Museum, in partnership with regional printer Rudinec & Associates, offers a variety of high quality prints of your favorite Akron Art Museum images. View selection and place orders atwww.requestaprint.net/akronart.


IN THE MUSEUM SHOP

Live Creative T-Shirt $14.95A is for Akron Kid’s T-Shirt $12.95

Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia by Adam Lerner and Wes Anderson

$40

The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz and Eric C. Anderson

$40

Akron Art Museum Logo T-Shirt. Colors vary. $14.95

POP-UP SHOP: SOUL FOOD MAFIAMarch 10 • 6–9pm

CRAFTY MART: THE MOM & POP SHOPPE April 2 • 10am–4pm

TRUNK SHOW: KRIS HALTER JEWELRYMay 7 • 11am–3pm

LIVECREATIVESHOP AKRON ART MUSEUMWed-Sun: 11am-5pm Thursday: 11am-9pm

Bethany Homrighaus of Beethings Studio Jewelry, located in Northeastern Ohio,

creates one-of-a-kind jewelry with intention,

love and respect for the beadmaker and culture.

Bracelets $19.95Earrings $19.95

Necklaces $19.95 - $75

The Hard Way on Purposeby David Giffels

$15

Greater Akron: Inventive. Industrious. Inspired.

Written and signed by Dave Lieberth.

$59.99

Images of America: Akron by David W. Francis and

Diane Demali Francis $21.99

Yummy Pillows from Décor Craft International are designed by Anat Safran.Gumball machine pillow measures 20” x 11” $24.95Cupcake pillow measures 18” x 16” $24.95

Art & Ale poster measures -22” x 18” $14.95 or FREE with purchase of an Art & Ale T-Shirt

Art & Ale pint glass $12.95 each or 4 for $34.95

Glass heart created by Fritz Lauenstein measure 1” – 2.5”.Small heart weight $39.95Large heart weight $50Heart pendant $50

Cake Sprinkles small glass dome ring by Amy Pfaffman is set in an antiqued brass bezel and is adjustable up to size 8. $20

Yummy Pocket Cupcake from Décor Craft International is designed by Anat Safran. $9.99

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Akron Art Museum coffee mugs feature an illustration by talented local designerJulie Arnold. $9.95 each

Galison / Mudpuppy’s Andy Warhol Soup Can Pink 200 piece puzzle

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SPECIAL THANKS TO THE SPONSORS of our 9th annual ART & ALE FUNDRAISING EVENT

Presenting Sponsor

Participating Brewers & Distributors

Participating Food Purveyors

Blue Point Brewing Company Cavalier Distributing

Cider BrothersCrafted Artisan Meadery

DESTIHL Brewing Elevator Brewing Company

Fat Head’s Brewery & SaloonGoose Island

Griffin Cider WorksHoppin’ Frog Brewery

Horny Goat Brewing Company House of LaRose

Jackie O’s Pub & BreweryJacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company

MadTree Brewing CompanyNorth Country Brewing

Ohio Brewing CompanyRochester Mills Beer Co.

R. Shea BrewingSpider Monkey Brewing Company

Summit BrewingThe Canton Brewing CompanyThirsty Dog Brewing Company

Tramonte Distributing Company

ACME Fresh Market Catering Ascot Valley Foods

Frankly FranksHilton Garden Inn Akron

Label Peelers Beer & Wine Making SuppliesLucky Penny Creamery

Mayfield Road CreameryNORKA Beverage

Nuevo Modern Mexican & Tequila BarOld Carolina Barbecue Company

Sweet Mary’s Bakery

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