Call for EntryTHE GILDA SNOWDEN EXHIBITIONDeadline: Sunday, January 27, 2019, MidnightThe Scarab Club invites submissions for its Snowden Exhibition (formerly known as the Silver Medal Exhibition), an unthemed, all media exhibition which is open to all artists. The exhibition is named for the late artist and educator, Gilda Snowden. The purpose of the exhibition is to recognize the diversity and achievement of artists whose work shows creativity of concept, excellence of design and expertise of media; to display these works to regional audiences and to be an educational opportunity for students. JUROR: SUE CARMAN-VIANSue Carman-Vian has had a thirty-year career as a painter, performance artist and film and video maker. She received an MFA from Wayne State University in 1984. She received the Michigan Council for the Arts Grant in 1986 for the Public Billboard Project, and was an award winner in the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1991. Sue has written, directed, produced and performed in nine productions from 1984- 2008. Some of these productions were sponsored by Marygrove College. She has written, directed, produced and performed in eleven films/videos from 1986-2009. Most of these were made in conjunction with her performance art pieces. Sue has exhibited in numerous one and two person exhibitions and many group shows from 1986 to the present. She has taught performance art at Wayne State University and Marygrove college in Detroit, MI. Since 2010 she has collaborated on a public arts billboard project and continues to perform her pieces in group performance events.
IMPORTANT DATES Deadline: Sunday, January 27, 2019, Midnight Exhibition: February 22-March 30, 2019 Reception: Friday, February 22, 5-8 pm Gallery Talk, Thursday, March 7, 6 pm Intake: Sunday, February 17, noon-4 pmPick-up: Sunday, March 31, noon-4 pm
Image by Donita Simpson, 2014
Join the Scarab Club for its 21st season of the Chamber Music at the Scarab Club season!
Beach and Prokofiev Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church 17150 Maumee Ave, Grosse Pointe, MI 48230
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Discounted tickets are $18 for members, and $10 for students. Purchase your tickets here.
Don’t miss the two quintets & a trio that make up this delightful winter program:
Featuring:
Join us this season for an authentic salon experience where musicians and audiences come together in an intimate space to perform and enjoy music of the 18th and 19th centuries.
$20 general admission, $5 student
Schedule:
7:00pm recital for young students
7:30pm small reception
8:00pm Pleyel Recital: Christine Wu
Program:
Franz Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D. 845
Franz Schubert/Franz Liszt: Song transcriptions for piano
"Gretchen am spinnrade"
"Ständchen"
"Auf dem Wasser zu singen"
"Der Müller und der Bach"
Robert Schumann: Davidsbündlertanze
Our stunning Pleyel piano was generously donated by the Dixon family in 2013 was crafted in Paris in 1879. A portion of the revenues will go to a special fund which will assure the maintenance of the piano (Dan Harteau is its piano technician).
Thursday, February 28, 2019 6 pm | Cocktails 7 pm | Dinner 8 pm | Lecture Deadline for dinner registration: Monday, February 25, 2019 (to accommodate catering) Attendance for lecture only guests available | Pay at the door $15/SC members & students | $20 Non-members
Albert Kahn: The Architect VanishesMichael H. Hodges, Fine Arts Writer, Detroit News
Industrial architect Albert Kahn was a giant in Detroit’s heroic age, the visionary who invented the humane “daylight factories” that helped birth both modern manufacturing and modern architecture. In this lecture and slideshow, Detroit News reporter Michael H. Hodges — author of “Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit” — will review Kahn’s local legacy, his vigorous defense of Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry” murals when under attack, and his role helping the Soviets beat the Nazis in 1941-42.
Michael H. Hodges is the fine-arts writer for The Detroit News, where he's worked since 1991. "Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit" is his second book on local architecture. His first, "Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations," was named a Notable Book by the Library of Michigan. Hodges blames his architectural enthusiasms on both the picturesque Oakland County dairy farm he grew up on, as well as the six years he spent as a student at the Cranbrook School for Boys.
The Clyde Burroughs lecture series is generously supported by Frances & Nick Pavlovics.
Thursday, April 11, 2019 6 pm | Cocktails 7 pm | Dinner 8 pm | Lecture Deadline for dinner registration: Monday, April 8, 2019 (to accommodate catering) Attendance for lecture only guests available | Pay at the door $15/SC members & students | $20 Non-members
Florine StetheimerNancy Shaw, Curator Emerita of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts
Florine Stetheimer: The Love Flight of a Pink Candy HeartNancy Rivard Shaw, Curator Emerita American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts
Florine Stettheimer socialized within the same milieu as her contemporary, fellow artist and museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, becoming a fixture among the New York avant-garde. She studied in New York and Paris and her lesser known early work recalls the realist traditions of the Ashcan School. Yet, she is best known for the vibrant and exuberant palette of the fantasies that she begins to lay down on canvas after 1916. Behind the Pink Cellophane Curtain: The Fantasy World of Florine Stettheimer will explore not only the imagined often autobiographical worlds found in her canvases, but also the studio she created, where to a good extent, she brought that world to life.
Nancy Rivard Shaw, Curator Emerita of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and an independent scholar specializing in late 19th and early 20th century American art. Among the major exhibitions Shaw has contributed to are: “John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age,” (1979), “The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World’s Fairs,” (1983), and “American Art from the Manoogian Collection,” (1989). She co-organized “From the Hudson River School to Impressionism: American Art from the Manoogian Collection,” (1997) and prepared the scholarly catalogue that accompanied it.
Shaw has published extensively on the DIA’s collections, and has contributed essays and articles to numerous publications and exhibition catalogues. She has also lectured at various museums in the United States and Japan on the DIA’s collections, and on the private collection of American Art owned by fellow Detroiter Richard A. Manoogian. Recent publications include Calm in the Shadow of the Shadow of the Palmetto & Magnolia: Southern Art from the Charleston Renaissance Gallery (2003), American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. III (2005), and Spot: Southern Works on Paper (2008).
In 1998 Shaw moved with her husband, Dr. Danny W. Shaw, to Beaufort, South Carolina, and turned her attention to Southern Art, particularly impressionism, which evolved separately from the North. She has written extensively on such well-known painters as Elliott Daingerfield, as well as more obscure figures like Kelly Fitzpatrick, Lawrence Mazzanovich, Elizabeth Verner, and Bayard Wootten.
Since relocating to Florida in 2004 Shaw has lectured and published on a wide range of art historical subjects, including Eliel Saarinen and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Michigan artist Frederick Frieseke, and Artistic impressions of the Southern landscape.
Thursday, May 30, 2019 6 pm | Cocktails 7 pm | Dinner 8 pm | Lecture Deadline for dinner registration: Monday, May 27, 2019 (to accommodate catering) Attendance for lecture only guests available | Pay at the door $15/SC members & students | $20 Non-members
Frederic RemingtonJennifer R. Henneman, Assistant Curator, Denver Art Museum
While Frederic Remington is often thought of as a western character, namely because of the subject matter of his artwork, he was in fact a cosmopolitan New Yorker who socialized with America’s most important artists at the turn of the twentieth century. This talk will consider his relationship with the American Impressionists, including John Henry Twachtman, Julian Alden Wier, and Childe Hassam, with whom he regularly socialized at the Player’s Club in New York City, and discuss how these artists influenced the development of his artistic technique and philosophy.
Jennifer R. Henneman, PhD is Assistant Curator at the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum. Her interdisciplinary transatlantic research, which has taken her from the wilds of the American West to the cosmopolitan streets of London, reflects her own upbringing on a cattle ranch in Montana and her interest in the dominant cultural and artistic spheres of the late Victorian era. Most recently she co-curated Backstory: Western American Art in Context (March 2016 – February 2017), an exhibition in collaboration with the History Colorado Center that told the story of the West through art and artifact.
Jennifer received a PhD in 19th century British and American Art and Visual Culture from the University of Washington, an MA in Non-Western Art History from Richmond, the American International University in London, and BAs in Studio Art and French from Montana State University. During her doctoral degree she completed research fellowships at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Her curatorial and collections experience includes posts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Morris Graves Foundation, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Scarab Club is supported in part by awards from the Kresge Foundation, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.