SPRING 2012
BROWN BAG LECTURES
AT THE UM MUSEUM

Come listen to the Spring 2012 Brown Bag
Luncheons at the UM Museum. PB&J (or honey)
will be provided.

 

 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
I’m Living in a Material World, and I am Immaterial…,
Dr. Caleb Simmons

This lecture will examine the role that material objects and their production play in the ritual practice of Daoism and Buddhism in China.  Dr. Simmons will highlight how many of the styles that later become revered in the ‘Western’ academic discourse of disinterested artistic critique were originally objects of religious practice or developed from those objects.

Friday, March 30, 2012
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
The Vasari Society Presents
Cathedrals and Parishes: Imagery Across Time in Stained Glass

Professor Virginia Chieffo Raguin of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, presents this lecture at the University Museum. Raguin is an internationally recognized scholar of medieval and nineteenth-century stained glass, including windows in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Oxford.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Sanctuary: The Exhibition
Photography by Stephen Kirkpatrick

Kirkpatrick Wildlife Photography will present an audiovisual presentation based on Kirkpatrick’s award winning book, Sanctuary: Mississippi’s Coastal Plain. Photographer Stephen Kirkpatrick will provide a personal tour and discussion of the exhibition, answer questions, and sign copies of his book.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Broken Pots, Broken Dreams: Working in Jingdezhen’s Porcelain Industry
Documentary and Q & A with Dr. Joshua Howard

Broken Pots, Broken Dreams: Working in Jingdezhen’s Porcelain Industry is a documentary by anthropologist Maris Gillette about the social, economic and cultural effects of shutting down state-run porcelain factories. Gillette interviews 4 people who were previously trained and employed by the government to work in these factories. As a result of economic reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping, many state-run industries were forced to shut their doors because they were not profitable, thereby leaving employees without job security and benefits, and with no options other than to fend for themselves. Gillette juxtaposes generational attitudes towards the financially devastating situation and highlights the entrepreneurial spirit that has become characteristic of so many Chinese in the past two decades.

 

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. 
The Influence of Chinese Ceramics

Ceramics Professor Matt Long will talk about the influence that the Chinese culture has had on his work, and how he has used these influences to make his own voice in his art.  Long will also talk about the importance of the technical aspects of ceramics including clay, glazes and firing.

Thursdays in April
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Master Gardeners Lecture Series
Light refreshments will be provided.

 

The Ford Center for the Performing Arts and
The University of Mississippi Museum invite you to a

Cocktail Reception Benefit & Art Auction

preceding the concert and honoring the visual and performing
artists who are contributing to the evening

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM
University Avenue and 5th Street, Oxford

Thursday, February 2, 2012
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

TICKETS:
Reception $20 (available in advance at the museum or at the door)
Concert $29, $21 Click here to purchase concert tickets online.

Concert to Follow at 7:00 p.m. at the Ford Center

On February 2, 2012, acclaimed concert pianist Bruce Levingston will return to Mississippi to perform at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts in Oxford. The brilliant violinist Colin Jacobsen and his string quartet Brooklyn Rider as well as other special guest artists will join Levingston for a magical program that will include Dvorák, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Saint-Saëns’ spectacular Carnival of the Animals.

“Two of today’s most adventurous musicians … Bruce Levingston and Colin Jacobsen
joined forces in the kind of recital for which each has become known:
driven by ideas and filled with music old, new and well worth hearing.” New York Times

In addition to these delightful and dazzling works, prominent artists from Mississippi have contributed works of art to a visual showcase that will be previewed at the museum and auctioned off that evening to benefit the Ford Center for the Performing Arts and the University of Mississippi Museum.

Artists contributing to the auction are

Blair Hobbs, William Beckwith, Matt Long, Jere Allen, Glennray Tutor, William Dunlap, Linda Burgess, Maggie Dunlap, William Pittman Andrews, Cathy Crockett, Mitchell Wright, Randy Hayes, Everett McCourt, Langdon Clay, Maude Schuyler Clay, Jason Bouldin, Marty Vinograd, Carlyle Wolfe, and John Bishop

 

Art Auction Preview

Click on any of the images below for an enlarged view.

Ibis
Linda Burgess
Oil on gessoed paper mounted on masonite
12 ½” x 10 ½”
Minimum Bid: $750.00

On Fire
Glennray Tutor
Oil on canvas
16” x 28”
Suggested gallery/retail price: $7,200.00, Minimum bid: $3,200.00

Polar Slice, 1992
Marty Vinograd
18 ¼” x 14”
Mixed-media collage
Minimum Bid: $1,880.00

Deer With Mask, 2012
Randy Hayes
Oil on photographs on canvas mounted to canvas
20” x 16”
Minimum Bid: $900.00

Early Morning Hunt
Cathy Crockett
Oil on canvas
24 ¼” x 20 ¾”
Minimum Bid: $900.00

Woman with Crest, 2009
Jere Allen
Oil on linen
20” x 16”
Minimum Bid: $1,500.00

Aviary from ‘The Carnival of Animals’
Blair Hobbs
Mixed-media collage
14 1/2” x 18 ¾”
Minimum Bid: $400.00

Moon, 2010
Mitchell Wright
Gesso on canvas
14” x 14”
Minimum Bid: $400.00

2 Iyar (April- May), 2010
Carlyle Wolfe
Layered monotypes
23” x 39”
Minimum Bid: $1,800.00

Memphis, 1990
Everett McCourt
Chromogenic C print
20 ½” x 16 ¾”
Minimum Bid: $400.00

Bottle
Matt Long
Wood fired stoneware
Diameter 8 ¾” x Height 17 ½”
Minimum Bid: $800.00

Bust of Eudora Welty
William Beckwith
Bronze on black granite
Base: 8” x 8”, 21” x 10”
Minimum Bid: $6,000.00

Ring Leader
Maggie Dunlap
Ink and watercolor on paper
10 ¾” x 13 ¼”
Minimum Bid: $200.00

November Forest, 2007
William P. Andrews
Oil on canvas
19 ¼” x 15 ¼”
Minimum Bid: $550.00

Night Scent
William Dunlap
Oil and dry pigment over ink on rag paper
16 ½” x 13 ¾”
Minimum Bid: $1,000.00

Delta Horse ‘N Rider
Langdon Clay
Archival pigment print
20” x 24”
Minimum Bid: $650.00

Dog With Winter Wheat
Maude Schuyler Clay
Chromogenic color coupler
26 ½” x 23 1/8”
Minimum Bid: $700.00

Movement II Poules et coqs, Le Carnaval des Animaux
Jason Bouldin
Oil on cardboard
24 3/4″ x 35″
Minimum Bid: $1,450.00

Unable to attend the auction? To submit a bid online, send your maximum bid for a piece to Marti Funke at mfunke@olemiss.edu, along with your credit card number, expiration date, security code, mailing address, and phone number no later than Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. CST.  Be sure to designate which piece of art interests you when you submit your maximum bid.  If you do not feel comfortable sending your credit card information via email, please leave this information on Marti’s private voicemail at 662-915-7074. All information must be received by Marti Funke by the February 1, 2012, 4:00 p.m. deadline for auction bids to be accepted.

The minimum bid is listed for each piece, while the maximum bid is up to you.  If you bid $5,000 and at the end of the auction the highest bidder at the Cocktail Benefit and Art Auction bids $4,500, then you will win the item.  If bidding at the auction exceeds $5,000, you will not win the item.  On Friday, February 3, 2012, Marti Funke will call individuals who placed proxy bids to let them know if they have won the piece.