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PRESORTED<br />
FIRST CLASS<br />
U.S. POSTAGE<br />
PAID<br />
<strong>UMUC</strong><br />
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE<br />
7 Become a Friend<br />
of the Arts at <strong>UMUC</strong><br />
SPRING 2012<br />
6 Upcoming Events<br />
6 University of Maryland<br />
University College<br />
Arts Program Mission<br />
Statement<br />
6 Collectible Book Available<br />
His Own Path: The Spirit<br />
and Legacy of Herman Maril<br />
5 Did You Know?<br />
News and perspectives<br />
for friends of the arts<br />
4 Infinite Mirror: A Fresh<br />
Look at American Identity<br />
3 Influence Over Time:<br />
The Art of Winston Harris<br />
3 <strong>UMUC</strong> Adds to Its<br />
Permanent Collections<br />
2 Remembering<br />
Larry Chappelear<br />
1 Greetings from the<br />
President & Greetings<br />
from the Chair<br />
IN THIS ISSUE<br />
Arts Program<br />
3501 University Boulevard East<br />
Adelphi, MD 20783-8007 USA<br />
www.umuc.edu/art<br />
SPRING 2012<br />
University of Maryland University College<br />
is a constituent institution of the University<br />
System of Maryland. Art@umuc is published<br />
twice a year by <strong>UMUC</strong>’s Art Advisory Board.<br />
Please send comments to arts@umuc.edu<br />
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Newsletter Editor<br />
Arts Program<br />
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Phone 301-985-7937 • Fax 301-985-7865<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Eric Key<br />
Graphic Designer<br />
Jordan Campbell<br />
<strong>UMUC</strong> Art Advisory Board<br />
Susan C. Aldridge, PhD<br />
Michèle E. Jacobs, Chair<br />
Anne V. Maher, Esq., Vice Chair<br />
Eva J. Allen, PhD<br />
I-Ling Chow, honorary member<br />
Paula Cleggett<br />
Linda Derrick<br />
Patricia Dubroof<br />
Karin Goldstein, honorary member<br />
Juanita Boyd Hardy<br />
Sharon Smith Holston, Past Chair<br />
Pamela Holt<br />
Eric Key<br />
Philip Koch<br />
Thomas Li, honorary member<br />
David Maril, honorary member<br />
Barbara Stephanic, PhD, Past Vice Chair,<br />
honorary member<br />
Arts Programs Updates<br />
Get the latest updates on<br />
the <strong>UMUC</strong> Arts Program. Visit<br />
www.umuc.edu/art/newsonline<br />
On cover (clockwise from left): 1 Winston Harris,<br />
Military Time (detail) 2 Cesar Augusto Martinez,<br />
Hombre que le Gustan las Mujeres 3 Kakyoung<br />
Lee, Drifting 1 (14:30 at the airport) (detail)<br />
4 Jennifer Greenburg, Donnie Hawleywood (detail)<br />
GreetinGs from the President<br />
Dear Friends,<br />
As another season of exciting arts events begins, I would like to take this<br />
opportunity to thank you for your continued support of the Arts Program<br />
at University of Maryland University College (<strong>UMUC</strong>) and highlight some<br />
of the arts initiatives you have helped make possible.<br />
This fall, the university launched The Poetics of Water, a wonderfully<br />
unique exhibition that continued through mid-January. I hope you had<br />
the opportunity to view the exhibition, which included artistic expression<br />
from a variety of perspectives, including those of students, seniors, and<br />
professional artists and poets.<br />
I am also pleased to announce that the book release and reception for His Own Path: The Spirit<br />
and Legacy of Herman Maril was a great success. After years of collaboration and hard work,<br />
we are delighted that this book is now in the hands of so many art lovers and available to you<br />
through the Arts Program’s office. Additionally, I would like to thank Christine McCarthy, executive<br />
director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, for delivering an educational lecture on<br />
Herman Maril and his art to students, faculty, and art patrons who gathered for the event.<br />
This spring promises to be a busy one, as the university has three exhibitions scheduled to open<br />
between January and April: Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity, Joseph Sheppard: A<br />
Voyage from Memory (1930–1960), and the Faculty Art Invitational Exhibition. I hope you will<br />
have a chance to view each of these exciting and informative exhibitions. Without art patrons and<br />
supporters like you, they would not be possible. Thank you.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Susan C. Aldridge, PhD<br />
President, University of Maryland University College<br />
GreetinGs from the Chair<br />
Dear Friends,<br />
This year promises to be a time of continued growth and development for<br />
the Arts Program at <strong>UMUC</strong>. We have several exciting exhibitions planned—<br />
Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity, Joseph Sheppard: A Voyage<br />
from Memory (1930–1960), and more—and I hope you will have the<br />
opportunity to join us at them.<br />
In addition, I am inspired by two recent gifts the Arts Program received.<br />
Beverly Corey kindly donated a Preston Sampson work, and Iver Nelson<br />
generously added 15 works to the university’s Asian Collection. Gracious gifts like these, as well<br />
as the ongoing support of everyone involved with the Arts Program, help ensure that we continue<br />
bringing art to the community.<br />
I cannot stress the impact the Arts Program has on the education of our students, visitors, and<br />
community. In 2011, the Arts Program hosted more group tours, and in 2012, will work hand<br />
in hand with academic departments to ensure that students benefit from the culturally diverse<br />
artistic expressions of the exhibitions. Indeed, the Arts Program is reaching beyond its regional<br />
borders to share visual art from artists around the world. I have every reason to believe that in<br />
the new year, the Arts Program will further its mission of creating an environment in which the<br />
university community and the general public can learn about art by directly experiencing it.<br />
May we all take the time to explore our interests and passions in 2012. Thank you for your support.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Michèle Jacobs<br />
Chair, Art Advisory Board, University of Maryland University College<br />
www.umuc.edu/art • page 1<br />
KATHErINE LAMBErT PHoToGrAPHy<br />
TrACEy BroWN PHoToGrAPHy
STEVEN HALPErSoN, TISArA PHoToGrAPHy<br />
The recent loss of my dear friend and colleague<br />
of more than 20 years has prompted me to reflect<br />
on his life and legacy. It is with both a sad heart<br />
and a profound pride that I share my recollections<br />
and memories of Larry Chappelear. He was, first,<br />
my friend, but so much more: a colleague,<br />
a teacher, and an artist.<br />
As a colleague at the College of Southern Maryland<br />
(CSM), Larry was always engaged, fair, and<br />
understanding. He was a champion for the issues<br />
we faced together: advancing the arts program,<br />
setting the highest standards of teaching, and<br />
furthering a fundamental appreciation of the arts.<br />
We worked in tandem to develop a quality reputation<br />
for the CSM gallery, recruiting top-level artists<br />
for exhibitions. The goal for us was to bring in<br />
artists of high caliber from across the country and<br />
around the world. It wasn’t always easy to stick to<br />
our goal, but Larry’s honest and straightforward<br />
approach, along with a marvelous sense of humor,<br />
saw us through many awkward moments.<br />
As a teacher, Larry conveyed his passion for and<br />
love of the arts to his students. His extraordinary<br />
talent and unyielding commitment to his personal<br />
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Remembering Larry Chappelear<br />
BY BARBARA STEPhANIC, PhD<br />
art became an inspiration, and he became a role<br />
model to so many. Teaching provided him a<br />
stimulating forum for his ideas and an opportunity<br />
to share his enthusiasm for art. He taught<br />
his students more than the mechanics of putting<br />
ideas on a two-dimensional surface; he showed<br />
them how to see objects with a discerning eye<br />
and to reach for their individual creativity. Students<br />
benefitted from his experience, his originality, and<br />
his innovative vision while learning to respect the<br />
process, technique, and subject matter of the<br />
work they created.<br />
It is, perhaps, the art of Larry Chappelear that<br />
will be remembered and held in high regard by<br />
most. Those who did not know him personally<br />
will know the incredible sensitivity of this artist<br />
from his paintings. As an outdoorsman, Larry had<br />
a special relationship to the landscape. He had an<br />
exceptional ability to keenly observe the seasonal<br />
changes in nature, each with its own freshness<br />
and spectacular painterly beauty. He most often<br />
painted outdoors from direct observation, capturing<br />
the artistic elements in nature. His landscape<br />
paintings provide a visual diary of his experiences<br />
and speak to his passion and creative responses<br />
to the environment around him. His compositions<br />
unify the complex elements in nature into<br />
a panorama of harmony and balance. Each is a<br />
testimony to his intrinsic understanding of solid<br />
forms and empty spaces and his unique ability<br />
to organize form, color, space, and light. Larry was<br />
successful in his effort to, as he said, “capture the<br />
viewer by transforming the openness of a field<br />
into an intimate space.” He had a unique ability to<br />
share, through his paintings, a feeling of serenity<br />
and solitude with others.<br />
Early in this century, Larry experienced a pivotal<br />
change in his interpretation of the landscape. He<br />
moved from the specificity of realism to experimenting<br />
with the mysterious and metaphorical<br />
characteristics of abstraction. The landscape continued<br />
to be his inspiration, but now he saw more<br />
provocative elements prevalent in nature. It was<br />
the new, bold, abstract collage and assemblage<br />
that came to the attention of Marilyn Hart, then<br />
assistant vice president of the Arts Program at<br />
<strong>UMUC</strong>, who subsequently arranged an exhibition<br />
of his new work. The exhibition included both his<br />
traditional landscapes and the new abstract work.<br />
I had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited<br />
Above, Left: Larry Chappelear<br />
Above, Right: Larry Chappelear, Window Still Life III (detail), 2008, assemblage mixed media<br />
HENry TrENTMAN<br />
to write the essay for the exhibition and the privilege<br />
to work closely with Larry for nearly a year<br />
in preparation. We spent many hours talking about<br />
the fundamental principles of art making and the<br />
specifics of his ideas for composition, color theory,<br />
and conveyance of the basic elements of nature<br />
in abstract forms. While we talked, he often would<br />
continue painting, and I could see the excitement<br />
build as he worked tirelessly on a composition,<br />
studying and reworking the forms until he was<br />
satisfied. I researched and studied the history<br />
of American landscape painting and the evolution<br />
of abstract art so as to best explain Larry’s<br />
ideas—the content of his paintings, iconography,<br />
and style. His latest work combines the traditional<br />
structure in landscape representation with the bold<br />
colors and strong lines in abstract interpretations.<br />
<strong>UMUC</strong> ADDS TO ITS<br />
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS<br />
The Arts Program would like to thank Beverly<br />
Corey and Iver Nelson, who recently donated<br />
works of art to <strong>UMUC</strong>. Due to the generosity<br />
of such patrons, the collections at the university<br />
continue to grow and now include more<br />
than 1,800 works.<br />
Corey donated Generation by Preston Sampson.<br />
This large painting is reflective of Sampson’s<br />
colorful and fluid artistic style. Sampson’s work<br />
might be best known from a commission by<br />
Absolut Vodka for a series of paintings for its<br />
1997 advertising campaign, which traveled to<br />
various exhibition venues. Sampson was also<br />
awarded a professional travel grant to Spain,<br />
and the trip inspired him to incorporate the<br />
human torso into his artwork, perhaps influ-<br />
INFLUENCE OVER TIME:<br />
ThE ART OF WINSTON hARRIS<br />
Influence over Time: The Art of Winston Harris<br />
is a reflection of Harris’s sustained interest in<br />
the notion of the unending passage of time and<br />
the roles that overt status symbol timepieces,<br />
such as rolex watches, play in contemporary<br />
culture. These screenprint and digital hybrids<br />
will be on view Monday, February 20, 2012,<br />
through the summer, on the second floor gallery<br />
of the <strong>UMUC</strong> Inn and Conference Center.<br />
I will be forever grateful to Larry for all he taught<br />
me about art, for his remarkable and intuitive<br />
sense of aesthetic, and for his gentle kindness.<br />
The legacy he leaves in his paintings will continue<br />
to give pleasure to and captivate all those who<br />
see them. I will think of him whenever I see a<br />
spectacular red and yellow sunset, a cloud formation<br />
against a cobalt blue sky, or a lone tree in a<br />
vast green meadow. He left us all with a new way<br />
of seeing and appreciating the landscape.<br />
But, most of all I am grateful for his endearing<br />
friendship and steadfast loyalty.<br />
Barbara Stephanic, PhD, is past vice chair and honorary<br />
member of the <strong>UMUC</strong> Art Advisory Board.<br />
She was a professor of art history at the College<br />
of Southern Maryland until her retirement.<br />
encing a work such as Generation. Works by<br />
Sampson can be found in many public and<br />
private collections throughout the country,<br />
including the Jean and robert Steele Collection,<br />
the Darryl Walker Collection, the Tubman<br />
African American Museum, and the David C.<br />
Driskell Collection at University of Maryland,<br />
College Park.<br />
Iver Nelson, an esteemed Asian art collector,<br />
donated 15 works of art to <strong>UMUC</strong>’s Asian<br />
Collections. Nelson, who had amassed a large<br />
collection of rare works over the years, has<br />
donated exceptional pieces to the Art Institute<br />
of Chicago, the Indianapolis Museum of Art,<br />
and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The oldest<br />
work Nelson donated to <strong>UMUC</strong> is from the Tang<br />
Dynasty (618–907 AD). The piece is a kneeling<br />
Bactrian camel, and is prized for its elegant movement<br />
and naturalism.<br />
Harris is a Washington, D.C., area artist who, supported<br />
by a Prince George’s Arts and Humanities<br />
Council grant, collaborated with the printmaking<br />
department at University of Maryland, College<br />
Park in 2010. Harris worked with assistant professor<br />
Justin Strom and students to create a new<br />
series of flat and sculptural prints.<br />
Known primarily as a printmaker, Harris holds a<br />
BFA in printmaking from Howard University and<br />
an MFA in printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth<br />
University.<br />
Above: Larry Chappalear, Sycamore, 2004,<br />
mixed media on panel, 32 x 30 in.<br />
Above, top: Preston Sampson, Generation (detail), 1999,<br />
mixed media / Above, bottom: Bactrian camel, Early Tang<br />
Dynasty, earthenware with pigments, 13½ x 1½ x 8½ in.<br />
Above: Winston Harris, Military Time,<br />
2009, oil stick and print, 36 x 29¾ in.<br />
www.umuc.edu/art • page 3<br />
STEVEN HALPErSoN, TISArA PHoToGrAPHy HENry TrENTMAN
What is American identity? Is it about shared<br />
values and national unity, something our Founding<br />
Fathers might have hoped for? or is its foundation<br />
in America’s vast natural topography, as depicted in<br />
early American landscape paintings, for example,<br />
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Thomas<br />
Moran, which hangs at the U.S. Department of<br />
the Interior, or Frederic Church’s Niagara Falls,<br />
from the Corcoran Gallery of Art? How would<br />
artists who represent the ethnic diversity of the<br />
so-called melting pot that is America respond?<br />
This provocative question is the focus of the<br />
exhibition Infinite Mirror: Images of American<br />
Identity, which is on view at the <strong>UMUC</strong> Inn and<br />
Conference Center through April 8, 2012.<br />
Infinite Mirror reflects our increasingly diverse<br />
society, and helps us understand the American<br />
experience from the perspective of artists<br />
who are U.S. citizens, albeit from vastly different<br />
backgrounds. The exhibition showcases 63 works<br />
by 39 American artists of Native American, African<br />
American, Asian American, Hispanic American,<br />
and European American cultural heritage.<br />
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Infinite Mirror is the brainchild of Allan Edmunds,<br />
founder and president of Brandywine Workshop,<br />
a nearly 40-year-old Philadelphia-based nonprofit<br />
that enables artists to explore their creative<br />
sensibilities through printmaking. When the<br />
Michigan-based nonprofit art institution Artrain,<br />
Inc. issued a request for exhibition proposals,<br />
Edmunds enthusiastically answered the call.<br />
The Brandywine proposal was chosen to be<br />
Artrain’s 18th multiyear traveling exhibition<br />
during its impressive 40-year history.<br />
Artrain is known for mounting art exhibitions<br />
on its five-car train museum and bringing them<br />
via the U.S. railway system to communities<br />
throughout the United States. As Artrain was<br />
considering its next exhibition, it was also transitioning<br />
from the train to other vehicles that<br />
offer more flexibility and a broader reach into<br />
America’s rural communities, which it principally<br />
serves. To keep the momentum of Infinite Mirror,<br />
Artrain engaged International Arts & Artists<br />
(IA&A) a Washington, D.C., based non-profit<br />
committed to promoting cross-cultural understanding<br />
through art, to manage its travel using<br />
BY JUANITA HARDY<br />
more traditional exhibition approaches. <strong>UMUC</strong><br />
will be one of only five venues where the exhibition<br />
will stop as it travels from January 2011<br />
to March 2013.<br />
Blake Bradford, director of education for the<br />
Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is curator<br />
for Infinite Mirror. Benito Huerta, associate<br />
professor and curator of the Gallery at the<br />
University of Texas at Arlington, and robert<br />
Lee, executive director of the Asian American<br />
Art Centre in New york City, are co-curators.<br />
The curatorial team has assembled an impressive<br />
body of work organized along the following<br />
four themes, which the team outlines:<br />
• Self Selection—Reflects how we choose<br />
to present and project ourselves to the world<br />
• Pride—Connotes an appreciation of<br />
one’s origins, character, values, and<br />
personal accomplishments<br />
• Assimilation, a subject of the American narrative<br />
dating back to the first European settlers—<br />
Is about aspiring to fit in<br />
• Protest—Expresses a push against tyranny<br />
and exploitation and toward humanity,<br />
equality, and opportunity.<br />
Infinite Mirror invites a conversation about what<br />
it means to be American, about what American<br />
identity is. The artists in this exhibition answer this<br />
question through their own experience, which<br />
is simultaneously American and multicultural.<br />
Does American identity represent shared values<br />
and also celebrate the cultural heritage of its<br />
many ethnicities? Infinite Mirror offers the<br />
opportunity to inspect American culture and<br />
its subcultures, to understand, build bridges,<br />
and evolve. It reminds us that America is a country<br />
of immigrants, that our diversity is what has built<br />
our country and made it strong.<br />
Above, left: Leamon Green, Little Big Girl, 2005, acrylic and silkscreen on paper, 55 x 42 in.<br />
Above, right: Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Maka Wicasa (detail), 1992, lithograph, leather, straw, collage<br />
By 2042, America’s “minority” populations will<br />
be the majority. This new “minority majority”<br />
will include Hispanic and Asian Americans,<br />
combined as the largest minority group, rising<br />
to more than 39 percent of the total U.S.<br />
population. The Hispanic and Asian American<br />
populations are expected to double by 2050;<br />
this growth is attributed in part to immigration. i<br />
Furthermore, as Baby Boomers advance to<br />
their golden years and birth rates decline, the<br />
size of America’s workforce is shrinking, suggesting<br />
that the demand for immigrant labor<br />
will continue, indeed increase. ii In the future,<br />
the U.S. labor pool and others in Europe are<br />
likely to be fed in part by immigrants flocking<br />
from emerging economies in Africa, Asia,<br />
and the Middle East (largely the Arab World). iii<br />
It behooves us to understand these changing<br />
dynamics and to appreciate the countries and<br />
cultures they represent. So, while Infinite Mirror<br />
is decidedly about American identity, it is also<br />
about global identity.<br />
DID You Know?<br />
Did you know James Earl Reid won a landmark court battle to<br />
strengthen creative and intellectual property rights in the “work for hire”<br />
doctrine of copyright law? He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from<br />
the Maryland institute College of Art (MiCA) in 1966 and his Master of Arts<br />
from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1970.<br />
Did you know A-Young Henriksen was born in Busan, Korea,<br />
and had an exhibition in Munich, West Germany?<br />
Did you know Amalie Rothschild was primarily a painter but<br />
turned to sculpture in her later years? she had her first solo exhibit<br />
at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1942.<br />
It reflects our diverse population rooted in<br />
countries and cultures around the globe.<br />
Did you know that Trace Miller’s father was a World War ii veteran<br />
who fought in the Battle of the Bulge? His father was wounded and later<br />
captured and made a prisoner of war.<br />
Did you know that Bennard Perlman is an art critic, author, lecturer,<br />
and educator who explores design and composition in his works? He primarily<br />
works in charcoal, oil, and pastels and creates works reflective of the<br />
Maryland scene.<br />
This exhibition is compelling for a variety of<br />
reasons: the dedicated team of nonprofit art<br />
institutions involved; the impressive curatorial<br />
team, which tells a compelling story about<br />
America’s diversity through revered American<br />
artists such as Emma Amos, John yoyogi<br />
Fortes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Leticia Huerta, Luis<br />
Jimenez, Jacob Lawrence, and Joe Namy; and<br />
the opportunity to enrich one’s understanding<br />
of our global culture by inspecting and learning<br />
from our own.<br />
Juanita Hardy served on the board of directors<br />
for Artrain, Inc. from 2004 to 2010 and chaired its<br />
exhibition committee. She serves on the boards of<br />
the Brandywine Workshop, the Asian American Art<br />
Centre, and the <strong>UMUC</strong> Art Advisory Board. She is<br />
cofounder of Millennium Arts Salon, a nonprofit<br />
arts education program, and teaches intercultural<br />
training as part of Tiger Management Consulting<br />
<strong>LITTLE</strong>-<strong>kNowN</strong> <strong>FAcTS</strong> <strong>ABoUT</strong> <strong>ARTISTS</strong> <strong>wITH</strong><br />
woRkS AcqUIREd BY oR ExHIBITEd AT UMUc By Linda Derrick<br />
Group, a business consulting firm she established<br />
in 2006.<br />
i U.S. Census Bureau: Report, United States Population<br />
Projections 2000–2050, by Jennifer M. Ortman and<br />
Christine E. Guarneri<br />
ii It is well documented that the workforce in many industrialized<br />
countries (e.g., the United States, Europe, Japan) is<br />
shrinking. Analysts suggest increased immigration will be<br />
required to feed labor pool deficiencies. For example the<br />
PriceWaterHouse Coopers report, Talent Mobility 2020<br />
states, “Governments that anticipate the need to import<br />
talented individuals to replace gaps in their ageing workforces<br />
may remove their immigration barriers in a bid to<br />
stimulate their economy.”<br />
iii U.N. population growth projections show rapid growth<br />
in youthful and developing economies, in Africa, Asia,<br />
and the Middle East. These countries have majority Muslim<br />
or minority Muslim populations of 33 percent or more.<br />
For example, the combined population of the most populous<br />
Muslim dominated countries—Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria,<br />
Indonesia, Pakistan, and Turkey—was 24.2 million in 1950<br />
and 882 million in 2009 and is projected to be 1.3 billion in<br />
2050. By comparison, while these six countries will grow<br />
by 475 million by 2050, the six most populous developed<br />
countries will grow by 44 million.<br />
Did you know that realist painter Jacob Glushakow was born in<br />
a steamship, the s.s. Brandenburg, as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean from<br />
Bremen, Germany, to Baltimore, Maryland? He enjoyed painting dilapidated<br />
scenes from his community and was not concerned about trends in modern art.<br />
Left: Bennard Perlman, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (detail), 1954, oil on board / Top, right: Trace Miller, Wall Tracings (detail),<br />
1987, oil on canvas / Bottom, right: Jacob Glushakow, Untitled (Fells Point Market) (detail), 1965, oil on canvas<br />
www.umuc.edu/art • page 5
COLLECTIBLE BOOk AVAILABLE<br />
His Own PatH: tHe sPirit and Legacy Of Herman mariL<br />
The long-awaited book His Own Path: The Spirit and Legacy of Herman<br />
Maril is now available for your collection. His Own Path captures the life and<br />
spirit of Maryland artist Herman Maril, who was active in the art scene for<br />
more than 50 years. It is a reflection of Maril’s creative journey and includes<br />
major essays by David W. Scott, PhD, and Howard E. Wooden with an introduction<br />
by David Maril, the artist’s son. It also includes a DVD documentary<br />
about the artist. To order your book, please contact Denise Melvin at 301-<br />
985-7937 or at arts@umuc.edu. The hardback, cloth-cover publication is<br />
available for $49 plus shipping.<br />
UNIvERSITY oF MARYLANd UNIvERSITY<br />
coLLEGE ARTS PRoGRAM MISSIoN STATEMENT<br />
The Arts Program at University of Maryland University College<br />
(<strong>UMUC</strong>) creates an environment in which its diverse constituents,<br />
including members of the university community and the general<br />
public, can study and learn about art by directly experiencing it. The<br />
Arts Program seeks to promote the university’s core values and to<br />
provide educational opportunities for lifelong learning. From the<br />
research and study of works of art to the teaching applications of<br />
each of our exhibitions, the Arts Program will play an increasing role<br />
in academic life at the university. With a regional and national focus,<br />
the Arts Program is dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, study,<br />
exhibition, and interpretation of works of art of the highest quality in<br />
a variety of media that represent its constituents and to continuing<br />
its historic dedication to Maryland and Asian art.<br />
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Above: Herman Maril, Sunday at the Docks,1938, oil on canvas, 28 x 36 in.<br />
Upcoming Events<br />
INFINITE MIRROR: IMAGES OF AMERICAN IDENTITY<br />
Monday, January 30–Sunday, April 8, 2012<br />
Opening Reception:<br />
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 3–5 p.m., Arts Program Gallery<br />
Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a collection of 70 multimedia<br />
works by a culturally diverse group of artists from across the<br />
United States. The collection’s theme is the use of portraiture and<br />
figuration as symbols for emotional and social ideas to depict the<br />
current circumstances and experiences of multicultural populations<br />
in the United States. Artrain, Inc. and a group of independent curators<br />
selected works of art by established and emerging American artists<br />
for inclusion in the exhibition. This exhibition was developed by<br />
Artrain, Inc. and Brandywine Workshop (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)<br />
and is toured by International Arts & Artists (Washington, D.C.).<br />
It is presented with support from the Institute of Museum and<br />
Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts.<br />
JOSEPh ShEPPARD: A VOYAGE FROM MEMORY (1930–1960)<br />
Sunday, April 8, 2012–Monday, March 25, 2013<br />
Opening Reception:<br />
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 5–8 p.m.,<br />
The Leroy Merritt Center for the Art of Joseph Sheppard<br />
This exhibition will showcase the works of Joseph Sheppard, an artist<br />
who explored and taught realism painting for many years and whose<br />
works are based on cultural moments and events in the history of the<br />
United States.<br />
FACULTY ART INVITATIONAL ExhIBITION<br />
Sunday, April 22, 2012–Friday, June 22, 2012<br />
Opening Reception:<br />
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 6–8 p.m., Arts Program Gallery<br />
The Faculty Art Invitational Exhibition is an annual event that features<br />
the work of <strong>UMUC</strong> faculty members and teaching artists from the<br />
University System of Maryland along with special guest artists. The<br />
2012 show will have a new theme—drawing—introduced by the<br />
program’s curator, Brian Young. For this exhibition, a drawing will<br />
be defined as any unique work on paper that is not a print or photograph.<br />
Works will include charcoal sketches, watercolors, pastels,<br />
and oil on canvas.<br />
Invited artists include but are not limited to Patrick Craig (University<br />
of Maryland, College Park), Joan Bevelaqua (<strong>UMUC</strong>), Brooke Rogers<br />
(Salisbury University), James Plumb (Chesapeake College), Mark<br />
Karnes (Maryland Institute College of Art), Matt Klos (Anne Arundel<br />
Community College), and others.<br />
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Art enthusiasts in the <strong>UMUC</strong> community help make the university’s visual arts exhibitions, educational<br />
lectures, book signings, symposiums, and meet-the-artist receptions possible. Through<br />
the Friends of the Arts program, our biggest supporters enjoy a variety of benefits as a thank<br />
you for helping <strong>UMUC</strong>’s art program become one of the most recognized in Maryland.<br />
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