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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 />

or mail to<br />

Newsletter Editor<br />

Arts Program<br />

University of Maryland University College<br />

3501 University Boulevard East<br />

Adelphi, MD 20783-8007<br />

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 />

Make an Annual Contribution to the Arts Program<br />

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 />

Simply commit to making an annual contribution at one of the following levels and you can<br />

join our growing list of friends. Visit www.umuc.edu/art and click on “Join the Friends of the<br />

Arts Program,” call 301-985-7937, or complete and return the registration form below.<br />

Associate (less than $35)<br />

Name recognition in the arts newsletter,<br />

invitation to exhibit openings<br />

Friend – ($35–$99)<br />

Above benefits, plus 10 percent discount<br />

on specialty items produced by the Arts<br />

Program, 10 percent discount on tickets to<br />

nonfundraising events, Arts Program lapel pin<br />

Bronze-Level Friend ($100–$249)<br />

Above benefits, plus autographed<br />

poster from the collection<br />

Silver-Level Friend ($250–$499)<br />

Above benefits, plus name recognition on<br />

the donor’s wall in the Arts Program Gallery<br />

Gold-Level Friend ($500–$999)<br />

Above benefits, plus full-color art catalog<br />

from a major <strong>UMUC</strong> art exhibition<br />

JOIN FRIENDS OF ThE ARTS TODAY.<br />

Complete and return this form to<br />

University of Maryland University College, Arts Program<br />

3501 University Boulevard East, Adelphi, MD 20783-8007<br />

Or fax it to 301-985-7865.<br />

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Platinum-Level Friend ($1,000–$2,499)<br />

Above benefits, plus VIP invitation to dinner<br />

with the guest artist and the university<br />

president, 10 percent discount on breakfast<br />

or lunch, and 15 percent discount on dinner<br />

at the Marriott Garden restaurant at the<br />

<strong>UMUC</strong> Inn and Conference Center<br />

Citrine-Level Friend ($2,500–$4,999)<br />

Above benefits, plus corporate name and logo<br />

listing on <strong>UMUC</strong> Arts Program Web page,<br />

name and logo listing on all printed materials<br />

for exhibitions and public relations materials<br />

for the season<br />

Sapphire-Level Friend ($5,000 and more)<br />

Above benefits, plus a corporate art exhibition<br />

by a local artist coordinated by <strong>UMUC</strong> (Special<br />

requirements apply; see www.umuc.edu/art<br />

for details.)<br />

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NAME (PLEASE PRINT)<br />

ADDRESS<br />

FRIENDS OF ThE ARTS<br />

(Janurary 1, 2011–present)<br />

Sapphire-Level Friends<br />

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and Linda Derrick<br />

Platinum-Level Friends<br />

Dr. Susan C. Aldridge<br />

Joseph Vernon Bowen Jr.<br />

and Michele E. Jacobs<br />

robert W. Jerome<br />

Eric Key<br />

Thomas M. Li<br />

Anne V. Maher<br />

Friends of Joan F. Stern<br />

Gold-Level Friends<br />

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Julia Lindenmeier<br />

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and Mrs. Jean Steele<br />

Kathy L.Theden<br />

Patricia J. Toregas<br />

Nancy Williamson<br />

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Community Federation<br />

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Elinor M. Halligan<br />

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and Mrs. Larocca T. Jones<br />

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Winifred B. Wallace<br />

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G. David Anderson<br />

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Diane Bartoo<br />

Tracey Brown<br />

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Joseph E. Edmunds<br />

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Cathy L. Gelatt<br />

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and Mrs. Nanette Greif<br />

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Bonnie Leonhardt<br />

Jill A. Lion<br />

Dr. Graciela P. Nemes<br />

ramona M. Quinn<br />

Joseph S. rogers<br />

Steven Scott Gallery<br />

Judith A. Sever<br />

Ann Stilwel-Strong<br />

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Joan Warner Tarbell<br />

robert Weick and<br />

yoshiko oishi Weick<br />

James D. Williamson<br />

Mr. Brian young<br />

and Ms. Molly Deere<br />

Associates<br />

Lawrence Battle<br />

Cheryl Cleaves<br />

Christine Demaitre-Wolfe<br />

Dr. Frederick L. Dunn Jr.<br />

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John H. Garot<br />

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