Winter - Academy Art Museum

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POTLIGHT
Anke Van Wagenberg
Seiko Behr, 1941
Japan - 2010 Chestertown, MD
Mountain, c. 2000, Clay
Academy Art Museum
Gift Al and Carla Massoni
Erik Neil and Myra Goldgeier
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On the Staff. . .
Anke Van Wagenberg joins Museum staff
The Academy Art Museum recently appointed Dr. Anke Van Wagenberg of Salisbury as its new
curator. Dr. Van Wagenberg previously served as director of the Mosely Gallery at the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, MD, where she curated numerous exhibitions over the last
five years, while teaching Art History. She has also taught at Washington College in Chestertown and
at Salisbury University. Dr. Van Wagenberg began her Art History career in Washington DC, where
she worked at the National Gallery of Art on the permanent collection and exhibitions in Northern
Baroque Painting. She also helped prepare the Weldon exhibition and catalogue at the Walters Art
Museum in Baltimore.
Erik Neil, director of the Academy Art Museum, comments, “Anke has the rare combination of an
international perspective and deep connections with the arts on the Eastern Shore. I know that her
energy, expertise, and knowledge will greatly enhance all of the curatorial projects of the Academy Art
Museum.”
Dr. Van Wagenberg holds a Ph.D. in Art History, from the Vrije University in Amsterdam, in her
native Netherlands, as well as a Masters in Art History and Archaeology. She has published scholarly
under her full name, Anke A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven. Currently she is preparing the catalogue
raisonné of Jan Baptist Weenix and Jan Weenix. She comes to Easton with her husband Maurits Van
Wagenberg, Ph.D., management consultant. They have college age children.
On the Art . . .
GIFTS OF ART
Museum receives gift in memory of Seiko Behr
Seiko Behr, a Japanese ceramic artist and an Ikibana (“flowers kept alive”) master, is well-known
to this Museum’s audience through her one-woman exhibition “Contemplation and Reflection” in
2007. There was a Japanese tea ceremony and a demonstration during the exhibition. Ms. Behr used
her own sculptures especially designed and created for this exhibition as containers for her Ikebana
arrangements. The container is a key element of the composition and sculptural on its own, even
without the floral designs.
Seiko Behr passed away in 2010. In her honor Al and Carla Massoni donated Mountain to the
Academy Art Museum.
On the Volunteers
Museum honors Myra Goldgeier
During the Museum’s Annual Membership Meeting this fall, retiring volunteer coordinator, Myra
Goldgeier, was honored for her five and one half years of service. Although she will step down as the
Museum’s volunteer coordinator, she will continue to volunteer at the front desk and elsewhere. The
Museum welcomes new volunteers for the myriad of tasks, including working at the front desk and
assisting with special events, children’s programs, and office tasks. For further information, contact Pat
Jones, volunteer coordinator at 410-822-2787.