1. art and entertainment
2. music

WINTER 2015
Mission
Statement
The Longview Museum of
Fine Arts is a non-profit
organization which seeks to
create interest in and promote
knowledge of the visual arts
throughout the city of Longview
and vicinity by exhibiting,
interpreting and preserving
works of art and providing
educational opportunities to
a diverse audience.
LMFA HOURS
TUESDAY – FRIDAY
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
SATURDAY
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
SUNDAY & MONDAY
Closed
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903.753.8217
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LMFA is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit
organization operating for
the benefit of the public.
A $5 admission fee is charged
for non members. Children
under 12 are admitted free.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MARTELL ARMSTRONG
LESTER KILPATRICK
JILL BAYLESS
JESSICA M. LaRUE
AMY CANTON
ELYSE McCOSKEY
CHELSEA CASE
RODNEY OVERMAN
CLIFF HALE
IRA SHEEK
JOSH HUDSON
LISA SMITH
MARY HUGHEY
MIKE SNELL
TIFFANY JEHOREK
YVONNE SWAIN
NEIL JOSEPH
ADVISORY BOARD
I. J. “Pete” Lamothe
Jane Akins
William Blair, III
Glenn McCutchen
Betty Bodenheim
Stephen McDaniel
Evelyn Bolding
Carol Manley
Linda Buie
Jack Mann, Jr.
Dr. Mel Fish
Gordon Northcutt
Holly Forbes
Ralph Pelaia
Claire Foster
Barbara Phillips
Carolyn Fox-Hearne
Dorothy Robbins Skeans
Shirley Griffin
Dick Stebbins
John Hillier
Linda Ryan Thomas
Keith Honey
Charlotte Wrather
Volume I, Issue 1
Winter 2015
PHOTOGRAPHY
Marc Bailey, Tammy Cromer-Campbell,
Mike Hawkins, Jim Tilley, Abbey Tyson
and John Wrather
PERSPECTIVE is published quarterly
as a benefit for Museum members.
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
This project is sponsored in part by
a grant from the City of Longview
Commission on Arts and Culture.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
DESIGN
MEMBER FDIC
EQUAL HOUSING LENDER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Renee Hawkins
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Paula Davis
EVENT COORDINATOR
Jack Barkley
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Nathadis Lucas
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Valencia Smotherman
“REVELATION” by John Deaton I 2014 TBT Photography Contest I Honorable Mention
www.texasbankandtrust.com
STAFF
DIRECTOR EMERITUS
Betty Bodenheim
WEEKLY VOLUNTEERS
Joyce Allen, Debbie Anderson, Calvin Halley,
Pollie King, Chris Manley, Mary Martin,
Noble Roberts, Isabelle Seeger,
Beverly Sheveland, Valencia Smotherman,
Martha Thompson and Danny Weddel
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EXHIBITS
EXPERIENCES
Welcome to a new year
and a new Perspective!
W
e all have our own perspectives, but when
we share them, hopefully we broaden
each other’s ways of looking at things. Art
especially will do that for you, as well as literature,
05Director’s Letter
06Night at the Museum
07Perspectives Exhibit
11Live Music Fine Arts
14 Guild President’s Letter
16Holiday Tea Room & Market
18Breakfast with Santa
19Special Thanks
20Memberships and Memorials
22Featured Favorite
24ArtWorks
29LMFA Gift Shop
30Membership Levels
and Benefits
31Membership Renewal Form
music, dance and all the good things in which we
right-brained people love to indulge. We at LMFA
hope we add to your indulgences, enriching your life
with special events and exhibits.
2015 will be a great year! We are opening our new lecture hall to meetings,
movies, speakers and all sorts of interesting opportunities. Our music concert series will
try the new space out in February, when we have not
one but two great Fridays for you to join us!
Mark your calendars
now for the greatest
party of the season!
Join us Saturday, April 18, for Night at the
Museum – Boots and Suits, as we welcome DJ GOGA
back again this year. We’re having boots, bar-b-que
and barrels of fun! Plan your table now of your
favorite people to enjoy this evening with!
E V EN T S C A L EN D A R
It’s going to be a big year for photography. There will be some hanging in the
museum all year long. Starting with the January 10th Photography Contest, followed by
the March 8th Student Invitational, Brian Moore during the second quarter of the year,
our East Texas Regional Artists the third quarter (which will feature the winner of the
JANUARY
MARCH
Perspective Photo Contest in January) and our good friend Hank O’Neal’s new photos of
10 Opening of Perspectives
Artists Show • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
8-28 55th Student Invitational
fourth quarter, which will probably include some as well.
15 Ladies’ Night
with Claudia Lowrey • 6 to 8 p.m.
FEBRUARY
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Music Concert
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Ladies’ Night
APRIL
his journeys through East Texas. Then we will end with a “Cute and Creepy” show in the
And Ladies’ Night! Join us each month on the third Thursday for a special project
taught by a different teacher each month. It’s only $20, you bring your own beverage,
and maybe a snack. From 6 to 8 p.m. (we’ve moved it up an hour so we can get home
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ArtWalk
to our jammies earlier) we’ll let our creativity flow. We’re also working on men’s night,
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Opening of Linda Ridgway
and Brian Moore
family weekends and little Picassos for our Pre-K artists so we can let their talented
Ladies’ Night
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Music Concert
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Ladies’ Night
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imaginations start young!
of every month at 6:30 p.m. Artists meet here regularly (for free) and give one another
insights (their own perspective, if you will) to the art they bring to share and discuss.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR UPCOMING EVENTS, PLEASE VISIT LMFA.ORG.
If you’re an artist, or a wannabe, visit ArtWorks on the second and fourth Tuesdays
If you’re interested in teaching a class, sponsoring a music concert, supporting any
effort here at LMFA, please let us know. We’d love to get you involved.
Happy New Year!
YOGA
LED BY: CARLYN SHORT
Every Tuesday and Thursday from noon to
1 p.m. in the Martin/Stoudt Gallery. Free
to members and only $5 for non-members.
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Every second and fourth Tuesday from
6 to 9 p.m. in the ArtWorks building.
Free to members.
RENEE HAWKINS
LMFA Executive Director
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Juror’s Statement
W
hen I look at art I hope to be
surprised, delighted, possibly
laugh and perhaps even shed
a tear and I wish to be left with a sense
of wonder.
overtones of beauty and comes from an
imagination that sheds new understanding
and awareness, it is fresh and exciting and
evokes an emotional response taking us
beyond the obvious.
It was the photographer Mary Ellen Mark
who once told me, “Avoid the cute and
beware of the beautiful,” as images
possessing these often shallow qualities
have been overworked and fall into the
realm of cliché. However, beauty within
an image does not necessarily mean it
is cliché. If a photograph has unique
As a juror I am most interested in cohesive
body of works informing me that the artist
has a genuine long-term interest in an
issue being interpreted. When extraordinary
wisdom is revealed by the photographer’s
personal reactions respecting a chosen
theme, the images of the body of work
must be celebrated.
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Selections made by Rufus O. Lovett to be accepted into the Perspectives photography exhibit.
Scott Brown
Grace Garcia
Jimmy Salmon
Jim Heller
John Deaton
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James Sharp
Brian Deslatte
Janet Hughes
Elyse McCoskey
Jan Adamson
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Scott Campbell
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own music. The museum will not charge you a rental fee but will retain
the proceeds from ticket sales.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BECOMING A SPONSOR, PLEASE CALL:
RENEE HAWKINS
903.753.8103
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JACK BARKLEY
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Ken Yates
Born and Raised in London, Ontario, Ken
Yates moved to Boston to study songwriting at
Berklee College of Music. It was there that he
developed his skills as a songwriter, releasing
his first CD, “The Backseat EP,” and received
the opportunity to play a song for one of his
biggest influences, John Mayer.
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Raised in a small upstate New York town, folk
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With his sharp lyrical prowess and countryinfluenced vocals, Brian has played in the U.S.
folk scene far and wide.
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GUIL D P R E SID EN T ’ S L E T T E R
The LMFA Guild
“Twelve Months of 2014”
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The Guild Fundraiser, “Twelve Days of Christmas” Holiday Tea Room & Market
held on December 9 – 12, 2014, was a resounding success! A special thank you to
Nancy Chapmon, Chairperson. The event would not have been possible without the
he year 2014 was exciting for the Guild. The
volunteers from designing and creating table decorations and wreaths, to selling raffle
membership continued to grow and prosper.
tickets for the wreath raffle, decorating, serving food and of course the vendors in the
The year was filled with many events, exhibit
Market. A big thank you to everyone who worked to make it a tremendous success!
openings and all around good work to benefit the
Longview Museum of Fine Arts. In keeping with our
Members, Volunteers and Staff. I would like to thank the Guild Officers that served
recent theme of our Holiday Tea Room, “The Twelve
with me, First Vice President – Ira Sheek, Second Vice President – Barb Duchene,
Days of Christmas,” I give you the LMFA Guild
Recording Secretary – Phyllis Skolnick, Corresponding Secretary – Barbara Hawkins
“Twelve Months of 2014.”
and Treasurer – Caryn Pepper.
I have enjoyed working with the Guild Members, the Board Members, Museum
Ira Sheek will take the gavel as President of the Guild for 2015. Ira has been a
Guild Member since 2013 and has been involved with the LMFA through her family for
“On the sixth month of 2014 the
Guild said good bye to Cindy Lavine,
our First Vice President...”
“On the seventh month of 2014
the Guild provided goodies for the
Opening “East Texas Regional
Artists” Exhibit...”
“On the first month of 2014 the
Guild provided goodies for the
Opening “Preservation” by Ann
Johnson...” “On the eight month of 2014 the Guild
enjoyed the music of Wild Ponies and
Emily Earle and Tom Whall...”
The Guild has a strong base of volunteers; however, we need more active
volunteers. It is nice to lend your name to the group but we need you to lend yourself.
I thank all the volunteers that so selflessly give of themselves and their talents to The
Guild. We need more of you to take an active role. We are very good now, with more
participation we will be spectacular. I encourage you to attend the meetings, bring
your friends, and get involved. We have many events and projects that will interest
both men and women. Members host Opening Night Receptions, serve as greeters at
the Museum, and host several Annual Fundraisers including the Bunny Brunch and
The Guild meets the first Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the museum.
We would love to have you join us!
It has been my privilege and pleasure to have served as President of the Guild
during 2014. I will treasure the many new friendships and fond memories of working
with the Guild. My best wishes for a very Happy and Healthy 2015!
Warmest Regards,
“On the ninth month of 2014 the
Guild glowed for the Glow Run...”
“On the tenth month of 2014 the
Guild worked hard on Tea Room...”
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Secretary – Barbara Hawkins and Treasurer – Caryn Pepper.
“On the third month of 2014 the
Guild By-Laws Committee presented
New By-Laws to Members...”
“On the fifth month of 2014 the Guild
bought a freezer for the museum...”
President – Lindsey Eberhart, Recording Secretary – Phyllis Skolnick, Corresponding
the Holiday Tea Room and Wreath Raffle.
“On the second month of 2014 the
Guild enjoyed “The Night at the
Museum”...”
“On the fourth month of 2014
the Guild had a fantastic
EGGstravaganza...”
many years. Guild Officers will be First Vice President – Barb Duchene, Second Vice
“On the eleventh month of 2014
the Guild elected New Officers and
worked harder on Tea Room...”
“On the twelfth month of 2014
the Guild presented “The Twelve
Days of Christmas” Tea Room
and Market...”
Tom Coker
TOM COKER
President, LMFA Friends Guild
Wish
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we would appreciate
your donation of any
of these items...
• Chair dolly
•ScanDisk card reader
• Video camera
• Unlit Christmas tree
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Michael Cavazos copyright, Longview News-Journal. Used with permission.
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Joyce Kuykendall
Bella Fleur
Cherry Sikes
Shannon Trest
Molly Anthony
Stephanie Peters
& Mandie Fuller
Lacy Maxey
8 Debbie Anderson
& Jeane Snapp
9 Tom Coker & Diana Mears
10 Debbie Maxey
11 Lindsey Eberhart
12 Carol Manley &
Tiffany Jehorek
13 Housecalls by K.J. Gleason
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SP E CI A L T H A N K S
TO OUR HOLIDAY TEAROOM WORKERS:
Nancy Chapmon, Chair; Debbie Anderson, Charlie Blalock, Joanne Boudreau,
Tom Coker, Paula Davis, Barb Duchene, Lindsey and Dustin Eberhart, K.J. Gleason,
Lucinda Hamilton, Barbara and Terry Hawkins, Simone Kibbe, Christopher Manley,
Diana Mears, Margaret Partin, Caryn Pepper, Frances Phillips, Mary Claire Ruggles,
Debbie Sadler, Isabelle Seeger, Ira and Brad Sheek, Carlyn Short, Phyllis Skolnick,
Ann Werline, Delfina Whitwell, Shirley Williams and the folks from House of Disciples
for helping with the clean-up!
with
TO OUR BOARD MEMBERS:
Martell Armstrong, Anup Bhandari, Travis Bunn, Mel Fish, Tiffany Jehorek, Lester
Kilpatrick, Jessica LaRue, Glenn McCutchen, Carol Manley, Rodney Overman and
Lisa Smith who worked on Friday.
Michael Cavazos copyright, Longview News-Journal. Used with permission.
TO OUR TABLE DECORATORS:
1 Partridge – Joyce Kuykendall
2 Turtle Doves – Bella Fleur
3 French Hens – Cherry Sikes (Parkview at Hollybrook)
4 Calling Birds – Shannon Trest
5 Golden Rings – Molly Anthony (Jucys Hamburgers)
6 Geese – Stephanie Peters and Mandie Fuller (Noon & Associates)
7 Swans – Lacy Maxey
8 Maids – Debbie Anderson and Jeane Snapp
9 Ladies Dancing – Tom Coker and Diana Mears, with thanks to
Toni Erskine and Pat George Mitchell for the ballet shoes
10 Lords Leaping – Debbie Maxey
11 Pipers – Lindsey Eberhart
12 Drummers – Tiffany Jehorek and Carol Manley
Large Group Table – Housecalls by K.J. Gleason
TO OUR VENDORS:
Accents by Gabrielle Bachers – Scarves
bc SPA – Susan Lewis
Suzan Chapman – Jewelry
Annamarie Cowart – Jewelry
Brenda Drew and Mary and Red Jones – Spoon Jewelry
Gayle Ebner and Stacy Smith – Doll Clothes and Ornaments
The Funky Easel – Melody Rogers
J. Hilburn – Tempe Kirby
Just the Right Thing – Elyse McCoskey
Joyce Laverty – Gourds
Lottieda Design – Abbey Tyson
Refined by Fire – Karen Lowrey
Nathadis Lucas – Pottery
McCarley’s Jewelry
Louise Pertuit – Jewelry
Tammy Pruitt – Leather Designs
Doris Riemen – Doll Clothes
Scentsy – Tina Howard
Shannon’s Beading Basket – Shannon, Mike
and Barbara
Stella & Dot – Karen Fleet and Stacy Smith
THANK
YOU
TO OUR WREATH RAFFLE DECORATORS:
Debbie Anderson, Tom Coker,
Forbes&Butler Visual Communications,
K.J. Gleason, Barbara Hawkins and
Ira and Brad Sheek
TO OUR CATERER:
Lori’s Eats and Sweets for our delicious week of lunches!
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PINEY WOODS
M EM B E R SHIP S
N E W & R EN E W E D
L iv e
The following have renewed their memberships or joined the museum from
OCTOBER 16, 2014 – DECEMBER 15, 2014
PATRON
Marjorie and Tom Dome
Nancy Ivy Mobley
SUPPORTER
Lou Ann & Joe Bob Joyce
Carla and Jack Mann
ADVOCATE
Debbie and Bill Bankston
Kelly and Brett Hall
Gary Paul Jones
Dr. Craig and Jeannie King @
Amy and Steve Littlejohn @
Carol and Richard Manley
Natalie and Mendy Rabicoff @
Cathy and Chuck Secrest
Linda and Charles Thomas @
Forbes&Butler
Visual Communications
CONTRIBUTOR
Karen and Bob Anderson @
Beth and Ralph Bassett
Betty Bodenheim
Jeri Boyd
Gena and Travis Bunn
Kathy and Maxey Cerliano
Jill & Frank Chaney
Jan and Sam Forester *
Claire S. Foster
Elise Frigon
Ellen and Jay Gordon
Mary and Carroll Greenwaldt
Angie Herrington
Ms. Carol Holloway
Dorothy and Byron Horne
Anne and Jim Hugman
Simone Kibbe
Carolyn and Kurt Langseth *
Ricky Ledbetter
Suzanne Lynn
Lisha and Chris Mack *
Kelly and Andy Mack
Shelley and Glenn McDonald
Susan Mincey
Tammy and Keith Moyes
Linda Murphy
Nancy and Jud Murray
Jan Pelton
Gayle and Rick Poland
Mary and Roy Price
James Roberts
Michele Shebli
Mary Helen and
Charles H. Spurgeon
Dianne and Bruce Swank
GENERAL
Jayne Bigony
Insurance Agency
Ethel Branch
Jennings, Bryan and
Priscilla Brennion *
Jackie and Scott Brown
Tammy and Scott Campbell
Alice and Jim Campbell
Rosalie Coggin *
Jeanie and Paul Folzenlogen
John W. Harrison, Jr. *
Stephen and Tina Howard
Lou Anne Hughes
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson
Lindsay and Joe Mraz
Caryn and Joel Pepper
Francye and Dan Phillips
Ann and Brandon Riddle
Lori and Eric Ruff
Leeann and Tom Webb
Emily Williams
Terry and Ronnie Wohlfahrt
Kathy and James Wright
Nancy Andrews
Mr. Phil Armour
Ellen Beavers
Richard Bower
Claire Dayton
Freda Goerner
Teri Gonzalez
Joe Knox
Dale Lindenberg
Glenda Mann
Marolen Mullinax
Jennifer Payne
Tammy Pruitt
Debbie Sadler
Molly Sue Spear
Jan Statman
Julie Y. Weaver
Angel Weers
Kate Darby
Hazel S. Hickey
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to find out where
you can pick up your copy!
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903-758-6900
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by David E. Webb
Piney Woods Live is a locally owned
magazine for art lovers in the
Piney Woods of East Texas.
We feature articles about and for
local artists and individuals who have
an interest in fine art, fine dining,
and fine performances.
Go to
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IN MEMORY OF
Art... Music of the Soul
Thursday
APRIL 2 • 5-8PM
Get creative - it’s art night!
Downtown merchants are committed to helping make Art Walk a success. This
type of event helps with Longview’s renewed status as a Main Street City. The Main
Street program encourages all downtown merchants and businesses to participate
by exhibiting an artist, screening a film, or showcasing your own art collection.
For more information, visit ArtWalkLongview.com
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
F E AT UR E D FAV O R I T E
One of Our Favorites
from the
LMFA Permanent Collection
Scott's Self Portrait
Scott Bodenheimer
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cott Bodenheimer was born in Pasadena, Texas in 1963. He has degrees in
Architecture and Art from Rice University. He is fascinated with religion; his
favorites are Job, Mary, Ruth, Stephen, David and Judith. He wove paper for the
first time making Christmas decorations when he was seven. He still cherishes Christmas
and the Sermon on the Mount, but after his younger brother’s death from cancer, a lover’s
suicide and countless friends deaths he no longer believes in a loving God. He rejects
cynicism in his work, delighting in layers of order and meaning and nuance. His works
are in collections in Baltimore, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco,
Oxford, Frankfurt, Edmonton, Sydney and Curacao.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Some days I’m not sure what my
art is about. I know it isn't cynical, it
doesn't glorify chaos, and it isn't tough.
Sophia
by Scott Bodenheimer, 1994
Woven Paper (Fine Art Prints)
12 x 14 inches
35th Annual Invitational Purchase Award
Junior League of Longview Sustainers' Club
Juror, Debbie Schlier; Art Collections Curator,
Wichita Falls Museum and Arts Center
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I’m fascinated by religion: how it
shapes basic concepts of power,
how it oppresses and how it
liberates, how it unites and how it
separates, how it causes suffering
and how it comforts pain.
I don’t like cynics or their works.
I think cynicism is the coward’s
complaint, and that his/her conviction
that caring for people or ideas is
foolish, is itself an abrogation of our
responsibility to be human beings and
not animals victimized by their fate.
I don’t care for art that glorifies
chaos. Firstly, Duchamp and the
Dadaists had their run and pulled it off
with wit and verve. Secondly, it’s tedious
and annoying to emulate the hurly-burly
we all have to endure daily. Entropy isn’t
news to anyone that’s ever tried to keep
a home clean.
I despise the use of the adjective
“tough” when referring to art, as if it
could fend for itself. Physically, “tough”
is a ridiculous term, just look at the
Venus de Milo. Intellectually, “tough”
is just as silly. Every good idea needs
constant champions – we’re still fighting
wars over “all men are created equal...”
I think what people should say instead
is “brutal” or “Frank” or maybe just
“really big and nasty.”
I don’t care much for macho art,
as far as I’m concerned bigness for
bigness’ sake makes small ideas even
smaller. Small, intimate, gentle, tender,
animated – all words associated with the
yin, feminine side of human beings. It’s
wrong that these words connote a less
important status, and it makes me angry
that work described with these words
(and people as well) are marginalized.”
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D ON’T MIS S O U T O N O U R
Ladies’Nights!
THIRD THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH
F E AT UR ED A R T I S T
Nathadis Lucas
Nathadis Lucas, our
artist-in-residence and
potter extraordinaire.
He is usually at the museum early in the morning
after starting out at Starbucks, and he creates
everything from platters to vases to special
request items (like Razorbacks and
crosses). Nathadis keeps ArtWorks
as organized as he can with all
the “special” help he gets from
his coworkers and comes out to
help hang and pack up exhibits
as needed. He’s been in and
Second and Fourth
around the museum since 2002,
Tuesday of Every Month
and we wouldn’t want to find out
6 to 9 p.m.
what it's like for him not to be!
Come
Join Us!
IT́S FREE
Up Next!
Indulge
in
January 15
Color Makes Me Happy
with Claudia Lowery
6 to 8 p.m. –
New Time
$20 per person in advance
$25 at the door
“COLOR MAKES ME HAPPY” came to
Claudia Lowery as a result of a long, cold,
grey winter, devoid of color. One day it
occurred to her that “if I don’t get some
PAPER
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color in front of my eyes I’m going to
flip out!” She pulled out a large sheet of
watercolor paper and began quickly filling it
with random fine-point Sharpie flowers and
then added bright, cheerful watercolors.
Come experience a bleak winter boost to
Upper East Side
of Texas
Regional
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bring joy to your being because it’s true....
color does make you happy!
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B O A R D M E E T IN G
GIF T
T
SHOP
he November board meeting was a low
key affair due to it being Thanksgiving
week; however, Renee Hawkins, Amy
SHOP LOCAL
Canton, Nancy Chapmon, Lester Kilpatrick,
Jessica LaRue and Neil Joseph (all top row),
SHOP LMFA
along with Jack Mann, Jr., Rodney Overman
and Mel Fish (all seated) carried on with
business as usual. Also, this will be the
last time we see the inside of the old
vault walls, but our new lecture hall
should be ready to use in 2015!
Our photographer, Marc Bailey,
got us to act silly.
THINK
FIND US ONLINE
Checking in on
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visit LMFA will get
you in FREE!
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Visit LMFA on the first
Friday of every month
and get in FREE!
About 2015
HAVE YOU GIVEN YOUR LIMIT
FOR TAXABLE DEDUCTIONS?
If not, LMFA would like you to consider our
building project currently in progress.
With a gift of $500 or more your name will be
placed on the paint palette sign showing all
Auguste Rodin
The Thinker
donors to be hung in the SWEPCO vestibule.
Other ways you could give:
•IRAs
•Bonds
•501k
•Property
•Stocks
• Will heir
What do YOU think?
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M EM B E R SHIP L E V E L S & B EN E F I T S
MORE
BENEFITS J O I N
FOR OUR
N OW !
MEMBERS!
We are now members of the
Reciprocal Organization of
Associated Museums (ROAM)
program, along with the North
American Reciprocal Museums
(NARM) program.
LEVELS
$10
$25
$50
$100
$250
$500
$1000
$2500
$5000
$10,000
$25,000
$50,000
Student
Individual
General
Contributor
Advocate
Supporter
Patron
Sustainer
Benefactor
Promoter
Bestower
Angel
ALL LONGVIEW
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
MEMBERS RECEIVE:
•
Subscription to the full color
Perspective newsletter with
membership recognition and
invitations to members-only
preview receptions for exhibit
openings every other month.
• Building rental privileges.
• First notice for all exhibitions,
lectures, classes and special
events at the museum.
• 10% discount on Museum
gift shop purchases, classes
or workshops.
Please renew my membership/give a gift membership
at the _____________________________ level.
Corporate Memberships
available at level $100
or above.
Please update my information with the following address/phone/e-mail or other information:
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
I would like to buy a gift membership for : _________________________________________
Address : _________________________________________
________________________________________
I would like to give an honorarium/memorial for: _____________________________________
MEMBERS AT THE CONTRIBUTOR
LEVEL AND ABOVE ALSO RECEIVE:
CONTRIBUTOR: Reciprocal memberships
in the NARM and ROAM programs.
ADVOCATE: NARM and ROAM memberships, art
Please send acknowledgment to:__________________________________________________
q
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__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
Enclosed is a check for $ ___________________.
Please charge my: ❏ Visa ❏ MasterCard ❏ Discover ❏ AMEX
poster available for pick-up during museum hours
plus a free ticket to an LMFA special event.
#______________________________________________ Expiration Date _________ /_________
SUPPORTER: NARM and ROAM memberships,
art poster, two guest passes to an LMFA special
event and sponsorship recognition on website.
PATRON: NARM and ROAM memberships, art
poster plus four guest passes to an LMFA special
event, sponsorship recognition on all catalogs and
website and 10% facility rental discount.
SUSTAINER: NARM and ROAM memberships,
art poster, eight tickets to an LMFA special
event, hardbound copy of The Collection book,
sponsorship recognition on website, catalogs and
front window on Tyler Street. Plus a 10% facility
rental discount.
qCheck if you would like your Visa, MasterCard, Discover or AMEX
automatically charged each year to renew your membership.
A GIFT in honor or in
A TRIBUTE is a great way
A MEMORIAL is an
memory of a loved one is
truly a living tribute. It
honors the person and is an
investment in the museum
and in our community by
supporting the museum.
to honor a person or celebrate
a significant accomplishment
and, in addition, is a
meaningful gift to give to the
person "who has everything"
or is hard to buy for.
expression of concern and
a way to acknowledge the
memory of a deceased loved
one, friend or relative. This
is a lovely way to make a
donation in lieu of flowers.
The Longview Museum of Fine Arts will send a card to the honoree or bereaved on behalf of the
donor and, with permission, list the tribute in LMFA newsletters. The amount of the gift will not
be shared with anyone. All donations to the Tribute and Memorial Fund are 100% tax-deductible.
BENEFACTOR: All of the above benefits and
complimentary use of the Museum for one private
function.
PROMOTER: All of the above benefits plus tables
for 10 at all Museum and Guild functions.
BESTOWER: All Promoter benefits plus 10 tickets
to all Museum, Guild and Artworks activities.
ANGEL: All Bestower benefits plus an additional
Want to go green?
Several of our members have decided to save a tree and postage
and want us to just e-mail them this newsletter. If you want to go
green too, just drop us an e-mail and we'll sign you up!
free rental of the Museum.
For more information about the NARM and ROAM programs
and their benefits, please visit LMFA.org.
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