2013 A Look Back

2013 A Look Back

Our friends and supporters made 2013 an amazing year at the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum. •We celebrated the Museum’s 25th year of providing exceptional programs and experiences to the public. •The Museum was awarded accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums. •More than 14,000 Museum visitors enjoyed the work of Marshall Fredericks as well as four temporary exhibitions. •Six summer art camp sessions made 54 third grade through high school students eager to learn more about making art. •A beautiful sculpture garden was created and an exterior entrance was completed so that visitors have a total aesthetic experience of outdoor and indoor sculptures. •The Museum’s traveling exhibition, Sketches to Sculptures, Rendered Reality: Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks, continues to attract new audiences around the state and beyond.

Preserving the Legacy of Marshall M. FredericksWe are grateful in recognizing early commitments to the Preserving the Legacy of Marshall M. Fredericks Campaign

$500,000 $500,000 ● Jo Anne & Donald Petersen for naming of the Sculpture Garden$50,000 to $100,000$50,000 to $100,000● Sue & Bill Vititoe $25,000 to $49,900$25,000 to $49,900● Consumers Energy● Chris Fredericks● Glenda and Gary Labadie● Jane and Bob Rogers$10,000 to $24,900$10,000 to $24,900● Liana and Don Bachand● Madeline and Denis Burke● Kelly and Jim Fabiano● Lois and Gene Miller● Matt and Dawn Pumford● Avril and Mervyn Roundtree● SVSU Academic Affairs● Mamie and Odail Thorns● Donna and Chris VanSteenhouse

$5,000 to $9,900$5,000 to $9,900● Maggie and Bob Allesee● Suzanne (Suki) Fredericks● Konnie and Harry Gill● Marilyn Wheaton and Paul Duffy$2,500 to $4,900$2,500 to $4,900● Andrea and Andy Bethune● Carl Fredericks● Barbara Heller● Ernie Paulick$1,000 to $2,400$1,000 to $2,400● Anonymous● Laurie and Mike Allison● Irene Stare● Gary Wasserman$500 to $950$500 to $950● Rosalind (Rozy) Fredericks● Roz Fredericks ● Linda and Seymour Geiersbach● Peg Tallet & Peter Myks

JANUARYJANUARY Memories of World War II

Memories of World War II, Photographs from the Archives of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS attracted WWII veterans from as far away as Indiana and Ohio, many of whom shared their stories and memories of the war. Everyone learned more about America’s involvement in the war through the 126 Associated Press photographs in this exhibition.

FEBRUARYFEBRUARY Centuries of Progress, American World’s Fairs 1853 - 1982

Marshall Fredericks received two commissions to create works of art for New York World’s Fairs, in 1939 and in 1964. Many visitors to the exhibition recalled with fondness their personal excursions with family and friends to World’s Fairs.

MARCHMARCH Susan Bandes Lecture

Susan J. Bandes, professor of art history at Michigan State University, lectured on the lost remnants of American World’s Fairs. The lecture was in conjunction with the Centuries of Progress: American World’s Fairs, 1853-1982 exhibition.

APRILAPRIL Accreditation Awarded

The Museum was awarded accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. This means the Museum meets National Standards and Best Practices for U.S. museums and joins a community of institutions that have chosen to hold themselves publicly accountable to excellence.

APRILAPRIL Lightness of Being, New Sculpture, Howard Ben Tre’

The Howard Ben Tré exhibition was organized by Habatat Galleries, Michigan’s foremost glass art gallery. It traveled to the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City and the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

APRIL APRIL Howard Ben Tré

APRILAPRIL University Awards Banquet

The Museum staff nominated Marilyn Wheaton to receive the SVSU 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award, which she was awarded at the SVSU All University Awards dinner on April 19. Congratulations Marilyn!

APRILAPRIL Relaxation Night

The Museum’s Students for the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum planned and coordinated a campus-wide relaxation night on April 26. With final exams nearing, the Museum hosted approximately 50 students who enjoyed yoga and art activities, such as coloring, Perler beads, Zen gardens, and rubber stamping.

APRILAPRIL History Day

The Historical Society of Michigan hosted History Day State Finals for students in grades 4-12 on Saturday April 27 at SVSU. The Museum provided a drop-in art activity and scavenger hunts to attending students and visitors. Over 269 people attended the Museum that day and about 50 participated in the drop-in art activity (some displayed here) from 10:00am to 3:00pm. Melissa Ford, Archivist, was a judge this year.

MAYMAY Groundbreaking

The groundbreaking event for the new sculpture garden and exterior entrance on May 10 was a huge success, attracting over 100 people.  Thanks to everyone who attended!

MAYMAY North Oaks Corvette Club at the Museum

18 members of the North Oaks Corvette Club of Oakland County, Michigan enjoyed a tour of the Museum on Friday, May 31.

MAYMAY Kids Discover Art Day

More than 270 K-12 students and teachers participated in Kids Discover Art Day at the Museum on May 7. Thanks to grant funding from Meijer, Inc. and the Jury Foundation, the Museum awarded transportation subsidies of up to $90 to six schools. Students came from Hampton Elementary School and Bay City Public Academy in Bay County; Christ Lutheran School, Marshall Greene Middle School, Nouvel Catholic High School, and St. Stephen’s School in Saginaw County; Bad Axe Middle School in Huron County; and Reese Elementary School in Tuscola County.

JUNEJUNE Summer Solstice Artists’ Market

Eight Museum gift shop consignment artists participated in the Summer Solstice Artists’ Market.

JUNEJUNE Art Workshop at MMCM

Mid-Michigan Children’s Museum Visiting Artist programCurator of Education Andrea Ondish and four SVSU art majors were visiting artists at the Mid Michigan Children’s Museum from May to August. The art workshops they taught were on Marshall Fredericks and additive sculpture, cartoon art, super hero character design, Ted Harrison and colorful landscape painting, and ceramic art.

JUNEJUNE Visitors from Taiwan

Katherine Farrier, student staff, tours Taiwan visitors in the Museum.

During the year the University receives many visitors from different countries and they are often treated with a visit to the Museum.

SUMMERSUMMER New Entrance and Sculpture Garden

Monday, May 13 is the day yellow construction tape went up and large amounts of dirt started to be moved. Within a few months, the Museum’s first exterior entrance and a beautifully designed sculpture garden would be completed.

On May 15, Black Elk, Homage to the Great Spirit arrived on a flatbed truck and was installed. Black Elk is the last commission Marshall Fredericks received before he died in 1998 and is on long-term loan from Scott Seligman to SVSU and the Museum.

Botanical beds were created, sculptures were moved, sidewalks were laid, and on Oct. 4 guests who came to the Saints, Sinners & ’63 gala were the first to experience the new garden and entrance.

There will be a formal dedication on May 2, 2014.

Clockwise from top left: Beginning construction on new entrance, Sculpture garden under construction, frame for new entrance installed.

Clockwise from top left: New sculpture garden walking paths, Glass installed on new entrance, Planting the sculpture garden.

Clockwise from top left: Otter Fountain, Black Elk installation, Three Clowns installation.

Finished…

JULYJULY Latino Folk Tales: Cuentos Populares – Art by Latino Artists

It was an opening not to be soon forgotten. The strong and beautiful Hispanic culture of the Great Lakes Bay Region was witnessed by many who attended the opening of the Latino Folk Tales exhibition on July 11.

JULY JULY Latino Folk Tales

JULYJULY Tall Ships Celebration

Museum staff and volunteers taught scrimshaw art July 12 to 15 at the Tall Ship Celebration in Bay City. Over 300 people made a scrimshaw art project.

June/July June/July Summer Art Camp

The Museum held five summer art camps for youth ages 8-18 in June and July. Fifty-four students created works in papermaking, painting and sculpting with nature such as Chinese Landscapes, plastic cup sculptures, cultural logo design, Louis Nevelson found object sculpture, Linoleum cut printmaking, Native American Masks and more. See the following slides for some highlights of fabulous photos of the kids making their art.

Classes were taught by SVSU art education majors Tara Parker and Beth Hazen. The Johnny Burke Children’s Foundation, Eric James Blair Memorial Foundation, and Jim Jaime awarded a total of fifteen full scholarships.

Thank You Johnny Burke Children’s Foundation!

The Johnny Burke Children’s Foundation sponsored 10 scholarships for summer art camps with a $1,630 grant to the Museum.

Thank you Konnie Gill and the Eric James Blair Memorial Foundation, and Jim Jaime for providing summer art camp scholarships.

June/July June/July Summer Art Camp

June/July June/July Summer Art Camp

So much great Art!

AUGUSTAUGUST A Wedding Proposal

What better place is there to ask someone to marry you? Well of course it’s the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum. That’s what Chris Lawshaw did on Saturday, Aug. 10 at 2:45pm in front of Marshall Fredericks’s The Poet: Lord Byron sculpture that stands near the bell tower facing the Arbury Fine Arts Center. Chris planned the surprise event because he and his fiancée, Sharla Krasun, are fans of Fredericks’s sculpture and the aesthetic venue provided just the right atmosphere. While reciting a romantic Lord Byron poem to Sharla, Chris proposed. In case you’re wondering, she did say yes. The best of wishes to this awesome couple!

SEPTEMBERSEPTEMBER Leaping Gazelle Fountain at 25

SVSU President Eric Gilbertson, Marilyn Wheaton and Melissa Ford spoke about the history of the Leaping Gazelle fountain, Marshall Fredericks and his friendship with Honey and Ned Arbury, and the commission ofthe Levi Barbour Fountain with Leaping Gazelle on Belle Isle in Detroit. The event was sponsored by the Students for Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

OCTOBEROCTOBER Saints, Sinners and ‘63

300 supporters attended the Saints, Sinners and ’63 gala and afterglow on Oct. 4.  Thank you to all who made this a night to remember.

Volunteers extraordinaire Liana Bachand and Judi Hill spent numerous hours in the theater department workshop creating murals for the Saints, Sinners and ‘63 gala.

OCTOBEROCTOBER Saints, Sinners and ‘63

OCTOBEROCTOBER Saints, Sinners and ‘63

OCTOBEROCTOBER Richard Hunt, The Art of This Century

Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt spent 3 days in the Great Lakes Bay Region. Over 200 visitors heard his gallery talks in the Museum.

OCTOBEROCTOBER Family Weekend

The Museum hosted 282 visitors during SVSU Residential Life's Family Weekend Program on October 26, 2013. 25 youth participated in an art making activity at the with art instructor Tara Welch.

OCTOBEROCTOBER Halloween Party

Students for the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum and the University Art Gallery teamed up for a fun Halloween party on Oct. 30.  Approximately 75 students, many in costume, attended “Spooktacular” for crafts and plenty of good food.

NOVEMBERNOVEMBER Sketches to Sculptures, Rendered Reality

The Museum’s traveling exhibition Sketches to Sculptures, Rendered Reality: Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks opened at the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, MI on November 8..

NOVEMBERNOVEMBER Veterans Day

Students for the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum celebrated Veterans’ Day by selling over 130 flags, which were displayed in the sculpture garden for two weeks. Forty percent of the proceeds from flag sales went to the Wounded Warrior Project.

DECEMBERDECEMBER Holiday Party

DECEMBERDECEMBER Holiday Artists’ Market

Students wrapped gift purchases, artists were happy selling their art, and buyers gleefully spent money on one-of-a-kind holiday gifts.

2013 2013 IMLS GrantIn September, the Museum received a $25,296 Museums for America grant to support collection stewardship activities from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This grant will enable the Museum to digitize 815 of Marshall Fredericks’s project drawings to make them widely available for research and education.  Over the next year, project staff will photograph large format drawings, scan smaller drawings, and add these images to the existing digital library. The project will give art scholars, historians, students, and artists access to the drawings for research and education, enhancing understanding of the artist’s artistic process and development. Digitization will also protect fragile artistic material from excessive handling and resulting deterioration. The project concludes at the end of September 2014.

2013 2013 Museum Assessment Program (MAP)This year the Museum was selected to participate in the AAM’s Museum Assessment Program (MAP). MAP is a confidential, consultative process that helps museums strengthen operations, plan for the future, and meet standards through self-study and a site visit from an expert peer reviewer. The Museum participated in a Community Engagement Assessment, a program that assessed the Museum's understanding of and relationship with its various communities and conversely examined their perception of and experience with the Museum.

A team of staff and board members oversaw the completion of the assessment. In June, Deborah Borrowdale-Cox, Director of Education at the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, spent two days at the Museum conducting a site visit with members of the staff, Board of Advisors, University administration and the community. Following Ms. Borrowdale-Cox’s visit, the Museum received a written recommendations, which staff will use to formulate goals and strategies to enhance community outreach and form new collaborations while strengthening old ones.

20132013 Family and Justice Reliefs RestoredIn 1955, Marshall Fredericks was commissioned to design and cast five Family and Justice bronze reliefs for the probate court rooms in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (CAYMC) in Detroit, where they remain today. Four of the Family and Justice plaster reliefs were discovered in a storage area in the CAYMC in 2010 by a staff member of the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority.  Offered to the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum by the executive director and trustees of the Building Authority in March 2011, the Board accepted the gift into the Museum collection shortly thereafter.

A $12,000 grant from the Alden and Vada Dow Family Foundations for the restoration of the reliefs made it possible to contract with Scott Slocum, Marshall Fredericks’s long time assistant, to restore them.

The following slides show three of the four restorations.

Justice Encompasses Knowledge and Technology

Justice is Served While Employing Kindness and Compassion

A Father and Mother Teaching a Lesson in Charity

2013 2013 New Board Member

Avril Roundtree is a fashion and graphic designer and a quilter extraordinaire. She was a restauranteur in Ireland before immigrating to the US with her husband Mervyn more than 25 years ago. They live in Pigeon and have two grown children. Avril is co-chairing the Sept. 26, 2014 Saints, Sinners & Shenanigans.

Holiday ideas from your gift shop

Leaping Gazelle polo shirts, Museum logo fleece jackets, Motawi tiles, handmade glass, Pewabic tiles and vessels, jewelry, and much more. Shop online

What’s ahead for 2014?Feb. 3 – May 24The Presidents Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office exhibition

Feb. 11Lecture by John Brader “The Presidents Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office”

May 2Dedication of the Jo Anne and Donald Petersen Sculpture Garden and new entrance

June and JulySummer Art Camp sessions

June 7 – September 132014 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture exhibition

September 26 Saints, Sinners and Shenanigans

September 26 – December 6Park Seung Mo Sculpture exhibition