David M. Hayes, son of sculptorDavid Hayes, shares his insight ongrowing up with the prolific andacclaimed artist. His father’s work isshowcased in the Mitchell Galleryexhibition “David Hayes: A Sculptorof Space and Nature.”

“Iam fortunate in that I havealways lived with my father’sartwork. As a child, I played on

his steel sculptures in the backyard.Now well into my fifties, I enjoywatching children react with naturalglee to his work. And just asinteresting are the comments fromadults, curious to learn about thesculptures, many of which have beenon view in parks, libraries, schools,street corners, and corporate plazas,sometimes for a year or more. Thesculptures on view at the MitchellGallery and on the grounds of

St. John’s College continue thistradition.

Living in France in the 1960s, myfather kept a studio at home andworked at a local atelier—a metalworkshop where he used a forge to

create steel sculptures withindividually hot-hammered pieceswelded together. When we came toAmerica he began working with platesteel as that allowed him to create ona much greater scale. My father would

A B O U T T H EG A L L E R Y

The Mitchell Gallery in Mellon Hall, on thecampus of St. John’s College in Annapolis,Maryland, was established as a center oflearning for all who wish to deepen their understanding of the visual arts. TheMitchell Gallery serves the greaterAnnapolis area with the only fullysecured, climate-controlled fine arts facility in Anne Arundel County.

H o u r sDuring scheduled exhibitions, the gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday, 12-5 p.m. and Friday, 7-8 p.m. There is no admission charge.

Docent-led tours are offered onThursdays from 12-3 p.m. Group toursare available. For information call 410-626-2556.

S t a f fDirector: Hydee Schaller

Editor: Gregory Shook

Chairman, Faculty Advisory Committee:Thomas May

Chairman, Mitchell Gallery Board of Advisors: Katharine C. Pingle

Art Educator: Lucinda Dukes Edinberg

Exhibit Preparator: Sigrid Trumpy

Art Director: Jennifer Behrens

Membership:Kathy Dulisse and Alexandra Fotos

website: www.stjohnscollege.edu

Funding and support for this exhibition is provided in

part by Anne Arundel County, the Arts Council of

Anne Arundel County, the City of Annapolis,

The Helena Foundation, Ken’s Creative Kitchen, the

Maryland State Arts Council, the Estate of Elizabeth

Myers Mitchell, Mitchell Gallery Board of Advisors,

Members of the Mitchell Gallery, the Mitchell Gallery

Endowment, Mitchell Gallery Next Generation

Committee, the John and Hilda Moore Fund, the

National Endowment for the Arts, the Lillian Vanous

Nutt Mitchell Gallery Endowment, and the Clare Eddy

and Eugene V. Thaw Fine Arts Fund.

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by Henry Wendt

The revolutionaryinvention of printing inthe 1450s made it

possible to distributeconsistent cartographic andgeographic informationthroughout the major citiesand centers of learning inWestern Europe—first withmaps printed from carvedwooden blocks, and later bymore detailed copperplateengravings. The first availableprinted maps were thosederived from the work ofclassical Greek mathematicians andastronomers and from the maps ofPtolemy, a Greek scholar whoseinnovative use of latitudinal andlongitudinal coordinates and theprojection of the Earth’s surface on a

sphere was regarded 1,300 years later,as the epitome of scientific method.

During the thousand years betweenthe end of the classical Greek era and

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FEATURED EXHIBITIONSDavid Hayes, Oracle, 1983. Painted steel.

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by David M. Hayes

Gemma Frisius, Flemish (1508–1555) and Peter Apian, German (1495–1552), Map ofthe world: Charta cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatone, Antwerp,1545. Woodcut.

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EXHIB IT

cut large steel sheets into shapes withan acetylene torch, then weld andbolt individual plates together toproduce a single work of art.

Many of my father’s works in the1970s grew substantially in size.These were still assembled piece bypiece with nuts and bolts, but weneeded a tall tripod and winch toassemble them safely. This began atime of frequent, massive exhibits.Trucks would transport theindividual steel plates, layered inblankets, to places such as Boston’s

Copley Square, and we would installperhaps a dozen or so imposingsculptures in a public space.

The maquettes [small-scale models]in this exhibition are studies forlarger sculptures and derive fromdrawings on paper, usually done ingouache. In his sketchbook, myfather captures lines comingtogether in an interesting way,and then reinterprets thesketches in his studio where heprepares the studies forsculptures. The Mitchell Galleryexhibition features examples ofthese gouache studies and theresulting metal sculptures.

While we mount several majorexhibitions a year, this one is anopportunity to telegraph the arc of along and astonishingly productivecareer. Selecting pieces from myfather’s Connecticut home, arteducator Lucinda Edinberg and Ifeature artwork from the past 60years and across a broad variety ofmedia. Included are early bronzes,forged steel sculpture, ceramics,drawings, woodcuts, and stainedglass. The mini-retrospective marksthe first time that my father’s older

work has been on view alongsidesculptures made in the last decade.The result is a perfect and an ever

changing expression of theunrelenting creative thrust thatdrives my father.”

Sculptor David Hayes will lecture onhis work in the “David Hayes”exhibition in the Conversation Roomin Mellon Hall on January 29 at 5:30 p.m.

“ I N H I s s k e T c H b o o k , M y FAT H e rc A P T u r e s l I N e s c o M I N G To G e T H e r I N

A N I N T e r e s T I N G WAy, A N D T H e Nr e I N T e r P r e T s T H e s k e T c H e s I N H I s

s T u D I o W H e r e H e P r e PA r e s T H e s T u D I e sF o r s c u l P T u r e s .”

The Mitchell Gallery willcelebrate its recent accredi-tation by the American Alliance

of Museums (AAM) with its firstnational juried exhibition in spring2013. “Less is More: Small Works in aGreat Space” will open on May 29,2013 with a gala preview reception,where all the artworks will be for sale.The gallery has also launched anonline entry program for artists, andwork is currently underway to createan interactive, easy-to-use, onlinesales gallery to make it simple for

buyers from across the country topurchase artwork.

The exhibition is open to all artistsover the age of 18 living in the UnitedStates and Puerto Rico. Entries mustbe original works, in any media,including jewelry, created within thelast three years (2010 or later).Maximum acceptable dimensions ofeach work are 8" x 10" x 4"measuring to the outer edges of anyframe or the outside edge of object.Jurors are Joann G. Moser, seniorcurator of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian

American ArtMuseum, and JackRasmussen, directorand curator, KatzenArts Center,American University,Washington, D.C.

To enter and for more information:http://themitchellgallery.org or call410-626-2556.

We are pleased to announce that theWeitzman Agency in Annapolis,Maryland is generously providingdesign and marketing support for

“Less is More.” For information abouthow to become a “Less is More”sponsor, contact Kathy Dulisse at 410-626-2530 orkathy.dulisse@sjca.edu. All proceedsfrom this event will benefit theMitchell Gallery educationalprograms.

leSS iS More: SMAll WorkS in A greAt SpAce

A Mitchell Gallery National Juried Exhibition

May 29-June 19 L>Mless is more

small works in a great space

Sculptor David Hayes.

Steel was first used for skyscrapers in 1883.

The earliest known steel is an approximately 4,000-year-old piece ofironware that was excavated from an

archeological site in Turkey.

David Hayes, Untitled. Painted, welded steel. No date.

the Renaissance—the so-called MiddleAges—scholarly thought in WesternEurope was dominated by Christiantheology. Scholars generally acceptedthe spherical nature of the planet, butits representation was often expressedin forms more symbolic thangeographic and more ecclesiastic thanscientific. Maps were diagrammatic,biblical concepts such as Paradisewere treated as physical features, andJerusalem was often depicted as thecenter of the world.

The 30 maps on view in the MitchellGallery exhibition “Envisioning theWorld: The First Printed Maps 1472-1700” also portray, often in a visuallyappealing and artistic manner, theearliest attempts to comprehend thenature of the solar system, therelationship of the planets, and,

especially, the essential qualities ofthe Earth. Renaissance scholarscombined such efforts with rapidadvances in mathematical sciences tocreate more skillful representations ofgeography on flat pieces of printedpaper. Many imaginative represen-tations of the world, among themheart shapes and cloverleafs, werepublished. By the early 1600s, withthe development of the sphericalprojection and more precisemathematical calculations of spaceand distance, the maps became morestandardized.

By the end of the 17th century,however, the world became morethoroughly explored and widelyunderstood. The pioneering work ofsuch scientists as Copernicus, Kepler,and Halley settled almost all theimportant questions in the fields ofastronomy and mathematics, and the

modern concepts of the world wereexpressed in printed maps. Many ofthe early techniques that were sosuccessfully developed and applied tomaps and mapmaking by 1700continue in practice to this day.

Henry Wendt has been an avid mapcollector since1962, when hediscovered a 1742 map of South Asia

in a used bookstore in Tokyo. In 2004the Sonoma County Museum featuredmaps from the Wendt collection in theexhibition “Mapping the PacificCoast.”

This exhibition is generouslysupported by the Helena Foundation.

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NOTES

Above: Vincenzo Maria coronelli, Italian (1650–1718), celestial map of the Northern Hemisphere: Planisfero settentrionale, corretto, et accresciuto

di molte stele,Venice, 1700. engraving on copperplate, hand-colored. right: Nicolaas J. Visscher, Dutch (1618–1678) and Nicolaes berchem, Dutch(1620–1683), Map of the world: Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula, Amsterdam, 1658. engraving on copperplate, hand-colored.

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Space anD nature

January 11-february 17

January 20 opening reception & FamilyProgram. Art educator lucinda edinberg will leada tour of the “David Hayes” exhibition, followedby a hands-on workshop from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

January 29 lecture. Artist David Hayes willlecture on his work in the “David Hayes”exhibition at 5:30 p.m.

January 30 Art express. Art educator lucindaedinberg will give a lunchtime gallery talk on the“David Hayes” exhibition from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

february 5 seminar. st. John’s tutor DavidTownsend and artist ebby Malmgren will lead aseminar related to the exhibition at 7 p.m. spaceis limited. To register, call 410-626-2556.

february 7 book club. Join members of theMitchell Gallery book club for a docent tour ofthe “David Hayes” exhibition followed by adiscussion of the The Architecture of Happiness, anexploration of the emotional affects of our built

environment, by Alain de botton from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The discussion will be led by sculptorburton blistein. registration is required. contactkathy Dulisse at 410-626-2530.

february 10 sunday Afternoon Tour. Arteducator lucinda edinberg will lead a tour of the“David Hayes” exhibition at 3 p.m.

enviSioninG tHe WorlD: tHe

firSt printeD MapS 1472-1700

MarcH 1-april 13

March 1 Members Preview reception. be amongthe first to view the “First Printed Maps”exhibition at this elegant wine and hors d’oeuvresreception, from 5 to 7 p.m. by invitation only. For membership information, contact AlexandraFotos at 410-295-5551 oralexandra.fotos@sjca.edu.

March 3 opening reception & Family Program.Art educator lucinda edinberg will lead a tour ofthe “First Printed Maps” exhibition, followed by ahands-on workshop from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

March 5 lecture. Peter Trogdon, president ofWeems & Plath, will lecture on the “First PrintedMaps” exhibition at 7:30 p.m.

March 13 Art express. Art educator lucindaedinberg will give a lunchtime gallery talk on the“First Printed Maps” exhibition from 12:15 to12:45 p.m.

april 4 book club. Join members of the MitchellGallery book club for a docent tour of the “FirstPrinted Maps” exhibition followed by a discussionof A More Perfect Heaven, the imaginative accountof the life of Nicolaus copernicus, by Dava sobelfrom 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. st. John’s tutor DavidTownsend will lead the discussion. registration isrequired. contact kathy Dulisse at 410-626-2530.

april 7 sunday Afternoon Tour. Art educatorlucinda edinberg will lead a tour of the “FirstPrinted Maps” exhibition at 3 p.m.

St. JoHn’S colleGe coMMunity

art exHibition

april 28-May 12

april 28 opening reception. celebrate theopening of the exhibition with artists from 3 to 5 p.m.

May 2 book club. Join members of the MitchellGallery book club for a discussion of A Month in

the Country, a poetic novel by J.l. carr from 2:30to 4:30 p.m. George and Minna Doskow will leadthe discussion. registration is required. contactkathy Dulisse at 410-626-2530.

leSS iS More: SMall WorkS

in a Great Space

May 29-June 19

May 29 Preview reception for “less is More:small Works in a Great space.” 7 to 9 p.m. Fee.

May 30-June 19 Artwork will be on sale in the gallery and online atwww.stjohnscollege.edu/events and click on “Art Gallery, Mitchell Gallery.”

Peter W. Trogdon, president and owner of Weems & Plath, manufacturer of

precision nautical instruments, will lecture on the “First Printed Maps”

exhibition in the conversation room on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. originally

from the Pacific Northwest, Trogdon assumed management of Weems &

Plath in 1995 and moved to Annapolis. An avid boater, he has traveled on

the Panama canal, the european coast, and in the caribbean. In addition,

Trogdon journeyed from Annapolis to Montreal, canada by way of the

Hudson river and through Alaska’s Inside Passage. He received his MbA

from seattle Pacific university.

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September 24-october 2, 2013

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During the trip, enjoy walking toursand expert-led excursions, highlightedby the UNESCO World Heritage sites ofDelos, Mykonos, Santorini, Rhodes,and Patmos in Greece; and Ephesus and

Troy in Turkey. Additional activitiesinclude a forum about life in the Greekislands with local residents, lectures,and optional excursions. All meals,including afternoon tea, are included.Complimentary wine and beer servedwith dinner. Participants may extendtheir voyage with the Athens Pre-Cruise Option and the Istanbul orCappadocia Post-Cruise Option.

Cost is from approximately $3,595 per person, for double occupancy (land and cruise only). Booking beginsJanuary 2013. For booking or moreinformation, contact Pamela McKee at 410-263-2610 orpmckee7@verizon.net.

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Elizabeth MalmgrenNadja MarilPamela McKeeNancy Stevens McMullinLaurie NolanWilford W. ScottLynn SchwartzEric SmithJoan Vinson

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Mary Catherine Biern, Charles H.Bohl, Bobbie DeMatteis, RobertGiddings, Maryanne Spencer

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