September 2019

As a new year begins for the Dallas Museum of Art League, I look forward to serving as your President. There are many exciting plans I hope you will enjoy, starting with the Day Trip to a diverse group of stops. The trip is followed by our Membership Tea at the home of Elizabeth

Berglund. You should have received an invitation and I look forward to seeing you there.

The first General Membership meeting is October 7. Mark your calendar for an exciting program featuring Mark Lamster, architecture critic for the Dallas Morning News. Mark will discuss the influence the great architect I. M. Pei had on our city through the buildings he designed for us. The Hospitality Chairs are planning a delicious lunch following the program so please sign up as soon as you receive the email notice.

The League has been invited to design a table for the Kappa Tablescapes event. The Candlelight cocktail party is on October 14 followed by the Luncheon on October 15. Please see the newsletter entry by Carol Resnick for further details.

New this year is the League’s Social Media group. They have created a social media platform on Facebook for League members and their friends to join. We will have our own page dedicated to League happenings and photos. Please see the instructions on how to join our Facebook page.

Enjoy the newsletter and remember to encourage your friends to join the DMA League!

Dyann Skelton

President, DMA League

President’s Greeting

Monday, October 7, 2019

10:00 a.m. coffee; 10:30 a.m. meeting

Dallas Museum of Art, Horchow Auditorium

Please join us Monday, October 7, 2019 for the start of our exciting new DMA League fall season. Mark Lamster, the award-winning architectural critic for the Dallas Morning News, will be discussing the brilliant legacy of quintessential architect I. M. Pei in his presentation Pei’s Dallas: Shaping the Modern City. Along with architectural reviews for the Dallas Morning News, Mr. Lamster is a professor in the Architecture School at the University of Texas at Arlington and a Loeb Fellow of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His acclaimed biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, The Man in the Glass House, was published last year by Little, Brown.

Our meeting will be followed by a Special League Luncheon at the DMA. Cost of the Luncheon is $50 per person. Please sign up now!

DMA League Meeting and Luncheon

Catherine Chiao Regina Bruce

The Dallas Museum of Art League is adding something brand new! Catherine Chiao and Regina Bruce are heading up our new social media committee, focusing on what’s happening with the League and the Museum.

Strictly an amateur arts lover, Catherine has always enjoyed discussing the techniques, meaning, and beauty of the visual and performing arts alike. A few years ago, this love led her to start a blog chronicling her engagement with the Dallas Arts scene, writing critiques of the shows she attended. Though the blog lapsed, she is reviving it to report on happenings within the Dallas arts community, with a particular eye toward getting people excited about all that the DMAL has to offer. Check out the blog at https://artsfanaticblog.wordpress.com/.

Thanks to Regina Bruce the League now has its own Facebook Group Page to share news articles, updates, event information, and pictures, etc. with our members and other invited guests who would like to learn more about the important work we are doing to support the arts and our treasured Museum in Dallas. In order to view the DMA League Facebook Group Page, you will need a personal Facebook account. There is no charge for this service. If you have not done so previously, please follow the instructions below to create a personal Facebook Page.

To create a Page:

1. Go to facebook.com/pages/create.

2. Click to choose a Page type.

3. Fill out the required information.

4. Click Continue and follow the on-screen instructions.

After your personal Facebook Page is set up, search DMA League to find our new Facebook Group Page. When you locate it, enter your email address to ask to join the group. Upon acceptance by the DMA League Facebook Group Page Administrator chosen by the Dallas Museum of Art and/or the DMA League, you will be able to access all the posts, pictures, etc. on the DMA League Facebook Group Page.

We are excited to offer this new social media platform to our membership and to be able to share information and pictures with you on a much more timely basis. We hope each of you will be excited also and take advantage of this opportunity. If you have any questions or need any assistance setting up your personal Facebook Page or accessing the DMA League Facebook Group Page, please contact Regina Bruce at 214.415.4915.

League Announces New Social Media Committee

League Overnight Trip Set for June 11 - 15, 2020

Southampton, New York Chairs Pat McDonough and Suzy Simons are

planning a not-to-be missed adventure!

Accommodations will be at the Southampton Inn, Southampton NY. We will dine on local, coastal fare in the restaurants, tour museums, art galleries and of course have time for shopping. The itinerary includes the Parrish Art Museum Landscape Pleasures Symposium. Members of the league will enjoy the two day horticulture event featuring leaders in landscape architecture. Join us to experience the true charm of the Hamptons.

This trip will not disappoint! Deposits and sign up for this trip will be on October 10.

Landscape Pleasures & Other Treasures

Membership TeaPLEASE JOIN THE DMA LEAGUE FOR A

Thursday, September 12, 20192:00 -4:00 p.m.

AT THE HOME OF Mrs. James Berglund II

Complimentary valet

For reservations, please visit:

DMA.org/league or call 214-922-1235 by Tuesday, September 3.

You will receive an email from the DMA League at 9:00 am with the sign up directions.

At 10:00 am you will be able to sign into the Travel Agents website.

The trip does not include airfare.

Tour price is $3895 per person, based on double occupancy.

Add $1095 for single occupancy.

$1,000 deposit due with reservation.

A minimum of 15 participants is required. Deposit will be refunded if minimum is not met.

Balance of tour cost is due March 3, 2020.

Deposits may be made by check, Visa or MasterCard. Final balance must be paid by check.

IMAGE: Salvador Dalí, Biological Garden, 1976, drypoint, etching, silkscreen, collage, and lithograph, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Lois and Howard B. Wolf, © 2008 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Winning rave reviews and drawing sell-out crowds, Dior: From Paris to the World showcases the gorgeous gowns from which dreams are made: 200 haute couture dresses, over 70 years of fashion history, seven revolutionary designers, one spectacular exhibition. Explore this stunning DMA retrospective that traces an iconic movement in the elite and exciting world of fabulous French fashion.

Timed exhibition tickets through October 27 are now available! You must purchase tickets in advance to secure entry to this extraordinary exhibition. Tickets sell out fast! DMA Members are free!

Dior: From Paris to the World Extended through October 27

Tablescapes

The Dallas Museum of Art League is sponsoring a table at the 2019 Kappa Kappa Gamma Tablescapes. Kappa is celebrating 25 years of presenting this special event. This is the first time that the DMA League has been invited to participate. We hope to promote membership to our League and Art in Bloom 2020.

The DMA League Tablescape is being coordinated by Carol Resnick, Board Member of the League and Elle Cole of Elle Cole Interiors. Sue Flynn,

Katherine Phillips, and Sarah Jo Hardin will be on the committee to help bring their vision a reality. If you are planning to attend either Candlelight or the Luncheon, please stop by the DMA League table to say hello!

Kappa Tablescapes is a two-day charity event sponsored by the Dallas Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma. It brings together Dallas' finest designers, florists, and retailers who create magnificent and imaginative table decorations to help raise funds to benefit a group of non-profit agencies carefully selected each year. The annual event includes an elegant candlelight evening cocktail reception for 1000 guests to mingle and view the beautifully decorated tables. On the following day our special guest, a lifestyle guru, entertaining expert or interior designer, inspires guests with a presentation at the luncheon and offers a book signing, and guests enjoy dining at the designers' incredible table creations.

Tablescapes by Candlelight Monday, October 14, 2019

Tablescapes LuncheonTuesday, October 15, 2019

Go to kappatablescapes.org to purchase a ticket.

Creating floral designs for the Museum begins early every Monday and Thursday morning with a trip to the American Agroproducts Flower Market where we choose from an infinite number of freshly cut flowers and greenery and take them to the DMA to assemble our arrangements and produce magical enchantment. Interested in joining the Floral Committee? Contact Sue Flynn at sflynn.floralend@gmail.com. Training sessions will be available.

Petal Power

Connie Miles, Janet Hoffman, Sue Flynn, Katherine Phillips & Carol Resnick

Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Day Trip

Thursday, September 12, 2019 Membership Tea

Monday, October 7, 2019 General Meeting

Pei’s Dallas: Shaping the Modern City with Mark Lamster, Architecture Critic of the Dallas Morning News and Professor in the Architecture School at the University of Texas at Arlington

Monday, November 11, 2019 General Meeting

Speechless with Sarah Schleuning, The Margot B. Perot Senior Curator

of Decorative Arts, Dallas Museum of Art

Monday, November 18 League Happy Hour

Monday, January 13, 2020 General Meeting

Critic, Curator, Director, Professor: Rick Brettell’s Lives in

the Art World with Richard R. Brettell, Ph.D.,

Founding Director, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History

and the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair

Monday, February 24, 2020 General Meeting

Fashion, Fabric, Furniture in the DMA’s Permanent Collection with

Annette Becker, Director Texas Fashion Collection, University of

North Texas

Monday, March 2, 2020 Art in Bloom

Monday, May 4, 2020 General Meeting

TBA

June 11-15, 2020 Southampton, New York

2019-2020 DMA League Board & Committee ChairsOfficers

President Dyann SkeltonPresident Elect Therese RourkVP Education

Jan ClayVP Hospitality Susan Bondy Denise Ford

VP Membership Susan Vaughan

Bayley

VP Membership Elect

Michelle AllumsVP Art in Bloom Therese RourkVP Publicity/

Communication Sherry Winger Janet Greedy

Corresponding Secretary

Pat AltschulerRecording Secretary Tara Bond Freeman

Treasurer Mary Ellen Winborn

Historian Michelle Mew

Parliamentarian Sarah Jo Hardin

Board Members at Large

Barbara Bigham Barb Durham

Susan Fisk Jill Goldberg

Emily Maduro Carol Resnick

Committee ChairsArts Liaison

Carole Ann BrownCare and Concern

Susan FiskDay Trip

Fran Cashen Chan Chandler

Directory Karen Keith

Docent Liaison Jode JohnsonFloral Design

Sue Flynn Katherine Phillips

General Meeting Admin

Karen Reeder Cindy Wolf

Overnight Trip Pat McDonough

Suzy SimonsSocial Media Regina Bruce

Catherine ChiaoSpecial Events Joanie Smith

Volunteer Opportunities

Kay Weeks

Dates To Remember

Copyright © 2019 Dallas Museum of Art, All rights reserved. Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St., Dallas, TX 75201The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA members and donors, the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Inquiries specific to this publication should be directed to our editors, DMA League Vice Presidents of Communications Janet Greedy, janetgreedy@gmail.com or Sherry Winger, sherry@wingermarketing.com.

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