2011–2012 ANNUAL REPORT...throughout the history of rock & roll and featured nearly 200 works, from iconic album covers to behind-the-scenes snapshots of rock, pop, and hip-hop legends.

2011–2012 ANNUAL REPORT THE BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART // JULY 1 · 2011–JUNE 30 · 2012

2011–2012 ANNUAL REPORT THE BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART // JULY 1 · 2011–JUNE 30 · 2012

Ralph D. Cook – Chairman of the Board

Gail C. Andrews – The R. Hugh Daniel Director

Editor – Rebecca Dobrinski

Design – James Williams

Photographer – Sean Pathasema

MISSION

To provide an unparalleled cultural and educational experience to a diverse community by collecting, presenting, interpreting, and preserving works of art of the highest quality.

Birmingham Museum of Art

2000 Rev. Abraham Woods Jr. Blvd.

Birmingham, AL 35203

Phone: 205.254.2565

www.artsbma.org

[COVER] Jar, 16th century, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by the Estate of William M. Spencer III AFI289.2010

CONTENTS

THE YEAR IN REV IEW 5

EXHIBIT IONS 9

EDUCATION AND PUBL IC PROGRAMS 17

EVENTS 25

SUPPORT GROUPS 31

STAFF 36

F INANCIAL REPORT 39

ACQUISIT IONS 43

COLLECTION LOANS 52

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 54

MEMBERSHIP AND SUPPORT 57

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW

I t is a pleasure to share highlights from our

2011–12 fiscal year. First, we are delighted

to announce that the Museum’s overall

attendance last year jumped by an astonishing

24 percent. While attendance is only one metric

by which we gauge interest and enthusiasm

for our programs, it is extremely validating

as we continue to grow and explore new ways

to engage our audience. In turn, we are also

pleased to report that our current financial

status is sound. We have two years of coming in

on budget as we have been able to slowly build

more capacity.

As for our curatorial work, this year’s

exhibitions truly reflect the scholarly strengths

of our curators as well as the global nature of

our collection and our commitment to bring

that great diversity of human expression to

our public. This spectrum included Indian

sculpture, lithographs by Daumier, exquisite

European jewelry, modern Danish ceramics,

Alabama quilts, and the exciting Warhol and

Cars, to name but a few. We capped the year

with Future Perfect: The Birmingham Museum of

Art at 60, the handsome installation of many of

the gifts given or promised in honor of our 60th

anniversary. These gifts, offered by so many

of our friends and supporters, illustrate their

commitment to seeing this institution continue

to grow and attain the areas of distinction and

specialization we all desire and envision.

We will single out two of this year’s special

exhibitions; both made important contributions

to their respective scholarly fields and both

garnered outstanding accolades in the press.

First, Dragons and Lotus Blossoms: Vietnamese

Ceramics from the Birmingham Museum of Art

comprises a collection begun by the then newly-

formed Asian Art Society in the early 1970s.

This collection was thoughtfully developed

over the ensuing years and then strengthened

immeasurably by the remarkable bequest of

long-time trustee, William M. Spencer III. Our

collection, along with those at the MFA Boston

and Metropolitan Museum of Art, is ranked as

one of the top three collections of Vietnamese

Ceramics in North America. The show and

catalogue, published by the University of

Washington Press, received generous national

and international attention, including a lengthy

and thoughtful review in the Wall Street Journal.

But certainly the most exciting press was when

Apollo, the British fine arts magazine, named

our 16th-century Vietnamese jar as the ninth

most important museum acquisition in 2011

(cover illustration), placing the Birmingham

Museum of Art in the company of esteemed

institutions including the Louvre, the

Metropolitan, and the British Museum.

The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the

Skier Collection followed close on the heels of

Vietnamese Ceramics. The exhibition attracted

visitors from across the country, intrigued by the

little-known subject of lovers eyes, their beauty,

history, and the fact that the Skiers’ collection

is the largest in the world. Appreciating the

diminutive size of these objects, we took

advantage of modern technology to enhance

visitors’ engagement with these tiny objects,

resulting in the development of the Museum’s

first app. We equipped our visitors with iPad

gallery guides, offering a new dimension to

the visitor experience. The exhibition received

an enormous amount of press including The

New York Times, Vanity Fair, Elle magazine,

and Town & Country. Look of Love was hailed

by Architectural Digest as among the season’s

best museum shows. The beautiful companion

catalog, a small treasure itself, enjoyed best-

seller (in its category) status on Amazon.com

for more than three weeks. We are delighted

to report that the show will live on, traveling

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to other museums including the University

of Georgia Museum of Art, the Minneapolis

Institute of Arts, and the Winterthur Museum,

Garden and Library.

Beyond our exhibitions and collection,

we worked to complete several successful

projects this year. In May, we unveiled Bart’s

ArtVenture—our new, beautiful, interactive

family gallery. The gallery now plays an

important role at the Museum, serving all ages

from toddlers and crawlers to teens and adults.

The changing art activities and stations were

designed to connect to our collection and help

visitors begin to develop their appreciation of

art. Just beyond our new family gallery, another

significant project reached fruition in The Red

Mountain Garden Club Memorial Garden—the

trees, pools by Valerie Jaudon, and our collection

of sculpture now glow with the brilliant designs

of New York lighting designer Charles Stone

and local collaborators, ArchitectureWorks. The

project was made possible by the fundraising

efforts of the Red Mountain Garden Club and a

generous gift by Mayer Electric.

Our annual fundraiser, the Museum Ball,

was an incredibly special evening and we want

to acknowledge the exceptional leadership

of Museum Ball co-chairs Penny Page and

Katharine Patton. Penny and Katharine created

an evening that was perfect in every way, but

more importantly, it secured the highest amount

ever raised in the Museum’s 60-year history.

We are so very grateful to the Ball chairs, Men’s

Committee, and all who worked to make this

event a success.

Working in area schools with students and

teachers is a major aspect of carrying out our

mission as a museum. As arts education in our

schools sadly diminishes, we have ramped up

our educational programming and are working

to fill this void. Museums are well-equipped

to foster the type of learning skills needed

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today, such as critical thinking, creativity, and

communication. Our education department

continues to work directly with teachers both

in the Museum and in the classroom. Field trips

and associated instruction remain free to area

schools, but transportation costs remain an issue

for schools with tight budgets. Last year, our

docents stepped up to create a Bus Fund to help

underserved schools offset some of the travel

costs to and from the Museum.

As we look to the year ahead, we are careful

not to lose perspective as the world around

us rapidly changes. Thus we are spending

significant time and resources trying to

understand our audience, engage that audience,

and harness their ideas, feedback, and

participation in a much deeper way than ever

before.

In the same spirit, we understand that in

order to thrive as a traditional institution in

an increasingly modern world, we must adapt.

Therefore, we are consciously making more

use of new technologies. We know people learn

the best by doing, and there is an increased

desire by people today to “do” in addition to

“view.” Thus, we are implementing a variety of

learning strategies: we will be loading even more

gallery tours on the iPads; cell phone tours now

incorporate many voices to bring more people

into conversations about works of art; and we

continue to develop and refine our website to

attract more visitors.

These are just a few highlights from a year

filled with art and the many ways we engage

with our visitors and our community. We hope

you enjoy this look back at 2011–12.

Gail C. Andrews Ralph D. CookTHE R . HUGH DANIEL D IRECTOR CHA IRMAN

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EXHIBIT IONSAFRICAN ARTISTRY IN IRON AND CLAY

MARCH 28, 2010—SEPTEMBER 30, 2012African cultures value iron and clay for their

practical use: tools, weapons, currency, and

vessels; but, more importantly, also for their

spiritual potency. This installation explores

iron and clay as created for rites of passage,

healing rituals, divination, governance, religious

practice, and conflict mediation.

In many parts of Africa, blacksmiths are

born to their occupational specialty and marry

women from other blacksmith families. The men

smelt and forge iron while the women specialize

in ceramics, creating vessels for daily use and

ritual objects. They closely guard their special

occupational knowledge and many myths and

legends recount the stories of these blacksmiths

and potters who transformed materials by fire.

THE YEAR OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART

SEPTEMBER 2010—SEPTEMBER 2011To herald in the opening of Who Shot Rock &

Roll, the BMA introduced a series of exhibitions

and lectures that featured photography. These

included the exhibits Warhol Portrait Studies;

In Friendship: Gifts from David and Natalie

Sperling; Darkroom: Photography and New Media

in South Africa; and In Focus: Photography by

Birmingham City School Students, plus lectures

on “Neil Printz’s Andy Warhol Paints a Portrait”

and The John Morton Lecture in Photography

with Carlin Wing. The Year of Photography

culminated in the exhibition Who Shot Rock &

Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present.

A STITCH IN T IME: SOUTHERN QUILTS IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRADIT ION

MAY 15, 2011—SEPTEMBER 29, 2011The art of quilting enjoys a long and rich

heritage within African American communities,

particularly in the Deep South. Drawing from

the Museum’s permanent collection of American

quilts—among the largest in the country—this

exhibition explored the African American

quilting tradition from vibrant patterns to

whimsical pictorials. Among the featured quilts

were masterworks by Nora Ezell, Yvonne Wells,

Chris Clark, and the Freedom Quilting Bee.

WHO SHOT ROCK & ROLL: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY, 1955 TO THE PRESENT

JUNE 24—SEPTEMBER 18, 2011Conceived by the likes of Elvis and the Beatles,

evolving into the sounds of Madonna and Tupac,

the phenomenon that is rock & roll indelibly

transformed music and society. Catalysts to

this sensational revolution, photographers

captured and documented these changes.

Through many rare and never-before-exhibited

photographs, Who Shot Rock & Roll honored

and celebrated the artists who gave rock & roll

its visual identity. This exhibition explored the

creative and collaborative role of photographers

throughout the history of rock & roll and

featured nearly 200 works, from iconic album

covers to behind-the-scenes snapshots of rock,

pop, and hip-hop legends.

Who Shot Rock & Roll was organized by the

Brooklyn Museum with guest curator Gail

Buckland. Local presentation was made possible

by Protective Life Corporation. Additional

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support provided by WorkPlay, the City of

Birmingham, the Members and Corporate

Partners of the BMA, The Birmingham News &

al.com, FOX 6 WBRC, and 103.7 the Q. Friends

of Rock include the Christopher M. Boehm

Family, BIG Communications, Red Mountain

Entertainment, and Mr. Charles G. Brown III.

FACES OF INDIA: SCULPTURE FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE CALLAHAN FAMILY

JUNE 12—OCTOBER 2 , 2011 The BMA proudly presented the first showing

of Indian sculpture from the collection of the

Callahan family. Over 20 sculptures in stone and

bronze depicted a variety of Hindu and Buddhist

deities that date from the second through the

18th centuries, including a rare third century

image of Hariti, the Buddhist protector of

children, and an elegant 16th-century image

of The Dancing Shiva (Shiva Nataraja). The

Callahan family collection showed the great

diversity of Indian iconography and the

brilliance of Indian craftsmen.

Faces of India was made possible by Merrill

Lynch Wealth management.

CELEBRATE L IFE: THE ART OF CHRIS CLARK

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011—MARCH 4 , 2012In August 2011, Birmingham lost a remarkable

artist, teacher, and member of our community

with the passing of Chris Clark (1958-2011).

Clark’s vibrant quilts, furniture, walking sticks,

and other painted and assembled objects found

admirers among eager folk art collectors in

Alabama while garnering national attention as

well. The Museum paid homage to his talent

and special gifts in the Celebrate Life exhibition.

Celebrate Life contained an overview of many

of Clark’s favorite subjects and illustrated

the variety of media he explored through his

creativity and willingness to take risks with a

variety of materials. Clark’s quilts combined

traditional quilting with vibrant painted images.

DAUMIER: ART FOR THE MASSES, SELECTED WORKS FROM THE ROWE COLLECTION

OCTOBER 9, 2011—JANUARY 1, 2012Jean-Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was one

of 19th-century France’s most popular and

influential artists. Although a painter and

sculptor, he was also a prominent printmaker.

Daumier produced more than 4,000 lithographs,

many of which were satires depicting the

lighter aspects of French politics, society, and

culture. The BMA hosted an exhibition of 169

lithographs that treated subjects such as Art,

Drinking and Dining, Feminism, Gallic Life,

Love and Family Life, and the Theater. Daumier

made these works for illustrations in popular

daily newspapers, thus providing art that

could be viewed and enjoyed by all. Fourteen

prints in the exhibition remain intact in the

original newspapers, while the rest were long

ago cut out to be appreciated as stand-alone

works of art. For the 21st-century viewer, these

prints brought to life the quotidian quirks of

19th-century Parisians. The poet and art critic

Charles Baudelaire referred to Daumier as

“one of the most important men…[not] only

of caricature, but also of modern art.” While

his skill as a painter and sculptor may be his

greatest claim today, in his own time it was the

humor, wit, and audacity evident in Art for the

Masses for which Daumier was most celebrated.

Daumier: Art for the Masses was supported

by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patton and the Lydia

Eustis Rogers Fund.

TRADITION TRANSFORMED: DANISH CERAMICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

OCTOBER 23, 2011—JANUARY 8, 2012The Museum highlighted an exceptional gift

of more than 40 pieces of 20th century Danish

pottery. The collection, given to the BMA

by William Hull and Dr. and Mrs. Frederick

Baekeland, reflects not only Denmark’s

distinctly artistic pottery tradition but one that

is relatively new, dating only to the 1880s when

a small group of Danish artists began to take an

interest in ceramics as a medium for expression.

Tradition Transformed: Danish Ceramics in the

Twentieth Century addressed the evolution

of the Danish pottery tradition through an

exploration of Modernist pieces produced for

Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grøndahl, works

from Copenhagen’s great studio workshop

Saxbo, teapots and tea bowls reflecting the

profound influence of Asian ceramics on the

studio potters of Denmark, and creative yet

traditional vessel forms of the postmodern age.

The wide range of potters represented in the

exhibition included Jais Nielsen, Arne Bang,

Axel Salto, Ulla Hansen, Malene Müllertz, Bente

Hansen, Hans Vangsø, and Lis Ehrenreich.

Tradition Transformed was supported in part

by The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

DRAGONS AND LOTUS BLOSSOMS: V IETNAMESE CERAMICS FROM THE BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART

JANUARY 22—APRIL 8 , 2012Vietnam created the most sophisticated

ceramics in Southeast Asia. Though they

borrowed from China, Vietnamese potters

explored their own indigenous tastes and

developed their own production techniques.

Through generous gifts and judicious purchases

dating back to the 1970s, the Museum now has

one of the finest collections of Vietnamese

ceramics in North America. From Chinese-

inspired shapes of 2,000 years ago to the most

ornate, overglaze-enamel jar anywhere in the

world, the collection is rich in the various wares

that make up the unique Vietnamese ceramic

heritage. Dragons and Lotus Blossoms was the

first exhibition in the US to explore the colorful

history of Vietnamese ceramics. A full-color

catalogue accompanied the exhibition with

essays by three noted experts and published by

University of Washington Press.

Dragons and Lotus Blossoms was supported

by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter

Foundation, the National Endowment for the

Arts, and the J. & H. Weldon Foundation.

THE LOOK OF LOVE: EYE MINIATURES FROM THE SKIER COLLECTION

FEBRUARY 7—JUNE 10, 2012This stunning exhibition explored the

little-known subject of “lover’s eyes,” hand-

painted miniatures of single human eyes set

in jewelry and given as tokens of affection or

remembrance. In 1785, when the Prince of Wales

secretly proposed to Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert

with a miniature of his own eye, he inspired an

aristocratic fad for exchanging eye portraits

mounted in a wide variety of settings including

brooches, rings, lockets, and toothpick cases.

With 96 examples, the collection of Dr. and

Mrs. David A. Skier of Birmingham is the

largest in the world. This exhibition offered

an unprecedented look at these unusual and

intriguing works of art. The Look of Love

was accompanied by a full-color, hardbound

catalogue of the same name, edited by Dr.

Graham C. Boettcher, The William Cary Hulsey

Curator of American Art, and published by D

Giles Ltd., London.

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FUTURE PERFECT: THE BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART AT 60

MAY 13—AUGUST 5, 2012The final feather in the Museum’s 60th

anniversary cap was an exhibition of more than

150 works that have been purchased or gifted in

honor of our diamond anniversary. The works,

spanning all collecting departments and periods,

range from a superb third-century Gandharan

head to an intricately carved German ivory

hunting horn to a voluminous 18th-century

Aubusson rug to a 2010 sculpture by the

Alabama-born, internationally recognized artist

William Christenberry. This panorama of gifts

underscored the Museum’s strong commitment

to collecting broadly and in depth as the state’s

only comprehensive art museum. The exhibition

was organized chronologically, which provided

a horizontal view across cultures at any given

moment and opened unusual opportunities for

dialogue between works that are otherwise

generally separated by region. With this

exhibition we recognized the fundamental role

that gifts play in the ongoing effort to build the

finest collection in the Southeast. Since the

Museum’s inception in 1951, the generosity of

our patrons has grown the collection to more

than 24,000 objects in just 60 years. Quality and

excellence remain twin criteria as we consider

each and every work of art.

So what does the title Future Perfect mean?

Grammatically, the future perfect tense talks

about the past in the future—a fitting tribute to

this moment in the history of the Museum as we

reflect on the collection we have built and strive

to make it even greater in the future.

WARHOL AND CARS: AMERICAN ICONS

JUNE 24—SEPTEMBER 16, 2012Warhol and Cars: American Icons was the first

exhibition to examine Andy Warhol’s enduring

fascination with automotive vehicles as products

of American consumer society. The exhibition

featured more than 40 drawings, paintings,

photographs, sculptural models, and related

archival material spanning the Pop Art icon’s

entire career. As one of the most important and

influential artists of the 20th century, Warhol

helped to define America. His signature images

are instantly recognizable worldwide. This

exhibition highlighted his early line drawings

and 1950s commercial work, paintings, and

works on paper from the 1960s through the

1980s that present his signature silkscreen

process. Warhol and Cars also included a 1979

film of the artist painting and discussing a BMW

M1 as part of the BMW Art Race Car Projects

introduced by French racer Herve Poulin.

Warhol and Cars was organized by the

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New

Jersey, and curated by MAM Chief Curator

Gail Stavitsky. The majority of the work in the

exhibition was from the permanent collection

of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The

exhibition was accompanied by an eponymous

catalogue also published by MAM.

Local presentation of Warhol and Cars was

provided by PNC Bank and Mrs. Caroline

Ireland supported the exhibition’s educational

programming.

ARCTIC BEAUTY: INUIT SCULPTURE FROM CANADA

OPENED MAY 20, 2012This exhibition presented 87 works of art

made by the Inuit people of Canada. Formerly

known as Eskimo, the Inuit are descended from

cultures that have inhabited the Arctic regions

of Canada, the US, Greenland, and Russia for

over a thousand years. Works in the exhibition

reflected traditional Inuit ways of life and

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culture, particularly their close observation

of Arctic animals, with whom they share the

frozen environment. Although contemporary

Inuit no longer rely solely on hunting for food,

in the recent past land and sea mammals

provided not only a main source of food, but

fur and skins for clothing, and sinews and bone

for tools. A wide variety of animals and birds

were represented in the exhibition including

bears, walrus, seals, muskoxen, wild hares, and

loons. There were also sculptures of people,

families, hunters, fishermen, and an igloo with

an interior scene. Some sculptures depicted

transformational figures, spirits, and shamans.

The works, created by both men and women,

dated primarily from the second half of the 20th

century.

Arctic Beauty was drawn from a single,

internationally recognized, private collection in

Alabama.

REINSTALLATIONSTARA DONOVAN REINSTALLATION

SEPTEMBER 2011The Museum removed the Tara Donovan

installation (Untitled) during renovations for

the opening of Oscar’s Café. This stunning art

installation, a part of the Museum’s permanent

collection, was completely refabricated from

tens of thousands of Styrofoam cups. Four

members of the artist’s studio staff spent nearly

two weeks piecing together huge sections of

cups and attached them to the Café ceiling to

create the work’s spectacular, undulating form.

A CENTURY OF ELEGANCE AND REF INEMENT: ENGL ISH GALLERY REINSTALLATION

NOVEMBER 2011The BMA was pleased to present the

reinstallation of its permanent collection of

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18th-century English art. The gallery, located

on the second floor adjacent to the 18th-

century French galleries, was expanded and

redesigned to include an even greater selection

from the Museum’s holdings in 18th-century

English painting, ceramics, silver, enamels, and

furniture, providing the visitor with a well-

founded picture of the prosperity and opulence

that defined English life during this period. The

gallery was transformed through the use of color

and fabric, moldings and other architectural

elements, and new lighting and display

techniques, creating the perfect backdrop to one

of the Southeast’s finest collections of English

art.

The objects made and used during the 18th

century in England reveal much about the

individuals who acquired them. The new gallery

offers the visitor a whirlwind tour through 18th-

century England and a slice of how people lived

during the period and how their possessions

reflected their passions and ambitions.

STUDENT EXHIBIT IONSSLOSS FURNACES SUMMER YOUTH APPRENTICESHIP EXHIBIT ION

SEPTEMBER 4 , 2011—OCTOBER 23, 2011The BMA exhibited the metal sculpture

created by area high school students in the

Sloss Furnaces Summer Youth Apprenticeship

Program. No form of art is more suited for

creation and exhibition in Birmingham than

metal art, and nowhere in Birmingham is it

more appropriate than Sloss Furnaces, where

for 90 years men made iron. Although the

iron and steel industries are no longer the

dominant forces they once were, they remain

an important part of the city’s history. They are

also a tremendous resource for the production

of metal sculpture—the artist expression of

Birmingham’s industrial heritage.

MOUNTAIN BROOK SCHOOLS EXHIBIT ION

NOVEMBER 6 , 2011—JANUARY 8 , 2012The BMA was proud to present an exhibition

highlighting the artistic achievement of the

students of the Mountain Brook City School

System. Visitors were able to explore the

Museum’s collection through the eyes of these

students. Each young artist was asked to find

inspiration from a work, or group of works, in

the Museum. Discover what resonates with

student artists today and how they translate our

masterpieces into their own.

CHINESE NEW YEAR ART EXHIBIT ION: THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON

JANUARY 15—FEBRUARY 19, 2012Chinese New Year is the most important of the

traditional Chinese holidays and is a celebration

for forgetting all grudges and wishing peace

and happiness for everyone. This exhibition

coincides with Birmingham’s Chinese New Year

celebration.

YOUTH ART MONTH

MARCH 4—MAY 6 , 2012Visitors discovered the masterpieces created

by the youth of Alabama and saw firsthand

how the visual arts can impact change in our

communities and young citizens. Each March,

the BMA and the art educators of Alabama

celebrate the creativity and talent of our state’s

youth in this annual exhibition. The purpose

of National Youth Art Month is to emphasize

the value of art education for all students and

to encourage support for quality art education

programs. The Youth Art Month exhibition

provides a forum for acknowledging skills that

are fostered through experience in the visual

arts that are not possible in other subjects

offered in the curriculum. Thank you for

supporting these young artists by visiting the

Museum during Youth Art Month and helping

keep Alabama arts education a priority.

FOREVER GREEN GIRL SCOUT EXHIBIT ION

OPENED MAY 20, 2012The Museum was proud to sponsor an

exhibition highlighting the “green” artwork of

the Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama. This

exhibition coincided with the Girl Scouts’ 100th

anniversary celebration in 2012. To mark this

milestone and to honor founder Juliette Gordon

Low, who loved nature and the outdoors, Girl

Scouts of all ages engaged in Girl Scouts Forever

Green. This nationwide, take-action project

offered a meaningful leadership experience that

made a huge positive impact on the environment

and increased the visibility of Girl Scouts

in every community. The Girl Scouts in our

area worked to create “green” artworks using

recycled materials to create their masterpieces.

BMA PUBLICATIONS

The BMA produces publications to complement

many of its exhibitions. The following

publications were published by the BMA in

2011-12.

DAUMIER: ART FOR THE MASSES

Rowe, Patrick M. Daumier: Art for the Masses:

Selected Works from the Rowe Collection.

Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of

Art, 2011.

DRAGONS AND LOTUS BLOSSOMS

Stevenson, John A. and Donald A. Wood.

Dragons and Lotus Blossoms: Vietnamese

Ceramics from the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Seattle, Washington: University of Washington

Press, 2011.

THE LOOK OF LOVE: EYE MINIATURES FROM THE SKIER COLLECTION

Boettcher, Graham C., ed. The Look of Love: Eye

Miniatures from the Skier Collection. London: D

Giles Limited, 2012

the LOOKof LOVE

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the enchanting and little-known sub-

ject of "lover’s eyes," hand-painted minia-tures of single human eyes set in jewellery and given as tokens of a!ection, or cre-ated to memorialize a deceased loved one. According to popular lore, the phenomenon caught on in Great Britain when, in 1785, the Prince of Wales secretly proposed to Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert with a miniature of his own eye. This romantic gesture inspired a fad among the aristocracy for exchanging eye portraits mounted in a wide variety of settings including brooches, rings, lockets, and toothpick cases.

This fresh and fascinating book features over 96 examples of lover’s eyes, drawn from the private collection of Dr. and Mrs. David A. Skier of Birmingham, Alabama. An essay by Elle Shushan sets the histori-cal scene and examines the role of lover’s eyes in the broader context of Georgian and early Victorian portrait miniatures; Graham Boettcher looks at the language and sym-bolism of these tokens and their jewelled settings; and novelist and biographer Jo Manning o!ers five fictional vignettes imagining the circumstances surrounding the creation of these extraordinary objects.

the Look of LoveE Y E M I N I AT U R E S F R O M T H E

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AuthorsGraham C. Boettcher is the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. His publications include contributions to American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880 (2002); Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (2007); and Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery (2008).

Elle Shushan is a leading dealer in American and European portrait miniatures. In addition to private collectors, Shushan works with museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. A foremost authority on miniatures, she has lectured and published widely, including articles in The Magazine Antiques, Art + Auction, and Antiques & Fine Art Magazine.

Jo Manning is the author of My Lady Scandalous (2005), a biography of the royal courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliot. Her novels include The Reluctant Guardian, Seducing Mr. Heywood (a Booklist Ten Best Romances of the Year selection) and The Sicilian Amulet.

Also available from GILES:BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ARTGuide to the CollectionForward by Gail Andrews, Director of Birmingham Museum of ArtCatalogue essays by the curators of Birmingham Museum of Art

WEDDED PERFECTIONTwo Centuries of Wedding GownsCynthia Amnéus.With contributions by Sara Long Butler and Katherine JellisonIn association with Cincinnati Art Museum

BEDAZZLED5,000 Years of JewelrySabine AlbersmeierIn association with the Walters Art Museum

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EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS

When challenged with the goal of expanding

audiences and increasing participation, the

Education Department focused considerable

resources on targeting and growing the family

visitor. In 2009–10, the Museum attracted 2,467

family visitors to programs; in 2010-11 family

visitors increased to 4,543, representing an 85%

increase. Bart’s Art Cart was introduced during

the 2010–2011 year as a regular program offering

for families to drop in each weekend and make

art projects.

This year saw an increase in family

visitors to 6,932—effectively quadrupling the

attendance since 2009. A large contribution

to the growth was the grand opening party

for Bart’s ArtVenture, which brought in 863

family visitors. In addition, Bart’s ArtVenture

visitors accounted for 15% of overall Museum

attendance between May 20–June 30, 2012

with an additional 1,514 visitors. A conservative

estimate calculates that Bart’s ArtVenture

will see 15,000 visitors next year and family

programs attendance will grow as well. With

families representing between 15–20% of

the BMA’s overall attendance, the Museum

continues to look for ways to respond to and

accommodate this growing demographic.

Adult programs participation also

increased 75% since 2009.

2009–2010: 4,146

2010–2011: 5,814 // 40% increase

2011–2012: 7,127 // 25% increase in one year

75% INCREASE SINCE 2009

WINDS OF CHANGE: RISING ABOVE THE TORNADO THROUGH ART

The BMA is committed to being an active civic

partner in our community and to appropriately

respond to issues that affect our City. During

the months of June and July, the Museum

partnered with the Rotary Club Foundation

and Birmingham City Schools to provide art

activities at a day camp for children that were

affected by the tornado that devastated Pratt

City on April 27, 2011. The camp was held at

South Hampton Elementary School and over

200 campers aged 5-13 participated in Camp

South Hampton.

Each camper visited the Museum for a special

tour designed to explore how artists over

time have used a variety of artistic media and

techniques to respond to the world around them

and to convey emotion and feelings. Campers

were encouraged to share personal responses

to the works of art they saw, and older campers

also produced written poetic responses. After

their tours, three weeks of art instruction

was provided at the camp. Different styles,

techniques, and media were presented to them,

and they were encouraged to experiment with

these new processes to express their experience

of and feelings about the tornado.

Museum Artist-in-Residence Toby Richards

reflects on the experience: “In spite of the

devastation, this was such a rewarding project.

It is still painful for me to realize that there

are children in our community who have never

picked up a paintbrush, who don’t know how

to use scissors, or who have never even mixed

paint by the age of eight years old. But through

the Museum’s mission and its effort to make a

difference in our schools and community, this

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project allowed me to reach out to over 200

children and share with them that art matters.”

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH THE ARTS

As the beginning of the 2011–12 school year

approached, the BMA introduced a new

academic program for the third grade teachers

and students in the nine Birmingham City

Schools served by the Straight A Program.

Designed to explore the impact of arts-

integration on literacy and math in fourth

grade achievement, Straight A serves these

schools over a three-year period. To build on the

momentum of the Straight A Program, and to

increase preparedness in rising fourth graders,

the BMA selected the third grade for this pilot

program.

Using the Museum’s Start with Art

program as a model, participating classrooms

experience visual arts integration through six

comprehensive encounters with the Museum.

A Museum educator visits each classroom three

times during the academic year with sequential

in-classroom instruction designed to provide

students with skills and knowledge in the

visual arts in accordance with high national,

state, and local standards. The three Museum

visits include a curriculum-based tour of the

collection followed by a studio art activity.

In addition, the Museum developed

complementary community-based programs in

these same nine communities. To truly affect

change, we believe we must educate the whole

child. By connecting to not only the students,

but becoming a part of the students’ lives outside

of school, we can situate the Museum as a true

partner in education.

The nine schools being served by this

program are: Avondale Elementary, Central

Park Elementary, Councill Elementary, Glen

Iris Elementary, Hemphill Elementary, North

Roebuck Elementary, Robinson Elementary,

South Hampton Elementary, and Whatley

Elementary. This year, 436 students and 54

adults from four of these schools participated in

our Initiative with 11 previsits and 42 Museum

tours.

ART IN MEDICINE: A COLLABORATION WITH UAB

The Education Department partnered with

UAB Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine

and Pediatrics Stephen Russell, MD, on a

new program designed to help emerging

doctors become better communicators and

diagnosticians. Beginning in October 2011, a

new course, “Art in Medicine: Using Visual Arts

to Improve Clinical Observation Skills,” was

offered to second year medical students. The

course, conducted in the Museum galleries,

explores the relationship between observation

and diagnosis by exposing students to works of

fine art and teaching them the critical skills of

observation. The course is taught by Samantha

Kelly and Suzy Harris from the BMA and the

General Internal Medicine Faculty at UAB and

uses close-looking theory to improve skills of

description, interpretation, and how to discern

emotional clues based on a given context. By the

end of the three-session course, students will

have an improved skill set for clinical diagnosis

and, hopefully, an improved appreciation for art

and the Museum.

HESS/SONAT GALLERIES—NOW BART’S ARTVENTURE

The Museum welcomed hundreds of families

into the new hands-on gallery at the grand

opening celebration of Bart’s ArtVenture on

May 19, 2012. Visitors explored the cutting-

edge technology and art-making opportunities

available in the galleries. Many works of art

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were created during the day. Visitors immersed

themselves into one of the Museum’s works of

art via green screen technology and left with

a photo of their new masterpiece. Many an

abstract painting was generated on the two

giant digital canvases featuring new software

and hardware from Ideum. Scavenger hunts,

storytelling, music, and dancing were just a few

of the ways visitors helped Bart kick off his art-

venture in style.

Bart’s ArtVenture is designed for visitors with

children who want to explore art at their own

pace, guided by their own interests. The two

family galleries feature more than 15 hands-

on learning stations that encourage discovery

and creativity. All activities connect art in the

Museum’s collection with visitors’ lives and

experiences.

KENNEDY CENTER PARTNERS IN EDUCATION

The Education Department, in partnership

with the Jefferson County School System, was

selected as one of 12 teams nationwide to attend

the Kennedy Center Partners in Education

Institute in April 2012. The Institute provided

an opportunity to create new professional

development programs to develop teachers’

knowledge of the arts and empower them to

use the arts in their classroom. The Museum

will serve as a critical partner in the effort

to help students develop the important 21st

century skills of creativity, critical thinking,

collaboration, confidence, and conversation that

will be crucial to students achieving success in

school and beyond.

NEH PICTURING AMERICA WORKSHOP

On June 15-16, 2012, 50 teachers from around

the state gathered at the Museum to learn how

to incorporate the Picturing America resources

in their curricula for teaching both US and

Alabama history. The teacher institute, Field

to Factory: Picturing America and the Changing

Face of the American Landscape, highlighted the

country’s transition from an agricultural to an

industrial society as reflected in American art,

including the BMA’s renowned and iconic 1865

masterpiece, Looking Down Yosemite Valley,

California by Albert Bierstadt.

The BMA was one of nine institutions to

receive the grant from the National Endowment

for the Humanities in the third round of

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Picturing America School Collaboration

Projects. The projects, held in eight states

during 2011 and 2012, gave teachers and

librarians the opportunity to observe models

for teaching American art, history, and culture,

explore the value of visual literacy for subjects

in the core curriculum, and develop individual

or team teaching plans.

ARTBREAKS

ArtBreaks are weekly talks about a wide variety

of subjects. Held almost every week of the year,

these special 20-30 minute talks often feature

guest presenters. Attendees often stay for lunch

at!Oscar’s Café, and ArtBreak guests get treated

to free dessert at Oscar’s.

ART & CONVERSATION

This program is for people who want to learn

more about art in an informative and interactive

setting. These programs, with the exception

of July and September, are held on the first

Thursday of each month, January-October.

Coffee and light refreshments are available.

Tours are led by curators or guest lecturers, and

attendees are encouraged to ask questions, share

thoughts and ideas, and actively participate in

the learning process. Check the calendar and

our web site for details!

SLOW ART SUNDAYS

Slow food, slow living, slow… art? Unlock the

secrets of works in the Museum’s collection by

cultivating the art of looking slowly. Our docents

ask and answer questions to help guide your

slow art experience and foster conversation.

Leave the Museum feeling inspired – not tired!

SPRING BREAK PROGRAMS

Every Spring Break the Museum hosts a variety

of programs designed for families. From Bart’s

Art Cart and Books to films and scavenger

hunts, there is something for everyone.

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VISUALLY IMPAIRED PROGRAM

In this monthly program for adults, specially

trained docents present the Museum’s collection

by means of verbal descriptions, three-

dimensional tactile models based on original

works of art, and sculpture. The experience may

be enhanced by related music and/or art-making

to provide multi-sensory access to the visual

arts.

TEEN BMA

Teen BMA, the Museum’s teen volunteer group,

is our program for students who will be entering

or attending high school. Teen BMA members

meet twice a month after school and volunteer

for special projects on the weekends.

SUMMER ART CAMP

“This was my best day ever!” said John Parker

Ammon, summarizing how he and his peers felt

about Summer Art Camp 2011. Over 150 Little

Masters and Young Artists campers celebrated

the world of art during Bart’s Birthday Bash.

Children explored the many ways one can

celebrate. They designed then demolished

piñatas each week to celebrate the Museum’s

birthday. They found their rhythm to African

drumming and were introduce to Indian dance.

The children also created their own totem pole

to celebrate their families and experimented

with unique materials to make connections with

the elements of art.

A quick turnaround saw one of the studios

converted into a darkroom for Photography

Rocks! for Junior and Senior High School

campers. Who Shot Rock & Roll had recently

opened and all of the projects were inspired by

images in the exhibition. Those images provided

the perfect lens by which to take this age group’s

experience with art to another level. New

concepts were explored, including composition,

cropping, and value. We even discussed

copyrights. It was important that campers

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understand photography in its most basic form

and process, so they made pinhole cameras and

even exposed these cameras in the Sculpture

Garden and developed images of their own.

The results from this camp included the most

challenging, most gratifying, and most creative

projects we have seen from a summer camp.

One parent wrote about her child’s

experience: “It was the highlight of her summer.

Never before have I seen her so enriched in such

a short time.” And that is what art should do—

connect, enrich, engage, and excite!

M STUDIO CLASSES

The BMA schedules art classes for adults, teens,

kids, and families. In addition, drawing classes

are a regular event at First Thursdays.

BART’S ART CART / BOOKS

The Education Department regularly hosts

Bart’s Books and Bart’s Art Cart for our younger

visitors. Once a month, Bart selects a book

related to either an exhibition or the permanent

collection and a volunteer storyteller reads to a

group of children and adults in the appropriate

gallery. Every weekend, Teen BMA staffs the Art

Cart and helps guests with an art project. Each

month has a different theme.

BETWEEN THE L INES

Last year, the BMA launched a new book

program, Between the Lines. Every month,

Museum Librarian Tatum Preston recommends

a book related to the Museum’s collection

or exhibitions. Short videos discussing each

month’s selection are posted on the Museum’s

web site. The first two books featured in the

program were An Object of Beauty by Steve

Martin and, in conjunction with the Who Shot

Rock & Roll exhibition, Just Kids by Patti Smith.

July: The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger

August / September – Special Interns’ Edition – She’s a Rebel: The History of

Women in Rock and Roll by Gillian Gear and Clapton: The Autobiography

by Eric Clapton

October – Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

November: Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s

Riches Museum by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino

December: Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece, Money,

Politics, Collectors, Greed, and Loss by Cynthia Saltzman

January: Utz by Bruce Chatwin

February: Paradise of the Blind: A Novel by Duong Thu Huong

March: My Lady Scandalous: The Amazing Life and Outrageous Times of Grace

Dalrymple Elliott, Royal Courtesan by Jo Manning

April–June: program on hiatus

FELLOWSHIPS & INTERNSHIPSSTUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

BMA/UAB FELLOWSHIPThe Museum continues its partnership with

UAB with the appointment of Kelsey Tae Frady

as the second BMA/UAB Curatorial Fellow.

Frady was a second-year graduate student in

the Department of Art History at UAB with an

emphasis on American art of the 19th and 20th

centuries and a particular focus on issues of

race, class, and gender. Frady worked closely

with the Museum’s curatorial staff to learn

about the inner workings of a museum and help

prepare her for a future career as a museum

curator. Her projects included curating Woven

Splendor and the Norman Rockwell companion

exhibition The Golden Age, gallery rotations and

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curator worksheets, docent training, ArtBreaks,

and assisting curators. Frady’s tenure as the

BMA/UAB Curatorial Fellow spanned August

2011-August 2012.

ANDREW W. MELLON FELLOWSHIPIn January, we welcomed Jeffreen Hayes as

our first Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial

Fellow for African American Art, who has

already made a significant impact here at the

Museum. Hayes will also be leading the charge

along with curator Ron Platt in developing

exhibitions and programs for our busy year

ahead. In keeping with the City-wide effort

to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the

many Civil Rights landmarks in Birmingham,

the Museum will be dedicating most of its

exhibitions and resources to honoring the

movement in which Birmingham played such a

large role. Through these exhibitions we hope

to provide an opportunity for visitors to engage

in important and powerful conversations that

could transform the way we see ourselves and

each other. 2013 will be a year where all of us

may reflect on our collective past to help us

envision and create a better future.

KRESS INTERPRET IVE FELLOWSHIPThe Museum received a generous grant from

the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in support

of a year-long Interpretive Fellowship. Nicole

Jordan, a graduate student in the Department of

Art History at UAB and recipient of the 2010-11

BMA/UAB Fellowship, has been named the

Kress Interpretive Fellow. In this role, Nicole

worked with Dr. Jeannine O’Grody, Chief

Curator and Curator of European Art, on the

comprehensive catalogue of the Museum’s

Kress Collection of Italian Renaissance

paintings. Nicole also worked with the

Museum’s Education Department to develop

and strengthen gallery interpretation of the

collection.

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

The Museum’s updated Internship Program

takes applications year-round. Three sessions

are offered each year: spring, summer, and

fall. The program provides students with the

opportunity to learn more about the inner

workings of an art museum as they gain

specialized experience in one of our many

departments. Each intern works a flexible

schedule of 20 hours per week and attends

a bimonthly “Lunch and Learn” program to

network with fellow interns while learning

about various aspects of the Museum and the

art world.

COMMUNICAT IONS/PRMargaret Day

Laura Jurotich

CURATORIALJackson Echols

Zachary Fine

Carrie Knopf

Dario Zarza

DEVELOPMENTSara Bowen

Anna Kathryn Hall

Angela Scott

Rachel Stricklin

EDUCAT IONEmi Arnold

Hillary Floyd

Haley Ingrum

Haley Rutledge

Leta Woller

L IBRARYNathan Godwin

Stephanie Jacobs

Micah Kines

Dasha Maye

Tracy Roller

Anna Beth Sawyer

Sadé Toyer

Miranda Webster

Rachel Williamson

PHOTOGRAPHYNancy McColl

REGISTRAREmily Brown

Sarah Elizabeth Kelly

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EVENTS DONOR DINNER

On July 20, 2011, the Museum gave thanks to

some of its most loyal donors with a special

appreciation dinner. Our 165 guests gathered

for cocktails, dinner, and an inside look at A

Stitch in Time: Southern Quilts in the African-

American Tradition. Dr. Graham Boettcher gave

an overview of the exhibition before guests

toured the beautiful collection of quilts. At

dinner, Director Gail Andrews reported on

exciting projects occurring at the Museum and

plans for the year ahead thanks to the generous

support of Museum donors. The dinner honors

Benefactor, Curators Circle, and Directors Circle

members, Wells Society Members, and donors

who cumulatively contribute $2,500 or more

during the year.

JOHN MORTON LECTURE IN PHOTOGRAPHY

Bob Gruen, one of the most well-known and

respected photographers in rock and roll, visited

the BMA on September 8, 2011, to present the

2011 John Morton Lecture in Photography. From

Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley,

and John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Gruen has

captured the music scene for over 40 years.

His photographs have earned him worldwide

recognition. Gruen was John Lennon and Yoko

Ono’s personal photographer and friend after

they settled in New York in 1971.

Since 2008, the John Morton Lecture in

Photography has presented photographers on

the cutting edge of art and culture. Sponsored

by Birmingham philanthropist and collector

John Morton, the lecture is always free and

open to the public.

AMERICAN CERAMICS CIRCLE SYMPOSIUM

The American Ceramics Circle held its annual

symposium at the BMA November 3-6, 2011.

Function and Fancy: Ceramics from across the

Globe highlighted the Museum’s extensive

collection of ceramics from all regions

and periods. Themes covered ranged from

Vietnamese ceramics and Alabama folk pottery

to Wedgwood, English and French porcelain,

and Meissen stoneware. Speakers included

Aileen Dawson from the British Museum; Dr.

Martin Eberle from Schloss Friedenstein in

Gotha, Germany; and Timothy Wilson from the

Ashmolean Museum at the Univeristy of Oxford

in England, as well as BMA curators Dr. Anne

Forschler-Tarrasch, Dr. Graham Boettcher, and

Dr. Don Wood.

MEMBERS’ SHOPPING DAY

Every year the Museum opens exclusively to

members on the first Monday in December

for a holiday shopping spree. On December 5,

2011, guests were able to get a jump on their

holiday gift purchases and enjoy a festive day at

the Museum with their fellow members. Local

vendors sold handmade and one-of-a-kind items.

Museum members received special holiday

discounts in the Museum Store and Oscar’s

at the Museum. Oscar’s opened especially for

Members’ Shopping Day and served seasonal

dishes.

ANNUAL RUSHTON CONCERT

The BMA was pleased to present pianist

Haochen Zhang as the annual Rushton Concert

on December 6, 2011.

Scott Cantrell of the Dallas Morning News

observed that the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass

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Gold Medalist of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn

International Piano Competition Haochen

Zhang “demonstrated a musical maturity almost

unimaginable in one so young.”

The youngest participant in the competition

at 19, Haochen Zhang was previously recognized

for his prodigious talent as the youngest

winner of the 2007 China International Piano

Competition when he was 17 years old. A

sensitive musician and insightful programmer,

Zhang is in demand worldwide for orchestral

and recital engagements. He launched his

first year as a Van Cliburn Gold Medalist with

prestigious engagements, including the Aspen

Summer Music Festival and Academy, the

Washington Performing Arts Society, and as

part of Carnegie Hall’s “Ancient Paths, Modern

Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture.”

He also made a triumphant return to his native

China as soloist at the Bejing Music Festival in

the winter of 2009.

This concert is funded by Mr. and Mrs.

William J. Rushton III.

EIVOR AND ALSTON CALLAHAN LECTURE

Dr. Padma Kaimal of Colgate University gave the

13th annual Eivor and Alston Callahan Lecture

on March 3, 2012. Dr. Kaimal delivered a talk on

Many Paths to the Devine: Dynamics of Vision in

a Hindu Temple. She explored what it meant to

interpret a temple, what a building meant to the

people who built it and to those who first moved

through its spaces, past its sculptures, paintings,

and the words written on its walls.

The annual lecture is free and open to the

public and is supported by the Eivor and Alston

Callahan Fund.

MUSEUM BALL

The 56th Museum Ball, Masterpieces in Our

Midst, was held on May 5, 2012, in the beautiful

setting of the Museum’s second floor galleries.

This sell-out event celebrated the opening

of Future Perfect: The Birmingham Museum

of Art at 60—an exhibition of works gifted

to the Museum. This year’s event was led by

our extraordinary co-chairs Penny Page and

Katharine Patton and the Men’s Committee

co-chairs Jim Priester and Will Legg. Through

their leadership and commitment to the

Museum, this event surpassed last year’s record-

making fundraising total the highest amount in

history.

The theme Masterpieces in Our Midst was

brought to life by the creative mastery of Sybil

Sylvester, who turned Oscar’s Café into a gilded

frame with the guests as the subject. Guests

dined on a culinary masterpiece created by

Frank and Pardis Stitt. Dancing carried on late

into the night with tunes by the band Simply

Irresistible. The evening raised more than

$400,000 in support of education and outreach

efforts. As always, it was the guests who made

the evening a night to remember; a very special

“thank you” to everyone who supported the

event through donations and participation.

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY

On May 18, 2012, the BMA welcomed the

engaging and accomplished Leigh Keno (from

PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow” and FOX’s “Buried

Treasure”) to discuss collecting and enjoying

antiques in the 21st century. Joining Keno

during his presentation was Keno Auctions

paintings consultant Betty Krulik.

Keno’s lifelong immersion in the world of art

and antiques has made him one of the foremost

experts in the field. Attendees learned about

the exciting new finds he has made as founder

and president of Keno Auctions and his most

dramatic discoveries of extraordinary works

during his more than 30 year career in the

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auction world.

In addition to Keno and Krulik, International

Museum Day visitors explored the BMA through

guided tours. The International Council of

Museums (ICOM) established International

Museum Day in 1977 to encourage public

awareness of the role of museums in the

development of society. International Museum

Day 2012 was an occasion for visitors to discover

and rediscover individual and collective memory

at the BMA.

ART ON THE ROCKS

The Museum was rocking out on Friday nights

this summer with new activities inspired by the

exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll. Thousands

came to enjoy artist demonstrations, b-boy

dancers, spoken word, a fashion show, and

curator led tours. Events also included live

music and rock-star inspired food from Museum

caterer A Social Affair.

Thank you to Dale’s Seasoning for presenting

this year’s series of Art on the Rocks. Thanks to

other sponsors: Bromberg’s, Supreme Beverage,

Bacardi, FOX 6, and Birmingham Mountain

Radio for their wonderful support.

BMA SPEAKS!

This quarterly event, hosted by HBO Def-Poetry

Jam artist Sharrif Simmons, features powerful

performances by local spoken word artists. In

August, the Museum was proud to be a venue

for the 2nd annual Birmingham Arts & Music

Festival (BAAMfest) that included not only the

spoken word series, but panel discussions and

live music throughout the festival weekend. In

April, the theme focused on the Museum’s 60th

anniversary.

YOGA

The Museum annually hosts special six-week

yoga classes. At the beginning of the year,

a “detox” class was held outside the Asian

galleries on the third floor. A Vinyasa flow and

Chakra meditation class in the garden welcomed

spring. Although walk-ins are welcome, these

classes regularly fill up and bring visitors to the

Museum who may not otherwise think to visit.

MEMBER RECIPROCAL DAY

Member Reciprocal Day is always an exciting

day of art activities, performances, and tours

as Birmingham’s cultural venues join forces

and open their doors. As a member of the BMA,

on July 23 you were entitled to a free day of

activities throughout metro Birmingham. Each

participating organization hosted an activity at a

different organization’s site. The BMA presented

art activities at the Birmingham History Center

and the Birmingham Zoo; Red Mountain

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Theatre Company performed a selection from

Hairspray at McWane Science Center. Other

activities included self-guided tours at Barber

Vintage Motorsports Museum. At the BMA,

members of other organizations were treated to

free entry to Who Shot Rock & Roll.

F IRST THURSDAYS—YOUR NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

On the first Thursday of each month, members

and guests gather for a special after-hours

experience. Curator or staff-led tours of the

galleries and exhibitions, drawing classes, and

feature drinks and tapas at Oscar’s are enjoyed

by all who attend. Then guests head down to the

Steiner Auditorium for an exclusive showing of a

film specially selected for First Thursday by the

Sidewalk Film Festival. First Thursday is a great

way to introduce your friends to the BMA!

LECTURE BY MARK TUCKER

“CONSERVAT ION OF AN AMERICAN MASTERP IECE: THE GROSS CL INIC BY THOMAS EAK INS ,” MARK TUCKER , V ICE CHA IR OF CONSERVAT ION AND SENIOR CONSERVATOR OF PA INT INGS , PHIL ADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTMARCH 29, 2012In 1875, Thomas Eakins, just 31 years old,

completed his monumental painting, Portrait

of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic). An

object of both awestruck admiration and

revulsion among critics of the time, the painting

has long since been celebrated as an absolute

masterpiece, acclaimed by Michael Kimmelman

of The New York Times in 2002 as “hands down,

the finest 19th-century American painting.”

Acquired in 2007 by the Philadelphia

Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy

of the Fine Arts, the painting was examined

in detail in 2008-09 and in 2010 cleaned and

restored for the first time in almost 50 years.

The conservation treatment restored important

aspects of original appearance altered by

aggressive cleanings of the 1920s and 1940s.

Eakins’s imposing masterpiece now looks more

as it did in his day than it has at any time since

the early 1920s.

Tucker, who led the conservation project,

spoke on the historical and technical research

upon which it was based, and the aims,

challenges, and results of this landmark

restoration.

The lecture was presented jointly with the

UAB Department of Art and Art History.

JEWELRY SHOPPING DAY

On May 3, 2012, members and guests were

treated to a special Jewelry Shopping Day in

celebration of The Look of Love exhibition. A

wide variety of vendors and artisans were on

hand selling one-of-a-kind pieces just in time for

Mother’s Day.

JEWELRY AND SILVER APPRAISAL DAY

Gloria Lieberman, Vice President of Skinner

Auctions in Boston and a regularly featured

appraiser on “Antiques Roadshow,” along with

John Colasaco, jewelry and silver specialist

at Skinner, served as guest appraisers for the

Jewelry and Silver Appraisal Day on February

25, 2012.

Lieberman is one of the world’s renowned

experts on antique jewelry. She founded

Skinner’s Fine Jewelry Department in 1980

and served as director for 31 years. Her skillful

marketing and management of the department

resulted in the achievement of international

world record prices for estate and heirloom

jewelry, gaining valuable recognition for

Skinner.

A frequent lecturer, Lieberman has

participated in many educational seminars,

including the University of Maine’s Antique

Jewelry Seminar, New York University’s Jewelry

Appraisers Conference in Tucson, Arizona,

and has been invited to speak on behalf of the

Society of Jewelry Historians at the Fashion

Institute of Technology in New York City.

Her television appearances include the BBC’s

“The Great Antiques Hunt,” the PBS series

“Antiques Roadshow,” and the Boston-based

series “Chronicle.”

FAMILY DAYS

These family events typically focus on one

particular special exhibition, an area of art

featured in the Museum’s permanent collection,

or are combined with a cultural event. The

Museum hosts a number of family days every

year, and in 2011-12 the themes included:

in January—Chinese New Year; in March—

Holi: the Day of Color; in October—Bart’s

Spooktacular; in September—BMA Rocks!

UAB COLLEGE NIGHT

Every year the Museum and UAB partner on

a college night for students and faculty as part

of the programming for the UAB Freshman

Discussion Book, required reading for all college

freshmen. The event is held at the Museum and

includes a panel discussion on the book’s topic

which is moderated by a staff member at the

Museum. After the discussion, guests are invited

to spend the rest of the evening exploring the

Museum and enjoy dinner by A Social Affair.

The 2011 Freshman Discussion book was

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by

Temple Grandin, who also spoke to the students

at the Alys Stephens Center.

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COLLECTION SUPPORT GROUPSASIAN ART SOCIETY

F ILM SCREENING // AUGUST 21, 2011The AAS and their invited guests enjoyed a

private screening of the acclaimed 2010 film

Pink Saris by the award winning director Kim

Longinotto. This film kicked off plans for AAS

to sponsor a series of classic and contemporary

films from Asia in the months ahead.

MOON V IEWING PARTY // OCTOBER 11, 2011The AAS and prospective members enjoyed a

traditional Moon Viewing Party at a private

home atop Red Mountain. With a beautiful

terrace that overlooks the valley, Moon Cakes,

taruzake (barrel sake), and other traditional

treats, it was an evening enjoyed by everyone

in attendance. Attendees tried their hands at

composing Japanese Haiku about the beauty of

the harvest moon.

DRAGONS AND LOTUS BLOSSOMS PREV IEWJANUARY 22, 2012AAS members enjoyed brunch and a preview of

the exhibition with John Stevenson, co-curator

of Dragons and Lotus Blossoms.

A AS BOOK CLUBFor their November book club gathering,

members of the AAS read Natsume Soseki’s

critically acclaimed classic I Am a Cat. A

satirical novel written in 1905-06, I Am a Cat is

about Japanese society during the Meiji Period

(1868-1912), particularly the uneasy mix of

Western culture and Japanese traditions, and

the aping of Western customs.

In March, the AAS book club gathered to

discuss Dragon Sea, a first-hand account of

the adventures that surrounded the marine

excavation of the 15th/16th-century cargo vessel

discovered off the coast of Hoi An, Vietnam,

in the mid-1990s. Over 250,000 Vietnamese

ceramics were recovered from the ship. The

book was an exciting tale of the trying times that

surrounded the expedition.

TRAVELA AS DAY TR IP TO ATL ANTA // APR IL 14 , 2012A truly Pan-Asian experience, the AAS members

visited the beautiful home of contemporary

artists Jon Riis and Richard Mafong to see their

stunning collection of Asian textiles. Riis and

Mafong joined us for lunch at the acclaimed

Vietnamese restaurant, Chateau de Saigon.

Members then toured the important exhibition

Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism

at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory

University.

COLLECTORS CIRCLE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

F IRST THURSDAY BOOK READING // OCTOBER 6 , 2011CC members participated in an informal “book

club” discussion of Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter,

the first biography of renowned abstract

expressionist painter Joan Mitchell (1905-1992).

Publishers Weekly said that author Patricia

Albers “constructs a fluid, energetic narrative of

Mitchell’s complicated life and work, and vividly

chronicles the artist’s tortuous journey from her

wealthy upbringing in Chicago to her defiant

student days at Smith College, and as a young

painter at the Art Institute of Chicago when ‘the

wisdom of the day held that women couldn’t

really paint.’ ”

ANNUAL DINNER AND VOT ING EVENT // OCTOBER 27, 2011At their annual dinner, CC members voted

to acquire a work of video art by the Chinese

artist Sun Xun for the Museum’s permanent

collection. The video, People’s Republic of Zoo, is

an animation made from thousands of hand-

drawn images using traditional calligraphy

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techniques on canvas, silk, and paper. People’s

Republic of Zoo was inspired in part by George

Orwell’s Animal Farm, an allegory that critiqued

Communist dictator Joseph Stalin and his

repressive Great Purge campaign of the late

1930s.

A DAY WITHOUT ART // DECEMBER 1, 2011Since 1989, December 1 has been “A Day

Without Art,” a day when the international arts

community pauses to remember and respond

to the AIDS crisis and its impact on cultural

life. To commemorate the occasion, Curator of

Modern and Contemporary Art Ron Platt gave a

lecture on the role AIDS has played in the art of

our time. Platt’s talk was the featured lecture for

December’s First Thursday event.

MEET AND GREET RECEPT ION FOR JIHA MOONAPRIL 26, 2012CC members gathered for a reception in honor

of artist and Magic City Art Connection juror

Jiha Moon.

BIRMINGHAM BUS TOUR // MAY 19, 2012Members enjoyed a half-day bus tour of visits

to artists’ studios and private collections in and

around Birmingham.

TRAVELATL ANTA // JULY 15, 2011 CC members enjoyed a day trip with stops at

the High Museum for a tour with exhibiting

artist Radcliffe Bailey, then toured the

Wieland WareHOUSE, the Jiha Moon

exhibition, and attended an opening at the

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.NEW ORLEANS // NOVEMBER 10-13, 2011 The CC returned to one of America’s most

amazing cities for Prospect.2, the second

edition of the New Orleans art biennial.

Prospect.2 brought together the work of

26 local, national, and international artists

working in a range of artistic media. Ron Platt

led a tour of the Prospect.2 exhibitions at the

city’s participating museums and venues,

as well as a bus tour of the numerous site-

specific art project inspired by the distinctive

history and culture of New Orleans and

conceived specifically for Prospect.2.

LOS ANGELES // JANUARY 19-21, 2012 A group of CC members traveled to Los

Angeles with Ron Platt and Development

Director Kate Cleveland. The focus of the

trip was Pacific Standard Time, for which

the region’s institutions came together to

celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene.

Among the numerous highlights of the trip

were studio visits with artists Larry Bell

and Tomory Dodge, and private tours of

exhibitions at the Getty Center, the Museum

of Contemporary Art, and the Santa Monica

Museum.

EUROPEAN ART SOCIETY

LUNCH & LEARN WITH THE EASA MASTERP IECE IN OUR MIDST // SEPTEMBER 22, 2011Curator Jeannine O’Grody shared insight on

the BMA’s acquisition of a marble relief by 15th

century Italian sculptor Mino da Fiesole.

THE KRESS LEGACY AND THE ORIGINS OF THE BMAFEBRUARY 24 , 2012Sixty years after the birth of the Birmingham

Museum of Art, Italian intern Dario Zorza

retraced the main events of one of the most

fascinating stories in American collecting.

GALLERY TOURSDAUMIER: ART FOR THE MASSES // OCTOBER 14 , 2011 EAS members enjoyed a private tour of the

Daumier exhibition with collector Pat Rowe.

ENGL ISH GALLERY RE INSTALL AT ION // NOVEMBER 16, 2011 Curators Jeannine O’Grody and Anne

Forschler-Tarrasch led EAS members on

a private tour of the recently reinstalled

English gallery. This larger space features

more ceramics and additional works on paper

were all part of the new look.

ANNUAL DINNER // MAY 31, 2012At the EAS 8th Annual Dinner Dr. Arthur

Wheelock, Curator of Northern Baroque

Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, was the

featured guest. Wheelock spoke to the group

on the topic of 17th century Dutch portraiture:

“Now to give it the master’s touch: How Frans

Hals made his portraits come alive.” This

engaging talk, as lively as Hals’s own brushwork,

was followed by a meal that included beef

tenderloin and Dutch chocolate cake.

FRIENDS OF AMERICAN ART

FOURTH ANNUAL FOA A DINNER // OCTOBER 13, 2011The Friends of American Art gathered for its

4th annual acquisition dinner. The theme of the

festive evening was “A Dream of Italy: American

Artists on the Grand Tour.” Attendees dined

on delicious Italian fare and enjoyed a lecture

by Dr. Graham C. Boettcher, The William

Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, that

highlighted works in the permanent collection

by American sojourners in Italy. The group

cast ballots to select a work for the permanent

collection from a field of four candidates. The

winner was Summer Hills, Kauterskill Clove

(1867), an oil painting by Jervis McEntee (1828-

1891), an important painter of the American

Hudson River School.

LUNCH & LEARN // MARCH 14 , 2012FoAA members enjoyed a delicious lunch

while getting a preview of the fall blockbuster

exhibition, Norman Rockwell’s America, from

Graham Boettcher: “Who is Norman Rockwell?

Discovering America’s Favorite Illustrator.”

TRAVELBOSTON // AUGUST 22-26, 2011 The FoAA enjoyed world-class museums,

private collections, gallery visits, and fine

dining in Beantown. Museum visits included

the new American wing at the Museum of

Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner

Museum, Salem’s Peabody-Essex Museum,

and Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum.

ATL ANTA // OCTOBER 28-30, 2011 FoAA members enjoyed a weekend of private

collection visits and fine dining in Atlanta.

ATHENS, GA // FEBRUARY 24-26, 2012 FoAA members traveled to Athens to visit

the Georgia Museum of Art for tours of the

GMOA’s extensive permanent collection as

well as the special exhibitions Dale Nichols:

Transcending Regionalism and To Make a

World: George Ault and 1940s America, both

organized by the Smithsonian American Art

Museum. The group also visited the recently

established Mason-Scharfenstein Museum

of Art at Piedmont College to view selections

from the museum’s exceptional permanent

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collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century

American and European painting and

sculpture plus a special exhibition of the work

of Scott Stephens, a celebrated Alabama print

artist and professor of art at the University of

Montevallo.

RHODE ISL AND // APR IL 16-20, 2012 The Friends enjoyed unique access to

museums, historic homes, private collections,

and galleries, as well as fine dining and luxury

accommodations. Among the many stops on

the itinerary were: The Rhode Island School

of Design (RISD) Museum, the John Brown

House, the Providence Athenaeum, The

Breakers, Newport Art Museum, National

Museum of American Illustration, Redwood

Library Athenaeum, William Vareika Fine

Arts Ltd., and Roger King Fine Art.

INDIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY

CONCERTSCL ASSICAL INDIAN MUSIC CONCERTSEPTEMBER 11, 2011 ICS presented “A Tribute to Legend, Pandit

Bhimsen Joshi,” featuring musicians Ritesh

& Rajnish Misra, eminent table player Pandit

Subhen Chatterjee, and harmonium player

Sanathan Goswami.

ICS SPRING INDIAN MUSIC CONCERT // MAY 20, 2012 The spring concert featured Pandit Subhen

Chatterjee, Pandit Shri Rupak Kulkarni and

Pandit Snehashish Mozumder.

CELEBRATE INDIA: A FEAST FOR THE SENSES! SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 2 , 2011This event featured Gamaga-Shruti, Bhangra,

Notinee Indian Dance Group, Natyananda

Dance School and Company, and The Bollywood

Jammers, and the classic Indian films, Sholay

and Pather Panchali, all in celebration of Indian

culture.

E IVOR AND ALSTON CALL AHAN LECTURE // MARCH 3, 2012This year’s lecture was given by Dr. Padma

Kaimal speaking on Many Paths to the Divine:

Dynamics of Vision in a Hindu Temple.

HOL I CELEBRAT ION // MARCH 31, 2012HOLI: A Celebration of Color! Featuring The

Auburn Indian Music Ensemble, Notinee Indian

Dance Group, Sudha Raghuram, Piyalee (Das)

Sharma, and the Nanda Sane Dance Group

PHOTOGRAPHY GUILD

MEET BOB GRUEN // SEPTEMBER 8, 2011Members of the Photography Guild enjoyed a

reception with renowned photographer Bob

Gruen prior to his presentation of the annual

John Morton Lecture in Photography.

HOL IDAY PARTY // DECEMBER 14 , 2011Photography Guild members gathered to

celebrate at their annual holiday celebration.

COLLECT ING PHOTOGRAPHY: IDEAS FOR THE BEGINNER AND THE VETERAN // APR IL 29, 2012Members of the Photography Guild attended a

presentation led by Anna Walker Skillman and

Courtney Lee of Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.

Gallery Owner Skillman and Director Lee

discussed aspects of building a photography

collection, covering different kinds of

photographic prints, and advice on displaying

and caring for photographs. Jackson and Lee

brought examples from the gallery’s excellent

inventory of works. Jackson Fine Art has a

strong focus on contemporary work while

maintaining a blend of 20th century and vintage

works.

ANNUAL VOT ING EVENT // MAY 10, 2012At the Photography Guild’s annual voting event,

members voted to acquire David Goldblatt’s

1976 photograph In the Docrat’s House Before Its

Destruction. Goldblatt has been photographing

and documenting life in his native South African

for over 50 years. This quiet and meditative

image, recently seen in the BMA exhibition

Darkroom, shows members of an Indian family

at home in a Johannesburg neighborhood that

was later destroyed per Apartheid policy.

TRAVELATL ANTA // OCTOBER 13, 2011Guild members attended Atlanta Celebrates

Photography and visited Jackson Fine Art to see

works by Sally Mann; Jennifer Schwarts Gallery

for Polaroids and Historic Processes, and

Barbara Archer Gallery to for Jerry Siegel.

SANKOFA SOCIETY: FRIENDS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN ART

SANKOFA SOIREE // AUGUST 27, 2012The Sankofa Society celebrated their 3rd

annual Sankofa Soiree, “The Soul of Rock

& Roll,” in August. Legendary Motown girl

group Martha and the Vandellas headlined the

event, which celebrated the contributions of

African American musicians to the rock and roll

revolution in association with the Museum’s

exhibition, Who Shot Rock & Roll.

The honorable Judge Ralph Cook and his

wife Charlsie were the honorary guests of the

evening, a nod to Judge Cook’s recent election as

the chairman of the Museum Board of Trustees.

Martha and the Vandellas performed several of

their hit numbers, including “Heat Wave” and

“Dancing in the Streets,” to a delighted audience

of about 150 guests. Afterwards, the jazz group

Just a Few Cats kept the party going with soulful

tunes that had a crowd on the dance floor until

the end of the evening.

TRAVELNEW YORK // JULY 13-14 , 2011 Director Gail Andrews and Curator Dr.

Emily Hanna attended a private preview

and opening of the BMA’s exhibition Spiral:

Perspectives on an African American Art

Collective at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Spiral artists Emma Amos, Richard Mayhew,

and Merton Simpson were in attendance at

the crowded and festive opening. The Sankofa

group also held a private, curator-led tour of

the Museo del Barrio’s Biennial exhibition

and visited Kenkeleba Gallery, ACA Gallery,

Peg Alston Fine Arts, and the studios of

Emma Amos and Joe Overstreet.

MONTGOMERY // JUNE 9, 2012 Members traveled to Montgomery for the

exhibition Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant

Color at the Montgomery Museum of Fine

Arts and a visit to the Rosa Parks Museum.

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BMA STAFF

The Museum would not exist

without the hard work and

dedication of the staff.

ADMINISTRATIONGail Andrews

The R. Hugh Daniel Director

Amy Templeton Chief Operations Officer

Melissa Schoel Executive Assistant

Robin Meador-Woodruff Special Projects Coordinator

ACCOUNTINGJohnny McIntosh

Chief Financial Officer

Ernest Hudson Senior Accountant

Jennifer Powell Accounting Assistant

DEVELOPMENT & MEMBERSHIPKate Cleveland

Director of Development

Rebecca Dobrinski Development Manager for Grants & Proposals

Andrew Farrell Development Associate – Database Management & Prospect Research

Mallory Gibson Development Officer – Membership

Brynne MacCann Senior Development Officer

Nicholas McLaughlin Development Officer – Visitor Services & Sales

Andi Nicholson / Carrie Montgomery Development Events Manager

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYNathan Poe

Network Administrator

MUSEUM STOREKristie Tumm Allen

Store Buyer / Manager

SPECIAL EVENTSMonica Bowman

Special Events Manager

CURATORIALJeannine O’Grody

Deputy Director / Chief Curator / Curator of European Art

Don Wood Senior Curator / The Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art

Graham Boettcher The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art

Anne Forschler-Tarrasch The Marguerite Jones Harbert and John M. Harbert III Curator of Decorative Arts

Emily Hanna Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas

Ron Platt The Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Terry Beckham Exhibitions Designer

Sean Pathasema Director of Photography and Visual Resources

Tatum Preston Librarian / Content Manager for Website & New Technology Initiatives

Kristi Taft Exhibitions Officer

Susan Powers Curatorial Assistant

Kelsey Frady BMA/UAB Curatorial Fellow

Jeffreen Hayes Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow

Amanda Schedler Kress Assistant

COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETINGCate McCusker

Director of Marketing & Communications

James Williams Creative Director

EDUCATIONSamantha Kelly

Curator of Education

Suzy Harris Associate Curator of Education – Schools

Kristen Greenwood Assistant Curator of Education – Adult Programs

Kristi McMillan Assistant Curator of Education – Visitor Engagement

Toby Richards Artist-in-Residence

Lauren Williams Education Coordinator

Nikki Francis

Education Assistant

PREPARATIONPriscilla Tapio

Head Preparator

Rashid Qandil Assistant Preparator

Mark Griffo Assistant Preparator

REGISTRARSMelissa Falkner Mercurio

Head Registrar

Mary Villadsen Associate Registrar – Collections and Loans

Eric McNeal Assistant Registrar – Exhibitions

Suzanne Stephens Database Administrator

Lisa Stewart Collection Care Specialist

VOLUNTEERSRhonda Hethcox

Director of Volunteers

MAINTENANCEWayne Blount

Building Superintendent

Zera White, Jr. Senior Maintenance Repair Worker

Ben Stubbs Maintenance Repair Worker

Michael Tolbert Maintenance Repair Worker

Jessie Gordon Building Service Worker

Alberta Henderson Building Service Worker

Darven Jemison Building Service Worker

Bonnie Martin Building Service Worker

SECURITYGB Quinney

Director of Security

JR Feagins Chief of Security

Regina Kennedy Paul Training Security Officer

Frederick Campbell Security Officer

Othello Giles Security Officer

Gerald Hardy Security Officer

James Hill Security Officer

Larry Hines Security Officer

Jeffrey Hitt Security Officer

Judy Jett Security Officer

Phillip Jones Security Officer

Rebecca Lee Security Officer

Alethia McDade Security Officer

Matthew Perry, Jr. Security Officer

Lorenzo Pratt Security Officer

Gary White Security Officer

Patricia Whitted Security Officer

Jerry Zene Security Officer

Michael Dennis Guard

Jennifer Hamilton Guard

Temika Paige Guard

Carrita Pepples Guard

Michael Sanders Guard

Betty Selvage Guard

Frederick Williams Guard

STAFF ACTIVIT IESKRIST IE TUMM ALLEN

Secretary and Vice President-elect, South Atlantic Chapter of the Museum

Store Association

GRAHAM BOETTCHER

Keynote speaker, Grand Opening, Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art,

Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia

Invited Speaker, “Paris on the Bayou: The French Artistic Presence of the

Gulf Coast,” The 2011 New Orleans Antique Forum: French at Heart:

Continental Influence in the Gulf South, Historic New Orleans Collection.

Technology & Community Engagement Panel, “The Look of Love App,”

Association of Art Museum Curators Annual Meeting, Boston, MA

Author, “Myth and Reality: Elihu Vedder and American Painters in Italy,” in

Myth and Reality: Elihu Vedder and American Painters in Italy (New York:

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, 2012).

Contributor, “John Lytle Wilson” in “The Visual South: (100 under 100) The

New Superstars of Southern Art,” Oxford American 76 (2012), 71.

Author, “The Eyes Have It,” Antiques and Fine Art (12th anniversary issue,

2012), 270-275.

Trustee, Association of Art Museum Curators

Alumni Interviewer, Yale Alumni Schools Committee of Alabama

Board Member, Yale Gay And Lesbian Alumni/ae (Yale GALA)

REBECCA DOBRINSK I

Board Member, Oak Hill Cemetery Memorial Association Volunteer Board

Copyeditor, The Making of Urban America 3rd Edition, Raymond A. Mohl and

Roger Biles, published 2011

Guest Lecturer, “Using Maps in Historical Research,” Urban Archaeology

course, Jun Ebersole, instructor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

ANDREW FARRELL

Presenter, “Beyond Gift Entry,” Alabama Museums Association Conference

ANNE FORSCHLER-TERRASCH

Editor, WIS Proceedings

Board Member and Grants Chair, Alabama Clay Conference

Board Member, Wedgwood International Seminar

Contributing Editor, Ars Ceramica

Author, “Milkmaids and Mistresses: Wedgwood’s Dairywares in the 18th and

19th Centuries,” in Proceedings of the Wedgwood International Seminar

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held in Chicago, IL (#56), Dr. Anne Forschler-Tarrasch, editor, 61-73.

Author, “The Buten Wedgwood Collection: from Long Island to Birmingham,

Alabama,” in Ars Ceramica 23 [2007], 22-29.

Author, “Josiah’s Masterpiece: The Portland Vase Copy Number 12 in the

Birmingham Museum of Art,” Proceedings of the Wedgwood International

Seminar held in Colonial Williamsburg, VA (#55), Dr. Anne Forschler-

Tarrasch, editor, 51-59.

Invited speaker, “Wedgwood: A Living Tradition,” Connecticut Ceramics

Study Circle, Greenwich, CT

Invited speaker, “Collecting Emile Lessore,” Wedgwood International

Seminar, San Antonio, TX

Invited speaker, “More than Jasper: Wedgwood in the Collection of the

Birmingham Museum of Art,” Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle, Museum of Fine

Arts, Houston, TX

Invited speaker, “More than Jasper: Wedgwood in the Collection of

the Birmingham Museum of Art,” American Ceramic Circle Annual

Symposium, Birmingham, AL

Invited speaker, “Eine neue Identität für eine alte Statuette: Karl Philipp

Fürst zu Schwarzenberg oder König George IV. von Gro�britannien?,” 2.

Internationales Treffen der Freundes des Eisenkunstgusses, Bendorf-

Sayn, Germany

Invited speaker, “Wedgwood. A Living Tradition,” The Wedgwood Society of

New South Wales Anniversary Seminar, Sydney, Australia

Invited speaker, “More than Jasper: Wedgwood in the Collection of the

Birmingham Museum of Art,” Wedgwood Society of Southern California,

Los Angeles, CA

KRISTEN GREENWOOD

Author, “Recipe for Success: Building a Healthier Museum from the Inside

Out,” AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums Blog (to be adapted for

the Recipe for Success Cookbook)

SUZY HARRIS

Board Member, Jefferson County Children’s Policy Cooperative

Advisory Committee member, Teaching American History Program,

Birmingham City Schools.

SAMANTHA KELLY

Exhibitions Committee Member, Vulcan Park and Museum, Birmingham, AL

Board Member and Museum Representative Elect, Alabama Art Education

Association

Art Judge, Nature Conservancy of Alabama’s Picnic for the Planet, April

22, 2012.

KRIST I MCMILL AN

Newsletter Editor, Alliance Française, Chapitre de Grasse

JEANNINE O’GRODY

Presenter, “Developing Donor Cultivation Confidence,” with Edgar Marx, Jr.,

Association of Art Museum Curators Conference

Leadership Birmingham Class of 2011-12

Governance Committee Member, Association of Art Museum Curators

TATUM PRESTON

Author, “Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers of All Ages” Essay, How to

Thrive as a Solo Librarian, Scarecrow Press, 2011

Panel presentation on types of libraries and library careers for Dr. Gordy

Coleman’s Introduction to Library and Information Studies course, 2012,

University of Alabama

Guest Lecturer, “Shelf Life: The Ins and Outs of Being an Art Librarian” for

Jennifer Campbell-Meier’s Special Libraries & Information Centers class,

online via Wimba Classroom, 2011 University of Alabama

Guest Lecturer, “Leadership in Special Libraries” for Professor Sybil Bullock

and Dr. Elizabeth Aversa’s course Organizational Culture, Leadership and

Careers Across Library Types, 2011, University of Alabama

Thesis advisor for former intern Mary McManus’s MFA in Book Arts project,

Connected, University of Alabama, 2011-2012

Presenter, “Libraries Getting GLAMourous: Sharing Information through the

GLAM WikiProject (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums)” with

Christen Robichaud at 2012 Annual Conference, Birmingham, AL

Presenter, “Open Source Integrated Library Systems” with Ann Marie Pipkin

at 2012 Annual Conference

TOBY R ICHARDS

Course Instructor, Fabric collage art project based on Benny Andrews,

Dominica, West Indies, August 8, 2011

L AUREN WILL IAMS

Guest Lecturer, “Involving Museums and Schools,” Managing the Art

Organization and Museum Education courses, Florida State University

DON WOOD

Author, “Dragons and Lotus Blossoms: Vietnamese Ceramics from the

Birmingham Museum of Art”, Orientations, January/February 2012, vol.

43, no. 1

BMA IN THE SPOTL IGHT

Graphic Designer James Williams and Associate

Communications Director Cate McCusker

developed an inspiring ad campaign for Who

Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955—

Present. In February 2012, the experts in the

Birmingham advertising community spoke.

The Birmingham Chapter of the American

Advertising Federation (AAF) awarded them

the Silver Addy Award in the category of poster

campaign, advertising for the arts and sciences.

The Silver Addy is awarded to entries that are

outstanding and worthy of recognition.

In March 2012, the Birmingham Museum

of Art was awarded a regional ADDY® Award

from the American Advertising Federation

District 7 for a poster campaign designed for

the promotion of Who Shot Rock & Roll. Creative

Director James Williams and Director of

Marketing and Communications Cate McCusker

conceived of the campaign and thus accepted

the award on behalf of the Birmingham Museum

of Art.

FINANCIAL REPORT

The Birmingham Museum of Art continues to

present balanced operating results for fiscal

year ending June 30, 2012. Like many museums

and nonprofit organizations in this volatile

economy, the Museum has increased it’s focus

on budgeting and financial controls to assure

its commitment to operating within its means.

Through the continued support of the City of

Birmingham and the generosity of the Museum’s

Corporate Partners, Museum Trustees, and

donors, the Birmingham Museum of Art delivers

on its mission while being a good steward of its

funds.

The condensed statement of activities is

derived from the financial statements of the

Birmingham Museum of Art, which have been

audited by Borland Benefield, Certified Public

Accountants. The statement of activities does

not include the value of the museum’s collection.

A complete set of the Museum’s audited

financial statements is available on request.

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2011REVENUES

SUPPORT %

C i t y o f B irmingham $3 ,032 ,794 4 0 %

Indiv idua l & Corpora te Suppor t 2 ,76 4,897 36 %

Grant s 306 ,328 4%

In-k ind Donat ions 127,000 2%

Net Inves tment Income 183 ,896 2%

Membership 568 ,4 63 7%

Museum S tore Sa les 302 ,708 4%

E xhibi t ion and Program Income 65,335 1%

Facil i t y Renta l Income 168 ,915 2%

Other Income 84,4 35 1%

TOTAL REVENUES $ 7,604,771EXPENSES

PROGRAM SERV ICES %

Educa t ion 560 ,122 7%

E xhibi t ions 6 49 ,141 9%

Collec t ion 868 ,542 11%

Specia l Event s 755,062 10 %

Members 337,54 5 4%

Museum S tore and L ibrar y 34 5,095 5%

SUPPORT SERV ICES

Fundra is ing 378 ,288 5%

Management and Genera l 1,365,909 18%

Museum Secur i t y 1,335,4 37 18%

Building Main tenance & U t i l i t ies 1,012 ,936 13%

TOTAL EXPENSES $ 7,608,077

Net Cont r ibu t ion(Def ic i t ) f rom Opera t ions (3 ,306)

Cont r ibu t ion to Endowment Trus t & 1,010 ,615Ar t Fund Inc . ( includes Inves tment Income)

Unrea l ized Inves tment Ga in (Loss) 2 ,820 ,4 39

Collec t ion Purchases (no t capi t a l ized) (1,328 ,373)

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $ 2,499,375

NET ASSETS BEGINNING END OF OF YEAR $ 28,069,060 YEAR $ 30,568,435

REVENUES

SUPPORT %

C i t y o f B irmingham 3 ,103 ,654 37%

Indiv idua l & Corpora te Suppor t 3 ,4 42 ,569 41%

Grant s 220 ,750 3%

In-k ind Donat ions 151,0 47 2%

Net Inves tment Income 173 ,754 2%

Membership 666 ,157 8%

Museum S tore Sa les 350 ,762 4%

E xhibi t ion and Program Income 205,854 2%

Facil i t y Renta l Income 117,795 1%

Other Income 4 5 ,630 1%

TOTAL REVENUES $ 8,477,972EXPENSES

PROGRAM SERV ICES %

Educa t ion 671,186 8%

E xhibi t ions 1,181,922 14%

Collec t ion 1,024,792 12%

Specia l Event s 863 ,230 10 %

Members 213 ,74 3 2%

Museum S tore and L ibrar y 34 4,327 4%

SUPPORT SERV ICES

Fundra is ing 257,513 3%

Management and Genera l 1,6 49 ,086 19%

Museum Secur i t y 1,375,500 16 %

Building Main tenance & U t i l i t ies 996 ,559 12%

TOTAL EXPENSES $ 8,577,858

Net Cont r ibu t ion(Def ic i t ) f rom Opera t ions (99 ,886)

Cont r ibu t ion to Endowment Trus t & 1,667,599Ar t Fund Inc . ( includes Inves tment Income)

Unrea l ized Inves tment Ga in (Loss) (1,471,128)

Collec t ion Purchases (no t capi t a l ized) (628 ,810)

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS ( $ 532,225)

NET ASSETS BEGINNING END OF OF YEAR $ 30,568,435 YEAR $ 30,036,210

2012

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ACQUISIT IONSAFRICAN ARTSL IT DRUM, late 19th-early 20th century, Yangere or Lobala people, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, wood, 20 x 16 1/2 x 85, Partial gift of Ellen and Fred Elsas to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Museum purchase, by exchange, 2011.25

STANDING MALE F IGURE , about 1900-1925, Kwaku Dabow, Effutu people, Ghana, Winneba region, 14 ! x 4 " x 4, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Martha Pezrow, AFI3.2012

NATIVE AMERICAN ARTPICTORIAL TEXT ILE (MARKET SCENE) , early 21st century, Louise Nez, United States, Diné (Navajo) people, wool and dyes, 41 # x 46, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Marilyn Smith, AFI113.2011

BUTTON BL ANKET, late 19th or early 20th century, Kwakwaka’wakw (formerly called Kwakiutl) people, British Columbia, Native American, wool trade cloth, wool blanket, calico, and mother-of-pearl buttons, 63 x 65, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase in honor of Museum Board Chairman, Tom Hamby, AFI183.2011

PRE-COLUMBIAN ARTPOT WITH ANIMAL F IGURE , Chancay culture, Peru, (1000—1460), Pre-Columbian, 1000—1460, fired clay and slip, 7 x 5 # diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Beverly and Stanley Erdreich, AFI76.2011

RATTLE IN FORM OF F IGURE WITH CHILD ON BACK , Atlantic Watershed, Costa Rica, Central Highlands Zone, Pre-Columbian, Period IV Group, 100 BC–AD 500, fired clay and slip, 4 x 2 ! x 2 3/8, Collection of the Art Fund,

Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Beverly and Stanley Erdreich, AFI77.2011

DOG WITH PUPPY ON BACK , Colima culture, Mexico, (200 BC – AD 100), Pre-Columbian, 200 BC – AD 100, fired clay and slip, 2 x 1 # x 2 ", Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Beverly and Stanley Erdreich, AFI78.2011

AMERICAN ARTPainting, Jervis McEntee, United States, (1828—1891), SUMMER HILLS , KAUTERSKILL CLOVE, 1867, oil on canvas laid down on board, 11 5/16 x 8 5/8, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of American Art, 2011.19

Painting, Stephen Mueller, United States, (1947—2011), JACINTO, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50, Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds, 2011, 2011.20

Work on paper, Henry Roderick Newman, United States, (1833—1918), CHAIR OF HIGH PRIEST, THEATER OF DIONYSUS , ATHENS , MAY 29 , 1893 , watercolor on paper, 14 " x 12 #, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Altec Styslinger Foundation, 2011.23.1

Stereograph, H. C. White & Co., United States, Bennington, Vermont, (1899-1915), CHAIR OF PRIEST OF DIONYSUS , THEATRE OF DIONYSUS , ATHENS , GREECE, Copyright 1901, albumen prints on card mount, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Altec Styslinger Foundation, 2011.23.2

Painting, Georgia S. Engelhard, United States, (1906—1986), CHURCH, about 1930, oil on canvas, 48 x 24, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Harold and Regina Simon Fund, 2011.24

Work on paper, Thomas Moran, United States, born Bolton, England (1837—1926), HALF

DOME, YOSEMITE, 1871, mixed media on paper, 6 x 4 7/16, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Harold and Regina Simon Fund, 2012.2

Paintings (3), Alexander J. Drysdale, United States, (1870—1934), SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES , about 1920, oil wash on board, 14 " x 19 5/16, 5 ! x 19 15/16, and 19 x 29 5/16, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, AFI33.-35.2011

Work on paper, Frank Hartley Anderson, United States, (1891—1947, active Birmingham, Alabama, 1909-1938), LOMBARDY SHADOWS, about 1934, woodcut, 20 x 20, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Stephen J. Goldfarb in honor of Olivia E. Alison, AFI36.2011

Painting, Mary Cassatt, United States, (1844-1926), active in France (1866-1926), MRS. WILLIAM HARRISON, about 1890, oil on canvas, 30 x 20, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Caroline Ireland, AFI74.2011

Painting, Thomas Moran, United States, born Bolton, England (1837—1926), VENICE: GRAND CANAL AT SUNSET, 1906, oil on canvas, 13 ! x 19 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Bequest of Virginia Bissell Spencer, AFI79.2011

Painting, Jane Stuart, United States, (1812—1888), after Gilbert Stuart, United States, (1755—1828), OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, about 1857, oil on canvas, 50 x 40, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Henry S. Lynn, Jr., in memory of his nephew, George Gambrill Lynn, Jr., a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, AFI81.2011

Painting, Victor Higgins, United States, (1844—1949), ASPEN FOREST, 1917-1918, oil on canvas, 26 x 26, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Georgia S. Engelhard, Church;

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Corbin and Dodie Day, AFI88.2011

Sculpture, Anne Goldthwaite, United States, (1869-1944), UNTITLED, about 1929, glazed terracotta on wooden base, 7 x 4 ! x 3 ", Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather of Shoal Creek, Alabama in honor of his great-nephew Matthew Cather, AFI169.2011

Works on paper (4), Kurz & Allison, United States, Chicago, IL (1880—1903), Civil War scenes, 1888-1891, chromolithographs, 17 3/8 x 25 1/8 each, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mary Carolyn Gibbs Cleveland in memory of Wallace Boothby, Jr., AFI188.-191.2011

Work on paper, Walter Granville Smith, United States, (1870—1938), OPERA NIGHT, NEW YORK (recto); JAPANESE WOMAN (verso), about 1910, watercolor and gouache on board, 16 ! x 26 #, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Elton B. Stephens, Jr. in memory of Alys R. Stephens and Elton B. Stephens, AFI17.2012

AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTNEW YORKER or JAZZ BOWL , about 1930, designed by Viktor Schreckengost, United States, (1906—2008), manufactured by Cowan

Pottery Studio, United States, Rocky River, Ohio, (active 1912—1931), glazed ceramic, 12 x 16 ! diameter, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Harold and Regina Simon Fund, 2011.15

VASE , 1932, decoration designed by Walter Dorwin Teague, United States, (1883—1960), form designed by Frederick Carder, United States, born England,(1863—1963), manufactured by Steuben Division, Corning Glass Works, United States, (operated 1918—1933), wheel-cut lead glass, 6 1/8 x 5 ! diameter, Museum purchase with funds donated by June Bulow in memory of Jack Bulow, 2011.18

VASE , 1950s, Tuskegee Institute Pottery, United States, (established 1937), glazed earthenware, 10 x 4 diameter, Museum purchase, 2011.31

COMPOTE , about 1904-1933, designed by Frederick Carder, United States, born England, (1863—1963), Steuben Glass Works, United States, Corning, New York, (established 1903), Aurene glass, 7 ! x 3 " diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Beverly and Stanley Erdreich in memory of Beatrice and Herman Blumberg, AFI75.2011

P ITCHER , 1906-1920, Waco Pottery, United States, Waco, Kentucky (1906—about 1945), glazed earthenware, 4 1/8 x 4 " x 3 ", Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Graham C. Boettcher, AFI89.2011

TUL IP VASE , 1940s, Van Briggle Pottery Company, United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado (established 1901), mold-formed earthenware with “Ming Blue” glaze, 3 5/8 x 3 " diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Graham C. Boettcher, AFI90.2011

POT, 1952-1964, Van Briggle Pottery Company, United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado (established 1901), finished by Otis Wills, United States, (1896—1973; active 1943-1964),hand-thrown glazed earthenware, 2 " x 3 # diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Graham C. Boettcher, AFI91.2011

MEDALL ION L ADLE , 1871-1880, Wood & Hughes, United States, New York (1845-1899), sterling silver, gold wash, 15 x 5 x 5, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Bill Mason and Mr. Bob Scharfenstein, AFI93.2011

VESSELS (23 total), various Alabama makers, glazed stoneware, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Weissman-Sellers Family in honor of Nancy Stone, AFI114.-136.2011

VESSELS (29 total), Roseville Pottery, United States, operated in Roseville and Zanesville, Ohio (1890-1954), glazed earthenware, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Guy R. Kreusch, AFI137.-165.2011

“R-CAN-SAW” REBUS SOUVENIR SPOONS (2), about 1910, Joseph E. Straker Jr., United States, (born London, England, 1865-1955), Watson Company, United States, Attleboro, Massachusetts (1874-1955), sterling silver, 5 3/8 x 1 1/8 x ! each, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Anonymous gift in memory of Marion Jean Macdonald, AFI170.-171.2011

QUILTS (7 total), 19th and 20th century, various Alabama makers, textiles, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Caroline Cargo, AFI172.-178.2011

COMBINAT ION FLOOR L AMP AND TABLE , about 1935, design attributed to Walter von Nessen, United States, born Germany (1889—1943), manufacturing attributed to Nessen Studio, Inc., United States, New York, NY, (est. 1927), black lacquered wood and chrome-plated steel with a paper shade, 51 x 12 x 19 7/8, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Michael and Philippa Straus in honor of Dr. Graham C. Boettcher, AFI1.2012

HANGING PL ANTER , 1950, McCoy Pottery, United States, Roseville, Ohio, (1910—1990), glazed stoneware, 4 x 6 " diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of an anonymous donor, AFI14.2012

FLOWER BOWL , 1950s, McCoy Pottery, United States, Roseville, Ohio, (1910—1990), glazed earthenware, 4 ! x 6 " x 5, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of an anonymous donor, AFI15.2012

CHINESE ARTSAUCEBOAT, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Qianlong period (1736-1795), about 1755, porcelain with underglaze-blue cobalt-oxide and overglaze enamel decoration, Export ware, 3 x 8 1/8 x 4 #, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors, 2011.26

COVERED TUREEN, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Qianlong period (1736-1795), about 1755, porcelain with underglaze-blue cobalt-oxide and overglaze enamel decoration, Export ware, 8 # x 13 ! x 8 7/8, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors, 2011.27a-b

SOUP BOWL , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Qianlong period (1736-1795), about 1780, porcelain with underglaze-blue cobalt-oxide and overglaze enamel decoration, Export ware, 2 " x 7 x 5 5/8, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors, 2011.28

TANK ARD, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Qianlong period (1736-1795), about 1765, porcelain with underglaze-blue cobalt-oxide and overglaze enamel, Export ware, 5 # x 6 x 4 #, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors, 2011.29

TEA BOWL AND SAUCER , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Qianlong period (1736-1795), about 1755, porcelain with underglaze-blue cobalt-oxide and overglaze enamels, Export ware, tea bowl: 2 x 4 " diameter, saucer: 1 x 4 7/8 diameter, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors, 2011.30.1-.2

PA IR OF COVERED VASES , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Guangxu period (1875-1908), about 1900, porcelain with underglaze-blue cobalt-oxide and overglaze enamel decorations, 12 ! x 8 " diameter each, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.5.1a-b-.2a-b

OFFER ING STAND AND FRUIT, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1875, stoneware with overglaze enamel decorations, stand 6 " x 10 # x 10 #, pomegranate 3 " x 4 ! x 6, peach 3 ! x 5 # x 4, pear 4 # x 4, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.6.1a-b-.4

COVERED JAR , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1850, glazed porcelain, 3 x 1 " diameter, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.7a-b

JARS (2), China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1875, porcelain with overglaze yellow decoration, 2 x 1 ! diameter each, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.8.1-.2

SNUFF BOTTLE W ITH SPOON, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1875, porcelain with overglaze enamels, stone, and ivory, 3 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.9a-b

SNUFF BOTTLE , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1875, porcelain with overglaze enamels, 2 ! x 2 1/8 x 5/8, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.10

PL ATES (2), China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1875, porcelain with overglaze enamels and gilding, 7/8 x 8 diameter each, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.11.1-.2

PL ATE , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Guangxu period (1875-1908), about 1900, porcelain with overglaze enamels, 1 x 6 diameter, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.12

PL ATES (2), China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Guangxu period (1875-1908), about 1900, porcelain with overglaze enamels, 1 x 4 diameter each, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.13.1-.2

BOWLS (2), China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1900, porcelain with overglaze enamels, 2 1/8 x 4 # diameter each, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.14.1-.2

CUPS (2), China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Guangxu period (1875-1908), about 1900, porcelain with overglaze enamels, 1 ! x 2 5/8

Jervis McEntee, Summer Hi l ls , Kauterski l l C love; New Yorker or Jazz Bowl, designed by Viktor Schreckengos, manufactured by Cowan Pottery Studio

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diameter each, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.15.1-.2

CUPS (2), China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1900, porcelain with overglaze enamels, 1 ! x 2 5/8 diameter each, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.16.1-.2

JAR , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1880, glazed porcelain, 4 x 3 # diameter, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.17

JAR , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1880, glazed porcelain, 4 x 3 # diameter, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.18

BOWL , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), 18th century, glazed porcelain, 3 x 4 3/8 diameter, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.19

BOWL , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1880, glazed porcelain, 3 x 4 3/8 diameter, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.20

BOWL , China, Republic Period (1912-1949), about 1920, glazed porcelain, 3 1/8 x 7 # diameter, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.21

VASE , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), about 1775, glazed porcelain, 10 ! x 4 # diameter, Bequest of Ruby Syx Ansley, 2012.22

Handscroll, China, signed Qiu Ying, China, (1494-1552), WEAVING SILK IN THE PALACE GARDEN, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), 19th century, ink and color on silk, 6 " x 231 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art: Gift of Rhae M., Jr. and Barbara B. Swisher in memory of Hardman N. and Ellen J. Kinnear, Medical Missionaries to Fuzhou, China, 1889 to 1929, AFI84.2011

BRIDAL PAL ANQUIN HANGINGS , China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), late 19th century, metallic and silk thread on silk with cotton and silk tassels, 29 x 81, and two at 45 # x 4 ", Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art: Gift of Rhae M., Jr. and Barbara B. Swisher in memory of Hardman N. and Ellen J. Kinnear, Medical Missionaries to Fuzhou, China, 1889 to 1929, AFI85.2011a-c

BRIDAL PAL ANQUIN HANGING, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), late 19th century, metallic and silk thread on silk with cotton and silk tassels, 24 ! x 81, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art: Gift of Rhae M., Jr. and Barbara B. Swisher in memory of Hardman N. and Ellen J. Kinnear, Medical Missionaries to Fuzhou, China, 1889 to 1929, AFI86.2011

ARCHER’S R ING, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Tongzhi period (1862-1874), about 1870, nephrite, 1 x 1 3/16 diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Jim Johnson and Sally Wood Johnson in memory of Dr. Ronald Goldberg, AFI4.2012

JAPANESE ARTKIMONO STENCILS , 20 (Katagami), Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912), about 1900, laminated mulberry paper, lacquered with persimmon juice, reinforced with silk thread, 10 ! x 16 each, Museum purchase with funds provided by Helen Hudgens, with funds provided in memory of Dr. Ronald Goldberg, and with funds given by friends in honor of Sylvia Goldberg’s birthday, 2012.23-.42

KYOGEN MASK , Japan, Edo period (1615-1868), about 1850, wood, 9 x 6 ! x 3, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Frank Lindauer, AFI37.2011

VASE , Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912), about 1910, glazed and gilded earthenware, Satsuma ware, 29 ! x 8 diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Bill Mason and Mr. Bob Scharfenstein, AFI73.2011

Work on paper, Japan, OTOME (THE MAIDEN), TALE OF GENJI: CHAPTER 21, Momoyama period (1573-1615), about 1600, ink, color and gold on paper, album leaf, 9 9/16 x 9 5/16, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dorothy and Harold Meyerman, AFI5.2012

Work on paper, Sumiyoshi Gukei, Japan, (1631—1705), ONE HUNDRED POETS EACH

WITH A POEM: SHEET 44 , CHUNAGON ASATADA , Edo period (1615-1868), about 1700, ink, color, and gofun on gold sprinkled paper, album leaf, 10 ! x 8 1/8, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dorothy and Harold Meyerman, AFI6.2012

Work on paper, Sumiyoshi Gukei, Japan, (1631—1705), ONE HUNDRED POETS EACH WITH A POEM: SHEET 25 , FUJIWARA NO SADAKATA , Edo period (1615-1868), about 1700, ink, color, and gofun on gold sprinkled paper, album leaf, 10 ! x 8 1/8, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dorothy and Harold Meyerman, AFI7.2012

Work on paper, Sumiyoshi Gukei, Japan, (1631—1705), JURO’S COMING-OF-AGE CEREMONY, THE TALE OF THE SOGA BROTHERS (SOGA MONOGATARI), BOOK 4 .1, Edo period (1615-1868), about 1675, ink, color and gold on paper, album leaf, 9 1/8 x 6 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dorothy and Harold Meyerman, AFI8.2012

Work on paper, Sumiyoshi Gukei, Japan, (1631—1705), THE SOGA BROTHERS MEET NINOMIYA NO YOSHIZANE, THE TALE OF THE SOGA BROTHERS (SOGA MONOGATARI), BOOK 7.7, Edo period (1615-1868), about 1675, ink, color and gold on paper, album leaf, 9 1/8 x 6 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dorothy and Harold Meyerman, AFI9.2012

Work on paper, Sumiyoshi Gukei, Japan, (1631—1705), THE FLOWER VIEWING , THE TALE OF THE SOGA BROTHERS (SOGA MONOGATARI), BOOK 7.1, Edo period (1615-1868), about 1675, ink, color and gold on paper, album leaf , 9 1/8 x 6 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dorothy and Harold Meyerman, AFI10.2012

Work on paper, Sumiyoshi Gukei, Japan, (1631—1705), THE DISPUTE WITH MIURA NO YOSHIMURA , THE TALE OF THE SOGA

BROTHERS (SOGA MONOGATARI), BOOK 4 .11, Edo period (1615-1868), about 1675, ink, color and gold on paper, album leaf, 9 1/8 x 6 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dorothy and Harold Meyerman, AFI11.2012

KOREAN ARTPaintings (2), Korea, AMIT’A , AND THE FIVE GUARDIAN GENERALS (O BANG JANG KUN), Joseon period (1392-1910), about 1890, ink and color on cloth, 34 x 23 each, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Mills-Whelchel Collection, AFI39.-40.2011

VASE (MAEBYONG), Korea, Goryeo period (918-1392), about 1300, glazed stoneware, Sanggam ware, 12 # x 6 ! diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Young Kyo Jeong, AFI181.2011

EUROPEAN ARTSculpture, Robert Carpenter of Bath, England, (1750 or 1751—died after 1817), MURDER OF KING EDWARD THE MARTYR AT CORFE CASTLE, 1810, carved linden wood in a parcel-

gilt and black-painted wood and glass shadow box, 18 " x 25 " x 8, Museum purchase with funds provided by an anonymous donor, 2012.3

Work on paper, unknown artist, France, STUDY OF A SEATED MALE NUDE, late 18th century, red chalk with black and white chalk on paper, 16 15/16 x 17 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Edward J. Olszewski in honor of Jeannine O’Grody, AFI38.2011

Painting, Alfred Wierusz Kowalski, Poland, (1849—1915), COSSACK SOLDIERS , late 19th century, oil on board, 8 " x 12 !, Estate of Virginia B. Spencer, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Bequest of Virginia Bissell Spencer, AFI80.2011

Work on paper, Félix Bracquemond, France, (1833-1914), LE SERVICE DU VIN OR JEAN DES ENTOMMEURES , AFTER FRANCOIS RABELAIS ’S “GARGANTUA”, 1868, watercolor and gouache over graphite, with pen and brown ink, 8 11/16 x 13 7/8, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of C. G. Boerner, AFI18.2012

HUNTING HORN, unknown artist, Germany, ivory, 35 # long, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Scott, AFI182.2011a-b

EUROPEAN DECORATIVE ARTCOVERED VASE , 1785-1790, Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, Fürstenberg an der Weser (Niedersachsen), Germany (est. 1747), hard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding, 11 " x 7 3/8 x 5, Gift of Daisy Weller Smith in memory of Mr. and Mrs. T. Weller Smith, 2010.124a-b

SCULPTURE , Greek Slave, July 1866, Minton’s pottery and porcelain factory, England, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent est.1793), After a model by Hiram Powers, United States, active Florence, Italy, (1805-1873), Powers’ model made for Summerly’s Art Manufacturers, United States, (est. 1847), stoneware (Parian), 14 x 4 # x 3 ", Museum purchase, 2011.17

THE ORANGE VESSEL , March/April 2010, Morten Løbner Espersen, Denmark, (born 1965), hand-built stoneware, glazed (industrially produced) lead-cadmium, orange-

Robert Carpenter of Bath, England, Murder of King Edward the Mar tyr at Cor fe Cast le

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lacquer glaze on black stoneware, 7 ! x 9 " diameter, Museum purchase, 2012.1

PL ATE , 1907-1928, Georg Schmider Vereinigte Zeller Keramische Fabriken, Zell am Harmersbach (Baden), Germany, (est. 1907), lead- and tin-glazed earthenware (majolica), 1 1/8 x 10 diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Graham C. Boettcher, AFI92.2011

EVENING GOWN, 1950s, design attributed to Castillo (Antonio Canovas del Castillo del Rey), Spain, (1908—1984), manufactured by Lanvin, France, (est. 1909), retailer, Bergdorf Goodman, United States, New York, NY, (est. 1899), velvet and satin, 54 x 13, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. William A. Bowron Jr. and Emily Wood Bowron, AFI166.2011

RUG, 1775-1800, Aubusson, France, wool, 259 ! x 194 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Philippa and Frank Bainbridge, AFI180.2011

WEDGWOODWEDGWOOD OBJECTS (1041 lots total), Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, Gift of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood, AFI200.-1239.2008

OWL PAPERWEIGHT, 1969-1975, designed by Ronald Stennett-Willson, England, (1915—2009), Wedgwood Glass, England, (est. 1969 at King’s Lynn Glass Limited, est. 1966), King’s Lynn (Norfolk), England, glass, 4 # x 2 3/8 diameter, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ellis F. Rubin in honor of Dr. Anne Forschler-Tarrasch, AFI179.2011

WEDGWOOD OBJECTS (203 lots total), Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, Gift of Max and Gloria Buten, AFI400.-602.2011

WEDGWOOD OBJECTS (125 lots total), Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, Gift of Paul and Beatrice Buten Magee, AFI603.-726.2011

WEDGWOOD OBJECTS (27 lots total), Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, Gift of Alexander Magee, AFI727.-753.2011

WEDGWOOD OBJECTS (735 lots total), Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, Gift of Iris Buten Newman, AFI754.-1488.2011

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARTPhotograph, Charles Moore, United States, (1931—2010), ARREST OF MARTIN LUTHER KING , JR . , September 3, 1958, gelatin silver print (wirephoto), 10 x 8 !, Museum purchase, 2010.122

Photograph, Moneta J. Sleet Jr., United States, (1926—1996), CORETTA SCOTT KING AND DAUGHTER BEATRICE AT FUNERAL OF MARTIN LUTHER KING , JR . , April 9, 1968, vintage wirephoto print, 8 1/2 x 7, Museum purchase, 2010.123

Painting, Jürgen Tarrasch, Germany, (born 1959), From the VINES SERIES , “own technique” paint on canvas, 80 x 70, Museum purchase with funds provided by Catherine Cabaniss, Pauline Ireland, and Mr. and Mrs. Robin Wade, 2011.22

Photograph, David Goldblatt, South Africa, (born 1930), IN THE DOCRAT’S HOUSE BEFORE ITS DESTRUCTION UNDER THE GROUP AREAS ACT, FIETAS , PAGEVIEW, JOHANNESBURG, Negative 1976; printed 2011, gelatin silver print, sheet: 25 ! x 25 #, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Photography Guild, 2011.32

Photograph, Emmet Gowin, United States, (born 1941), AERATION POND, TOXIC WATER TREATMENT FACILITY, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS , 1989, toned gelatin silver print, sheet 14 x 11, Museum purchase with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. David Sperling in honor of their friends Dr. and Mrs. Jim Lasker, Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Chandler, Mrs. Robert Loeb, Dr. and Mrs. Walter Little, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Marx, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Walton, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Apolinsky, Dr. and Mrs. Jimmie Harvey, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. Emmet O. Templeton, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Erdreich, Ms. Carole Simpson, and Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dorsky, 2011.33

Video, Sun Xun, China, (born 1980), PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF ZOO, Video installation with original Beta video in custom case, two viewing DVDs, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art, 2011.34

BENCH (COUTURE BENCHSCAPE) , Jan Marlon Jander, United States, (born 1977), organic cement, 18 x 60 x 24, Gift of Patty McDonald, 2012.4

Work on paper, Juanita Rogers, United States, (1934—1985), TURNING TIME, 1980-1985, watercolor and graphite on paper, 8 ! x 11, Museum purchase, 2012.43

Photograph, Arthur Rothstein, United States, (1915—1985), SLASH PINE SEED SOWN ON LAND USE PROJECT, MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA , TUSKEGEE PROJECT, 1937, gelatin silver print, 7 x 9 5/8, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI28.2011

Sculptures (2) and drawings (2), Beverly Erdreich, United States, (born 1939), from the series ”METAPHOR BOXES AND DRAWINGS”, 2007, mixed media, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Anonymous gift in honor of the Special Anniversary of Beverly and Stanley Erdreich, Jr., AFI29.-32.2011

FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS, individual flowers, and goblets (32 lots total), Cam

Langley, United States, (born 1948), blown glass, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Anonymous gift, AFI41.-72.2011

Book of ten prints and poems, Catherine Cabaniss, United States, (born 1940), Christine Howes, ARCHIPELAGOS OF LIGHT, 2003, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art: Gift of Catherine Cabaniss, AFI82.2011

Photograph, Roger Ballen, United States, active South Africa, (born 1950), JUXTAPOSED, 2004, gelatin silver print, sheet 16 ! x 16, image 14 # x 14 #, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the artist, AFI83.2011

Photograph, Malick Sidibé, Mali, (born 1936), UNTITLED, about 1970, gelatin silver print, image: 5 # x 3 !, frame: 15 x 12 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, AFI87.2011

Photograph, Hank Willis Thomas, United States, (born 1976), JERMAINE AND LOGAN, 2002;

printed 2006, lightjet print, 30 x 24, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI94.2011

Photograph, Demetrius Oliver, United States, (born 1975), TRACKS , 2003-2005, digital C-print, 29 ! x 37 #, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI95.2011

Photograph, Ann Hamilton, United States, (born 1956), REFLECTION 12:20 , 2003, Iris print, 8 ! x 11, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI96.2011

Painting, Mark Flood, United States, (born 1957), MANTILLA , 2003, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 48, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI97.2011

Work on paper, José Bedia, Cuba, lives United States (born 1959), LA MANIPULACIÓN DE LA SOMBRA , 2002, ink on hand-made paper, 15 ! x 24 #, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc.

at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI98.2011

Sculpture, Purvis Young, United States, (1943—2010), UNTITLED (TRUCK) , Unknown, wood, metal, plastic, and paint, 7 x 9 x 12 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI99.2011

Collage, Dario Robleto, United States, (born 1972), LEECHES IN VINEGAR , 2006, Fome-cor, mat board, colored paper, ribbon, and ink, 24 x 24, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI100.2011

Work on paper, Raymond Pettibon, United States, (born 1957), UNTITLED (SUPERMAN FIGURE) , ink on paper, 11 x 8 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI101.2011

Sculpture, Chris Caccamise, United States, (born 1975), MY BRAND IS LADY BIRD, 2005, cut and pasted Bristol paper with enamel paint, 3 ! x 2 ! x 1 !, Collection of the Art

Sun Xun, People’s Republ ic of Zoo; David Goldblatt, In the Docrat’s house before i ts destruct ion under the Group Areas Act , Fie tas , Pageview

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Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI102.2011

Sculpture, Chris Caccamise, United States, (born 1975), UNTITLED, 2005, cut and pasted Bristol paper with enamel paint, 11 # x 5 ! x 11 #, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI103.2011

Photograph, Hank Willis Thomas, United States, (born 1976), IT ’S THE REAL THING! , 1978/2006, 2006, digital C-print, 27 " x 24 ", Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI104.2011

Work on paper, Raymond Saunders, United States, (born 1934), UNTITLED, 1988, pencil, spray paint and watercolor on paper, 10 7/8 x 13 7/8, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI105.2011

Photograph, Kerry James Marshall, United States, (born 1955), BLACK XMAS , 2003, 56 x 44, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI106.2011

Work on paper, Carroll Dunham, United States, (born 1949), UNTITLED (3/7/05) , 2005, graphite on paper, 11 # x 8 5/8, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI107.2011

Photograph, David Levinthal, United States, (born 1949), HOMER AND BART, 2003, C-print,14 " x 12, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI108.2011

Painting, Mickalene Thomas, United States, (born 1971), DO WHAT MAKES YOU SATISFIED (from the She Works Hard for the Money series), 2006, rhinestones, acrylic and enamel on wood, 36 x 48, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI109.2011

Work on paper, Jack Whitten, United States, Born Bessemer, Alabama, (born 1939), STUDY FOR LAPSANG AND CHINESE SINCERITY #5 , 1975, pastel on paper, 19 x 25 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI110.2011

Photograph, Hank Willis Thomas, United States, (born 1976), CUCCI #2: IT ’S TIME FOR JUNGLE FEVER , 2001/2006, 2006, digital C-print, 34 ! x 27 3/8, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI111.2011

Photograph, Hank Willis Thomas, United States, (born 1976), SMOKIN’ JOE AIN ’T J ’MAMA , from the Unbranded series, digital C-print, frame: 32 x 31 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Jack Drake Collection of Contemporary Art, AFI112.2011

Work on paper, 1997, Emily Bourne Grigsby, United States, (born 1922), MALE FIGURE, red Conté crayon on paper, 29 x 19, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Emily Bourne Grigsby, AFI167.2011

Work on paper, Luis Jiménez, United States, (1940—2006), Published by Segura Publishing Company, CHOLO AND VAN WITH POPO AND IXTA , 1997, lithograph, sheet 30 x 44 1/2, image 26 x 36 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Susie and Scott Robertson in honor of the Museum’s 60th Anniversary, AFI168.2011

Painting, Philip Taaffe, United States, (born 1955), BLACK VENUS , 1999, mixed media on canvas, 85 x 113, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Pauline Ireland in loving memory of her mother, Jeannette Adams Gates, AFI184.2011

Painting, Tim Rollins, United States, (born 1955), and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), United States, South Bronx, New York, (founded 1982), INVISIBLE MAN (AFTER RALPH ELLISON), 1999-2000, acrylic and book pages on linen, 75 x 75, Collection of the Art Fund,

Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Pauline Ireland in loving memory of her mother, Jeannette Adams Gates, AFI185.2011

PHOTOGRAPHS (9), Elliott Erwitt, United States, (born 1928), from the Alchan Edition, gelatin silver prints, 20 x 16 each, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Ray and Carol Ann Merritt Collection, AFI186.2011.1-.9

Photograph, Rowland Scherman, United States, (born 1937), ANDY WARHOL, Negative 1979; printed 2011, inkjet print, sheet 24 x 30, image 17 " x 26, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Gail C. Andrews and Richard B. Marchase in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham Museum of Art, AFI187.2011

WORKS ON PAPER (4), Catherine Cabaniss, United States, (born 1940), from the Water-Based series, etching, aquatint, spitbite, drypoint, and woodcut, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the artist, AFI192.2011.1-.4

Sculpture, Frank Fleming, United States, (born 1940), RAT, n. d., bronze, 20 x 15 ! x 17 !, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Ken Jackson, AFI193.2011

Sculpture, Frank Fleming, United States, (born 1940), WISE RABBIT, n. d., bronze, 14 x 10 x 10, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Ken Jackson, AFI194.2011

Photograph, Weegee (Arthur Fellig), United States, (1899—1968), UNTITLED (TRAVELING SALESMAN), about 1941, gelatin silver print, sheet 14 x 9 ", image 13 3/8 x 9 5/16, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Elton B. Stephens, Jr., AFI195.2011

Work on paper, Dean Cornwell, United States, (1892—1960), STUDY FOR U .S . PIPE AND FOUNDRY CO. ADVERTISEMENT, about 1950, charcoal on paper, 19 ! x 24, Collection of the

Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Taylor Thorington, AFI2.2012

Painting, Edward Glannon, United States, (1911—1992), WHITE POINSETTIAS , 1953, oil on untempered masonite panel, 18 x 14, frame: 26 # x 22 # x 2 #, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Edward J. Glannon Family, AFI13.2012

Sculpture with video, Tony Oursler, United States, (born 1957), NIPKO DISK , 2000, video projection on laminated and painted wood, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of James D. Sokol and Lydia C. Cheney, AFI16.2012a-e

GENERAL ACQUISIT ION SUPPORTBy providing general acquisitions support, the

following helped make it possible for the BMA to

collect both masterpieces and emerging artists’ works

for generations of Alabamians to enjoy.

AM Skier Agency, Inc.Beaux Arts KreweMrs. Dwight BeesonAmb. And Mrs. William J. Cabaniss, Jr.Ms. Lin EmeryDr. and Mrs. David HoggMr. and Mrs. William F. HuntNeighbors FundMr. and Mrs. Brad A. OsborneMr. and Mrs. Richard I. PigfordMs. Marcia E. RubensWellington Park Garden Club

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BMA COLLECTION LOANS & PUBLICATIONS

The BMA’s collection contains many pieces of

art that are world renowned. The Museum

is regularly contacted to either loan out items

to other museums or to provide images for

publications, both print and online. Around

town, people can find works from the BMA

collection in City Hall and the Kirklin Clinic.

Many of our significant loans appear in

catalogues, while other publications use images

from our collection to enhance their essays and

scholarship. Our Archipenko will appear in an

online catalogue raisonné. Benjamin West’s

Erasistratus/Antiochus/Stratonice appeared on

the cover of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The Capture of Major Andre by Asher B. Durand

will be featured on an upcoming episode of A

Taste of History. Other appearances by pieces of

the BMA collection can be found in:

The World of William Glackens, published by

Odyssey Books, featured The Barricade by

George Bellows. The German publication

Training Latein Wiederholung Grammatic,

printed in May 2011, featured Seven Liberal

Arts by Francesco Pesellino and Workshop

Women and Flowers (Die Blumen der Fauen),

also published in Germany, featured L’Aurore by

William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students, and

Circle from the Maida and George Abrams

Collection, published by the Bruce Museum and

Yale University Press, featured Farmhouse with

Artist Sketching by Rembrandt van Rijn. The

Hans-Christian Schink exhibition catalogue,

published in both German and English, featured

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California by

Albert Bierstadt.

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BMA ARTWORK OUT ON LOAN JULY 1, 2011–JUNE 30, 2012

1 BEFORE THE FALL: ART OF THE AMERICAN TWENTIES10/21/2011-09/09/2012O’Keeffe, 1983.28Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NYDallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TXCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2 THE ORIENT EXPRESSED: JAPAN’S INFLUENCE ON WESTERN ART2/9/2011-1/15/2012Table, 1991.804Tea set, 2000.116.1-.3Print, 1957.103 (MMA only)Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MSMcNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

3 Extended loan to augment permanent collection2010-currentRemington, 1964.121Schreyvogel, 1964.123Russell, 1963.259Gilbert Gaul paintings (6): 1972.457, .458, .460, .461, .465, .466Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA

4 Reciprocal loan2010-currentSargent, 1962.62Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL

5 WESTERN AMERICAN ART SOUTH OF THE SWEET TEA LINE(3RD INSTALLMENT)09/24/2011-02/12/2012Herzog, 1977.50Moretti, 1954.3Stuart, 1984.321Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA

6 AFIELD IN AMERICA:400 YEARS OF ANIMAL AND SPORTING ART 1585-198509/2011 – 02/2012McMonnies, 1964.122Hedges, 1985.278National Sporting Library & Museum, Middleburg, VA

7 SHARED TREASURE: THE LEGACY OF SAMUEL KRESS10/14/2011-01/15/2012Ribera, 1961.123Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

8 PROSPECT.2.NEW ORLEANS10/22/2011-01/29/2012Cave, 2010.80Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA

9 EDO POP: THE GRAPHIC IMPACT OF JAPANESE WOODBLOCK10/30/2011-01/08/2012Video, Tabaimo, 2005.73Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

10 BIRMINGHAM SCENE—PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER ,1934-194911/5/2011-12/31/2011Anderson (3): 2007.8, .9, .10Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL

11 GEORGE BELLOWS06/10/2012-06/09/2013National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYRoyal Academy, London, EnglandBellows, 1990.124

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BOARD OF TRUSTEESMr. Ralph D. Cook, Chair

Mr. James D. Sokol, 1st Vice Chair

Dr. Dannetta K. Thornton Owens, Secretary

Mr. Henry S. Lynn, Jr., Treasurer

GOVERNING BOARD OF TRUSTEESMs. Myla Choy

Mr. Russell Jackson Drake

Mrs. Beverly Erdreich, 2nd Vice Chair

Dr. George French

Dr. Ethel H. Hall (deceased)

Mr. John O. Hudson, III

Mr. William C. Hulsey

Mr. Edgar B. Marx, Jr.

Mr. Joel B. Piassick

Mr. Charles Simpson

Mrs. Nan Skier

Mr. Michael Straus

Mr. Crawford L. Taylor

Mr. Larry Thornton

CHAIRMEN EMERITIMr. Thomas N. Carruthers, Jr.

Mr. Thomas L. Hamby

Mrs. Margaret G. Livingston

ADVISORY BOARD OF TRUSTEESMrs. Phillipa Bainbridge

Mr. William A. Bowron, Jr.

Mrs. Betty Brower

Ms. Jane Comer

Mr. Donald L. Cook

Mr. Ralph D. Cook

Mrs. Cathy Crenshaw

Ms. Gayle Cunningham

Mr. H. Corbin Day

Mr. Otis W. Dismuke

Mrs. Ruth Engel

Mr. William Featheringill

Mrs. Maye Head Frei

Mr. T. Randolph Gray

Mr. Wyatt R. Haskell

Ms. Pauline Ireland

Mr. Donald James

Ms. Jennifer McCain

Dr. William Mason

Ms. Katherine Blount Pace

Mr. Ruffner Page

Dr. John W. Poynor

Mr. William Ritter

Ms. Isabel Rubio

Mr. Sanjay Singh

Mrs. Paul G. Smith (Marilyn)

Mrs. Patricia Sprague

Mrs. Catherine Styslinger

Ms. Yolanda Sullivan

Mr. Cleophus Vann

Mrs. Carolyn Wade

Mr. Alan K. Zeigler

AFFIL IATED LEADERSHIPAmb. William J. Cabaniss, Endowment Chair

Mr. Henry S. Lynn, Jr., Art Fund Inc. Chair

Mrs. Dalton Blankenship, Development Chair

HONORARY L IFE MEMBERSMr. W. Houston Blount

Mr. Thomas L. Falls

NATIONAL MEMBERSDr. Kurt A. Gitter, New Orleans, LA

Mr. John Kaul Greene, Chicago, IL

Mr. Preston Haskell, Jacksonville, FL

Mr. Donald Logan, New York, NY

Mr. Scott Robertson, Scottsdale, AZ

Mrs. Julie I. Ward, Hailey, ID

Mr. Jack W. Warner, Tuscaloosa, AL

CITY OF BIRMINGHAMHonorable William A. Bell, Sr., Mayor

Mr. Erskine R. Faush, Jr., Chief of Staff

Mr. Jarvis Patton, Chief of Operations

Ms. April Odom, Director of Communications

Mr. Charles Long, Executive Administrative Assistant

to the Mayor

Ms. Maxine Parker, City Council Liaison

MEMBERS BOARDMrs. Mimi Arrington, Chair

Ms. Tania Adams

Mrs. Gloria Anderson

Mrs. Susan Boyd

Mrs. Cyndy Cantley

Mr. Patrick Cather

Mrs. Minnie Finley

Mrs. Linda Freeman

Mrs. Kay Grisham

Mrs. Helen Harmon

Mrs. Langston Hereford

Mrs. Kimberly King

Mrs. Margaret G. Livingston

Mrs. Geeta Malik

Mrs. Elizabeth Matthews

Mrs. Judy May

Mrs. Libbo McCollum

Mrs. Kellie McDowell

Mrs. Kaye McWane-Rosse

Mrs. Elizabeth Nettles

Mrs. Penny Page

Mrs. Katharine Patton

Mrs. Lucy Richardson

Ms. Lori Salter

Ms. Marianne Schoel

Ms. Shandra J. Smith

Mrs. Connie Urist

Mrs. Ruth Varnell

Mrs. Virginia Volman

Mrs. Patti Whitt

Mrs. Louise Yoder

JUNIOR PATRONS BOARDV. J. Graffeo, President

Zoe Gowen, Vice President

Elizabeth Goodwyn, Secretary

Andrew Case, Treasurer

Will Aycock

Gia Bivens

Brian Boehm

Charles Brammer

Mary Louise Choate

Leila Deep

Ashley Holdridge

Rebecca Moore

Kelly Rushin

Elizabeth Sanfelippo

Leslie Schiffman

Joseph Schilleci

Lochrane Smith

Lauren Turriglio

Meagan Vucovich

Lauren Weil

Whitney Yarborough

BMA DOCENTS AND VOLUNTEERS

The BMA would like to give special thank you to our many

volunteers and docents who helped make 2011–12 a great

year for visitors, students, and staff. We appreciate the time and

attention you give to the Museum.

2011–12 DOCENTSL IFE DOCENTSNancy Lee Adamson

Fran Bellows

Carol Hall

Bud Johnson

Pat Sloan

SENIOR DOCENTSEvelyn Allen

Virginia Chappelle

Bonnie Church

Barbara Dittman

Martha Ann Doyal

Ann Elliott

Fay Hart

Virginia Hillhouse

Betty Morrison

Emily Omura

Shirley Palmes

Martha Pezrow

Janet Rooney

Nan Skier

Marilyn Smith

Jim Sokol

Jim Stapleton

Nancy Wingard

MENTORSRuth Alsbrooks, Mentor Committee Chair

Gloria Anderson

Susan Coan

Pam Eubanks

Judith Hayes Hand, Photographer

Vicki Hicks, Docent Trips Co-Chair

Dorothy Jeffries

DOCENTSMargaret Alexander

Bob Barnes

Joyce Bennington

Jeannine Brown

Kate Brown

Kathryn E. Burdette, Friday Day Co-Chair

Nancy Burge (On Leave)

Anne Burke, Thursday Day Chair

Anne Burnette

Martha Chitwood

Mary Clem

Pamela Collins

Judy Shaw Cook, Secretary

Mary Helen Crowe

Kathryn DeCola

Lisa, DeVivo, Past Chair

Bill Duffey

Sharon Dunson

Jackie Dye

Celia Griffin (On Leave)

Harriet Hackney

Kay Hanlin, Chair-Elect and Docent Bus Fund Chair

Richard Hempstead

Bob Henger

Jan Henger

Joy Hernandez

Nancy Higgs

Mary Hubbard

Sandra Jones, Tuesday Day Co-Chair and Docent Book

Club Co-Chair

Esta Kamplain

Joy Kussner

Sandra Landau

Nadine L’Eplattenier-Gibson, Friday Day Chair

Jacqueline Marzette

Cathye McDonald, Chair

Natalie McGee

Pat Millhouse

Beth Morris

Jenny Morris

Jane Murphy, Treasurer

Clyde Oyster

Patricia Poer, Wednesday Day Chair

Kathie Ramsey, Docent Trips Co-Chair

Rachel Raybin

Carl Rossomme, Tuesday Day Chair

Deb Sanders, Wednesday Day Co-Chair

Janet Sanders

Joyce Sanders

Colette Scott

Terry Simmons

Alease Sims

Nancy Sloan

Regina Smith

Stacy Smith

Sharon Smyer

Sara Snow

Melinda Sparks

Carolyn Stadtlander

David Stearns

Julia Stork, Weekend Day Co-Chair

Connie Urist

Diane Van Loan

Laura Wallace

Marlene Wallace

Leslyn Weathers, Docent Parties Chair

Holly Whatley

Christine Wilson

Caroline Wingate, Weekend Day Chair

Rhetta Wright, Co-Chair and Docent Book Club Chair

Member-at-Large

Merry Lewis

2011–12 VOLUNTEERSArthur Abbs

Ruth Ann Abbs

Terry Adams

Savanna Akins

Michael Allen

Connie Arnwine

Marsha Asman

Farrah Austin

Sidney Bagby

Jan Bailey

Rae Baker

Jessica Bartlett

Nancy Bell

Cissy Bennett

Debbie Bennett

Brooke Benson

Elna Jean Bentley

Maxine Benton

Elise Bodenheimer

Joy Bonney

Yvonne Brakefield

Bertice Brown

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June Bulow

Kathy Burdette

Margo Burgess

Mike Burns

Theresa Burns

Victoria Butler

Doris Cannon

Kirke Cater

Daniella Caycedo

Gabrielle Chambers

Leisha Chambers

Carly Childress

Amanda Church

Kate Clark

Cathy Clement

Bess Constantine

Judy Cook

Amy Cooper

Betty Copeland

Bill Copeland

Barbara Cox

Nina Cranor

Richard Dabney

Mickey Davis

Candi Debardelaben

Kathryn Decola

Barbara Dittman

Avni Dosni

Sharon Dunson

Jackie Dye

Wanda Elkourie

Stephen Epperson

Pam Eubanks

Natalie Evans

Tatiana Fears

Jean Finochio

Bina Fleck

Andrew Forsyth

Nicole Gallups

Chris Garner

Jim Garner

Pat Geldzahler

Griff Goad

Mickie Goad

Susan Goertz

Frederick Goodgame

Becky Goodwin

Jim Gordy

Teresa Greene

Michelle Griffo

Shelia Gunter

Shannon Haddock

Richard Haigler

Jillian Hamilton

Don Hamner

Kay Hanlin

Firmon Hardenbergh

Mae Lynn Hardy

Fay Hart

Richard Hempstead

Rebecca Henderson

David Henry

Donna Hightower

Alexis Hill

Kyndall Hinton

Olivia Hood

Phoebe Howell

Margaret Ann Hughes

Jane Humber

Caroline Japal

Rena Johnson

Abby Jones

Sandra Jones

Virginia Jones

Mary Kathryn Jorgensen

Maria Kalaff

Priya Karna

Ann Katholi

Barbara Kelly

Carolynne Kent

Tina Kirk

Guy Kreusch

Amy Laughlin

Betty Law

Lee Law

Jeanne Lawson

Diane Liu

Wendi Lu

Catherine Elizabeth Luke

Alheshia Mardis

Marsha Markus

Jacqueline Matte

Mary Mattson

Ken Mau

Meylin Mau

Regina McFadden

Henry Miller

Pat Millhouse

Cathy Moncrief

Corene Moore

Amanda Navarro

Mary Jo Nicastro

Sidney Nomberg

Bob Odle

Olivia Paige

Alana Palermo

Beverly Parks

Lauren Parsons

Cheryl Pathasema

Sue Patrick

Herb Patterson

Sarah Peek

Viola Peoples

Reema Pereira

Sara Perry

Martha Pezrow

Yvette Phillips

Ann Marie Pipkin

Paula Pointer

Laura Pratt

Susan Putnam

Kathie Ramsey

Reed Randolph

Beverly Rausch

Darick Ritter

Janice Roberts

Madrene Roberts

Art Rocks

Carl Rossomme

Charles Rountree

Bob Scharfenstein

Marianne Schoel

Carol Schulz

Amy Shaw

Terry Kay Simmons

Stacey Sims

Sara Sistrunk

Nancy Sloan

Anna Smith

Kermitt Southern

Pat Southern

Janice Spivey

Jim Stapleton

Jade Stewart

Catherine Stoddard

Mary Lou Taber

Alice Taplet

Carol Taylor

Bob Terry

Joseph Thomas

Ellen Tucker

Alexandra Turnage

Morgan Tyra

Connie Urist

Wallace Vandergrift

Ruth Varnell

Leah Vaughn

Mary Watkins

Sue Ann Watkins

Fiona Watts

Alysan Wayman

Diane Wehby

Patricia Wehner

Pat Weil

Jerome Weinberg

Holly Whatley

Annie White

Jane Williams

Helene Wolf

Leo Wright

Rhetta Wright

Deanna Wynn

Marion Wynn

Delana Young

Patricia Zerkis

Steve Zerkis

MEMBERSHIP & SUPPORT

A s a museum that prides itself on being free to the public,

membership support and annual gifts are vital to continuing to

provide the exciting exhibitions, educational activities, and social

events for which the Museum is known. The Museum wishes to

thank those who have contributed in the past year to further our

educational and curatorial mission.

ANNUAL FUNDThank you to everyone who made

a gift to the 2011 Annual Fund.

This year’s campaign was a great

success with more than $100,000

raised. These funds have a direct

and immediate impact, providing

essential support for exhibitions,

programs, and collections care,

and ensuring the Museum

remains a place of exploration

and discovery for everyone in our

community. For your generous

contributions and support of the

arts, we sincerely thank you!

(GIF TS TOTAL ING $500 AND ABOVE)Mr. E. R. Agee, Jr.

Rucker and Margaret Agee Fund

Page Hill Allison Charitable Trust

Ruby S. & John P. Ansley Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Ausbeck

Mrs. Anne C. Blair

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Blair

Mr. Nicholas O. Bouler III

Mr. and Mrs. William Brooke

Dr. and Mrs. Peter Bunting

Daisy and Herbert Cheung

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cook

Mr. and Mrs. H. Corbin Day

Jim and Marilyn Dixon

Mr. Douglas Eckert

Dr. John D. Elmore

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Engel

Stanley and Beverly Erdreich

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Fazio

Mr. Frank Fleming

Mr. Fred Friedman

Mr. and Mrs. T. Michael Goodrich

Mr. Roy Curtis Green, Jr.

Jay and Melanie Grinney

Firmon E. Hardenbergh

Joan C. Harrison

Joan and Preston Haskell

Dr. and Mrs. Basil I. Hirschowitz

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hulsey

Mrs. Ellen Jackson

Dr. and Mrs. James C. Johnson

Mr. D. Paul Jones, Jr.

Mr. Michael J. Levine

Jennifer R. McCain

Lee and Leah McGriff

Mr. and Mrs. C. Caldwell Marks

Mr. and Mrs. William O. Mooney, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James L. North, Sr.

Dr. Dannetta K. T. Owens

Joel and Karen Piassick

Susan and Dowd Ritter

Winthrop A. Short

Charles and Kate Simpson

Ross D. Siragusa

Jim and Mary Sullivan

Ms. Pauline Tutwiler

Samuel E. Upchurch, Jr. Charitable Foundation

Angie S. Webb

J and H Weldon Foundation, Inc.

Ms. Jane F. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Worthen

BART’S ARTVENTUREThe following donors have made

Bart’s ArtVenture a reality, and

a destination our members with

children truly appreciate. Thank

you for your donations and

patience over the past two years!

Dr. and Mrs. C. Bruce Alexander

Joseph S. Bruno Foundation

The Comer Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Crockard, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Crowe

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Elliot III

Hackney Foundation

Jimmie and Emil Hess Fund

Mrs. Jimmie Hess

Richard and Nancy Higgs Fund

Hill Crest Foundation

Mrs. Virginia Hillhouse

Dr. and Mrs. James Kamplain

Mr. and Mrs. Gerson May

Robert R. Meyer Foundation

Ms. Terry Simmons

Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Urist

Vulcan Materials Foundation

Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust

Wells Fargo Foundation

CORPORATE PARTNERS PROGRAMThrough the Corporate Partners

Program, local businesses can

have an even greater impact on the

culture of our city and the region.

In addition, it allows the Museum

to provide corporate members with

greater hospitality and networking

opportunities, plus additional ac-

cess for employees and executives.

As the Museum strives to build

sustainable sources of operating

funds, we rely on our Corporate

Partners to take a leadership role

in that support. This program is

one of the major annual requests

to our community and enables our

staff to plan, forecast, and build

an overall stronger organization—

making us more accountable to you

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and our community.

Your support reflects a commit-

ment to help us contribute to the

quality of life for your employees

and thousands of your neighbors.

And we thank you!

FOUNDER’S CIRCLEAlabama Power Company

Regions Bank

SUSTA INER’S CIRCLEBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

Harbert Management Corporation

Maynard Cooper & Gale, P.C.

Protective Life Corporation

Vulcan Materials Company

CHA IRMAN’S CIRCLEAT&T Birmingham

Balch & Bingham LLP

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Jemison Investments

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

White Arnold & Dowd P.C.

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLEAltec Industries, Inc.

CitationAir

Colonial Properties Trust

Merrill Lynch

New Capital Partners

Oscar’s at the Museum

Sterne Agee

Thompson Tractor, Inc.

CURATOR’S CIRCLEB.L. Harbert International

Brasfield & Gorrie LLC

First Commercial Bank

Integrated Medical Systems

Interconn Resources, Inc.

Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP

KPS Group, Inc.

BENEFACTOR’S CIRCLEBorland Benefield

Brookmont Realty Group

Cameras Brookwood

Clark, James, Hanlin & Hunt LLC

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United

Christie’s

Dunn Investment Company

Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker LLC

L. Paul Kassouf & Co., P.C.

Lawler Foundry Corporation

Levy’s Fine Jewelry, Inc.

Lightfoot Franklin and White LLC

Marx Brothers, Inc.

Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc.

National Cement Company

O’Neal Steel

Pizitz Management Group

Richgood Corporation

Sloss Real Estate Company, Inc.

The Stewart Perry Company, Inc.

Synovus Trust Company

Williams Blackstock Architects

EDUCATION AND PROGRAM SUPPORTThe BMA’s education programs

are extremely important in the

current educational climate.

Arts programs are often the

first budget cuts made by school

systems, leaving museums and

other arts organizations to fill

in the educational gaps. Thank

you for making it possible for the

BMA to “fill in the gaps” in central

Alabama.

BBVA Compass

BMA Docent Council

Mrs. Pam Collins

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Collins


Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham

Arthur and Emma Grefenkamp Trust

Honda Manufacturing of Alabama


Ms. Nadine L’Eplattenier

Dr. Bill Mason and Mr. Bob Scharfenstein

Miller Transportation

Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Naughton

Dr. Clyde W. Oyster

Publix Super Markets Charities

William and LaVona Rushton Charitable Fund

Mr. and Dr. Terry W. Sanders

Barbara Ingalls Shook Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. David H. Sibley

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sparks

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Still

Ms. Catherine M. Stokes

Dr. and Mrs. David L. Tharpe

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Upchurch, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Urist

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Prince Whatley II

Ms. Patricia White

ENDOWMENTEndowed support is critical to

providing the financial stability

necessary to ensure that we

are able to host programs and

exhibitions that engage, entertain,

and enlighten visitors of all ages

and backgrounds. Your support

helps us fulfill our mission

and continue to be an essential

resource for our community.

Mrs. Ann Bruno

Estate of Mr. Henry C. Goodrich

Lorol Bowron Rediker Rucker Foundation

Pleiad Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. R. Waid Shelton

Estate of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Spencer III

Stephens Foundation

Lucille R. Thompson

Thompson Tractor, Inc.


Mr. Alan K. Zeigler

EXHIBIT ION SUPPORTTraveling, temporary, and

permanent exhibitions are what

make up the majority of museum

programming, and the BMA

is no exception. Support from

Foundations and Individuals make

it possible for the Museum staff

to bring exciting exhibitions from

throughout the world to the people

of Birmingham and the Southeast.

We appreciate the support we

receive for the many exhibitions

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American-Scandinavian Foundation

Balch & Bingham LLP

The Joseph S. Bruno Charitable Foundation



Mr. and Mrs. John B. Elliott III

Hackney Foundation

Hess Foundation

Mrs. Emil Hess

Jimmie and Emil Hess Fund


Mrs. Caroline Ireland

Mr. and Mrs. Creighton E. Johnson



Museum Education Council

National Endowment for the Arts

The PNC Financial Services Group

Mr. and Mrs. F. Don Siegal

Ms. Terry K. Simmons

Dr. and Mrs. David A. Skier

Mrs. Marilyn S. Smith

Vulcan Materials Company

Wedgwood Society of Southern California


Tom and Joan Williams Charitable Foundation

FOUNDATION SUPPORTGrants from foundations support

a wide variety of initiatives at

the BMA, including exhibitions,

renovations, conservation, and

programming, to name a few.

Foundation support is integral to

the Museum’s operations.

American-Scandinavian Foundation

The Joseph S. Bruno Charitable Foundation

The Margaret A. Cargill Foundation


Daniel Foundation of Alabama

Mike and Gillian Goodrich Charitable Foundation

Hackney Foundation

Jane Hill Head Foundation

Hess Foundation


Kennedy Center

Robert R. Meyer Foundation

Edlis Neeson Foundation

Publix Super Markets Charities

Barbara Ingalls Shook Foundation

Steiner Foundation

Stephens Foundation

Samuel E. Upchurch, Jr. Charitable Foundation

Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust

J and H Weldon Foundation, Inc.


Tom and Joan Williams Charitable Foundation

GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORTOne of the most important types

of support for arts organizations

is for general operating. This

support assists the Museum with

the everyday expenses of doing

business, plus helps with all other

types of programming the public

has come to expect from the BMA.

Accenture Leadership Team

Judge and Mrs. John H. Alsbrooks, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Leldon H. Amick

Argus Literary Club


Mrs. Sidney R. Bagby

Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Bainbridge, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John Beauchamp

Mr. Jay R. Bender and Dr. Dominique Linchet

Birmingham Business Alliance

Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Bissell

Ms. Florence Blair

Ms. Katherine Blount

Mr. Steve Boone

Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Bromberg, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Dixon Brooke, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Percy W. Brower, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Browne

Mrs. June E. Bulow

Amb. and Mrs. William J. Cabaniss, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Callahan

Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Calvin

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Campbell

Margaret A. Cargill Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cassell

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Clark, Jr.

Mr. Joseph Clem

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Cobb

Mr. Allen Collier

Mr. P. Collins

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cox

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Creighton

Dr. and Mrs. James H. Crenshaw

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cunningham III

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald V. Dake

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Darden

Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Denaburg

Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Drake

Mr. Fred Duran

Elitzer Family Fund

Dr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Elsas

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Erdreich, Jr.

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

First United Methodist Church

Mr. Frank Fleming

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Geer

Mrs. Johnie Gieger

Mr. Christopher Glaub

Mrs. Vann Goodner, Jr.

Mike and Gillian Goodrich Charitable Foundation

Mrs. Peggy Goodwin

Mr. Harold Guckes

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Hamby

Jane Hill Head Foundation

Mr. Peter Holby

Mrs. Helen S. Hudgens


Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Katholi

Ms. Carolynne B. Kent

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Knowlton, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Christ Kyle

Ms. Nadine L’Eplattenier

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Lancaster

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Livingston, Jr.

Mr. James G. Londe and Mr. Ronald Miller

Mr. Henry S. Lynn, Jr.

Ms. Catherine E. McDonald

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. McNeeley

Dr. and Mrs. Leon V. McVay

Mr. and Mrs. Hobart McWhorter, Jr.

Mrs. Barbara B. Mandy


Mrs. Patricia Millhouse

Dr. and Mrs. Norton T. Montague

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Dr. and Mrs. Cecil Morgan, Jr.

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Edlis Neeson Foundation

Oak Mountain High School

Oak Street Garden Shop

Mr. and Mrs. Cleo C. Parker, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. George Petznick

Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Powell

Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer S. Poynor III

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Printz

Mr. Peter E. Printz

Mr. and Mrs. Pete Pritchard

Joyce Ratliff

Mr. and Mrs. E. Mabry Rogers

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosseau

Rotaract Club of Birmingham

Mr. and Mrs. Allen D. Rushton

Mr. and Mrs. John Sehon

Mrs. Anne C. Silberman

Florence E. Simpson Fund

Mrs. Martha Singer

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Slaughter

Ms. Leonette W. Slay and Mr. Michael O’Donnell

Sloss Real Estate Company

Ms. Ann Morris Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Smith

Ms. Louise P. Smith

Mrs. Peter G. Smith

Mr. James D. Sokol and Ms. Lydia Cheney

Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Sprague

Steiner Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Steiner

Stephens Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Bart Stephens

Mr. Jeffery I. and Dr. Linda J. Stone

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Streit

Evelyn and Gene Stutts Advised Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sullivan

Mr. and Mrs. Crawford L. Taylor, Jr.

Ms. Felton Temple

Third Thursday Art Focus Group

Mr. and Mrs. George C. Thompson


Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Velve

Dr. Jutta von Buchholtz

Mr. and Mrs. Terry Weathers

Ms. Angie S. Webb

Bruce and Lee Ann Webster

Ms. Joan S. Wexler

Mr. W.B. White


Mr. and Mrs. George Wolfe

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Woods

Mr. M.T. Wynn

Mr. Alan K. Zeigler

GOVERNMENT SUPPORTThe support of government is

vital to arts education, including

the operation of the Museum.

The following organizations,

departments, and municipalities

provide much-needed financial

support to the BMA’s initiatives.

Alabama Tourism Department

Alabama State Council on the Arts

Birmingham Racing Commission

City of Birmingham

City of Hoover

City of Mountain Brook

City of Vestavia Hills

Midfield City Board of Education

National Endowment for the Arts

MUSEUM BALLIn addition to being one of the

city’s premier social events, the

proceeds generated from this event

are essential to supporting arts

education and providing learning

opportunities for all ages through

programs, outreach events, and

classes. We appreciate the support

of those who donate to and attend

the annual Museum Ball.

MASTERPIECE BALL CHA IRSMrs. G. Ruffner Page, Jr.

Mrs. Donald W. Patton

MEN’S COMMITTEE CHA IRSMr. William A. Legg, Jr.

Mr. James L. Priester

MASTERPIECE BALL COMMITTEEMrs. M. Stanford Blanton

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Bromberg

Mrs. Thomas A. Broughton III

Ms. Barbara L. Burton


Mrs. J. Patrick Darby

Mrs. Richard H. Drennen

Mrs. Mark L. Drew.

Mrs. William W. Featheringill

Mr. John B. Grenier

Mr. David B. Hezlep

Mrs. James S. Holbrook, Jr.

Mrs. Virginia Ellen Jackson

Mrs. Thomas E. Jernigan, Jr.

Mrs. D. Bradford Kidd

Mrs. Jonathan L. Kimerling

Mrs. James C. Lasker

Mrs. Michael D. Luce

Mrs. J. Michael McDowell

Mrs. W. Dean Nix

Mrs. James L. Priester

Mrs. Deakins F. Rushton

Mr. Charles H. Simpson

Mrs. Sergio Stagno

Mrs. Lee J. Styslinger III

Mrs. James O. Walker, Jr.

Mrs. John W. Williams

MASTERPIECEHarbert Management

Thomas E. Jernigan Foundation

McWane, Inc.

O’Neal Industries

The Family of Elizabeth O’Neal White Shannon

Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Patton

SUSTA INERSAlabama Power Company

Altec Industries, Inc.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Brooke

Colonial Properties Trust

Mr. and Mrs. J. Patrick Darby

EBSCO Industries, Inc.

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Mr. and Mrs. William W. Featheringill

Mr. and Mrs. T. Michael Goodrich

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Gray

Jemison Investment Co., Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Legg, Jr.

Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC

Ms. Allison Nichols and Mr. Bill Mudd

Protective Life Corporation

Red Diamond, Inc.

Sterne Agee

University of Alabama at Birmingham

BENEFACTORSMitchell Industries, Inc.

Northwestern Mutual of Alabama

Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Rosse

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Rushton III

Servis1st Bank

Mr. and Mrs. Russell H. Vandevelde IV

SPONSORSBBVA Compass


Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Fletcher

Mrs. Helen S. Hudgens


Ms. Pauline Ireland

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan L. Kimerling

Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael McDowell

Mr. and Mrs. Joel B. Piassick

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Priester

Vulcan Value Partners

MEN’S COMMITTEEMr. and Mrs. William B. Anthony

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Bromberg

Dr. and Mrs. James E. Bryant

Burr & Forman LLP

Ms. Barbara L. Burton

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bussian


Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Carruthers, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Chambliss

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Comer III

Mr. and Mrs. Reaves M. Crabtree

Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Crockard III

Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Drake

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Drennen

Drummond Company

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin R. Engel

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S.W. Given

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert W. Goings

Mr. and Mrs. M. Miller Gorrie


Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Hanson III

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Harrison

Mr. and Mrs. J. Keith Hazelrig

Mr. David B. Hezlep

Mr. and Mrs. Joel R. Hillhouse

Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. King

Dr. and Mrs. James C. Lasker


Dr. and Mrs. Farrell O. Mendelsohn

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Moore

Dr. Clyde W. Oyster

Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Pigford

Dr. and Mrs. John W. Poynor

Mr. and Mrs. Harlan I. Prater IV

Mr. Farrell E. Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. Leo A. Shaia

Mr. and Mrs. Murray W. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. South III

Mr. Larry D. Thornton, Sr.

Dr. and Mrs. Albert J. Tully, Jr.

Welch Hornsby

Dr. Janie Williams and Mr. John M. Williams

PATRONSMrs. Frank M. Bainbridge

Balch & Bingham LLP

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Balliet

Dr. and Mrs. Jon J. Blankenship

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Boehm

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Briggs

Mrs. Frank H. Bromberg, Jr.

Mr. Charles G. Brown III

Mr. Patrick Cather

Ms. Lydia Cheney and Mr. James D. Sokol

Mrs. Francis H. Crockard, Jr.

Ms. Terri Denard and Mr. Steven L. Reider

Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Drew

Ms. Joan M. Edmonds

Dr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Elsas

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Erdreich,Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Frei

Ms. Betty A. Goldstein and Mr. Leo Kayser, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Goyer III

Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt R. Haskell

Mr. and Mrs. Stanton B. Ingram, Jr.

Mrs. Virginia Ellen Jackson

Drs. David and Rupa Kitchens

Ms. Kelly Rushin and Mr. Jim Lewis

Mrs. Betty W. Loeb

Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Lucas

Mr. George G. Lynn



Patty McDonald and Dr. Julius E. Linn

Ms. Helen C. Mills and Dr. Walter G. Pittman

Mr. and Mrs. James Proctor

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Neiswender

Mr. and Mrs. William W.B. Rhett

Royal Club

Dr. and Mrs. R. Waid Shelton, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. David H. Sibley

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Simpson

Mr. and Mrs. Sanjay Singh


Mr. and Mrs. David M. Smith

Mr. Hatton C.V. Smith

Starnes Davis Floire

Mr. Herbert Stockham

Drs. Parvez and Farah Sultan


The Honorable and Mrs. J. Scott Vowell

Mr. and Mrs. James O. Walker, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Pennington Whiteside, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. M. Brent Yarborough

Contributors

Mr. and Mrs. C. Bruce Alexander

Mrs. W.H. Blount

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Boulware III

Mr. and Mrs. Pratt Brown

Capital Strategies Group, Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Cobbs

Mrs. John Cowin

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Cox, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory S. Curran

Mrs. Forsyth S. Donald

Mrs. Joan M. Edmonds

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goodrich

Ms. Brenda Hackney

Dr. Griffith R. Harsh and Mr. Craig K. Harsh

Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Hendry

Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Hobbs IV

Ms. Sarah B. Jackson

Ms. Dorothy W. Jeffries

Dr. and Mrs. Dewey H. Jones III

Mrs. Susan H. Justice


Mr. Jack H. Kreuger

Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Long, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Matheson

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. McGahey

Dr. and Mrs. Cecil Morgan

Mr. John H. Morrow

Motion Industries

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Phillips

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Pritchard

Mr. and Mrs. Clay Ragsdale

Mrs. Elberta Reid

Ms. Dorothy J. Tayloe

Mr. and Mrs. C. Logan Taylor III

STAFF APPRECIATION LUNCHEONThe staff of the Birmingham

Museum of Art would like to

thank those supporters who made

the Staff Appreciation Luncheon

possible.

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Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Arrington

BMA Docent Council



Mrs. Anne W. Burnette


Mr. Patrick Cather

Ms. Myla Calhoun Choy

Mr. H.C. Day

Ms. Leila Deep



Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Goodwyn

Mr. Vincent John Graffeo

Ms. Marianne Griffin and Mr. Michael Roy

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hanlin


Ms. Pauline Ireland


Ms. Jennifer R. McCain

Ms. Catherine E. McDonald



Ms. Kelly Rushin and Mr. Jim Lewis




Mr. and Mrs. Lee J. Styslinger, Jr.

Ms. Meagan E. Vucovich

Mr. and Mrs. Robin A. Wade, Jr.

Mrs. Lauren S. Weil

Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Wootten

Workamapro

Mr. and Mrs. M. Brent Yarborough

Mr. Alan K. Zeigler

WELLS SOCIETY MEMBERSThe BMA extends sincere thanks

to members of the Wells Society,

who have included the Museum in

their estate plans. Wells Society

members help to ensure that the

Museum will continue to collect,

preserve, and exhibit works of art

and provide educational programs

and services to future generations.

Ms. Terry P. Adams


Dr. Loretta G. Brown

Dr. and Mrs. Peter D. Bunting


Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Cargo

Dr. Arthur Clements

Dr. and Mrs. John Durr Elmore



Mrs. Sylvia Goldberg

Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Hanson II

Dr. Firmon E. Hardenbergh

Mrs. Emil Hess

Mr. and Mrs. Stanton B. Ingram, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome H. Lapidus

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Lewis

Ms. Joan W. Lightfoot



Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. McCoy

Mr. Philip A. Morris

Prof. Edward J. Olszewski

Dr. Dannetta K. T. Owens

Ms. Marianne Schoel

Mrs. Sandra S. Simpson


Mrs. Peter G. Smith

Dr. and Mrs. Jack W. Trigg, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander de Haven Vare

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson

Dr. Donald A. Wood

MEMBERSHIPWhere would the BMA be

without the generous support of

our members? The Museum has

thousands of members and many

of them have chosen to provide

additional support through our

upper level membership programs.

We thank you for supporting us

with your membership.

CHA IRMAN’S CIRCLEMr. and Mrs. Victor H. Hanson II


Mr. Arnold L. Steiner

Mr. and Mrs. Crawford L. Taylor, Jr.

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLEMr. and Mrs. Frank M. Bainbridge, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Peter D. Bunting

Ms. Jane S. Comer and Mr. Charles Lantz

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Daniel

Mr. H. C. Day

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Featheringill



Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Harbert

Mrs. Joan C. Harrison

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hillhouse, Jr.


Ms. Pauline Ireland

Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. James

Dr. Erica L. Liebelt

Dr. Julius E. Linn



Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Rosse

Mr. Philip A. Morris

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Siragusa, Jr.


Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Sklenar


Mr. and Mrs. William A. Terry

Mr. and Mrs. Robin A. Wade, Jr.

Mr. Alan K. Zeigler

CURATORS’ CIRCLEDr. and Mrs. C. Bruce Alexander

Mr. and Mrs. A. Jack Allison

Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bagby

Dr. and Mrs. J. Claude Bennett

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Engel

Mrs. Foster Etheredge

Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Eubanks

Mr. Charles E. Foshee


Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gillespy

Mr. Guy R. Kreusch



Ms. Jean B. Morris

Dr. and Mrs. John W. Poynor

Mr. James D. Sokol and Ms. Lydia Cheney


Mr. and Mrs. C. Logan Taylor III

The Honorable and Mrs. J. Scott Vowell

BENEFACTOR MEMBERSMr. and Mrs. Harold L. Abroms

Mrs. Jeanne B. Alexander

Mrs. Sidney R. Bagby

Mr. and Mrs. Winfield M. Baird

Dr. and Mrs. Alton W. Baker

Mr. David R. Baker and Ms. Lois A. Gaeta

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Balliet

Mr. Julian W. Banton and Dr. Carol Z. Garrison

Drs. Omar and Retna Billano

Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Bissell

Dr. and Mrs. Jon J. Blankenship

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Boehm

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Boulware III

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Bowron, Jr.

Mrs. Susan Boyd


Ms. Karin Callahan

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin S. Carroll


Mr. Patrick Cather

Mr. Eligah Dane Clark and Mrs. Irene P. Little

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Coleman

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Collat, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Cook

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crawford


Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell Davis, Jr.

Mr. Robert D. Eckinger and Ms. Maibeth Porter

Mr. and Mrs. James S. M. French

Mr. James B. Gordy

Ms. Catherine Haggard

Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt R. Haskell

Betty Healey

Mr. and Dr. John D. Johns

Mr. and Mrs. James Milton Johnson


Mr. and Mrs. William B. Keller

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Levine


Ms. Jennifer R. McCain

Patty McDonald

Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael McDowell

Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. McPhillips

Ms. Alison Nichols and Mr. Bill Mudd

Dr. Jeannine O’Grody and Dr. John Chatham

Ms. Martha Pezrow

Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Powell

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Ratliff III

Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Ray, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rives

Mr. Farrell E. Robinson

Ms. Marianne Schoel

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Selman


Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. South III

Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Stein

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Steiner

Mrs. Mary S. Steiner

Mr. and Mrs. Elton B. Stephens, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stitt III

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Straus

Mr. Jim Stroud

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Thompson


Mrs. Frieda R. White


PATRON MEMBERSMr. and Mrs. Mark Aldridge

Mr. and Mrs. R. Michael Booker

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas O. Bouler III

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Brockman

Dr. and Mrs. James E. Bryant

Mrs. June E. Bulow

Mr. and Mrs. Frank K. Bynum


Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Caldwell III

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Chandler

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Cobb

Dr. and Mrs. H. Cecil Coghlan

Mr. and Mrs. John N. Corey

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Curtin

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Darden

Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Davis, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Dixon

Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Doody

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Drummond

Mrs. Helene S. Elkus

Ms. Rachel S. Ferguson

Mr. Scott W. Ford and Mr. Christopher J. Campanotta

Mr. and Mrs. Conrad M. Fowler, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Tracy R. Hall

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Harley

Mr. and Mrs. Meredyth R. Hazzard, Jr.

Mr. and Ms. Ronald C. Helveston

Mr. and Mrs. James V. Henagan

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hendry

Mr. J.P. Horishny

Mrs. Fay B. Ireland

April Jackson and Lane McNaron

Mr. Dick Jemison

Dr. and Mrs. Kent T. Keyser

Sol Kimerling

Mr. Cam Langley and Ms. Janice Kluge

Mr. and Mrs. Benny M. LaRussa, Jr.

Dr. Charles A. McCallum

Mr. and Mrs. Travis McGowin III

Mr. and Mrs. John Markus


Mrs. Patricia Millhouse

Ms. Margaret Monaghan

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Morgan, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Morris

Mr. and Mrs. James L. North, Sr.

Dr. Clyde W. Oyster

Ms. Virginia C. Patterson

Mr. and Mrs. G. Gray Plosser, Jr.

Mrs. Paula P. Pointer

Mrs. Barbara Powell

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Procter

Mrs. Mel Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce F. Rogers

Mr. Amasa G. Smith, Jr.

Mrs. Peter G. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. David Stearns

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stewart, Jr.

Mrs. Beth Thorne Stukes

Dr. and Mrs. Albert J. Tully, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Temple Tutwiler III

Ms. Marion F. Walker

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Ward

Mrs. Jane Webb

Ms. Geraldine Woodson

Mr. and Mrs. John N. Wrinkle

FELLOW MEMBERSThe Honorable and Mrs. William Acker, Jr.

Mrs. Colleen Adams

Dr. Rocklin D. Alling

Dr. and Mrs. Gary W. Archer

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Arnold

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Arrington

Mrs. Beverly Baker

Dr. Eugene V. Ball

Dr. Joseph B. Beaird, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Mavanee R. Bear

Ms. Joyce Benington

Mr. and Mrs. Stacey Berthon

Ms. Jean S. Bissell

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Blair

Ms. Irene S. Blalock and Mr. Richard Shoemaker

Mrs. Mary M. Bledsoe

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Boles

Dr. James R. Bonner and Dr. Coralie S. Hains

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bradford

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Burdette

Ms. Sharon C. Burdette

Mr. and Mrs. John Carroll

Ms. Myla Calhoun Choy

Mrs. Annie M. Clayton and Ms. Janis Cordell

Mr. and Mrs. L. Holt Cloud

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cobb

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Cosby

Janet and Stephen Cox

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Mr. B. Austin Cunningham

Mrs. Druscilla A. Defalque

Drs. Michael and Leisa Devenny

Dr. and Mrs. William E. Dismukes

Dr. and Mrs. William H. Dodson

Mr. Dan E. Douglas

Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Dreher

Dr. and Mrs. Jiri Dubovsky

Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Dunn

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Eckert

Ms. Allyson L. Edwards

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Elkourie

Mrs. Henrietta Emack

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin R. Engel

Mrs. Trudy R. Evans

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Fields

Dr. and Mrs. Winfield S. Fisher III

Mr. John Robert Fleenor, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. James G. Floyd

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Freeland

Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Frohsin

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Gainer

Mr. Richard K. Garrison

Dr. and Mrs. Warren C. Gewant

Mr. John W. Gibson and Ms. Mary Jane Wells

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Goings, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Braxton Goodrich

Mr. William T. Graves

Mr. and Mrs. Nick Greenwood

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Greer

Mr. Beau Grenier

Mrs. Betty R. Grisham

Mr. John Hagefstration

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hair

Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Hanson III

Mr. and Mrs. Robin Harbin

Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Hare, Jr.

Dr. Mary Hawn and Mr. Eben Rosenthal

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hereford

Mr. Samuel D. Herring

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hicks

Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hightower

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hooper

Mr. and Mrs. James F. Hughey, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Ansley A. Hunt

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ireland II

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Jackson

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Jetmundsen, Jr.

Mrs. Patricia A. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Jones

Mr. Leo Kayser, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James F. Kuhn

Ms. Betty Law

Mr. and Mrs. Alex Leath

Mrs. Elaine Lee

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Lewis

Mrs. Terri D. Lyon

Mrs. James H. McCary

Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. McColl

Ms. Kathryn McDonald and Mr. Barr Linton

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. McGahey

Mr. Jay E. McKinney and Mr. Charles R. Strahan

Mr. and Mrs. Emmett E. McLean

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. McLeod

Mr. and Mrs. John J. McMahon, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Matthews

Mr. and Mrs. William Matthews V

Mr. and Mrs. Danny O. Meadows

Dr. Suzanne M. Michalek

Mr. Thomas M. Moody

Mr. and Mrs. Brad Morton

Mr. and Mrs. Leon A. Nolen III

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Norris

Mr. and Mrs. John T. Oliver III

Ms. Ann F. Omura

Ms. Lori Oswald and Mr. Hans Paul

Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Ozment

Dr. Martin Palmer

Dr. and Mrs. Dennis G. Pappas

Mr. and Mrs. Y. C. Parris

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pathasema

Jackson and Suzanne Payne

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Pearce

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Pless

Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Porter

Mr. and Mrs. Judson E. Prater

Mrs. Angela F. Pruitt

Mr. and Mrs. Pringle Ramsey

Dr. and Mrs. Henry Randolph

Mr. and Mrs. William Ranieri

Joyce Ratliff

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Roberts

Dr. and Mrs. Adam D. Robertson

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph N. Rooney, Sr.

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Rostand

Drs. Paul and Merle Salter

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sansone

Dr. and Mrs. David A. Schedler

Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Schultz

Mrs. Jean S. Shanks

Dr. and Mrs. R. Waid Shelton, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Roland T. Short, Jr.

Mrs. Richard E. Simmons, Jr.

Mr. Henry E. Simpson

Mr. and Mrs. B. Hanson Slaughter

Ms. Leonette W. Slay and Mr. Michael O’Donnell

Dr. Kenneth Sloan and Dr. Christine A. Curcio

Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop W. Smith, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Murray W. Smith

Mrs. and Mr. Carleton R. Sokol

Mr. and Mrs. Jim C. Stapleton

Mr. and Mrs. M. Jefferson Starling III

Mr. and Mrs. W. Stancil Starnes

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Steiner

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Styslinger

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sweeney, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Swoger

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sylvester

Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Taylor

Mrs. Leah M. Taylor

Ms. Dallas A. Teague Snider and Mr. Tad Snider

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Terry

Dr. and Mrs. David L. Tharpe

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry N. Thompson

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Tilt

Dr. and Mrs. Jack W. Trigg, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Ingram D. Tynes

Dr. and Mr. Amy Van Elkan

Mr. and Mrs. Russell H. Vandevelde

Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Vevle

Mr. Peter Walsh and Ms. Linda Vernon

Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Ware

Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Watkins

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Weathers

Dr. and Mrs. Bob Wendorf

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Prince Whatley II

Mr. and Mrs. George F. Wheelock III

Mr. and Mrs. Heustis P. Whiteside, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Alton C. Whitt, Jr.


Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Williams

Ms. Caroline Wingate

Mr. and Mrs. J. David Woodruff, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Foster Yeilding

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Yoder

Mr. Lee H. Zell

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