program 2012
Thursday March 22nd
6:00 - 7:30pm
Private Preview: Champagne Reception Honoring members of the Naples Museum and Collier County United Arts Council.
7:30 - 10:00pm
VIP Collectors Preview
Friday March 23rd
Show Hours 11:00 - 7:00pm
1:30 - 2:30pm
Round Table Discussion and Presentation: "The Future of Studio Art Glass Movement" Moderator: Ferdinand Hampson, Director, Habatat Galleries; internationally renowned Glass sculpture artists Toots Zynsky and Dan Dailey.
3:00 - 4:00pm
Pamela Hughes, Internationally renowned designer discusses " Artful Living: Incorporating Functional Art into Rooms of All Periods." How to Enhance your Interiors with Contemporary and Functional Art. Ms. Hughes presentation will include photos of interiors of how to enhance your home with function art: studio art glass, ceramics, objects of wood, fiber and sculpture.
Saturday March 24th
Show Hours 11:00-7:00pm
1:30pm
"A Tale of Glass: 50 Years of Studio Glass in America" in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the American Studio Glass Art Movement, presentation by Ferdinand Hampson, Director Habatat Galleries, author and lecturer. Habatat Gallery was established in 1971 as the first American gallery to specialize in studio art glass. He is an author of many books, essays, lecturer on 20-21st century studio glass art and curator of the current Naples Museum "EVOLUTION/REVOLUTION: 50 YEARS OF AMERICAN STUDIO GLASS".
3:00pm
Bruce Helander, The Legacy of Andy Warhol: On the Pop artist's life and times, from birth to death and in-between, and the extraordinary, continued rise of the Warhol art market. Bruce Helander, the former Dean of the Rhode Island School of Design, White House Fellow, artist, curator, Editor-in-Chief of The Art Economist and historian on the Warhol legend, shares his thoughts of the life and times of Andy Warhol.
Sunday March 25th
Show Hours 11:00 - 6:00pm
1:30pm
"Collectors Forum: Collecting Contemporary Art, Many Voices" Robert Edwards, Naples collector leads a panel discussion with other collectors on how they started their passion for collecting art, their friendships with artists, highlights of visits to artist's studios as well as their investments in modern and contemporary art. Mr. Edwards, Senior Member of Moran Edwards Asset Management Group and board member of the Naples Museum and Sculpture magazine.
3:00pm
"Embracing a Creative State of Mind" Does Good Design have to be Radical?" Presentation and discussion by Andrea Clark Brown AIA and Richard Geary, Designer. Award winning Naples architect and designer discuss creativity and how this can lead to simple solutions to award winning interior and architectural design for everyday living.
Monday March 26th
Show Hours 11-6
1:30pm
"Photographs that Changed the World, Life Magazine Celebrates 75 years of Photography ". Steven Hartman, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, collector and dealer presents the history of Life photographers beginning from 1936 through to War War II in conjunction with the Naples Museum
"Photographs of the Memories of WW II" Mr. Hartman will discuss the life and times of the first generation of photojournalists that introduced World War II to the home front, ranging from familiar scenes of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor to Joe Rosenthal's classic Iwo Jima flag-raising in 1945. He will present scores of pictures not seen in decades; the first photographs of American troops hitting Normandy beaches on D-Day and marching through newly liberated Paris; Hitler and Mussolini at the peak of fascist power; and Hollywood starlets of the 50-60's
3:00pm
"Albert Paley, Modernist Sculptor and Vanguard Artist " Presentation by Nan Miller of Ruth Lawrence Gallery, Rochester NY. For over 40 years Paley has created monumental site-specific metal assemblages which placed him in the forefront of contemporary sculpture and vanguard artist working in the new genre-defying area called Archisculpture". Naples Museum's distinguishing "Paley Gates" stand as a lasting tribute to this internationally renowned artist.