2011 a look back

COME WITH US AS WE TAKE YOU THROUGH ANOTHER WONDERFUL YEAR AT THE MARSHALL

M. FREDERICKS SCULPTURE MUSUEM

Artists Portray Artists: Selections from the Kresge Art Museum Collection exhibition, October 2010-January 2011

Art in Architecture: The Collaborative Spirit of the

Interwar Period in Detroit exhibition, February – May 2011

Creative Marketing Session April 12, 2011

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Fourteen marketing and PR specialists joined Matt Davis and museum staff to create 138 marketing ideas (count the stickies) for the Museum.

Kids Discover Art Day April 19, 2011412 students, teachers and chaperones enjoyed Kids Discover Art Day at the Museum and free donuts from Tim Hortons on Tuesday, April 19 when WHNN radio personalities Johnny Burke and Blondie broadcast live from the Museum.

The donuts and hot chocolate provided by Tim Hortons were a huge hit!

Summer Art Camps 2011

Summer Solstice Celebration in Nancy Holt’s “Annual Ring“ on the SVSU campus, June 21, 2011

New Exterior Entrance and Sculpture Garden Architectural Renderings

Plans for an exterior Museum entrance and sculpture garden are underway.

2 Centuries, 30 Years, 32 Works by Charles McGee exhibition, June – September 2011

The Bay Area Community Foundation, Midland Area Community Foundation and Saginaw Community Foundation were grant sponsors of this important exhibition. See following 3 pages.

2011 Lectures and Gallery Talks

John Gallagher, left

Jennifer Baross, right

Charles McGee, left

Celia Bertoia, right

Saints, Sinners and Soul 2011

The Museum’s annual fund raising event was enjoyed by nearly 300 guests.

Staff Retreat 2011

Museum staff works hard, but took a break during a staff retreat to pick apples at Moore’s Orchard. Thank you Terry and Carleen.

Harry Bertoia: Abstract Drawings exhibition, October - December 2011

Harry Bertoia, left

Guests at the exhibition opening, center below

Monoprints by Bertoia, left and right below

Acquisitions 2011

Susanna and the Mirror bronze sculpture.Museum purchase.

One of four plaster courtroom reliefs from the Coleman A. Young Municipal Building Gift from Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority.

Theodore Roethke Poetry Slam, November 2011

We celebrated the poetic spirit of Saginaw’s own Theodore Roethke at the Museum with a poetry slam on November 12. Over 100 people came to participate in reading and to watch the wonderful Steps Montessori pre-school children sing songs with Roethke lyrics.

Published Sketches to Sculptures, Rendered Reality: Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks traveling exhibition catalog.

Available for $19.95 in the gift shop or online at marshallfredericks.org.

Board Meeting December, 2011, Detroit Athletic Club

The staff wishes you and yours a

glorious and magical holiday

season