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NOVEMBER 2017 NEWS
LECTURE
KRISTINA GILMOREMEET THE CROCKERCURATOR ORGANIZINGTHE RUTH RIPPON SHOWNovember 15
2017-18 BOARD MEMBERS
President: Nancy LawrenceVice President: PamSaltenberger
Secretary: AJ Watson
Treasurer: Barbara Ruona
Debbie CorrKat CrowMarge Dobrowolski Libby FigeroidSally Flory-O’NeilMJ HamiltonWilliam IshmaelSam ReepMary Anne SchendzelosLinda SchroederEllen Torgerson
Committees:
Jill PeaseLinda TochtermanSusan Willoughby
For committee assignments,please visit our website atwww.kingsleyartclub.org
Send comments to [email protected] call 916-961-4654.
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COVER IMAGE: Ruth Rippon(American, born 1927),“Woman in Hat,” 1979.Stoneware, 211⁄4 x 191⁄2 x 12in. Collection of Anne andMalcolm McHenry.
From the President
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The new Kingsley Art Club website is available now. Look at theupdated images and the things we are doing. Enjoy being part ofa dynamic club and its activities. Enter kingsleyartclub.org.
As I said at our last meeting, Kingsley is getting involved in moreart activities. The most historic event is our underwriting part of the
E. Charlton Fortune exhibitionthat will open in January,2018, ninety years after theKingsley first sponsored hershow at the Crocker. She was a33 year old woman artist fromCalifornia who hid her genderby abbreviating Euphemia to
her initial. The dialogue we are sponsoring will tell her story. Thereis a glorious catalogue coming.
The Kingsley board also agreed to underwrite part of the Crockerdocents “Bus on Us” program which enables Title One schools tovisit the museum and have a workshop experience. We continue tosupport (and thank!) our volunteers who teach at Hollywood Elemen-tary every month. Their artist lesson one day is followed the next dayby a hands-on project in class. Several people volunteered to helpafter our last meeting. Thank you, too. It is a program that requireslots of planning and help. Both of these programs help young chil-dren know the museum and see “real” art.
Finally, the very special show at the Crocker right now is Ruth Rip-pon’s ceramics exhibition. You will hear about it and the process ofputting this show together from Kristina Gilmore. The Creative ArtsLeague donated and raised funds for a gorgeous catalogue ofRuth’s work. Don’t miss it and the exhibition. — Nancy Lawrence
Kingsley Art Club Evaluation Day: Tuesday, November 14The Kingsley-sponsored Art Evaluation Day offers informal ap-praisals of art and antiques. $12 per item, or $55 for five items.Call (916) 808-7752 to schedule an appointment.
SAVE THE DATE
Ruth Rippon (right) teaching majolica techniques to students at Sacramento State, circa 1960.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 1:15 p.m.Crocker Art Museum, Setzer Auditorium
Kristina Gilmore (left) is theCrocker’s new Associate Cu-rator, and this will be herfirst Kingsley lecture. Whileat the Crocker she has bothcurated and coordinatedseveral exhibitions including“Rain Forest Visions: Ama-zonian Ceramics fromEcuador,” “A Show ofForce: Sculpture by Allan
Houser,” and “Two Views: Photographs by Robert Frankand Ansel Adams.” For this lecture, she will share her ex-periences developing exhibitions, including the highly an-ticipated “Exuberant Earth: the Ceramics of Ruth Rippon.”
At 90 years of age, Ruth Rippon is a legend in the ce-ramic world. In the 1950s she developed a ceramics pro-gram for the new college, Sacramento State, and sheremained on the faculty until her retirement in 1987. At thesame time, her good friend Robert Arneson was developingthe ceramics program at UC Davis, and between the two ofthem, and all those students they nurtured, the Sacramentoregion became recognized as the premier center for art-work in clay. Both Rippon and Arneson also helped ele-vate the craft of ceramics into the realm of fine art.
All of us are familiar with some of Ruth’s ceramic work, be it thelarge “Lollies” at the Pavilions, or small porcelains in theCrocker’s collection. But few of us are familiar with the broad ex-tent of her output. The exhibition will include more than 90 ofher most beautiful and iconic pieces. In this lecture Kristinawill include Ruth’s less familiar works, like her voyeuristic“Peep Shows,” her alphabet blocks and her artist tableaux.
“Exuberant Earth” is accompanied by a beautiful book coveringRuth’s life and work. It is available in the Crocker Bookstore.
MEET KRISTINA GILMORE, CROCKER CURATOR: ORGANIZING THE RUTH RIPPON EXHIBITION
“Mermaid Vase,” 1973. Porcelain with celadon glaze, 151⁄2 x 53⁄4 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of John A.
Mahey in honor of Malcolm and Anne McHenry.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT “First Ladies Blocks,” 1968. Stoneware, 5 cubes: 83⁄4 x 83⁄4 x 83⁄4 in. (each), 2 die: 5 x 5x 5 in. (each), collection of Cathie Neagle Fobes; “Thunderhead,” 1972, stoneware with luster on a carved plasterbase, Crocker Art Museum; “Europa and the Bull,” 1964. Stoneware, 23 x 21 x 11 in. Crocker Art Museum, giftof Mrs. George W. Bullen; Ruth Rippon sculpting Camille in the ceramics studio at Sacramento State, 1982.
c/o Sally Flory-O’Neil2423 H St.Sacramento, CA 95816
The Kingsley Art ClubNewsletter is printedand assembled bythe staff and studentsof the McClaskeyAdult School.
Out and About with the KingsleyNovember 2017
LECTURE SERIES: Kristina Gilmore
Wednesday, November 15, 1:15 to 2:30 pmDoors open at 1:00 pmCrocker Art Museum, Setzer AuditoriumMore information atwww.crockerartmuseum.orgLEFT: Ruth Rippon, “Pomegranates,” 1970. Porcelain, 4 x 6 x 5 in. Collection of Lee Kavaljian.
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis: Mark Abildgaard “30 Years of Kiln Glass Sculpture," November 1-25. See more of our last speaker’s work on display and for sale in Davis.
b. sakata garo at 923 20th Street: Doubutsu (Animal) Show, November 7- December 2.Animals by many noted artists
Kondos Gallery at Sacramento City College: The Rippons (Ruth and nephew Tom), November 1-27.Running in conjunction with “Exuberant Earth,” Ruth Rippon’s show at the Crocker.
