May / June 2018

Woman before a Woman before a Mirror

Some thoughts on the future of Museums:

The de Young Museum of Art in San Francisco declares its mission right up front:

“We are an art museum, a vital public space where objects illuminate the past, speak of the present, and shape the future. Doers, creators, thinkers, citizens of the world—those who eagerly face the unfamiliar—you are welcome here.”

From 1967-1977 Thomas Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He changed things forever, caused much controversy and debate by dragging a drab repository of paintings into a new era. A showman, he made the stuffy museum into a bright spot in the community and changed the outlook for museums for good, or so it seemed. Reading and talking with friends I have learned that the upcoming generations are strikingly different than mine. They are not buying houses, they travel more, marry less and rely on the internet for information. I’ve been warned that they don’t want my books, my china or anything else I own or was passed down to me by my parents and grandparents. That made me wonder about the future of museums. Will those younger have any interest in supporting buildings that house the ephemera that they have so little interest in personally? Or, on the other hand, will interest soar because these venues will offer the only chance to experience these objects? Will they just Google a piece of art and feel as though that is as good as seeing it in person? Museums are expensive to run. There is a lot of overhead involved and they count on government support, benefactors and the public. It is getting more and more expensive. Museums where admission was once free are now having to charge for admission. More and more they must rely on special shows, rock concerts, etc. to draw in crowds. Attendance in general is down. As of now PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts, and most things that promote our unique cultural history are under siege. My hope is that these institutions that have taken so long to build will still be viable and continue to function. They serve such a unique and special purpose in promoting the value of culture and history. Here’s hoping that future generations will value the past.

Highlights

A small museum in the little town of Santa Paula, a short distance from the beaches of California’s Central Coast, is very active. It presents interesting exhibits, art classes, and community events. Right now at the Santa Paula Art Museum are a couple of shows celebrating artists from the area. Botke Birds and Blossoms runs through July 8, 2018. Jesse Arms Botke began her career as an interior designer in New York but eventually moved to Santa Paula and became a celebrated decorative painter. My grandparents had a wonderful print of her cockatoos in a tree. The exhibit contains 30 oils, watercolors, sketches and studies. The city is close to Hollywood and many of the artists who worked at various studios such as Disney, Warners, MGM and Fox worked on fine art in their spare time. Setting the Scene: Hollywood Animators and Background Painters in the Santa Paula Civic Collection is on view through June 17. The show centers on the relationship between their fine art painting and their commercial work. It is worth the drive so go to www.santapaulaartmuseum.org for information on both of these exhibits.

Where you can see my artwork

My artwork is available at Rons. For further information call the shop at 805.489.4747.  Rons is located at 850 W Grand in Grover Beach a few blocks from the train station, a golf course and the beautiful Pacific Ocean. For more information go to Rons website at www.ronsingroverbeach.com or find him on Facebook.

Not To Be Missed –Museum Exhibits

Just reopened on Catalina Island, just 26 miles off the coast of California, is the Catalina Island Museum. Jaws: The Art of Fear in Filmmaking, is a special exhibition that runs until September 16, 2018. The Production Designer of the iconic film, Joe Alves, shares the original storyboard drawings, behind the scenes photos, plus original props and ephemera, so if you are a fan find out more about this exhibit and the Catalina Island Museum at www.catalinamuseum.org and take a tour.

Featured now at the Palm Springs Museum of Art through June 18, 2018 is Grass Roots: Native American Basketry of the West. The exhibit showcases the wonderful weaving of these Native American artists who used native plants and roots as their medium. The museum also has a subsidiary museum in Palm Desert known as the Galen. It is surrounded by the four acre Faye Sarkowsky Sculpture Garden that features over ten significant sculptures surrounded by landscaped gardens. A visit to these two venues make it worth the drive. Google the museum or go to www.psmuseum.org for current information.

I am looking forward to Art Colony: The Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1935 at the Laguna Museum which starts June 24 – January 13, 2019. My mother and I spent many wonderful times in Laguna wandering through the various art galleries. Many were off the beaten track. Celebrating the centennial of the beginning of the art association in this beautiful beach town, the exhibit features paintings by many of its founders. If you are as anxious as I am to see it, take the time to get a preliminary look at www.lagunaartmuseum.org and learn more about this exhibit.

First Americans: Tribal Art From North America is at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana April 7–August 19, 2018. Many items come from the museum’s own collection and cover the Arctic, the Northwest Coast, California, the Southwest and the Great Plains. Included in the show are an early example of a transitional Navajo First Phase Chief’s blanket, an early Hopi Katsina doll and a rare Seri feathered kilt from Baja, California. For many more facts go to www.bowers.org to find some interesting information.

Highlights of the Permanent Collection celebrates the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s 75^th anniversary. The exhibit features some of the museum’s most well-known pieces. The Armand Hammer Foundation has loaned some amazing Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Of course, Portrait of Mexico Today, painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros while living in political exile in Los Angeles in 1932, has a home in the front façade of the museum. It is intact and is in a protected spot. We are so lucky to have it. Crosscurrents: The Painted Portrait in America, Britain, and France, 1750-1850 runs through May 27, 2018 with its companion show, Crosscurrents: American and European Portrait Photographs, 1840-1900. The first show features paintings that were done for prominent clients before the invention of the photograph. The second covers the early skills of portrait photographers. Check on line at www.sbmuseart.org/ for more details.

In Search of New Markets: Craft Traditions in Nineteenth Century India is at the Norton Simon in Pasadena. This exhibit, which is up through September 3, 2018, covers a period of clash between traditional Indian Art and the development of products designed for commerce. Many of these objects have not been seen before. For more on this show go to www.nortonsimon.org and get information on upcoming exhibits also.

Now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life. Most of the portraits were painted live at his Los Angeles studio and are of family and friends. The exhibit is up through July 29, 2018 and many of the portraits are of well-known people such as Frank Gehry and John Baldessari. Years ago I stumbled into a small shop on La Cienega owned by Gregory Evans and bought a teapot, which I still own, conversed with several people, and was invited to hang out. I had no idea at the time that it was owned and staffed by several of Hockney’s close friends. More information is at www.lacma.org about this exhibit.

On view until May 27, 2018 at Getty Center in Los Angeles is Paper Promises: Early American Photography which is an interesting survey of the origins of the process. It features albumen silver prints, daguerreotypes and salted paper prints among others. Information at www.getty.edu will fill you in on what is going on as well as with dates and times.

The Broad Art Foundation houses the collection of Eli and Edythe Broad and has an amazing number of modern masterpieces. It also hosts special exhibits. Something Resembling Truth runs from February through May 18,2018, which features more than 100 works by Jasper Johns. The show explores the artist's sixty year career and includes many of his most iconic works and several that have never been seen in Los Angeles. This is an interesting venue and the Johns exhibit is an important look at the artist's catalog. In anticipation of seeing this show, check out www.thebroad.org.

Fans of the Eighteenth Century is ensconced at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The exhibit is culled from the museum’s own collection and is on view until April of next year. Check www.deyoung.famsf.org which will have all you need to know. The de Young prides itself in making its exhibits accessible and has instituted a plan for people who are unable to come to the museum whether for medical reasons, distance or finances.  They have two robots that will take visitors on a tour via the internet. Rebecca Bradley is the Accessibility Curator. You can email her office at access@famsf.org if this great idea is of interest.

The San Francisco Legion of Honor acts as host to. Casanova: The Seduction of Europe through May 28, 2018. It seems that he was not only a lover but a traveler. Tales of his conquests took in a large amount of the continent and even included a meeting with Catherine the Great of Russia. The show sets the tone of his world in the eighteenth century by bringing together paintings, sculpture, works on paper, furnishings, porcelain, silver and period costumes. I was fortunate to receive a catalog of this exhibit from friends and it is stunning. Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters starts June 30-September 30, 2018. This exhibition shares the works of the artists known as Pre-Raphaelites juxtaposed with works by the artists that inspired them including Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and Veronese. Look for their inspiration at www.legionofhonor.famsf.org and for more information on this dazzling show.

San Francisco seems to be the happening place at the moment. Louise Bourgeois Spiders is at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art until September 4, 2018. The sculptor started this series in the ‘90s when she was in her eighties. Also at the museum are several more shows. The Train: RFK’s Last Journey takes a look at his journey by train to his final resting place (through June 10, 2018). Upcoming is Rene Magritte: The Fifth Season which focuses on his later work, after he left Surrealism. It is up through October 28, 2018. KTTV, a local Los Angeles Independent TV station, had a wonderful art collection. It housed a Moore sculpture, as well as a Frida Kahlo canvas among many others. It also had two of Magritte’s bowler hats as shaped canvases. They were large pieces…about 4 or 5 feet tall. The iconic bowler has been used countless times. It was actually a plot point in the remake of the movie The Thomas Crown Affair. I was talking with the curator and was curious as to why there were two as it seemed to me it should have been a triptych. He told me that there actually was another one but that it had been stolen. As I said, these were large works so I’m not quite sure how it was taken off of the lot surreptitiously. Go to https://www.sfmoma.org for more on these exciting shows.

Ongoing at the Seattle Museum of Art is Big Picture: Art after 1945. The exhibit includes some amazing works by Rothko, Motherwell, Newman, Hoffman, etc, and there are interesting videos on the museum website. Go to www.seattleartmuseum.org to obtain more information. Wow!!! 

Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshal, Mickalene Thomas is on view until May 13, 2018. Featuring three different generations of artists who all speak in their own way about the history of black culture…if you can’t attend be sure to go online to get a feel of this show. The images are stunning. I am especially partial to School of Beauty, School of Culture and its bow to various iconic images. All are wonderful and the interactive videos online are great!

Currently at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston is Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples. Covering the period of the late 15^th and 16^th centuries, works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens, Tintoretto and Titian are represented with drawings, cartoons, paintings, sculpture, and prints. The exhibit will be on view through June 10, 2018 and www.mfah.org will provide all the information. Also, not to be missed in Houston is The Rothko Chapel which features works by the great American artist.

The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver continues to present intriguing shows. Currently featured is Highlights from the Collection, which runs until September 9, 2018. Included are close to 50 paintings and 30 works on paper representing the span of the artist’s career, beginning with his traditional work in the 1920s through his wartime abstractions. More than 25 of these works have never been on display previously. Check out www.clyffordstillmuseum.org for all the details.

Continuing through June 24, 2018 at The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri is Fine Lines: Whistler and the American Etching Revival. Whistler was such a competent etcher that his prowess led to a renewed interest in the art form. In fact, his work also led to greater respect for the process itself. The museum’s website at www.nelson-atkins.org will provide more information.

The Art Institute of Chicago is hosting Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes until May 13, 2018. Collected through the ages by Chinese rulers, these ornate bronzes from the second and first millennia BC were highly prized. Unlike Greek and Roman bronzes that depicted human and animal forms, the Chinese used these in rituals. This show brings together about 180 works of art from the museum’s own collection, the Palace Museum in Beijing, the Shanghai Museum, as well as from other museums and private collections in the United States. Also at the museum is Helen Frankenthaler Prints: The Romance of a New Medium. Known for her large color-stained canvases, this show focuses on the abstract expressionist’s lesser known prints. The show, which runs until September 3, 2018, features 5o prints rendered over a 20 year period. Frankenthaler, who studied with renowned Mexican artist, Rufino Tamayo, is one of my favorites. More details are at www.artic.edu for these fascinating exhibits.

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. is the culmination of over a century of work. Founding Director Lonnie Bunch said that “The African American experience is the lens through which we understand what it is to be an American.” The website welcomes us with its opening words: A People’s Journey, A Nation’s Story. It is part of our national history. The museum contains much memorabilia, including both negative and positive. Of course, there is much history here including examples of slave ships. However, there are more current examples, including Carl Lewis’ journey, clothes from James Brown and Pearl Bailey, a trumpet owned by Louis Armstrong and Chuck Berry’s red Cadillac. Items also includes some owned by Harriet Tubman, the dress Rosa Parks was sewing when she refused to leave her seat, and clothes designed by Geoffrey Holder for the award winning Broadway play The Wiz. Areas include a sports museum and a visual arts museum among others. The only permanent art exhibit on the mall will be Visual Art and the American Experience, which focuses on the contribution Americans of African descent made to the history of American Art. The galleries will also feature changing exhibits so check out www.nmaahc.si.edu for information.

Through July 1, 2018, The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. features Cezanne Portraits. This exhibit, which is the first to feature the artist’s portraiture, is travelling the world. It brings together 60 examples of Cezanne’s work culled from collections around the world. It has proved to be a wonderful show with examples at www.nga.gov for you to enjoy.

While you are in Washington D.C you might also want to take a look at the Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens, the final home of Marjorie Merriweather Post. She was a collector and her home is open with special exhibits. Currently through June 10, 2018 is The Artistic Table. The tables have been designed by current tastemakers using historic pieces. Following in June is Faberge Rediscovered. If you are a lover of the decorative arts this is a good place to go and www.hillwoodmuseum.org will give you information and reveal some of her amazing pieces of eye candy.

On view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through September 9, 2018 is Design in Revolution: A 1960s Odyssey. Featuring the museum’s collection of Rock and Roll posters from that tumultuous time as well as a series of images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this show will surely bring back memories for many and inform others about the history of the era. This exhibit is described on the museum website at www.philamuseum.org with more information about other shows as well.

Currently at the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, New York is Matisse and the Art of Jazz, which ends May 27, 2018. Matisse’s experimentation with cut-outs is well known. Jazz is the only book written and illustrated by the artist. The Albright-Knox has assembled all 20 illustrated plates from the book. Also included are additional works by Matisse. Their website at www.albrightknox.org has some interesting video on the show.

The New York Historical Society has a beautiful website that you must see. At the museum itself the fourth floor has been turned into a Gallery of Tiffany Lamps from the museum’s extensive collection. This ongoing exhibit features 100 lamps, many designed by women. Starting in November and ongoing is Audubon’s Birds of America Focus Gallery which will display watercolor models for the artist’s work, The Birds of America. The society also has Picasso’s Le Tricorne on display. The painted theater curtain from the ballet was produced in 1919. Visitors can also have a look at Ed Ruscha’s Fanned Book from 2013. There is much to see at this great venue so check out www.nyhistory.org and prepare to be surprised by all the wonderful historical pieces on view.

Coming this summer to the Museum of Modern Art in New York is Constantin Brancusi Sculpture from the museum’s collection of his work. The show runs from July 22-February 24, 2019 and features 11 of his works as well as photos and other archival material. His use of wood, metals and stone in his pieces set them apart so go to www.moma.org for more information.

Mark your calendars for a show at The Brooklyn Museum. David Bowie is will be at the museum until July 15, 2018. This show has toured the world for 5 years and has finally come to Brooklyn. It is a feast for any David Bowie fan. The exhibit explores his creative process, contains over 400 objects from his archives, including costumes, original art for album covers and handwritten lyric sheets. To learn more the museum’s website, www.brooklynmuseum.org, will clue you in about this exhibit.

Coming up at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on June 8 – September 12, 2018 is Giacometti. The exhibit includes in excess of 175 sculptures, paintings and drawings by the artist. The emphasis is on his studio practices as is evidenced by the inclusion of plaster sculptures along with photos and ephemera. Feel free to check www.guggenheim.org for information and make sure to listen to various curators talk about the challenges of restoring Red Lilly Pads, an Alexander Calder mobile. The museum is also featuring the work of Constantin Brancusi, one of the most important sculptors of the 20^th century. The Guggenheim started collecting his work in the 1950s and it is their impressive collection that is on display through the spring of this year.

Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until July of this year. Covering the period from the late 18^th through the early 2oth century in France at the height of its expansive addition of public and private gardens, the show features 150 works by over 70 artists. New York’s Central Park was designed after the French versions. The works, which include those by Camille Corot and Henri Matisse, are taken largely from the Met’s own curatorial departments but includes artwork that is on loan. Information on this wonderful show can be found at www.metmuseum.org as well as dates and times. Also on view at the Met Fifth Avenue and the Met Cloisters is Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination through October 8, 2018. From the Met Costume Institutes collection, the exhibit highlights the connection between fashion, medieval art and Catholic tradition.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a remarkable exhibit to catch before it leaves July 1, 2018. Mark Rothko: Reflection. This show features 11 of Rothko’s paintings that are placed in a contemplative setting shown as the artist intended. Juxtaposed with paintings like Artist in his Studio by Rembrandt, and side by side with works by other artists, the show intends to place Rothko in context, not necessarily as an artist who broke tradition but within the continuity of Western art. He is one of my favorite artists. Be sure and look at www.mfa.org. to find more information

The wonderful art of Native American artist and Vietnam veteran’ T.C.Cannon is at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America will be on view at the museum through June 10, 2018. Not only a painter but a poet and musician as well, and the exhibit includes paintings, works on paper, in addition to his poetry and music. His artwork is colorful and political since he was active in the 1960s and ‘70s. The place to find more information is www.pem.org and get a view of this wonderful exhibit.

There are many wonderful exhibits currently at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London When I was in the 6^th grade my teacher, Mrs. Gahagan, assigned each student in our class to research an ocean liner company. That is how she spent her summers…by traveling to foreign spots via ocean cruise. A few years later, the city of Long Beach bought the Queen Mary where it still sits in that harbor. For me the prospect of an exhibit centered on that mode of travel brings back childhood memories of a slower, more romantic era. Ocean Liners: Speed and Style is on view until June 17, 2018. It includes various objects, clothing and posters from famous ships like the Titanic, the Queen Mary, the Canberra and the Normandie. Also on view through January 2019 is Fashioned from Nature, which explores the relationship between fashionable dress with natural history specimens and the development of innovative fabrics and dyes. In a similar vein, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up opens June 16, 2018. The show features her personal artifacts and clothing which were stored for over fifty years. The clothing shown on line is beautiful especially a Guatemalan full length cotton coat. It is lovely. For more information check these out at www.vam.ac.uk if they are of interest.

The Tate Liverpool draws from their Artist Rooms collection to put together Roy Lichtenstein In Focus, which is on tap until the middle of June this year. It includes 20 works by the famous Pop Artist. Especially significant is the inclusion of the only work on film by the artist, which was completed in 1969 during a two-week sojourn to Universal Studios. On view through September 9, 2018 at the Tate Modern is the EY Exhibition Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy. I am looking forward to an amazing show. For more information on these exhibits www.tate.org.uk will have everything you need to know. While you are there, check out the amazing videos at the site about various exhibitions.

An exciting new exhibit is currently at The National Gallery in London. Monet & Architecture is up until July 29, 2018. A bold new way of looking at the artist’s work, the exhibit focuses on his paintings of the architecture of his time from London, Paris, Venice, Normandy and Rouen. Monet said that he wanted to paint the light and air around these structures. For the first time 75 of these works come together at the same time. This is a very special exhibit. Be sure to watch the 3-D video about this show at www.nationalgallery.org.uk when you look for details.

So many exciting exhibits are coming to the Musee D’Orsay in Paris. Picasso: Blue and Rose opens in September. In November Renoir Father and Son: Painting and Cinema will be at the museum followed by Berthe Morisot: Female Impressionist and Degas at the Opera scheduled for 2019. Meanwhile at the Musee de l’Orangerie, The Water Lilies: The American Abstract Art and the last Monet is open through August 20, 2018. One of Monet’s Water Lilies was brought to the Museum of Modern Art in 1955 at the time when the Abstract Expressionists were working in New York. This painting seen in the context of paintings like Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm shows the general influence Monet had on these American artists. The exhibit features some of Monet’s later works and about twenty paintings by artists such as Rothko, Still, Newman, and Morris Lewis, as well as many others. Check out www.musee-orsay.fr if you will be in Paris for this show.

The Musee Unterlinden in Colmar France underwent a renovation and expansion in 2016. In the Alsace region, the museum has been in existence since 1853 and is home to Gruenwald’s Medieval masterpiece, Isenheim Altarpiece, as well as one of only 3 tapestries of Guernica approved by Picasso. It also has a large collection of Dubuffet artwork. The National Geographic station is airing the made-for-television series on Picasso’s life which features a dramatization of the making of Guernica and how it came to be and why. I had the privilege of seeing it at MoMA years ago. As I got off the elevator in the museum I came face to face with this large masterpiece. I have never forgotten the experience. The museum’s website at www.musee-unterlinden.com, is very informative.

Simply the Best:

The best place to find books on the arts, Arcana is a very special bookstore located in the Helms Bakery complex in Los Angeles…it is wonderful! I have known owner Lee Kaplan for decades and his selection of books is as superb as his taste is impeccable. Arcana: Books on the Arts is at 8675 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232. For information go to  http://www.arcanabooks.com  or call 310.458.1499.

Michiko Jewelry Design is an incredible jewelry store in downtown Seal Beach, CA, featuring excellent one-of-a-kind gifts. The shop owner and artist, Carol Matsumoto, custom designs beautiful pieces. Michiko is at 228 Main Street. Call 563.431.3237 for more information or check www.michikojewelrydesign.com

Places to Go, People to See

Beginning May 17, 2018, The Corning Museum of Glass begins Glassbarge which is a barge fully equipped with glass making equipment beginning in Brooklyn Bridge Park and ending in Corning on September 22, 2018. As it travels down the canal it will make many stops and people can make their own glass. Very cool. Check out www.cmog.org for so much more.

One of California’s great architectural treasures, along with Hearst Castle to the north, The Adamson House and Malibu Lagoon Museum is a spectacular Spanish Colonial style home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It was built in 1929 and most of its contents are original with wonderful Malibu Tile work. It is open to the public Thursday – Saturday and you can take a tour between 1-3pm. Get all the information at www.adamsonhouse.org and see some wonderful photos of the house and grounds. My grandparents built their Southern California home around the same time. It was a Spanish style California bungalow and though it was much smaller and not at all elaborate, I still love this kind of special architecture.

The extra perk about checking out the following venues on the California Central Coast is that they are all near wineries!!! You can make a weekend of it and enjoy the venue, the beach and a toast.

The 25^th Annual Avila Beach Blues Festival is coming up May27, 2018. This year the headliners include Huey Lewis and the News as well as The Fabulous Thunderbirds. This small town venue on California’s Central Coast at the Avila Beach Resort is beautiful so you can enjoy the scenery as well as the music. More information is at www.tinyurl.com/avila-festival so check it out.

In Santa Barbara the annual I Madonnari chalk drawing festival is from May 26-28 this year. See wonderful sidewalk chalk drawings at the Old Mission Santa Barbara and www.imadonnarifestival.com has all information posted.

Go to beautiful Ojai for the Lavender Festival on June 30, 2018. The 15^th annual festival celebrates everything lavender. Go to www.ojaivalleylavenderfestival.org to find out about food, shopping and dancing at this fun show. You might even catch Rona Barrett there as she owns a lavender farm in the area.

Addendum:

        

The Pasadena Museum of California Art is dedicated to the exploring and presenting California art and design. California is a unique state due to its landscape variations and rich cultural mix. Currently the museum presents, through June 3, Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo. Mr. Carrillo was a teacher and social activist who helped spotlight Chicano art and culture. The museum has undertaken a project, in association with this exhibit, to house a wonderful mural that was done in 1970 as a project for the UCLA Studies Research Center. Chicano History is a collaborative work done by artists Eduardo Carrillo, Ramses Noriega, Sergio Hernandez and Dr. Saul Solache. This is the first time it has been shown in 28 years. The museum is seeking donations to help with transportation and installation costs. All in necessary information is at www.pmcaonline.org if you would like to learn more about the museum or if you would like to donate.

Continue to check back as we will be posting upcoming shows here and on the exhibits page of my website…and again, there is always Facebook.