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Laguna Art Museum is proud to announce a new partnership with Laguna Beach Live!, an organization cherished by music lovers for its work in bringing performances by top-level, professional musicians to the Laguna Beach community. Beginning in June, the museum and Laguna Beach Live! join forces to present an ongoing series of early-evening concerts in the museum’s galleries, a feast of sight and sound. Not only are the galleries an appropriately beautiful setting in which to experience great music, they also boast fine acoustics. The concerts will take place the second Thursday of each month from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. beginning June 14, and are free to museum members and to non-members with museum admission.
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June 14: Hutchins Consort Quartet
Based in Southern California, the Hutchins Consort brings together a group of extraordinary virtuosi who have acoustically-matched string instruments. The Hutchins Consort displays a breadth and depth that few traditional groups match, and a sound that is truly unique. The Quartet, consisting of Beth Folsom, soprano violin; Maksim Velichkin, baritone violin; Erin Breen, tenor violin; and Joe McNalley on contrabass violin will perform classical and contemporary works.
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July 12: To be announced.
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August 9: Triada Guitar Trio
The Triada Guitar Trio is made up of Bulgarian brothers Nikola, Vasil and Petar Chekardzhikovi who have studied guitar since early childhood and have toured extensively in Europe and the United States. In 2004, they won first prize in the Third Annual Guitar Ensemble Competition in Brownsville, Texas. They will perform spirited classical and contemporary guitar works.
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September 13: Ceora Winds
Ceora Winds is comprised of Michelle Matsumune, flute; Heather Millette, clarinet; and Christin Webb, bassoon who have played chamber music together for ten years, performing throughout Southern California and across the country. Equally adept at classical standards, jazz arrangements, and everything in between, Ceora Winds brings the joy of true chamber music to the community.

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Tom Kenneth Enman, 1928-2012 Photo by George Hurrell

Tom Enman, former director of the Laguna Beach Museum of Art (now Laguna Art Museum), passed away on February 23, 2012, the day after his eighty-fourth birthday. Tom shepherded the museum through many years of controversy and change. He was initially hired by Roger Armstrong to manage the Laguna Beach Art Association’s gallery, a position he held for eighteen months. During that time he lobbied for increasing the size of the association’s permanent collection by awarding purchase prizes to artists exhibiting with the Orange County annual exhibitions. Enman became director in 1967, a position he held until 1980. During his tenure, he successfully lobbied for having the association show all periods of art, historical to contemporary.

Tom Enman and his assistant with Maurice Block at the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation exhibition, 1978

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In his first five years as director, Enman presented monographic exhibitions on Karl Benjamin, Roger Kuntz, and Robert Natkin, and a two-person exhibition for Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt. It would be these museum-quality exhibitions and the leadership of board president Jack Glenn that propelled the association to strive for museum status, which they achieved in July 1972. That status afforded the museum the ability to apply for local, state, and federal grants, funds that were sorely needed for the struggling institution. Barbara Steele Williams took over as board president in 1976 and buoyed up the museum’s finances with grants from the Harry and Grace Steele Foundation. In the years following, many other exhibitions of both contemporary and historical work were mounted, including the First All California Photography Exhibition; An Exhibition of Twenty-nine Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. John McLaughlin; and Hard and Cheap, featuring the work of ten funk ceramicists. Historical exhibitions included the ground-breaking Southern California Art, 1890–1940, which showcased many works from the museum’s permanent collection and paved the way for future exhibitions focusing on the early years in California.
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Enman resigned in 1980, after which Dr. William Otton was named director. Through the years Tom donated numerous works to the museum’s collection, two of which—Florence Arnold’s Dark #3 and Jack Zajac’s The Green Airplane—were recently on view in The Postwar Era: From the Collection, 1945–1980.

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Ovation is a great supporter of Laguna Art Museum! Check out what they have going on this month.
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Ovation January 2012 Programming Highlights
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ANNIE LIEBOVITZ: LIFE THROUGH A LENS – THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 8:00 PM ET, 7:00 PM PT – From a kibbutz in Israel to chief photographer of Rolling Stone, Annie Liebovitz’ triumph was hard won. Taking a look at her styles and her rise to prominence in the photography world, this documentary provides a glimpse of the photographer on the other side of the lens.
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IMPROV-ICE WITH STYX –THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 8:00 PM ET, 7:00 PM PT – The world’s top ice skaters must choreograph two separate numbers without the aid of a coach or choreographer. This unconventional performance will show which skaters not only have the best moves, but the highest creativity. Hosted by Peggy Fleming and Brian Boitano. Styx performs live.
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BOMBAY BELLYWOOD LIVE FROM LOS ANGELES – FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 10:30 PM ET, 11:00 PM PT – In this performance, filmed in Los Angeles, the internationally acclaimed troupe Bellydance Superstars present an array of exciting Indian dance styles, including Bollywood and Bhangra, in a dazzling performance.

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Dear Laguna Art Museum Supporter,
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The Board of Trustees of Laguna Art Museum is pleased to announce that Malcolm Warner, deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has been appointed executive director of Laguna Art Museum. Mr. Warner will assume his position January 3, 2012.
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Malcolm Warner

I am so pleased to have an executive director who is an internationally recognized scholar, arts leader, and an individual who is beloved by the local community he currently serves. Mr. Warner is the ideal executive director to lead Laguna Art Museum due to his historical art background coupled with his desire to engage contemporary art and artists. He will continue the museum’s dedication to quality programming with a focused examination of California art while also broadening and deepening access and engaging the local community.
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Mr. Warner joined the Kimbell Art Museum ten years ago as senior curator. He was previously curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art and senior curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art. He became the Kimbell’s deputy director in 2007 and served for a period of eighteen months as the museum’s acting director.
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The exhibitions Mr. Warner has curated at the Kimbell include Stubbs and the Horse, also shown at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and the National Gallery, London (2004-2005); The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso, also shown at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid (2007); and Butchers, Dragons, Gods & Skeletons: Film Installations by Philip Haas Inspired by Works in the Collection (2009).
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The Mirror and the Mask was Apollo magazine’s Exhibition of the Year in 2007, and Butchers, Dragons, Gods & Skeletons was listed as no. 7 in TIME magazine’s “Top Ten Exhibitions” of 2009.
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While serving as acting director at the Kimbell, Mr. Warner brought to the museum an exhibition of some of the most celebrated and iconic works of the great Impressionist painters through a loan of about ninety paintings from the Chicago Art Institute’s world-renowned Impressionist collection. The Art Institute’s Impressionist collection had never before left Chicago in such a large group.
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Warner helped devise the functional building program for the Kimbell’s new building, and since 2007 has been a member of the team of four staff members working closely with Renzo Piano and his associates through the process of design. The building is now under construction and due to be completed in 2013.
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Mr. Warner was born in Aldershot, England, and pursued both undergraduate and graduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He received his Ph.D. from the Courtauld in 1985. His doctoral dissertation was on the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. He remains the leading authority on Millais and, as a long-term project, is preparing a catalogue raisonné of the artist’s works.
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Among the exhibitions that Mr. Warner curated before joining the Kimbell are The Victorians: British Painting in the Reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-1901, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (1997); This Other Eden: British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale, which toured Australian museums (1998); Millais: Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London (1999); James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love at the Yale Center for British Art and other venues (1999); and Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney at Yale and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California (2001-2002).
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His publications have ranged widely over European art from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, with an emphasis on art in Britain. They include various articles and essays on Millais and other Victorian painters, an introductory history of portraiture, a guidebook to places in Britain associated with artists, and a catalogue of British paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught courses in art history at the University of Manchester, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Chicago.
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The Board of Trustees selected Mr. Warner after an extensive search, following the resignation of Bolton Colburn in May 2011. The search committee, headed by myself, included members of the museum’s Executive Committee—Rick Balzer, Marshall Eichenauer, Jr., and Elyse Caraco Miller—as well as prominent community members Emil Monda, Craig Sannum, Dr. Igal Silber, Carol Rhoads, and Dennis Boyer. Until 2004, Mr. Boyer was a senior partner with the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles in the Los Angeles office. He provided his services to Laguna Art Museum on a pro-bono basis and the Board of Trustees is incredibly thankful for the professionalism, dedication, and skill with which Mr. Boyer led the search committee.
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Mr. Warner will take up his new position at the beginning of the new year. He will move to California with his wife, Sara, and children, Maddy (17) and Charlie (13). Please join me in welcoming him to Laguna Art Museum!
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With kind regards,
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Robert Hayden III
President, Board of Trustees
Laguna Art Museum

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Ovation is a multiplatform network that is distributed via cable, satellite and telco. Ovation focuses on entertaining, inspiring and engaging the artist in all of us by offering original and acquired programming focused on art, culture and personal creativity. Each night a different theme is featured and weekends are devoted to original and event programming. The network showcases the world’s greatest artists in theater, dance, opera, literature, film, visual and fine art, music, design, photography and architecture.
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Ovation is a great supporter of Laguna Art Museum! Check out what they have going on this month.
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Ovation December 2011 Programming Highlights
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SKATING: HOLIDAY ON ICE – CABLE PREMIERE: 8:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT Hosted by Kristi Yamaguchi and Chip Davis (founder of Mannheim Steamroller), this special features holiday music performed by Mannheim Steamroller.  Also includes performances by Olympic, World and National Champion skaters. Special guest artist: David Archuleta
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MARIINSKY: THE NUTCRACKER – U.S. PREMIERE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 8:00 PM ET, 7: 30 PM PT This version of The Nutcracker comes to you directly from the St. Petersburg stage where the ballet first premiered in 1982.  Opulent, original, daring, and most of all fun, the Mariinsky Nutcracker provides a visual smorgasbord to compliment Tchaikovsky’s timeless score.
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BRIAN BOITANO’S SKATING SPECTACULAR – CABLE PREMIERE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23^rd 8:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT Hosted by Olympic Gold Medalist Brian Boitano, this special includes performances by Chicago, Seal, Heart and the University Of Notre Dame’s Marching Band.
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NUTCRACKER: VIEWERS’ CHOICE – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24th  As part of our annual “Battle of the Nutcrackers” event, Ovation will screen the winning Nutcracker presentation as a special encore on Christmas Eve.
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ANDREA BOCELLI: A CHILD DESTINED TO SING – U.S. PREMIERE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18^th Andrea Bocelli is one of the world’s most successful male solo recording artists. This documentary follows his personal and musical journeys through never before seen interviews, home videos and poignant performances.
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RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN’S SOUTH PACIFIC – MONDAY, DECEMBER 19^th – (2001) Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr. –  Set during World War II on a naval base in the tropics, SOUTH PACIFIC tells the tale of Nellie, an inexperienced nurse from Arkansas who falls in love with an older French plantation owner.  The Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by James Michener was the basis for this classic Broadway musical.

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On Tuesday, September 27, over 200 people attended Laguna Art Museum’s new Open House. Usually touted as an exclusive members-only annual meeting, the museum revamped the event as an Annual Open House and Volunteer Recognition Reception, and opened its doors to members of the community to enjoy a free night at the museum. The evening included remarks from the museum’s Board President Robert Hayden III, a video presentation recapping 2011 at the museum and announcing plans for 2012, announcing new members of the museum’s Board of Trustees, and a presentation honoring museum volunteers.  Following the presentation, the museum provided drinks, small bites courtesy of 24 Carrots Catering, and the opportunity to view the museum’s current exhibitions.
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Watch the Open House video presentation!
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Curator of Collections Janet Blake, Volunteer of the Year Lindy Narver, Board President Robert Hayden III, and volunteer librarian Carole Reynolds.

Laguna Art Museum’s Board President Robert Hayden announced that the museum library is hereafter known as the Carole Reynolds Art Research Library. Curator of Collections Janet Blake then presented Lindy Narver as the museum’s Volunteer of the Year.
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Long-time Laguna Beach resident Carole Reynolds has volunteered at Laguna Art Museum since 1984 and has been the volunteer librarian since 1991. Her many capacities at the museum have been as a docent for 18 years, as a founding member of the Arts Council, and as an assistant to the Art Rental Gallery, where she arranged studio visits. In the community, Carole is president of the Friends of the Library, member (and one time chairman) of the Art Commission, and co-founder of Community Art Project. Carole also set up the library at the Laguna College of Art + Design, selecting a core collection of 10,000 volumes, helping to assure the school’s accreditation.
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Carole was a journalism and art history major at Stanford. She holds a master’s degree in library science from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. She has worked at La Canada-Flintridge Unified School District, Dana Hills High School (where she selected 10,000 books for the new school’s opening in 1973), and worked fifteen years for the Capistrano Unified School District.
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Volunteer of the Year Lindy Narver assists Carole in the library every Tuesday, and has worked with Curator of Collections Janet Blake on various curatorial and archiving projects over the past year. The largest project that Lindy assisted with was the cataloguing of the museum library using Ez-Cat and World Cat for people to be able to search the library online via the museum’s website.
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Lindy holds a BA in art history and an MA in critical studies and film theory from USC. She holds a master’s in library science from the University of Colorado, Denver. Besides having worked as a librarian for many years, Lindy has also worked as a slide archivist at the University of Illinois in Chicago. When Lindy is not helping at Laguna Art Museum, she works at the Mission Viejo Public Library. She has also worked at the Huntington Library and Gardens, the Beverly Hills Public Library, the South Pasadena Public Library, California State University, Northridge, and also with collector Gerald Buck.
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The library is housed in the boardroom of the administrative offices area on the upper level of the museum, and is professionally staffed solely by volunteers. There are over 5,000 books, many with a focus on California art and artists. There are also what are called “single artist files” in the executive director’s office, in the administration offices, and in the Graphics Study Room on the lower level. Some of those historical files date from the 1930s. The library can be accessed online via the museum’s website, and via appointment. Although it is not a lending library, people can make an appointment to study and do research at the museum.

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On Tuesday, September 27, over 200 people attended Laguna Art Museum’s Open House where museum officials honored volunteer librarian Carole Reynolds. Laguna Art Museum’s Board President Robert Hayden announced that the museum library is hereafter known as the Carole Reynolds Art Research Library.
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Long-time Laguna Beach resident Carole Reynolds has volunteered at Laguna Art Museum since 1984 and has been the volunteer librarian since 1991. Her many capacities at the museum have been as a docent for 18 years, as a founding member of the Arts Council, and as an assistant to the Art Rental Gallery, where she arranged studio visits. In the community, Carole is president of the Friends of the Library, member (and one time chairman) of the Art Commission, and co-founder of Community Art Project. Carole also set up the library at the Laguna College of Art + Design, selecting a core collection of 10,000 volumes, helping to assure the school’s accreditation.
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Carole was a journalism and art history major at Stanford. She holds a master’s degree in library science from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. She has worked at La Canada-Flintridge Unified School District, Dana Hills High School (where she selected 10,000 books for the new school’s opening in 1973), and worked fifteen years for the Capistrano Unified School District.
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The library is housed in the boardroom of the administrative offices area on the upper level of the museum, and is professionally staffed solely by volunteers. There are over 5,000 books, many with a focus on California art and artists. There are also what are called “single artist files” in the executive director’s office, in the administration offices, and in the Graphics Study Room on the lower level. Some of those historical files date from the 1930s. The library can be accessed online via the museum’s website, and via appointment. Although it is not a lending library, people can make an appointment to study and do research at the museum.
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Congratulations Carole!