Memorial Weekend Sale in the Museum Store
Friday, May 24-Monday, May 27

11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. daily
Visit the museum store this Memorial Weekend and receive 10% off all items, or 20% off if you are a museum member.
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With new volunteer store manager Michele Monda and a staff committee in place, the museum store has recently received a complete makeover. The goal of the new store is to sell affordable, portable, and local giftware that reflects the nature of Laguna Beach, a community celebrated for its art and artists. The store offerings will include branded museum merchandise, some custom-designed by artists; art and design items from Laguna artists, selected with an emphasis on unusual and one-of-a-kind pieces not to be found in other stores; museum publications; publications and merchandise related to current exhibitions; and books on California art generally. The goal is for the store to be a year-round destination for local people in search of unusual gifts as well as a source for out-of-town visitors who wish to take away a memento of their experience at Laguna Art Museum. .
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Items and local artists now featured in the store include jewelry by Ray Caruso, Annette Doreng-Stearns, Karen Feuer-Schwager, Adam Kaplan, Hodel McRae, Kirk Milette, Casey Parlette, and The Wayward Pearl; glass and ceramics by John Barber, Jesse Bartels, Sharie Hendricks, Sharon Jackman, Robert Jones, James Lashley, Dawn Mariko Spurlock & Scot Herr, Jason & Nicole McQuaid, Siân Poeschl, and Maggie Spencer; totes and bags by Leanne Belyn, Jeremy Fish, Rosalie Marsh-Boinus, and Macha Suzuki; mobiles by Sara Kirk; and scarves by Erica and Olivia Batchelder.
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In addition, the store features a selection of original prints and photographs curated by the museum’s Executive Director Dr. Malcolm Warner. Featured artists include Xun Chi, Luc Desmarchelier, Michelle Farro, Jacques Garnier, Mark Garry, Dirk Hagner, Jeff Peters, and Tim Van Ginkel. The prints are available framed and unframed.
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>> Museum members receive 10% off in the museum store year-round. Not a Member? Become one today.

Dads & Grads: Give the Gift of Membership

Give a gift that will last all year long. A Laguna Art Museum gift membership provides your friends, family members, and colleagues twelve months of free, unlimited admission to Laguna Art Museum plus other great benefits based on membership level, including, but not limited to:

• Unlimited admission to the museum for two adults and immediate family members under 18
• An invitation and tickets for two to all exhibition opening receptions which include a bar and the chance to meet the artists and curators
• Invitations to the museum’s fundraising events
• 10% discount in the museum store
• The opportunity to join museum councils
• A subscription to the museum’s e-newsletter
• Museum library privileges
• And more!

Special Gift!

As an added bonus, Laguna Art Museum will add a special gift to your gift membership purchase (expires 6/30/13). If you purchase an Individual or Family level membership, the museum will add a FREE Laguna Art Museum T-shirt ($20.00 value). If you purchase a Friend level membership (or higher), the museum will add a FREE Laguna Art Museum T-shirt AND a Laguna Art Museum mug ($10.00 value).
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>> Click here for more information on membership levels and to purchase your gift membership online.
>> For more information, please contact Membership Manager Valerie Tate at 949.494.8971 x203.

Opening Reception
Sunday, June 2

2:00-4:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public
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On display in the Young Artists Society Gallery is student work by Laguna Beach High School art students inspired by ex•pose artist Beatriz da Costa. The public is invited to celebrate the opening of the exhibition with a reception at Laguna Art Museum on Sunday, June 2 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Admission to the museum and the reception are free during this time. Reservations are not necessary.
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>> For more information, please contact Curator of Education Marinta Skupin at 949.494.8971 x201.

About Metastatic
Laguna Beach High School art teacher Bridget Beaudry-Porter worked with a number of 9^th to 12^th grade students during a two-month period in the spring of 2013 to create paintings based on microbiological images of cancer cells. The project not only introduced students to the use of scientific imagery as inspiration for making art, but also gave them the opportunity to investigate cancer from a different perspective. The result is a group of stunning paintings with a beauty all their own.
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>> Click here for more information

December 9-15, 2013
Art, Culture, and History of Cuba

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ABOUT THE TRIP
Laguna Art Museum’s Contemporary Collectors Council is excited to announce plans for an art trip to Cuba. The trip is scheduled for December 9 through 15 and includes the option to attend Art Basel Miami Beach.
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Trip highlights:

· Hotel stay in Old Havana

· Walking lecture of the architectural history of Old Havana

· Visit artist studios, galleries, and museums

· Day trip to the beautiful and lush Pinar del Río province

· Visit to the Superior Institute of Art, ranked among the top art schools worldwide

· Visit Ernest Hemingway’s house, where he lived for 20 years

· Eat in paladares (private restaurants) within the city and in artists’ homes
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>> Click here for a detailed itinerary
>> Click here to read the terms and conditions
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PRICES
Contemporary Collectors Council Members:
$3,950 per person, double occupancy ($600 single supplement)
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Non-members:
$4,075 per person, double occupancy ($600 single supplement)
This price includes an Individual Level museum membership, and a Contemporary Collectors Council membership.
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RESERVATIONS
Only 24 spaces available! A refundable deposit of $350 for CCC members and $475 non-members paid by June 15 will reserve your place. We need 15 deposits by June 15 in order for the trip to take place.
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To reserve your spot, please make a deposit online through our website, or contact Membership Manager Valerie Tate at 949.494.8971 x203. Once you make a deposit, Valerie will contact you with more information.
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About the Contemporary Collectors Council

The Contemporary Collectors Council is a support group of Laguna Art Museum that encourages a greater understanding of contemporary art, with a focus on the art of California. Members are offered an ongoing program of trips, activities, and events, including in-depth tours of artists’ studios, private collections, galleries, and museum exhibitions. Proceeds from CCC dues, trips, and other activities support Laguna Art Museum’s contemporary exhibitions, related educational programs, and purchases of contemporary art for the collection.
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>> All museum members are welcome to join the Contemporary Collectors Council! Click here for more information or to join online.

Llyn Foulkes, Preview, oil on board, 51 x 73 inches, 1961, gift of F. Elliot Leonard and Roger Litz

Despite the old saying “neither a borrower nor a lender be,” most museums are both. In order to put together the special exhibitions that are so central to what they offer their visitors, they frequently borrow works of art from one another. Except in rare instances, there are only minimal fees involved in museum-to-museum loans. The lending museum makes the loan on the basis of good will, the prestige and value of the exhibition, and usually a hope that the borrower might sooner or later return the favor.
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One of the benefits of lending works to other museums is to spread the word about one’s own collection, and this is certainly the case with the loan of five major paintings by Llyn Foulkes that Laguna Art Museum made to the Foulkes exhibition currently at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
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Later this year the exhibition, including all the Laguna Art Museum loans, will be shown at the New Museum in New York and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve in Kleve, Germany. The museum is proud of the strength of its holdings in Foulkes’s work, and proud to take part in this international retrospective of a great California artist.

Revealing the Artist Through Film
Lecture and Films with Dale Schierholt
Thursday, August 29

7:00 p.m.
Free for museum members; free for non-members with museum admission ($5-$7)
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Filmmaker Dale Schierholt

For more than a decade Dale Schierholt has captured the artistic persona through a series of acclaimed documentaries. Working with his subjects one-on-one and without a crew, he takes a deeply personal look at the work of regional and nationally-renowned artists. Using clips from his films on artists such as Robert Indiana, Will Barnet, and Louise Nevelson, Schierholt offers an insightful and entertaining look inside the artists’ lives.
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Presented in conjunction with the Laguna Beach Film Society.
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>> To reserve your spot for this lecture, please make a reservation online through our website, or contact Membership Manager Valerie Tate at 949.494.8971 x203.
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Schierholt recently spent some time with John Mason discussing Blue Wall (on display at Laguna Art Museum through October 13, 2013). Below is the short film that resulted from those conversations.
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Is There a Doctor/Curator in the House?
Lecture with Kóan Jeff Baysa, M.D.
Thursday, August 22

7:00 p.m.
Free for museum members; free for non-members with museum admission ($5-$7)
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Dr. Kóan Jeff “KJ” Baysa

Dr. Kóan Jeff “KJ” Baysa will share his journey creating a career that combines the parallel passions of medical science and contemporary art.  Baysa has had clinical practices in Honolulu and Manhattan, and continues to do clinical research focusing on neuroscience. He is also a respected art collector, curator, writer, and critic. In this lecture he will describe the history and evolution of his projects as a medical curator, culminating in several current projects, including an app called Medical Avatar.
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The lecture coincides with the museum’s ex•pose: beatriz da costa exhibition. Da Costa passed away at age 38 after a long battle with breast cancer. The photos and videos featured in the exhibition (on display in the museum’s lower level galleries June 2-September 29, 2013) use self as subject and capture her struggle with the disease, examining the intersection of art, politics, engineering, and the life sciences.
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>> To reserve your spot for this lecture, please make a reservation online through our website, or contact Membership Manager Valerie Tate at 949.494.8971 x203.
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Lecture with Artists Sandow Birk & Elyse Pignolet
Sunday, August 11

1:00 p.m.
Free for museum members; free for non-members with museum admission ($5-$7)
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Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet
CCTV #2
Mixed media, 2011

Los Angeles artists Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet are a husband and wife team who, in addition to maintaining successful solo careers, often collaborate on projects. In this joint lecture, Birk and Pignolet will talk about their collaborations, which have included two large-scale, hand-painted murals in Long Beach; Dante’s Inferno, a feature film done with paper puppets; Depravities of War, a series of monumental prints; as well CCTV #2, a ceramic surveillance camera featured in Faux Real.
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Faux Real is a group exhibition (on display in the museum’s main level galleries June 2-September 29, 2013) that features installation artists and sculptors who recreate reality with a twist, using off-beat materials and a keen sense of humor. The results are playful, intriguing, and highly entertaining.
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>> To reserve your spot for this lecture, please make a reservation online through our website, or contact Membership Manager Valerie Tate at 949.494.8971 x203.
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