Message from the Chair I want to thank each of you for your support of the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex. The 2007 Fair Exhibit, A Tapestry of Life: The World of Millard Sheets, was a great centennial celebration of Millard’s life and his contribution to our cultural heritage and to the art world. Special thanks are owed to the exhibit director, Tony Sheets, and the curator, Janet Blake, whose combined efforts produced an exhibit of the caliber of the shows from the 1950s that were directed by Millard Sheets himself. The Center would also like to acknowledge the generosity of the various collectors who were kind enough to loan works from their private collections. Among them were Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Craig and Gisele Barto, Bente and Gerald E. Buck, Faith Butler, E. Gene and Diane Crane, Kirk Delman and the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Zachary Fisk, Thom Gianetto and the Edenhurst Gallery, Merika Gopaul and The Irvine Museum, Karen Hathaway and the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Mark and Jan Hilbert, Frank and Susan Jackson, Michael Johnson, Gordon McClelland, Jim and Martha Newkirk, Peter and Gail Ochs, Carolyn and Tom Owen-Towle, Susan Stary-Sheets Pasas, Anthony and Mary Podell, Bill Reed, Mark Sailor, David Sheets, Tony and Flower Sheets, Robert F. Smith, Nancy and Geoffrey Stack, Steven Stern, Robert Stone, Jean Swegle, Fred Thompson, Ron and Susan Vander Molen, Mike and Susan Verbal and Claremont Fine Arts, Alan Wofsy and Alan Wofsy Fine Arts. We are pleased to announce that Tony Sheets has again accepted the position of exhibit director for the 2008 Fair Exhibit, HOOFPRINTS: The Horse in Art, Legend, and Action. Tony is working on making this exhibit equal in quality to the 2007 exhibit, but this subject will be presented more like a science museum exhibit with art, rather than a fine art only exhibit. The scope of the exhibit starts with the oldest known cave paintings of horses and continues all around the globe until today. I hope all of you can make time to come to our Wine and Cars Under the Stars event on June 14, 2008. The proceeds from this unique and fun event will go to benefit the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts. We will have auction items for you to buy and plenty of food and wine for your enjoyment. Please take a look at our list of “Art Outings.” We will try to keep this calendar current in our newsletters so you have a single source for ideas on where to go and what to see around the Southland. Regards, John D. Campbell, III |
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Message from Tony Sheets As a long time Fair goer, my fondest memories of Fairtime have been centered on learning how things are done or made. This Fair is dedicated to that concept of exposing visitors to new experiences. This year I am taking it even further by centering the exhibit on the making of art. As an artist myself, I am often asked by people viewing my art, “How do you do that?” Art is not a mystery, nor is any one artist the only one to know how something is done. Almost every process in art has already been utilized in the past. Only the manufacture of new materials or new devices can lead to new methods of creating art. This exhibit is dedicated to the world’s artists from ancient man to the 1700s, just prior to the Industrial Revolution and the creation of mechanized power and motion. The exhibit, as was last year’s, will be a science museum-type show with lots of replicas and models of past art and the tools of art. We will have working artists doing demonstrations as a part of the exhibit itself, as well as around the gallery grounds. Visitors will see how metals are made and cast, how stone is carved and how paper and pigments are formed. Ancient art will be displayed showing how methods and materials have changed over time. Wall murals and displays will allow the viewer to follow the timeline of history, and to see and understand how devices for making art operate. Tony Sheets, |
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