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Almost showtime - Museum gets ready to raise the curtain on exhibit Ocala
Star-Banner - September 7, 2001
OCALA — The Appleton Museum of Art's staff is finishing up some last-minute details in preparation for tomorrow's opening of the 19th Century Masterworks exhibition. "Considering the timing we have been under, we are doing great," Museum Director Jeffrey Spalding said Thursday. He put together the exhibition in about eight weeks, a task that generally takes about three years to complete.
Still, Spalding is working to ensure that whatever possibly could be done will be done. Some of those tasks are considerable. The audio guides, which are tapes that describe works in the collection that visitors can listen to as they walk through the exhibition, were being completed on Thursday. Spalding said that initially there would be 100 tapes, in both English and Spanish. And finishing touches were being put on the hardware for the gum ball mural being sponsored by Fine Arts for Ocala, said Judy Worley, liaison officer of art programs between the Marion County Schools and the Appleton. For a small fee, visitors will be able to add some Double Bubble gum balls in varying colors to the mural that, when completed, will resemble a pointillism-type depiction of Georges Seurat's painting, "La Grande Jatte." Proceeds will go to benefit the Appleton's education programs. Also among the final preparations is the installation of an additional art show, "The Tangled Garden," a compilation of 13 large-scale paintings by Montreal artist Michael Smith. "He is a contemporary painter," Spalding said. "He paints very emotional, romantic, abstract landscape paintings." Spalding, who is anticipating a flood of visitors, wants to make sure there is plenty of other art to see in the event people have to wait to see the masterworks. Besides Smith's work and the Appleton's permanent collection, patrons will get to see the French Realists of the Fountainbleau Forest: The Boone Collection of Barbizon prints from Alabama's Fine Arts Museum of the South at Mobile, and, until Sept. 30, the Masters of 20th Century Photography from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. To make reservations for the exhibit, call the ticket agent toll-free at 1-877-700-6692 or the Appleton Museum of Art at (352) 236-7100. General admission is $12, with reduced rates for seniors, educators, students, and museum members. The ticket agent will charge an additional $1.50 per ticket. Susan Latham Carr may be reached at susan.carr@starbanner.com or 867-4156 See September 7, 2001 issue of Ocala Star-Banner for original article |
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