FRAME (Future Restorationists, Artists, and Museum Enthusiasts) is a student volunteer organization that focuses on the College’s excellent collection of American art and provides a valuable service to the Randolph College and Lynchburg communities. Through the club, students broaden their knowledge of art and art history, learn the field of museum education, and develop communication and public speaking skills.

Randolph College FRAME members assisting at the Maier Museum family program

FRAME docents volunteers lead tours for Museum visitors and host receptions and special museum events. They assist with or observe 2^nd and 5^th grade school tours led by community docents, family programs, preschool programs, and middle and high school tours.

FRAME members receive an inside view of museums by working with the Museum staff through a series of training sessions on the permanent collection, and an introduction to touring techniques.

FRAME also frequents local art openings and cultural events, and has made connections with similar clubs on other campuses in the region, such as Hampden-Sydney College. While many of the members are art majors, others are not. FRAME gives students who love art great opportunities to be involved at the Maier without the academic commitment of a major.

The Maier Museum is a great resource for both the Randolph College community and the Lynchburg community at large. FRAME helps to get the word out.

If you can’t visit us at the Involvement Fair or if you have any questions, just email Kathleen Conti at kmconti@randolphcollege.edu. Remember to follow the Maier on FaceBook!

Docents are museum volunteers whose enthusiasm and knowledge help visitors make meaning of the Maier Museum’s collections. Docents work in pairs leading school groups of 12-16 students for 50 minute tours. Docents may also be asked to conduct adult-level tours as needed.

Interested? Read on! Or perhaps you know of an art lover who may be interested? If so, please send this information along to them. Our docent training begins on Monday, September 21.

Reasons to volunteer as a docent:

• You will learn a great deal about American art in general and about the incredible art housed in the Museum’s collection in particular.
• You will have the opportunity to participate in day trips to other museums in Virginia and surrounding areas.
• You will be advocating support for arts education in your community.

What is the time requirement? Our heaviest tour months are November and March. In November we host all fifth graders in the Lynchburg City Schools, and in March all second graders. Docents lead or assist no more than six tours in November and six tours in March.

What is the training requirement? Required training for new docents takes place in September and October at the Museum on Mondays from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.  An optional introduction to American art is offered through the video series American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America with Robert Hughes. This series is screened at the Museum in June, July, and August.

Are there any other opportunities to volunteer at the Museum? Yes! We also need volunteer Receptionists to greet visitors and handle gift shop sales. Receptionists commit to two regular monthly times (1-3 p.m. or 3-5 p.m. weekdays, or 2-4 p.m. Saturday or Sunday).

If you are interested in becoming a docent or receptionist at the Maier Museum of Art, please contact Martha Johnson at 434-947-8136 or mjohnson@randolphcollege.edu.

This event is sponsored by Maier Museum of Art members, and R-MWC alumnae, Howard Perkinson Lawrence ’40 and Nancy Forsyth Walker ’98.

FREE and open to the public. Reception will follow.

Heart with Bricks by Elizabeth Murray

Siegel’s presentation is part of programming in conjunction with the Maier Museum’s current special exhibition, Women and the Maier: Creating Herstory curated by Emily Hanson ’09 which highlights some of America’s most important women artists represented in the permanent collection.

Many art historians consider the Hudson River School to be the first cohesive American art movement. Active in the second half of the nineteenth century, Hudson River School landscape painters are well represented in the College’s permanent collection with masterful works by significant men of the movement: Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Thomas Kensett. Siegel’s Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School is the first known exhibition in the United States to focus solely on the female artists associated with the group. The title of Siegel’s exhibition and presentation is taken from a request by Abigail Adams to John Adams in 1776: “I desire you would Remember the Ladies…if particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion.” Siegel notes, “It is important to recast 19^th century American women landscape painters no longer as the exception…but rather as exceptional.”

This event is sponsored by Maier Museum of Art members, and R-MWC alumnae, Howard Perkinson Lawrence ’40 and Nancy Forsyth Walker ’98.

FREE and open to the public. Reception will follow.

Monday, July 26, from 1 to 2 p.m. we will screen Art21: Transformation featuring Yinka Shonibar MBE, Cindy Sherman, and Paul McCarthy.

ALL are welcome to attend this free event: volunteers, potential volunteers, friends, and anyone interested in art. Learn about some of today’s most intriguing and thought-provoking art in air-conditioned comfort.

Call 947-8136 for more information or just stop in to enjoy the screening with fellow art lovers.

Regular hours will resume on Wednesday, July 7.

The galleries are open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, 1-4 p.m.

Beat the heat and enjoy the two special exhibitions currently on view.

Women and the Maier: Creating Herstory
and
Modern and Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection

Come hear Alice Heard Williams read excerpts from her new novel Tracking the Carpaccio, which completes a trilogy of suspense novels featuring Emma Darling, an American art historian working in England. A book signing will follow.

Alice Williams is the author of Seeking the High Yellow Note, Remembering Piero, and Pensione Anastasia, as well as three books of poetry. An art historian who has lectured in America and in England, her novels embrace a common theme—the power and profound nature of great art.

Women and the Maier: Creating Herstory

Curated by Emily Hanson ’09, this exhibition highlights some of America’s most important women artists represented in the Maier’s permanent collection, including Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Murray, and Nancy Spero. Women and the Maier: Creating Herstory will be on view in Gallery 5 through December 10, 2010.

Also opening June 4 and on view through December 10: Modern and Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection.

Explore the exhibitions. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres. Bring your friends!

An Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, April 29, 4 to 6 p.m.

The exhibition and opening reception are FREE and open to the public.

Senior Exhibition: Class of 2010 Announcement