Around the MAG
In Memoriam
MAGazine has gone digital! The Gallery's annual member magazine is now Around the MAG, with headlines and features that change each month. Don't look for us in your mailbox, but do visit this site often. (If you're a MAG member, you'll still receive ARTiculate, our bimonthly calendar, by US mail.)
Ruth Richardson
Ruth Richardson, whose passion for the Memorial Art Gallery spanned eight decades, died December 14.
Richardson began visiting the Gallery as a child and took her first art classes at the Creative Workshop in the 1920s. Years later, after a long career at Eastman Kodak Company, she and her husband, Bill, would become members of the Gallery's Director's Circle. Following Bill's death in 2004, she continued to support the Gallery, most recently as a charter member of UR's George Eastman Circle.
Betsy Brayer and Carl Zollo designed an elaborate village for the highly successful 1974 Medieval Faire.
Carl Zollo
Carl Zollo, a well-known Rochester metal sculptor and longtime friend of MAG, died November 6.
At MAG, Zollo lent his artistic expertise to a number of major fund-raisers, including the 1974 Medieval Faire (a joint venture of the Gallery¹s Women¹s Council and the Junior League) and the 1988 "You Take the Cake" celebration of the Gallery¹s 75th anniversary.
One of his sculptures, from the 1969 Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition, was purchased for the Gallery¹s permanent collection.
Other recent deaths
January 28, 2009: William Buckett, Former Gallery Board President
June 12, 2008: Earl W. Kage, "One-Man Cultural Institution" and Former MAG Board Member
February 18, 2008: Susan Eisenhart Schilling, MAG Staff Member for Four Decades
