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$4m ceramics gift - asu art museum

updated sun 7 mar 04

 

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> Arizona State University Art Museum


Tempe, Arizona



Information below on the following




THE STEPHANE JANSSEN AND

R. MICHAEL JOHNS COLLECTION

($4 Million in Ceramics Gift)





**THE STEPHANE JANSSEN AND

R. MICHAEL JOHNS COLLECTION

GIFTED TO THE ASU ART MUSEUM**




Announce last Saturday evening by Stephane Janssen

himself at the Ceram-a-rama Gala, the ASU Art Museum

will receive nearly $4 million in contemporary ceramics from the Arizona resident and Belgian native.

Janssen's ceramics collection was acquired over a decade

with his late partner, ceramist R. Michael Johns and includes

work by major American and international ceramists, including

Robert Arneson, Akio Takamori, Jun Kaneko, Viola Frey,

Adrian Saxe, Richard Notkin, George Ohr, Ruth Duchworth and

Harrison McIntosh, as well as a variety of emerging artists.



More information on this major gift can be found online

at the following address:

http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/ceramicsresearchcenter/





Take care and all the best,



Arizona State University Art Museum

Tenth Street and Mill Avenue

Tempe, AZ 85287-2911
t. 480.965.2787

f. 480.965.5254

e. asuartmuseum@asu.edu

w. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/home.html





"The single most impressive venue in the state

for contemporary art is the art museum at

Arizona State University, which also boasts a

new research center for ceramics."

-Raphael Rubinstein
Art in America (Dec. 2002, pg. 41)






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