MAY - JUNE 1999 MUNOZ NEWS

RIE�S MAY RELEASES SELL VERY WELL

Rie�s next release is July 29 with two excellent prints
and the Frye poster featuring �Concert in the Park.�

 

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RIE MUNOZ, DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES As part of the 1999 Commencement ceremonies Rie Munoz was honored by the University of Alaska SE with an honorary doctorate degree of humanities. Rie attended a dinner in her honor a few days before with the Chancellor of the University of Alaska along with previous winners of this award. During a short speech, Rie told of her first Alaska painting of a Russian Church that she gave to her new neighbor.	Last year he gave the original painting back because he was heading to the Pioneer�s Home. Rie told of the estimated 2000 Alaskan paintings she's done since then.  She quoted an early 20th Century American painter, Robert Henri, who said,  �There is no more real life than the adventurous one of living, liking and expressing the things of ones own time.� Rie said she was trying to express the things of her own time in Alaska as an artist and that she intends to keep on doing just that. The Commencement Ceremonies were carried out a few days later, with much pomp and circumstance. Close to 500 people packed the Centennial Hall in Juneau as Rie Munoz was given this high honor. She spoke to the crowd and told them that most of them in the hall have probably been subjects, albeit unwittingly, to her paintings over the years. Rie ended this special evening by saying it was the beauty of the land that brought her to Alaska but it was the people that made her stay.
MUNOZ PAINTINGS   Available for Purchase November 5 Exhibition opens November 6 The day after the 1999 Washington Art Tour ends the Frye Art Museum will make available the 100 Rie Munoz originals. This will be a private evening event for Frye members and by invitation. Contact us if you would like to be put on our Frye invitation mailing list.  Frye membership dues are $25 annually if you would like to join. Friday November 5 Original Exhibition Frye Art Museum Seattle Opening Night - Originals available for purchase. Frye members & by invitation: 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. Saturday November 6, 1999 - Sunday January 9, 2000 Original Exhibition Frye Art Museum Seattle Open to the public.	�Winter Fishing, Nome� Painting to be available at the Frye opening reception November 5

We just received two new tapestries, both of boats! �Boom Boat� and �Douglas Crab Boat� were both commissioned by a couple from Olympia, Washington. This will make their third Munoz Aubusson tapestry.

 
 

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RELEASE SCHEDULE

The following is a tentative release schedule for Rie Munoz art in 1999:

NOVEMBER 6, 1999 THROUGH JANUARY 9, 2000--
Original Watercolor Exhibition at the Frye Art Museum

Rie Munoz will tour 7 galleries before the Frye opening. During these shows the galleries will be showing the latest reproductions, silk-screens and older works by Munoz. Rie will be signing books and posters and chatting with customers. She will not be signing at the Frye opening.

The galleries, towns and dates are as follows:

• Wednesday, October 27 Bergsma Showroom Port Angeles
• Friday, October 29 Darvill's Rare Print Shop Eastsound Orcas Island
• Saturday October 30 The Scott Collection LaConner
• Sunday October 31 (Halloween) Art Concepts Tacoma
• Monday November 1 Eastside Gala-Rie Olympia
• Wednesday November 3 Frame It Northwest Seattle
• Thursday November 4 Kenneth Behm Galleries Bellevue
• Friday November 5 Original Exhibition Frye Art Museum Seattle
  Opening Night - Originals available for purchase.
  Frye members & by invitation: 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
  
• Saturday November 6, 1999 - Sunday January 9, 2000
  Original Exhibition Frye Art Museum Seattle
  Open to the public.

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