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Since that first trip, Candie has visited many
them through our doors.” museums. “I’m a huge fan of Andy Warhol—not
These days, Candie is at home in museums, but
that wasn’t always the case. “The first time I went
to the museum was to the Art Institute of Chicago,
on a class field trip. We went because there was a
huge exhibition at the time that was focused on
Van Gogh’s relationship to Gauguin,” she recalls.
“For me, I didn’t know what to expect when I went
there, but I learned two things. Prior to that visit,
necessarily his art, but who he was as a person—
so the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is one of my
absolute favorites,” she says. “A museum that I
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was not expecting to be good, but was absolutely
blown away by, is the Detroit Institute of Arts in
Detroit, Michigan, which was in jeopardy of being
defunded recently. Those are two of my favorites
that I could go to all the time.”
I always thought Starry Night was the greatest As she starts to make her mark on the Chazen and
painting ever, and it was so good because you see its visitors, Candie can refer to her own experience
it on posters, and it’s pretty. And I saw it in falling in love with museums. “I never pictured
person and was very disappointed, because for me myself in a museum. I did not go to museums
the surface was just too flat when compared to growing up. I was always kind of the dark horse,
some of the other surfaces where the impasto was like the weird little art girl drawing, writing, and
two inches thick. So just in general the most it wasn’t until I was 17 that I went to a museum
exciting part was seeing those things that my for the first time,” she says. “And I think this
teacher had shown me on a slide, or I looked at in speaks to the importance and the power of
a textbook and having it be right in front of me museums. Some of these children may only come
and thinking wow this is really awesome. This is here once, but you never know what impact that
here, I can look at it, and it is available to me.” visit can have on them.”
After many years of
generously giving their time
and expertise to the Chazen,
docents Darlene Olson,
Marjon Ornstein, Ann
Semmann, Margy Walker,
and Karen Zilavy are retiring
from service. Chazen staff
and visitors are enormously
grateful for their devotion to
the museum.
better serve their students, and also to help get