ARTWORK BY UTAH ARTIST
ACCEPTED INTO MDA ART COLLECTION
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“The Cello Player” |
TUCSON, Ariz., July 12, 2006 – An acrylic painting by Frank Bare of St. George,
Utah, has been accepted by the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Art Collection. Now in its 14th year, the Collection features artwork
by people from across the country with neuromuscular diseases.
Bare’s “The Cello Player” is an abstract painting of a person playing the
cello. Bare used bright colors and bold shapes to create this “musical”
masterpiece.
Bare, 75, is affected by inclusion-body myositis,
a slowly progressive, adult-onset inflammatory muscle disease that weakens the
limbs and extremities.
An award-winning gymnast in college, Bare founded the U.S. Gymnastics Federation
in 1963, and is still actively involved in the sport. He serves as Chairman of
the Board for the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
Since taking up art in about 1985, he’s received several awards, including
first place in a ceramics show in Tucson, Ariz. He also displayed his paintings
during the dedication of a new science building at the University of
California-San Diego.
The new addition by Bare is on display at MDA’s national headquarters in
Tucson, Ariz., and can be seen at www.mda.org/commprog/art/displayall.aspx. Bare’s piece also will be
included in MDA Art Collection traveling exhibits. The Collection was
established in 1992 to focus attention on the achievements of artists with
disabilities and to emphasize that physical disability is no barrier to
creativity.
The permanent Collection comprises more than 300 works by artists aged 2 to 82 and represents all 50 states. Each artist is
affected by one of the neuromuscular diseases in the MDA program.
Selected art from the Collection has been exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art;
Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center and Forbes Magazine Galleries in New York;
Tucson Museum of Art; Bishop Museum in Honolulu; Chicago Public Library, Harold
Washington Library Center; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art; Los Angeles
Children’s Museum; JFK Center at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.;
Fresno Metropolitan Museum; Duluth Art Institute; Capital Children’s Museum,
Washington, D.C.; and the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn, Mich.
MDA is a voluntary health agency working to defeat neuromuscular diseases
through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive
services, and far-reaching professional and public health education. MDA
maintains a clinic for area adults and children
affected by neuromuscular diseases at the University of Utah Medical Center in
Salt Lake City.
The Association’s programs are funded almost entirely by individual private
contributors.
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