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Shady Ave Magazine featured an article on the Tomayko Foundation in their Summer quarterly highlighting its Frank Mason gallery.

The Tomayko Foundation launched in 2015 to nurture “individual creativity through education and the arts.”  The opening of its permanent art gallery in October 2023 made way for the first Pittsburgh based rotating gallery dedicated to Frank Mason’s artwork.

https://tomayko.foundation/Frank-Mason-Gallery

BENITO ZENGA
ART RESTORER

January 1, 1935 - December 9, 2025.

We’d like to honor the memory of art restorer, Benito Zenga, who passed away in December 2024.  He was a trusted friend of Frank Mason and one of the only art restorers who Frank relied on to conserve his oil paintings. 

Benito quietly worked with some of the most prestigious museums in New York City and stepped in on emergencies when institutional restorers could not remediate a problematic conservation. He greeted those he met with humor, humility and grace. Benito will be missed by all those who were fortunate enough to befriend him.

  

 

 

ART X CLIMATE
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
James Keul is part of this exhibition

Featured in the 5th National Climate Assessment and 2024 Climate Literacy Guide, this piece will also be included in the upcoming exhibition Art x Climate, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, which opens (Earth Day) April 22, 2025.

James is also having a solo exhibition this May at Craven Allen Gallery, in Durham, NC, with an opening reception on May 17, 2025.

Additionally, James has been selected for the SCAD Alumni Atelier program as a Presidential Alumni Atelier Ambassadors, in Savannah, GA, from June 23, 2025 – August 21, 2025.

SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA

Visit the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Venice, Italy. 

A special thank you to Peter and Emily for their donation to the preservation of the Knights of Malta palace grounds and Basilica in Venice.  Their contribution helped prioritize the reinstallation of Frank Mason’s eight religious murals of the Life of St Anthony of Padua in the nave of the basilica.

Emily and Peter, a student of Frank’s, visited with the Order and their curator Bernardo Gambino, in Venice on September 22, 2023.  Their gift of the book Gloria in Excelsis Deo was warmly received by Gambino.

To learn more about this mural commission in Frank’s own words you can buy the feature length documentary film, A Light in the Dark:  The Art and Life of Frank Mason.
https://maestrofilms.net/. 

If you would like more information on how to visit the Basilica in Venice please email wscottmason@hotmail.com.

Links & Artists showcasing students and partners of Frank Mason, painting websites, mediums and interests.