The exhibition Translating Revolution: U.S. Artists Interpret Mexican Muralists, featuring work by Charlot, among many others, will be on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago from Feb. 12 through Aug. 1, 2010. A public symposium on the muralist movement in Mexico and its legacy will be held on May 15 in connection with the exhibition.

A Charlot drawing of Iolani Luahine was hung with great fanfare in the newly renovated main lobby of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikīkī Beach, as part of a tribute to the late kumu hula. The drawing is on loan from Leimomi Moʻokini Lum, a relative of Luahine.

Charlot’s mural in one of the Jefferson Hall stairwells at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, entitled Inspiration, Study, Creativity, was recently cleaned and restored, along with the companion mural by Affandi, thanks to a team from the Winterthur Museum/University of Delaware graduate program in art conservation.

The French artist Isabelle Bonzom’s forthcoming book on fresco painting will feature Charlot’s works, among others. The study, to be published by Eyrolles in 2010, was awarded a grant from the Centre National du Livre.

Francis V. O’Connor’s epic The Mural in America: Wall Painting as Art and Environment from Prehistory to the Present, is now available online. Charlot and his works feature prominently in the story.

At the JCF’s annual meeting, on March 21, 2010, at the Charlot House, members and guests heard a thought-provoking talk by Professor Yoshinobu Ota of Kyushu University, a Fulbright Program scholar in residence at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. Dr. Ota’s presentation on the topic of Jean Charlot’s Mimesis generated a lively discussion.

The JCF awarded its 2010 UH Art Department scholarship to Brady Evans. At the Honolulu Printmakers’ 82^nd Annual Exhibition, the Award for Excellence in Honor of Jean Charlot went to Margo Ray, for Containment Landscape #6.

El Museo del Barrio in New York celebrated its post-renovation reopening in the fall of 2009 with Nexus New York: Latin-American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, featuring "pioneering Caribbean and Latin American artists who lived in New York City before World War II and shaped the American avant-garde." The exhibition and the accompanying catalog, Cullen, Deborah, ed., Nexus New York: Latin-American Artists in the Modern Metropolis (Museo del Barrio/Yale University Press, 2009), included work by Charlot.

In 2009, the University of Pittsburgh Press released Muralism Without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927-1940, by Anna Indych-Lopez. Ms. Indych-Lopez was the recipient in 2007 of a grant from the JCF for research at the Jean Charlot Collection.

One of Charlot’s works was used as an illustration in Jaime Preciado Coronado, "El estudio interdisciplinario socioespacial de la diversidad religiosa," Desacatos, 30 (May-Aug. 2009).

The JCF awarded its 2009 UH Art Department scholarship to J. Ashley McEwan. At the Honolulu Printmakers’ 81^st Annual Exhibition, the Award for Excellence in Honor of Jean Charlot went to Allyn Bromley, for Green Piece. And at the Artists of Hawaiʻi exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Jean Charlot Foundation Award for Excellence was given to Rujunko Pugh, for Crown Flower and Genetic Code.

In 2009, the JCF made a travel grant to Sara Hudson, a graduate student at Yale University, for archival research at the Jean Charlot Collection for a project involving Charlot’s childrens’ books.

The JCF board focused in 2009 on updating the JCF bylaws and charter and on expanding and redesigning the JCF website. In addition, the JCF set up an email account (jcf@jeancharlotfoundation.org) and continued its efforts to obtain photographs of original artworks by Charlot.

Laura Warfield