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INS I DE S E MC
The Newsletter of the
Southeastern Museums Conference
summer 2015 | www.semcdirect.net
Jacksonville Riverfront, Site of 2015 SEMC Annual Meeting at Hyatt Regency
Executive Director’s Notes Susan Perry 6
Join Us in Jacksonville for SEMC Annual Meeting 2015 Annual Meeting Important Dates 15
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Nick Gray: Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker 34
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Founder of Museum Hack Convinces Millennials that Museums are Awesome
Annual Meeting Scholarship Opportunities Annual Meeting Competitions 16
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Get Involved at the Annual Meeting 19
Announcing SEMC’s JIMI 2016 20
Annual Meeting Awards Program Applications Due October 31, 2016
SEMC’s AAM Event at the Fernbank 22
Dancing with Dinosaurs and the Power of Poison Make for an Exhilarating Night
The Challenge Continues 22
Help SEMC Match a $10,000 Challege: We’re Almost There!
Graduate Assistants and Historic Columbia Museums 31
Assistants Making Invaluable Curatorial Contributions in Mutally-Beneficial Program
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Two Southeastern Museums Receive National Medal 34
First Lady Michelle Obama Bestows Museum and Library Services Medal on Amazement
Square, in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the Louisiana Children’s Museum in New Orleans
Tubman Museum Opens New Facility 39
Largest Museum in Southeast Dedicated to African American Art, History, and Culture
Association of African American Museums Wins IMLS Grant A SPECIAL THANKS 45
CONGRATULATIONS 52 CONSTRUCTION 60
EXHIBITIONS 64 INNOVATIONS 78
PEOPLE AND PLACES 82 WHAT’S HAPPENING 83
IMPORTANT DATES 84 SEMC JOB FORUM 84
SEMC MEMBERSHIP FORM 85
Endowment and Membership Contributions –3–
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semc
officers
Alabama
North Carolina
Arkansas
South Carolina
David Butler President
Florida
Tennessee
865.524.1260
Georgia
Virginia
[email protected]
Kentucky
West Virginia
Knoxville Museum of Art,
Louisiana
U.S. Virgin Islands
Knoxville, TN
Mississippi
Puerto Rico
Darcie MacMahon Vice President staff
352.273.2053
Susan S. Perry
[email protected]
Executive Director
Florida Museum of Natural History,
Mary S. Miller
Gainesville, FL
Manager of Communications
and Member Services
Robin Seage Person Secretary
601.442.2901
contact semc
[email protected]
SEMC | P.O. Box 550746
Historic Jefferson College,
Atlanta, GA 30355-3246
Washington, MS
T: 404.814.2048 or 404.814.2047
F: 404.814.2031
Robin Reed Treasurer
W: www.SEMCdirect.net
757.690.8962
E: [email protected]
[email protected]
Casemate Museum,
Inside SEMC is published four times a
Fort Monroe, VA
year by SEMC. Annual subscription
is included in membership dues.
Mike Hudson Past President
502.899.2356
Design: Nathan W. Moehlmann,
[email protected]
Goosepen Studio & Press
Museum of the American Printing House
of the Blind, Louisville, KY
The deadline for the Fall 2015
newsletter is August 17, 2015.
To submit information for the newsletter,
please contact the Council Director
in your state.
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directors
Priscilla Cooper
Elise LeCompte
205.328.9696
352.273.1925
[email protected]
[email protected]
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,
Florida Museum of Natural History
Birmingham, AL
Gainesville, FL 32611
Julie Harris
Catherine Pears
270.575.9958
318.443.0545
[email protected]
[email protected]
River Discovery Center,
Alexandria Museum of Art
Paducah, KY
Alexandria, LA 71301
Brian Hicks
Zinnia Willits
662.429.8852
843.722.2706 ext. 32
[email protected]
[email protected]
Desoto County Museum,
Gibbes Museum of Art
Hernando, MS
Charleston, SC 29401
Kathleen Hutton Allison Reid 336.758.5394
504.658.4159
[email protected]
[email protected]
Reynolda House Museum of
New Orleans Museum of Art,
American Art, Winston-Salem, NC
New Orleans, LA
Mary Lague Deitrah J. Taylor 540.342.5760
478.320.4010
[email protected]
[email protected]
Taubman Museum of Art,
The Cultural Center, Georgia College
Roanoke, VA
and State University, Milledgeville, GA
Jenny Lamb
Heather Marie Wells
616.356.0501
479.418.5700
[email protected]
[email protected]
Belle Meade Plantation,
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,
Nashville, TN
Bentonville, AR
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executive
director’s
notes
Susan Perry
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scape to sunny Jacksonville,
one of the top “Hottest
Cities” for cultural experience!
Experience “hot happenings”
at JAX beach, an edgy art museum,
a wild animal zoo, trendy historic
neighborhoods and restaurants. Cool
off on the banks of the St. Johns
River and stroll under the canopy of
majestic Cummer oaks and through
the larger-than-life mouth at MOSH.
Discover Northeast Florida’s cultural
and ecological history at the SEMC
2015 Annual Meeting in Jacksonville!
The theme of this year’s annual
meeting is “Cultural Collaborations:
Creating a Collective Vision.”
Create cultural collaborations in
Jacksonville and renew your vision
for the future of museums.
Discover new horizons in museum
leadership, innovative technologies,
community engagement, and
transformative experiences. Ignite
innovative creativity and engage our
diverse communities. Connect with
museum colleagues networking
at SEMC 2015. Tag your social
media post with #SEMC2015!
The Jacksonville Local Arrangements
Committee has worked hard to
plan three fun evening events, offsite tours, and programs. In the
keynote address “Museums Are
Awesome,” Nick Gray, a Renegade
Museum Tour Guide and the founder
of Museum Hack, will share best
practices and engagement ideas for
new audience development. How
do you attract Millennials to your
museum? Museum Hack has found
success with a sustainable model for
premium experiences. Get excited
about museum experiences.
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Susan Perry, SEMC Executive Director
We promise you’ll be energized,
enlightened, and entertained.
After twenty years, SEMC
members are excited to explore
Florida the sunshine state.
Join us to discover Cultural
Collaborations: Creating a
Collective Vision at SEMC
2015 Annual Meeting October
12–14 in Jacksonville!
— Susan Perry, SEMC Executive Director
Fernbank Museum’s
Great Hall by Drew Newman
Cultural Collaboration
CREATING A COLLECTIVE VISION
SEMC • OCTOBER 12-14, 2015 Jacksonville, Florida
Join us in Jacksonville
SEMC 2015 ANNUAL MEETING
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Cultural Collaboration
CREATING A COLLECTIVE VISION
SEMC 2015 ANNUAL MEETING REGISTER NOW!
OCTOBER 12–14, 2015 | JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
Escape to sunny Jacksonville, one of the top “Hottest Cities” for cultural experience! Experience its pristine beaches,
trendy restaurants, vibrant nightlife, edgy art museums, and historic neighborhoods. Cool off on the banks of the
St. Johns River and stroll under the canopy of majestic Cummer oaks and through the larger-than-life mouth at
MOSH. Discover Northeast Florida’s cultural and ecological history at the SEMC 2015 Annual Meeting!
Explore Florida’s abundant waterways and cultural collaborations in Jacksonville at our exciting events that will highlight
Jacksonville museums: Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Museum of Science & History (MOSH), Museum of
Contemporary Art Jacksonville (MOCA), The Ritz Theatre and LaVilla Museum, and Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens.
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Jacksonville is the perfect place to explore this year’s theme, “Cultural Collaborations: Creating a Collective
Vision” and renew your vision for the future of museums. Discover new horizons in museum leadership, innovative
technologies, and community engagement. SEMC’s Program Committee invites you to meet us in Jacksonville to
share creative ideas and success stories, explore new directions and emerging trends in museums, and network with
the most congenial and supportive group of museum professionals in the nation!
We promise you’ll be energized, enlightened, and entertained. Relax in sunny Florida. You’ll never want to leave! Join
us to discover Cultural Collaboration: Creating a Collective Vision at SEMC 2015 Annual Meeting October 12–14 in
Jacksonville!
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PARTICIPANTS AT THE SEMC 2015 ANNUAL MEETING WILL EXPERIENCE
• Over 65 Sessions and Workshops on engaging your leaders, leveraging community collaborations, exploring new
technology, discovering museum pop-ups, engaging selfie culture, creating a collective vision, expanding social media,
improving inbox overload, planning for leadership change, exploring environmental conservation, facilitating cultural
exchange, making inventory matter, recruiting volunteers, connecting to collections, overcoming disaster, creating living
history, embracing community engagement, marketing your strengths, creating teacher-museum partnerships, fundraising
strategies, growing African-American museums, emerging museum professionals, and surviving a mid-career crisis.
The complete schedule is online at SEMCdirect.net.
• Resource Expo with over 66 exhibitors. Learn about new products, technology, and services for museums. Don’t miss the
Grand Opening celebration and Silent Auction on Monday from 4:30–6:00 pm.
• Evening Events at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, MOSH, MOCA, and the Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens.
• Private Walking Tours of Jacksonville’s historic districts, architecture, parks, and Art in Public Places.
• Keynote Speaker Nick Gray, founder of Museum Hack.
• A Pre-Conference Trip to Historic St. Augustine, our country’s first enduring European settlement.
• Behind-the-Scenes Tours of the Cummer Museum of Art, MOCA, MOSH’s Science Theater and
Bryan-Gooding Planetarium, Federal Reserve Bank, Jacksonville’s historic districts, Art in Public Places,
and running tour along the St. Johns River.
• A Silent Auction to raise funds for scholarships to SEMC’s 2016 Annual Meeting;
• Extensive Networking with your southeastern museum colleagues.
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront
location: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville-Riverfront is our host hotel, located in the heart of Jacksonville’s vibrant
downtown with breathtaking views of the St. Johns River: 225 E. Coastline Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32202
Call toll free 1.888.421.1442 or 1.402.592.6464 for group reservations.
Mention the Southeastern Museums Conference for conference rate.
room rates: $149/Single & Double Room + 14.13% applicable taxes
room block cutoff date: Saturday, September 12, 2015
REGISTER NOW ONLINE AT WWW.SEMCDIRECT.NET FOR EARLY DISCOUNTS:
Regular (7/4 – 9/25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300
Onsite (10/12 – 10/14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $375
FAM (4/20 – 9/25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250
Student (4/20 – 9/25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $125; single day $75; onsite $200
Single Day (4/20 – 9/25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150; onsite $200
Trustees Single Day (4/20 – 9/25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150; onsite $200
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Cultural Collaboration
CREATING A COLLECTIVE VISION
SEMC • OCTOBER 12-14, 2015 Jacksonville, Florida
#SEMC2015
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Important Dates
July 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEMC Competition deadlines
July 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEMC Scholarship Applications deadline
August 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEMC Awards Nomination deadline
September 12 . . . . . . . . Hotel Room Block reservation deadline
September 25 . . . . . . . . Annual Meeting Regular Registration deadline
Keynote Speaker
Join your colleagues in Jacksonville for an entertaining
and thought provoking keynote talk about why
“Museums are Awesome” by Nick Gray, the founder
of Museum Hack. We know museums are awesome,
but how can we convince Millennials that they are? And
how can we entice them to visit our museums? Museum
Hack’s mission is to get people excited about great
museums all around the world. Guides at Museum Hack
give tours that are totally different from most museum
experiences: including sassy gossip, games with prizes,
and lots of photos. Museum Hack wants to appeal to
the cynics, the bored, and the apathetic. They know
that a lot of people do not enjoy museums, especially
millennials. ¶ Museum Hack has found success with
a sustainable model for premium experiences. Learn
about best practices and engagement ideas for new
audience development. Big companies like Google
and Adobe regularly hire Museum Hack to produce
their company events at the Met. Museums have also
hired Museum Hack for workshops, consulting, and
Young Patron program work. ¶ Nick Gray is a Renegade
Museum Tour Guide and the founder of Museum Hack.
His company of educators and actors works at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and other New York City
museums. Gray is 33 years old and lives in Manhattan.
Before starting Museum Hack, he was a partner at
Flight Display Systems, which manufactured and sold
electronic equipment for small private jets and military
aircraft.
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Annual Meeting Scholarship Opportunities
SEMC is pleased to offer Travel Scholarships to SEMC 2015 Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL. SEMC Annual
Scholarships cover conference registration plus a $500 travel stipend. Those eligible for SEMC Travel Scholarships
are Students, Seasoned Museum Professionals (experienced museum professionals), Entry Level Professionals,
Historic House Museum Professionals, African American Museum Professionals, and Small Museum Professionals.
Visit SEMCdirect.net for details and application.
Annual Meeting Competitions
SEMC has a number of competitions. Entry deadlines are July 17. The complete competition details as well as how
to submit an entry can be found at SEMCdirect.net.
SEMC PUBLICATION COMPETITION The SEMC Publication Design Competition began in 1988 to recognize
and reward excellence in graphic design in southeastern museum publications. The competition encourages
communication, effective design, creativity and pride of work, and recognition of institutional image and identity.
Winning entries will be displayed at SEMC’s Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, Fl, and featured in the SEMC newsletter.
CURCOM EXHIBITION COMPETITION The SEMC Curators’ Committee is committed to promoting
excellence and professionalism in museums within the region. The Exhibition Competition focuses attention on
exhibitions of merit that are well designed, have educational value and treat objects with care and respect. The
competition showcases the best in our profession and provides benchmarks for regional exhibition efforts in
southeastern museums. Winning exhibitions will be announced at the SEMC 2015 Annual Awards Luncheon on
October 13, 2015 in Jacksonville, FL and featured in the Winter Issue of Inside SEMC. The competition has four
categories: Exhibits with budgets under $25,000, over $25,000, over $100,000; and exhibits with a budget of
$1,000,000 or more.
TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION The SEMC Technology Competition began to recognize and reward excellence
in the use of technology by southeastern museums. The competition encourages innovation, effective design,
accessibility, creativity and pride of work, and recognition of institutional identity. Winning entries will be displayed at
SEMC’s 2015 Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, FL (October 12–14, 2015) and featured on the SEMC website.
SPOTLIGHT ON STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION This serves as a showcase for student work and
is a way for students to network with experienced museum professionals and other students. Proposals are now
being solicited for 10-minute presentations that will be part of a 75-minute session at SEMC’s 2015 Annual Meeting
in Jacksonville, FL. The proposal must present work done by the student for a museum as part of an internship,
employment (paid or unpaid), or class project. Candidates or recent graduates of a bachelor’s, master’s or Ph.D
program are eligible to submit proposals. Selected presenters will receive a free SEMC student membership, gaining
instant access to networking, mentorship opportunities, and scholarships.
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Annual Meeting Awards Program
SEMC Awards recognize and honor outstanding members of the museum community who have helped shape our
profession. Please take a few moments to consider your friends, colleagues, and mentors who, through their work and
activities, have provided exemplary service in the southeastern region. It’s easy — enter your application online
at SEMCdirect.net. Entry deadline is August 7. To nominate someone for an SEMC Award, please include the
following:
1) Nominee name & contact information; 2) Nominator name & contact information; 3) Name of the award;
4) Summary of the nominee’s accomplishments; 5) Two support letters; and 6) Support materials such as the
nominee’s current CV, honors, etc.
JAMES R. SHORT AWARD, SEMC’s highest honor, recognizes individuals who have given a lifetime (20+ years)
of distinguished service to the museum profession.
MUSEUM LEADERSHIP AWARD recognizes mid-career museum professionals (10+ years) who have shown
significant advancement within the profession by leadership in museum activities.
EMERGING MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS AWARD recognizes emerging professionals (2–10 years) who have
demonstrated excellence and leadership in museum activities at his or her institution.
OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE MUSEUM PROFESSION AWARD recognizes a leader with 10 years or
more of service to an allied or affiliated professional organization.
DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTOR AWARD recognizes a non-museum professional who has contributed his
or her leadership expertise, financial support or collections support over a period of 20 years or more to a museum or
the museum field in the SEMC region.
Get Involved at the Annual Meeting
CAREER CENTER RESUME REVIEWER Experienced museum professionals are needed to review and
critique job-seekers’ resumes at the Annual Meeting Career Center. For more information, contact Career Center
Coordinator Elise LeCompte, 352.273.1925, [email protected].
SEMC SILENT AUCTION Showcase your museum or share your hobby and support SEMC by donating an item
for our Silent Auction! All proceeds will be used to fund 2016 Annual Meeting Scholarships. Download a donation
form at www.SEMCdirect.net or contact Silent Auction Coordinator Jenny Lamb, 615-356-0501, interpretation@
bellemeadeplantation.com.
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ANNOUNCING
SEMC’S JIMI 2016
Applications Due October 31, 2015
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T he Southeastern Museums Conference
(SEMC) proudly announces the 16th annual Jekyll
Island Management Institute (JIMI 2016).
Scheduled for January 19 - 26, 2016, JIMI is specifically designed for administrators from new and
emerging museums and for museum professionals with
subject area expertise desiring knowledge of general museum administration and operations. The deadline for
JIMI 2016 applications is October 31, 2015.
located on historic Jekyll Island, GA, this highly
successful training program provides a unique eight-day
immersion for museum professionals seeking the opportunity to learn management, personnel and interpretive
skills from leading experts. Sessions include leadership
and management styles, administration and trusteeship,
strategic planning, fundraising and marketing, financial
management, developing exhibits, public relations, collections management, disaster preparedness, interpretation,
volunteer management, and museum ethics.
through the generosity of friends and colleagues
of the late Peter S. LaPaglia, the Southeastern Museums
Conference (SEMC) and the Jekyll Island Management
Institute (JIMI) are pleased to offer the Peter S. LaPaglia
JIMI Scholarship to cover the cost of tuition. In past
years, several state associations, including the Arkansas
Museums Association, North Carolina Museums Council,
Mississippi Museums Association, and South Carolina
Federation of Museums, offered scholarship and/or travel
assistance to its members. In addition, John and Cynthia
Lancaster offer scholarship assistance to a member of the
Tennessee Association of Museums.
thanks to the generosity of the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of African American History and
Culture (NMAAHC), the Southeastern Museums
Conference (SEMC) is pleased to offer the John Kinard
Scholarship Fund for two staff members of AAAM institutional museums or individual AAAM members to
attend SEMC’s Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI).
The two annual scholarships of $1,500 each will cover
the tuition for JIMI and travel expenses. The John Kinard
Scholarship Fund is established in collaboration with the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American
History and Culture (NMAAHC). Created by an Act of
Congress in 2003, the Museum is scheduled to open on
the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 2015. For information on the Museum’s current programs and exhibitions
visit www.nmaahc.si.edu or call 202.633.4751. Please note
AAAM membership on your JIMI application.
applications for JIMI and the Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI
Scholarship are currently available at the website address
shown below, with an October 31, 2015, deadline for
submitting applications. JIMI is a SEMC program sponsored by Goosepen Studio & Press, Jekyll Island Museum
and Historic Preservation, LaPaglia Companies, Satilla
Computer Solutions, and North Carolina Division of State
Historic Sites and Properties. We gratefully acknowledge
support from Gaylord Brothers and Goosepen Studio &
Press for additional JIMI 2016 scholarships.
JIMI alumni will have a reunion meeting at the annual SEMC meeting in Jacksonville, FL, October 12–14,
2015. In addition, members of the JIMI Class of 2015 will
lead a session to discuss their experiences and answer
questions about the JIMI program.
for additional information, contact Martha Battle
Jackson, JIMI Administrator, 919. 733.7862, ext. 236, [email protected]; John Lancaster, 615.791.4826,
[email protected]; or Susan Perry, Executive Director, SEMC,
404.814.2048, [email protected] or download an
application at www.semcdirect.net.
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Photo courtesy of Dan Smith.
SEMC Executive Director Susan Perry and recently retired
AAM President Ford Bell hugged by a live dinosaur!
SEMC’S AAM
EVENT AT THE
FERNBANK
SEMC hosted almost 300 people at an evening event at
the Fernbank Museum as part of the American Alliance
of Museums Annual Meeting in Atlanta! Attendees
indulged in Southern food and specialty cocktails,
enjoyed music from Music Maker Relief Foundation
Atlanta artists Eddie Tigner and Albert White, and
danced under the dinosaurs! They were also able to tour
the Fernbank’s latest exhibition, The Power of Poison.
SEMC would like to thank the generous sponsors of this
event, Solid Light and Malone Design/Fabrication.
Vicki Vanderlinden and Cynthia Torp (right), owner of
Solid Light, a sponsor for the Fernbank event (along with
Tom Wright, owner of Malone Design/Fabrication), tours
the exhibition The Power of Poison.
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Fernbank educator conducts experiment during The Power of Poison with help from a wary Natasha Hartsfield and Margo Carlock.
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above: A delicious Southern feast at the Fernbank Museum. Photo courtesy of Dan Smith.
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clockwise: 1) Doing the “Dinosaur Stomp”? 2) New SEMC
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Miller, Susan Perry, and outgoing SEMC Manager of Comm. Jill
Malool. 3) Nick Gray and Lisa Tremper Hanover light up the
dance floor. 4) Former SEMC Treasurer Patrick Daily visits with
Lisë Swensson early in the evening. Photos courtesy of Dan Smith.
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THE CHALLENGE
CONTINUES
Help SEMC Match a $10,000 Challenge
THE CHALLENGE IS ON to make our Endowment
grow. This past year we launched our first Matching
Gift Challenge for the SEMC Endowment. Thanks to
the generosity of a special donor, all gifts to the SEMC
Endowment, up to a total of $10,000, will be matched
dollar for dollar for the next two years! Today, thanks to
your generous contributions, we are getting close to reaching our goal of $10,000. Now our challenge is to surpass
that goal!
As any museum professional will tell you, endowment
funds are necessary to stabilize and secure the future
for any organization or institution. Some of the strongest
museums in our region are the ones who benefit from a
healthy endowment.
Likewise, our professional network in the region, SEMC,
is stronger because of the William T. and Sylvia F.
Alderson Endowment Fund. For over twenty years, professional members and friends of SEMC have made commitments of distinction to the Endowment. Cumulative
gifts of at least $1,000 to the SEMC Endowment earn the
donor the title of Alderson Fellow and reflect a personal
commitment to the professional association that means
so much to each of us. Funds from the SEMC Endowment
benefit professional development activities of the association and ensure future growth of our profession in our
region.
Some of our strongest supporters of the Endowment are
those who have held leadership positions within SEMC.
Council members support the fund each year and our
Past President’s Circle has provided donations to the
Endowment the previous three years as part of a campaign.
Come learn more in Jacksonville, or, if you’d like to accept the challenge now, please make your check payable
to SEMC and send to: SEMC Endowment, P. O. Box
550746, Atlanta, GA 30355-3246. If you would prefer
to use a charge card you can donate from the “Support
SEMC” page of our website, www.semcdirect.net. Thank
you!
— Micheal Hudson
SEMC Past President
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opportunities to grow in meaningful ways beyond
the textbook and outside the classroom. Hands-on
curatorial work has been a meaningful way for these students to build their portfolios and empower HC to reach
its goals each year. While experiential learning at HC is not
new, projects during the past three years involving secondyear museums-tract public history students have yielded
impressive and lasting results in particular. Such work proves
especially exciting and noteworthy when it is central in the
organization’s interpretive growth.
Such has been the case at the Robert Mills House, the
circa-1823 mansion considered Historic Columbia’s flagship property. When opened in 1967, this architectural jewel
operated as a traditional historic house museum featuring
period rooms whose contents were assembled with a largely
decorative arts approach in mind. The venerable building
retained this approach for forty-five years before curatorial
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John Sherrer (a 1998 USC public history alumnus) and
Director of Historic House Museums Fielding Freed to create an orientation gallery and revamp the recent acquisitions
and ceramics galleries. “Without the assistance of budding
professionals such as Ellen, we would be hard pressed to
successfully debut new interpretive spaces,” reflects Freed.
opposite: Each school year, curatorial
assistants play a vital role in the curation
of new interpretive spaces at Historic
Columbia. Last year, two curatorial assistants
collaborated on what has become a very
popular focus gallery on silver (page 31).
staff began to pare back the number of period rooms, replacing them with focus galleries. Instead of three bedrooms and
a sitting room on the building’s second story, three traditional
galleries explore various aspects of the institution’s overall
museum collection.
During the 2014–15 school year, Ellen Robertson, a secondyear graduate student serving as Historic Columbia’s curatorial assistant, worked with Director of Cultural Resources
With a hand in every aspect of exhibition curation, graduate assistants get a taste of what may lie ahead in jobs after
graduation. “From artifact research, selection and installation to interpretive narratives, label copy and installing
exhibits, Historic Columbia’s graduate assistants do it all,
and I wouldn’t want it any other way,” Sherrer says. “We
grant them considerable intellectual latitude while providing support in what amounts to a public history laboratory.”
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Amazement Square President/CEO Mort Sajadian, Pastor Shirley Hunter, First Lady Michelle Obama.
opposite: Amazement Square Staff Celebrate their National Medal.
Southeastern Museum Recipients
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Amazement Square, Lynchburg, VA, and Louisiana Children’s Museum, New Orleans, LA
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of the 2015 National Medal for Museum and Library
Services: Amazement Square, in Lynchburg, VA,
and the Louisiana Children’s Museum, in New Orleans.
This award is the nation’s highest honor given to museums
and libraries for service to the community. For 21 years, the
award has celebrated institutions that present extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service to make a
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difference for individuals, families, and communities. The
award was presented by First Lady Michelle Obama at an
event hosted by the White House on May 18.
Amazement Square, Lynchburg, VA
Amazement Square is a hands-on museum with a focus on
creating unique learning experiences with lasting impacts
on the lives of children and their families, sparking their
imaginations, creativity and curiosity. Since opening in 2001,
the museum has become a regional resource for education
and cultural enrichment. They offer interactive and engaging exhibitions, school programs that bring the Standards
of Learning (sol) to life, imaginative interpretive programs
and workshops, hands-on outreach activities, cultural festivals and annual events. Their investment in downtown
revitalization supports the surrounding community.
“Receiving the National Medal is a tremendous honor
for our museum and the people who work to create our
unique environment. We continuously respond to the
needs of our community and strive to make it the best
place for hands-on learning,” says Mort Sajadian, PhD,
Amazement Square President/CEO. “This distinction is a
testament to the exceptional dedication and passion from
our staff, board of directors, volunteers and supporting
community — past and present.”
Community Member Shirley Hunter
In 2009, Shirley Hunter, who is assistant pastor at
Dominion Now Word Ministries, started a low cost daycare
in Lynchburg. Through a partnership with Amazement
Square, the daycare provides at-risk children instruction
in reading, American Sign Language, Spanish language,
and the arts. Pastor Shirley credits Amazement Square
with helping the center equip the city’s neediest children with the social and academic skills they need for
a great start in kindergarten. She hopes to earn a Child
Development Associate Credential and provide similar
early learning daycare services to all parts of the city. She
says, “Amazement Square helps us make a positive impact
in children’s lives by providing an outlet that makes learning fun and gives children a different mindset about life.”
The Lousiana Children’s Museum,
New Orleans, LA
The Louisiana Children’s Museum offers 30,000 square
feet of interactive exhibits and educational programs that
encourage learning through play. Beyond its big blue doors,
the Museum is working to build a stronger community
by fostering the healthy development of children and
strengthening the connections between the child and
the family, and the child and the community. Louisiana
Children’s Museum community programs such as Play
Power, Word Play, Literacy Pathways, Family Camp and
Sensory Friendly Learning focus on early childhood development, resiliency building, family literacy, parenting
and other critical life skills.
“We believe that it is our responsibility to be relevant to
our community in a great variety of ways,” said Julia Bland,
CEO of the Louisiana Children’s Museum. “The Louisiana
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Julia Bland (CEO of the Louisiana Children’s Museum), Kanitra Charles (community representative) and First Lady Michelle Obama.
Children’s Museum’s programs focus on the belief that all
children are born full of potential. Offering opportunities
and experiences for children to grow into their potential
is extremely important.”
Community Member Kanitra Charles
Kanitra Charles, a single mother of four, won a yearlong
membership to Louisiana Children’s Museum and discovered that the exhibits challenged her children through
play and new real world experiences. She enrolled in the
museum’s Eat, Sleep, Play and Word Play family programs,
as well as a 20-week parenting course. The programs introduced Kanitra and her children to learning, literacy,
and healthy eating concepts that changed their home
life. She now prepares healthier snacks for her children
instead of junk food and reads with them using books from
the class. She feels that her experiences with Louisiana
Children’s Museum have helped her children acquire a
love of learning and equipped her to support their development. Kanitra says, “My family has shared countless
joyous occasions either at the museum or participating in
a program of the museum—all eye-opening, fun learning
experiences!”
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Tubman Museum Opens New Facility
Largest Museum in Southeast Dedicated to African American Art, History, and Culture
after 15 years of planning and construction, the
Tubman Museum officially opened to the public on
May 16. The new Tubman Museum is located in the heart
of downtown Macon in the Cherry Street Plaza.
The Grand Opening weekend festivities, in partnership
with the 19th Annual Pan African Festival of Georgia, featured a ceremonial parade from the old building to the
new Museum, a ribbon cutting and remarks from Richard
Keil, the founder of the Tubman Museum. The public enjoyed guided tours and educational activities in the new
facility as well as a free concert in the Cherry Street Plaza
and a Praise Day Celebration. The Pan African Festival
of Georgia’s festival included an African Marketplace of
food, art, and merchandise as well as dance and music
performances and other family activities.
The new Tubman Museum was developed by award-winning museum architects and planners, Verner Johnson.
Verner Johnson’s architectural design found its inspiration
in the Tubman Museum’s own collection. The museum’s
architecture recognizes the power and importance of
color, pattern and texture in African American traditions
and art, and uses each of them to create a truly unique
place which symbolizes an artistically rich and highly spirited part of Macon’s, Georgia’s and America’s cultures.
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Founded in 1981, Macon’s Tubman Museum is the largest
museum in the Southeast dedicated to African American
art, history and culture. The new facility will house five
primary exhibitions:
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People combines
historical documents and photographs with works of art
that address the legacy of Harriet Tubman as an abolitionist, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and an
activist for the rights of African Americans and women.
Black Artists of Georgia brings together collections
of both academic and self-taught artists that confront
cultural assumptions. It features 49 works, executed in a
variety of media, from 40 different artists, including Kojo
Griffin, Romare Bearden, and Ana Bel Lee.
The History of the Dream is a series of textile panels
by prolific fabric artist, Wini McQueen. They pay homage to the individuals, institutions and organizations that
have made a positive contribution to the quality of life in
Macon, Georgia and who were instrumental in the founding and development of the Tubman Museum.
From Africa to America is a chronological mural made
up of nine panels by Wilfred Stroud. Each panel explores
and celebrates a different era in African American history.
From the Minds of African Americans celebrates the
ingenuity, as well as the perseverance and creativity of
African Americans by highlighting inventors of items like
the Super Soakertm and the gas mask.
Named in honor of Harriet Tubman for her life, legacy and
courage, the Tubman Museum is the largest museum in
the Southeast dedicated to the art, history and culture of
African-Americans. The Tubman Museum’s mission is to
present African American art, culture and history through
diverse exhibitions, innovative educational programs, cutting edge technology and a host of special events throughout the year. It is located at 310 Cherry St., Macon, GA.
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one of two associations awarded IMLS grants to help
strengthen leadership, management, and collaboration
among museum professionals. The other association receiving a grant was the California Association of Museums.
The AAAM will use a grant of $219,424 to guide the development of a strategic plan; assess and refine the priorities
of its board of directors; create a recruitment strategy for
an Executive Director; and evaluate and revise AAAM’s
existing website and digital media presence. A thorough
needs assessment of the state of African American museums will be conducted and the findings will be distributed
in a comprehensive summary report along with an updated directory intended to strengthen the role of AAAM
as a resource for African American museums and their
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honoring or remembering someone,
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Sharon Bennett
Tom Butler Tamra Sindler Carboni
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THE WILLIAM T.
AND SYLVIA F. ALDERSON
ENDOWMENT FELLOWS
Twenty-six members of SEMC have
made commitments of distinction as
Alderson Fellows. Their investment
of at least $1,000 each is a significant
leadership gift, reflective of a personal
commitment to the professional
association that has meant so
much to each of them.
Platinum Alderson Fellows
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Nancy & Robert Sullivan
Medallion Alderson Fellows
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Martha Battle Jackson
Pamela Meister
Richard Waterhouse
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Our Current Alderson Fellows
(minimum $1,000)
T. Patrick Brennan
Michael Brothers
W. James Burns
David Butler
Horace Harmon
Pamela Hisey
Micheal Hudson
Rick Jackson
Andrew Ladis
Allyn Lord
Michael Anne Lynn
R. Andrew Maass
Darcie MacMahon
Robin Seage Person
Steve Rucker
Kristin Miller Zohn
THE PETER S. LAPAGLIA
JIMI SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Established in 2008 to honor Pete LaPaglia’s dedication to
the museum field and recognize his inspirational leadership
of SEMC’s Jekyll Island Management Institute, this fund
helps endow an annual JIMI scholarship. 2015 marks JIMI’s
15th anniversary, and SEMC has achieved the goal to bring
the fund’s total over $16,205.
Brian Hicks
OTHER SEMC CONTRIBUTIONS
These funds contribute to the annual meeting or to the
general operating funds for SEMC:
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as part of AAM annual meeting)
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as part of AAM annual meeting)
John S. Lancaster (JIMI 2015 Sponsorship)
Robin Reed (general operating fund)
New or Renewal
Memberships
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SEMC thanks those who have renewed or joined our organization for the first time between March 2015 and May
2015. Without your support and participation we could not
provide region wide services such as our Mentor, Awards,
and Scholarship programs, as well as our outstanding Annual
Meetings and nationally acclaimed Jekyll Island Management
Institute. If you are an individual member and your museum
is not an institutional member, please encourage them to join.
For information on memberships and benefits contact
Mary Miller, Manager of Communications and Member
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Kenneth Gaddy, Director of the Bryant Museum, greets the
museum’s one millionth visitor, Pat DuBose.
ALABAMA
Kenneth Gaddy, Director of the Bryant Museum, greeted
their one millionth visitor Pat DuBose with a gift basket and
congratulations from the staff. Pat with her husband and
twin sons from Saraland, Alabama visited the Museum on
April 17. Gaddy stated, “The Museum views it is as a privilege to preserve and display the history of UA athletics.”
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Congratulations to the Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art on receiving the AAM Excellence in Exhibitions Award for their innovative State of the Art exhibition. State of the Art was the result of the ultimate road
trip to a thousand destinations. In 2013, Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art’s curatorial team hit the road to
investigate what’s happening in American art today. Over
the course of a year, the team logged more than 100,000
miles, crisscrossing the United States to visit nearly 1,000
artists. Traveling to communities large and small, the Museum sought to discover artists whose work had not yet
been fully recognized on a national level. On their travels,
museum curators conducted hundreds of hours of one-onone conversations with artists in their studios. The result of
this unprecedented journey was a one-of-a-kind exhibition
that drew from every region of the US, offering an unusually diverse look at American art. State of the Art brought
together the artwork of more than 100 artists, ranging from
works on canvas and paper to photography and video to
installation and performance art, and more. The exhibition
examined the ways in which today’s artists are informed by
the past, innovating with materials old and new, and engaging deeply with issues relevant to our times.
GEORGIA
Since opening in August 2003, Booth Western Art Museum has experienced several milestones. At 10:10 am on
June 4, 2015, it welcomed its 500,000th visitor. Miss Jenny
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Crum, an 11 year old aspiring artist from Cartersville, entered
through the South entrance on what she expected to be a
typical visit to her favorite museum. Crum, the daughter of
Kristen Lindemer and Mark Crum, utilized their Booth Museum Family Membership for a morning outing with friend
Megan Patton. Upon checking in, Booth Museum Director of Marketing Tom Shinall informed Crum that she was
the 500,000th visitor to the museum. “It was completely
unexpected,” said Crum of the experience. “We walked
around downtown waiting on the gates to open so that we
could come in and look at the art,” said Crum. On behalf of
the Museum, Shinall presented her with a Booth Museum
Gift Bag that included books, posters, memorabilia, and a
one-of-a-kind cowboy sketch by Booth Museum Director
of Special Projects Jim Dunham. Since the age of five, Crum
has participated in Booth Art Academy Camps and Classes.
“I love any form of art and I love creating art,” said Crum.
Kent Mullinax, Booth Art Academy Manager says of Crum,
“I’ve watched her talents develop as a young artist through
her participation in summer camps and classes. This could
not have happened to a better person.”
Miss Jenny Crum, center, is the 500,000th person to visit Booth
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summer. The first title, Henry Howard: Louisiana’s Architect, by Robert S. Brantley with Victor McGee, will be
released June 9. One of the nineteenth century’s most
prolific architects but also, until recently, one of the most
historically elusive, Henry Howard left an indelible mark
on the landscape of his adopted home, Louisiana. In the
mid-1830s the Irish-born Howard arrived in New Orleans,
then the nation’s third-largest city and the center of a
flourishing plantation economy. Through the following
decades, Howard and the city would thrive together. Photographer and architectural historian Robert S. Brantley
provides a comprehensive survey of Howard’s career in
this meticulously researched collection. Lavishly illustrated with photographs both new and historical, along
with archival drawings and plans, Henry Howard: Louisiana’s Architect restores its subject to his rightful place
in the pantheon of southern architects. Henry Howard,
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will be available June 9. ¶ This July, THNOC will mark the
tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with the release
of photographer David Spielman’s The Katrina Decade:
Images of an Altered City. In the ten years since Hurricane
Katrina struck Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast,
Spielman, a fine-art photographer, freelance photojournalist, and New Orleans resident, embraced the traditions
of photographers from the Works Progress Administration
and Farm Security Administration and documented subtle
changes to his beloved city. The Katrina Decade presents
a collection of more than 125 of his haunting images and
essays by Spielman, preservationist Jack Davis, and photographic historian John H. Lawrence. The Katrina Decade
will be available July 1, 2015. The free companion exhibition will be on view August 22, 2015 – January 9, 2016, in
THNOC’s Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art,
400 Chartres Street in the French Quarter.
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The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana
Historical Association (LHA) are proud to announce
that Michael A. Ross’s The Great New Orleans Kidnapping
Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era (Oxford
University Press 2014) as the winner of the 2014 Kemper and
Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History. In The Great New
Orleans Kidnapping Case, Ross offers the first full account of
a late-nineteenth-century crime that electrified the South at
one of the most critical moments in the history of American
race relations. Painting a vivid picture of the Reconstructionera South, the book uncovers the complexities and possibilities that faced a newly integrated society. The Kemper and
Leila Williams Prize for Louisiana History, named for the
founders of The Historic New Orleans Collection, is awarded
annually by THNOC and the LHA. Since its inception in
1974, the prize has recognized excellence in research and
writing on Louisiana history. Recipients receive a cash award
of $1,500 and a plaque and are announced at the LHA’s annual meeting.
The West Baton Rouge Museum has received two
grants to support the research and publication of the
history of Cohn High School, the only high school for
African American students in the parish. The grants are
from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and
from DOC DHL, Inc. The grant award from the nonprofit
community-based organization DOC DHL, Inc. funded
an oral history project of Cohn High School faculty, staff
and alumni which were collected in 2014. The tapes were
transcribed in 2015 and are available to researchers at the
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Studioammons has just completed the restoration of the historic r. r. Moton high
School, the National historic Landmark site of the 1951 student strike for equal
educational facilities led by 15 year old barbara Johns in Farmville, Virginia. the
ensuing court case became the only one of the five brown v. board cases where
all of the plaintiffs were students. Studioammons worked closely with the Museum
staff and community to design, fabricate and install the museum’s permanent exhibit
“the Moton school story: Children of Courage,” transforming the historic school
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West Baton Rouge Museum. Over ten years ago, DOC
DHL, Inc. successfully gained recognition for Cohn High
School by the National Register of Historic Places. The
grant from LEH was a Rebirth Grant from the Louisiana
Endowment to write and publish the history of the historic
high school. The history will be featured in Cultural Vistas
of Louisiana Magazine, published by LEH. The booklet
will be published by the West Baton Rouge Museum and
will be available for free to the public by request. The research was conducted by Jenna Steward, Julia Rose, and
Angelique Bergeron at the West Baton Rouge Museum.
VIRGINIA
Congratulations to the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, which was recently reaccredited by the American
Alliance of Museums. Accredited status from the Alliance is
the highest national recognition achievable by an American
museum. Of the nation’s estimated 17,500 museums, 1,048
are currently accredited. To earn accreditation a museum
first must conduct a year of self-study, and then undergo
a site visit by a two-person team of peers. The Accreditation Commission then considers these results to determine
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construction
Restoration rendering of the Gibbes Museum of Art’s facade.
SOUTH CAROLINA
The Gibbes Museum of Art, in Charleston, SC, is being
restored and renovated and will reopen in the spring of 2016.
In the heart of Charleston’s historic district, construction
of the Silver LEED design, by Evans & Schmidt Architects,
began in 2014. ¶ The Gibbes was constructed stoutly of solid
masonry in 1905, but without any physical accommodation
space for running any electrical piping or air conditioning.
Consequently, as those necessities were added over the
years, the ceilings were repeatedly lowered, which totally
changed the character of the building’s many spaces. The
challenge was to redesign and consolidate these modern
day necessities, incorporate additional life safety features,
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and restore as much of the original spatial character as possible. ¶ The original building was incredibly open, dependent
entirely on natural light and a few gas light fixtures to illuminate the interior. Over the years, as more gallery hanging
space became needed and exhibit layout fashions changed,
the natural light was eventually blacked out. Future visitors
will embrace the far brighter renovated spaces that better
connect the indoor gallery spaces with the outdoor garden.
Because of advancements in glass protected surfaces, the
additional sunlight will not harm the artwork and sculpture
on display. ¶ Visitors will step through the front door and
see clearly through the building all the way to the redesigned
garden in the rear. Looking right or left, they will discover
the marble flanking staircases enticing them to venture
upstairs. A physical visual relationship with the exterior is
maintained at all levels, which is contributory in helping to
lower stress and increase stamina. ¶ The renovation restores
not only the facade but encourages the public to once again
freely walk down the 1905 hallways and observe active art
studio work and classes taking place on a daily basis as was
originally envisioned in 1905. This practice had been discontinued since the 1960s. The Gibbes Art Museum is one of
Charleston’s preeminent cultural institutions, and the renovation will ensure that the future needs of the museum are
best addressed while restoring this 110-year-old building as
close as possible to its original condition and mission.
VIRGINIA
The National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC)
already tells more than 200 years of the Corps’ rich history,
but it’s still a work in progress. The Marine Corps Heritage
Foundation, in cooperation with the Marine Corps, recently
broke ground on the 126,000 square feet that will complete
the Museum. The new spaces will include two historical galleries that tell the Marine Corps story from the mid-1970s to
the present, a giant-screen theater, an art gallery and studio,
classrooms, a children’s gallery, Marine Corps sports gallery,
and a Hall of Valor, as well as a changing exhibits area. The
entire build-out will take five years, with the new spaces
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Rendering of the National Museum of the Marine Corps Phase II.
opening in phases. The classrooms, children’s gallery, art gallery, Hall of Valor, and theater open in 2017, followed by the
historical galleries in 2018. A sports gallery and hall of fame
will open in 2019. And finally, the changing gallery opens in
2020, along with a new gallery in the original section of the
Museum that explores the years between WWI and WWII.
NMMC will be open throughout construction except for a
few months in early 2016 while new aircraft are installed in
Leatherneck Gallery.
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exhibitions
From the Motorcycle Memories exhibition at the Boyd Gallery of the Fort Smith Museum of History.
ARKANSAS
The popular exhibit, Motorcycle Memories, is on view in
the Boyd Gallery of the Fort Smith Museum of History through August 30. The exhibition, which was first
presented in 2008, features vintage motorcycles and
photographs exploring the “art of the motorcycle” in Fort
Smith and the region from the 1940s through present day.
Fort Smith has an historical association with motorcycle
culture. Learn about the people and places that put the
region on the map for motorcyclists. Quin Winter’s Bike
shop on Towson Avenue was the nexus of motorcycle
culture in Fort Smith from 1939 until 1975. His sons, Leroy
and Robert Winters, gained national fame for their accomplishments in the field of motorcycle racing. In 1940,
Fort Smithian Ercie Gann became a charter member of the
Motor Maids, a national organization of female motorcyclists. The annual Razorback Run, a one hundred fifty mile
round trip ride from Fort Smith to White Rock Mountain
near Mulberry, Arkansas, drew motorcycle enthusiasts
from a regional area from 1952 to 1955. Otis Spiker played
a vital role in the area cycling culture. As one of the few
manufacturers of Henderson motorcycle parts, Spiker
gained national recognition as well as becoming a regional
motorcycle legend. Motorcycle Memories is designed to
unite the “art of the motorcycle” with the generation of
Americans that enjoy a lifestyle peculiar to the American mainstream. The exhibition strives to educate future
generations about a fascinating spectrum of Americana
GEORGIA
Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and
Samuel Fuller created American cinema classics like The
Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their
most important contribution to history was their work in
the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the
realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration
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camps. Filming The Camps – John Ford, Samuel Fuller,
George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg, on view
at the Atlanta History Center through November 20,
presents rare footage of the liberation of Dachau with
detailed directors’ notes, narratives describing burials at
Falkenau, and the documentary produced as evidence at
the Nuremberg trials, among other historic material. In
addition to this rare footage, the exhibition shows how the
violence of World War II and the exposure to the victims
of Nazi atrocities caused a complete upheaval in the lives
and careers of these three Hollywood directors.
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents the exhibition El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida
y Arte through September 13. From the international fight
against fascism to protecting the proletariat, El Taller de
Gráfica Popular (the Workshop for Popular Graphics, or
TGP for short) worked diligently to keep pertinent issues
before the populace of Mexico and the world. Covering
the period from the TGP’s predecessor, the LEAR (the
League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists), through
the most active years of the workshop, the exhibition of
approximately 250 works presents an extensive collection of large-scale posters (carteles), small flyers (volantes), books and pamphlets, powerful fine art portfolios
and calavera newspapers that exemplifies TGP’s lasting
contributions to the Mexican printmaking tradition. The
TGP used art to inspire and inform in a country where
literacy and communication technology were not widespread. Images of revolution, resistance and unity were
often paired with anti-Nazi and anti-fascist messages and
printed on the economical, easily distributed volantes and
the larger, more visible carteles. ¶ Remarkably prolific, the
TGP produced works in a wide variety of media, specializing in linoleum prints and woodcuts. From Raúl Anguiano to Alfredo Zalce, workshop membership included
many notable 20th-century Mexican printmakers. The
workshop also instructed students from other countries
in the techniques of printing and printmaking. During the
New Deal era in the United States, some Works Progress
George Stevens and his crew in France, 1944.
Administration artists collaborated on projects with
the TGP. Several years later, during the U.S. civil rights
movement, Chicano and African American artists such as
Elizabeth Catlett would produce work there as well. The
proliferation of television and radio in Mexican homes,
along with a more stable political environment, eventually
made the use of carteles and volantes for disseminating
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information unnecessary, and the workshop’s productivity
slowed. The TGP will always be remembered, however,
as a distinct part of Mexican history, when art put social
and political issues before the people and brought them
to life. The accompanying catalogue, which will contain
extensive scholarship and images, will be one of the very
first authoritative texts in English on the workshop.
LOUISIANA
The Alexandria Museum of Art presents two exciting
exhibits this summer. ReTooled brings to life the unexpected subject of tools by profiling 28 visionary artists
from the Hechinger Collection featuring more than 40
imaginative paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and
photographs. All of the works remind us that tools embody the can-do spirit that defines America and the quest
to improve our quality of life. The Hechinger Collection
began in the 1980s as an initiative to make his rapidly expanding hardware company’s new headquarters appear
At the Georgia Museum of Art, Francisco Dosamantes,
Taller de Gráfica Popular: Exposición 20 Litografías, 1939.
less bare and has resulted in John Hechinger’s acquisition
of a tool-inspired collection of diverse twentieth century
art. Illuminating a variety of modern and contemporary
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Carpenters, 1977, lithograph.
Photos courtesy of Joel Breger.
art that celebrates an overlooked subject through pun,
wit, and wonder, The Hechinger Collection has exhibited
at venues such as the National Building Museum, the
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Joslyn Art
Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Craft and
Design. Retooled will be on view through August 22, 2015
Artists Among Us: Faculty & Friends is an annual invitation
exhibition which is inspired by the creative resources in
the Alexandria, LA, community and showcases faculty,
staff, alumni, and volunteers of some of the arts organizations and arts education institutions in the Central
Louisiana region. Artists Among Us will be on view through
August 22, 2015.
The landmark exhibition From “Dirty Shirts” to Buccaneers: The Battle of New Orleans in America Culture
commemorates the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans and is on view at the Cabildo on Jackson Square in
New Orleans through January 8, 2016. The overwhelming
defeat of the British Redcoats at the hands of “dirty shirts”
— as the British derisively called their foes — captured
the American imagination, contributed to a sense of national identity and propelled Andrew Jackson to the White
House. Using a variety of artifacts, images and documents,
the exhibit opens with an exploration of the battle’s history emphasizing the diversity of its participants and
closes with an investigation of how the battle has been
remembered, commemorated and represented. In addition to the more than 100 artifacts, images and artworks
from the museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition
includes the blue wool uniform coat that Andrew Jackson
wore while leading troops at Chalmette, on loan from the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
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At THNOC, the exhibition From Winnfield to Washington:
The Life and Career of Huey P. Long.
At the Cabildo, coat worn by Andrew Jackson at Chalmette, LA,
Jan. 8, 1815. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, courtesy of the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of American History.
Although he held office for less than two decades, Huey P.
Long (1893–1935) remains one of the most visible, influential and controversial political figures in Louisiana history. Sept. 10, 2015, marks the 80th anniversary of Long’s
death, and The Historic New Orleans Collection will
examine his career and legacy in the exhibition From Winnfield to Washington: The Life and Career of Huey P. Long.
The free exhibition, located at 533 Royal St., will remain on
view through Sept. 20, 2015. Featuring pictorial materials,
objects, documents, and audiovisual components drawn
from THNOC’s extensive holdings on Long, the exhibition will fill in the details of Long’s life beyond the most
well-known anecdotes. Special programming and public
events offered throughout the run of the exhibition will
provide further insight into his career and influence.
The recently restored murals painted by the internationally recognized folk artist Clementine Hunter are the focus of a new exhibition at the Louisiana Sports Hall of
Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
in Natchitoches. Best known for her smaller paintings,
Hunter completed the murals in 1955 at the urging of Melrose Plantation resident and librarian François Mignon.
The murals decorated the walls of historic African House,
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one of the plantation’s outbuildings, until last year, when
they were removed for restorations by a team of fine art
conservators. Like many of Hunter’s other artworks, the
murals document the social life and customs of African
Americans living in the Cane River region. They, along
with some of Hunter’s other large-scale artworks, will be
on display through April 2016.
The Louisiana State Museum salutes the art of costume
design in its new exhibition, From the Big Apple to the Big
Easy: Two Carnival Artists, at the Presbytère, 751 Chartres
Street, on Jackson Square, in New Orleans. This exhibition
of 65 original watercolor costume sketches and two original gowns focuses on the work of two accomplished Carnival designers, Helen Clark Warren and John C. Scheffler. Warren, a Massachusetts native, designed elaborate
costumes for kings, queens and captains of various New
Orleans krewes from the 1930s to the 1950s while maintaining a thriving fashion design career in New York City.
Native New Orleanian John C. Scheffler gave up a career
in architecture in the mid-1960s to work in New York as
Clementine Hunter mural on exhibit at the Louisiana Sports Hall
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a theater set and costume designer. On the side, he designed costumes for Mardi Gras krewes. Sheffler’s work
has never before been exhibited publicly in New Orleans.
The exhibition will be on view through December 4, 2016.
Running through July 12, the West Baton Rouge Museum will pay tribute to Raful Neal, “Godfather of Baton
Rouge Blues,” and his talented family with the exhibition
Neal Family Blues. The Blues emerged in the Southern
United States at the turn-of-the-century and numerous
West Baton Rouge residents played a part. Rooted in African American field hollers, work songs, spirituals, and
country string music, the blues captured the hardships of
life in the Deep South. Juke joints, weekend parties, and
picnics were the primary venue for blues musicians on
acoustic guitar, piano, or harmonica until southern blues
moved north to places like Chicago where they thrilled
wider and wider audiences and inspired rhythm and blues
and rock and roll. Erwinville native Raful and his wife Shirley had 10 kids together; all of them musically inclined.
While other local musicians found fame in the north, Raful
remained in the Baton Rouge area to raise his family and
contribute to the local music scene. Raful Neal, a member
of the Blues Hall of Fame as well as the Louisiana Music
Hall of Fame, played numerous juke joints and music halls
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across the region including 14 consecutive years at the
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Sons Kenny and
Lil’ Ray Neal have carried rural blues to the international
stage, while grandsons Tyree, Chris, and BroBro carry the
next generation into the hip-hop scene. The exhibit Neal
Family Blues will feature a vintage jukebox playing Neal
family albums, as well as instruments, photographs, and
video on loan from the family.
Neal Family Blues exhibition at the West Baton Rouge Museum.
Also on view at the West Baton Rouge Museum is When
the Cannons Fell Silent, an exhibit commemorating the sesquicentennial of the end of the American Civil War. The
exhibition features one of the finest collections of original Civil War prints available, including works published
by Frank Leslie. Mr. Leslie spared no expense in commissioning twenty skilled artists to sketch “every battle,
skirmish and military movement, to give to the anxious
ones at home a vivid and realistic picture of the real war.”
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Winslow Homer, William Waud, James E. Taylor, Joseph
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From the West Baton Rouge Museum’s exhibition When the Cannons Fell Silent.
Becker, Henry Lovie, Francis B. Schell, A. Berghaus, Wm.
T. Crane, C. E. H. Bonwill, J. E. Hillen, E. F. Mullen, and F.
B. Wilkie, as well as sketches by officers of both sides of
the conflict. The seven prints by Winslow Homer show
the very human side of the Civil War, from breaking a
wishbone at Thanksgiving to playing “football” to relieve
stress. The Civil War was a dramatic and devastating time
in the history of the United States. The exhibition features
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From the exhibition Selected Recent Acquisitions at the
Louisiana Art & Science Museum.
From the exhibition 25 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope
at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.
Louisiana battlefield artifacts and artifacts that represent
ways some Baton Rougeans mourned and remembered
including mourning jewelry, period scrapbooks, and commemorative plaques. Pieces by artist Angela Gregory are
included. The 1886 Confederate Statue commissioned by
people of East and West Baton Rouge was typical for many
southern cities trying to rebuild after the war’s devastation. The exhibition is on view through August 16, 2015.
Since its launch in April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) has provided stunning images of faraway stars,
galaxies and nebulae, and has shed light on many of the
great mysteries of the universe. Today HST continues to
provide views of cosmic wonders never before seen. 25
Years of the Hubble Space Telescope will display some of the
most intriguing images taken by the HST. The exhibition
will be on view at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum
in Baton Rouge, LA, through August 31.
Also on view this summer at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum is Selected Recent Acquisitions. On view for
the first time are recently acquired paintings and prints
dating from the mid-1950s through 2012 by significant
American artists, including Bob Kane, Richard Segalman, Hunt Slonem, and Robert Vickrey. The artworks on
view were selected from a group of fifteen recent gifts
representing the work of eight artists. The artworks were
donated to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum by the
artists themselves or their estates through the HarmonMeek Gallery in Naples, Florida. The exhibition closes
September 13.
MISSISSIPPI
Blues Portraits in Steel is on view through October at the
Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, MS. The exhibit is
a series of original portrait sculptures by steel sculptor
Scott Cawood, depicting legendary Mississippi Delta Blues
artists. Scott Cawood is a self-taught sculptor with a deep
background in blacksmithing and metal fabrication who
lives and works in the historic village of Antietam, MD. He
reuses and re-purposes scrap and found steel to create
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almost all of his sculptures. Scott is known nationally for
his Siren Of TI, on public display at Treasure Island Casino
in Las Vegas. And in his native Maryland for several public
art pieces including Spire in Frederick, MD, and Climb &
Glide along the Great Allegheny Passage in Frostburg, MD.
He has received wide recognition for his sculptures and
has shown his work in galleries and museums in New York
City; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore; Miami; New Orleans;
Las Vegas; Mesa, AZ; and Maui, HI.
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From July 18 to October 11, 2015, the Asheville Art Museum will feature Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm by
Asheville photographer Ken Abbott. After discovering the
old Sherrill’s Inn in 2004 while chaperoning his daughter’s
preschool field trip to Hickory Nut Gap Farm, Abbott, a
newcomer to Western North Carolina, spent the next
several years photographing the Fairview, NC, house and
family. Sherrill’s Inn, a stagecoach stop and drover’s stand
along an important trade route to Rutherfordton, NC, and
parts east, became the private home and farm of Jim and
Elizabeth McClure in 1916. Jim, a distinguished Protestant minister, started the Farmer’s Federation in the early
1920s, and Elizabeth, a painter educated in Paris prior to
WWI, set about creating a home and gardens at the old
inn. After almost 100 years of busy family life, the home
and working farm have become an important center for
the Fairview community, as well as a monument to Elizabeth’s sense of the importance of beauty in daily life. Ken
Abbott received his MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art in 1987, and spent 15 years as chief
photographer for the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He moved to Asheville with his family in 2002. The exhibition will be accompanied by the book Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm about which Alex Harris, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University,
writes, “Ken Abbott’s photography and Hickory Nut Gap
Farm is a marriage made in heaven, or about as close as we
get to heaven here in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western
North Carolina. For almost a hundred years, one extended
family has lived on and created a uniquely beautiful farm
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and community in this place. In Useful Work, Ken Abbott
so thoroughly and beautifully depicts the surface and soul
of this home and farm, that he reminds us how the best
photographers can focus on something seemingly small,
yet evoke our common humanity. This book represents an
extraordinary achievement in life and in art.” For further
details visit ashevilleart.org and kenabbottphoto.com.
From the Asheville Art Museum’s exhibition of Ken Abbott’s
Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm.
Tattoos, nail art, jewelry, and fashion — the newest Mint
Museum-organized exhibition, Body Embellishment,
explores the most innovative artistic expression in the
twenty-first-century international arenas of body extension, augmentation, and modification. The exhibition will
be on view through September 6, 2015, at Mint Museum
Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts, 500 South Tryon
Street in Charlotte. The human impulse to ornament the
body is an ancient desire that crosses cultures. Seeking
to modify the natural skin and shape of the body, people
have created imaginative ways to expand and distort, and
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At the Mint Museum Uptown, Filip Leu, Tattoo on Dre, 2010,
collection of the designer. Photo by Bobby C. Alkabes.
At the Mint Museum Uptown, Lauren Kalman, But if the Crime
is Beautiful…Hood (6), 2014, collection of Susan Beech. Photo
by Lauren Kalman
inventive designers from around the world who explore the
role of the body and its embellishment.“What makes Body
Embellishment such a fascinating exhibition is its exploration of radical ways artists are redesigning our bodies to
reflect twenty-first century life,” said Annie Carlano, the
Mint’s senior curator of Craft, Design, & Fashion. “Through
interventions with skin, nail extensions, wearable sculpture, and redefined body shapes, designers from throughout the globe are expressing emotional and intellectual
responses to the everyday, individual and group identity,
and ever-shifting concepts of beauty. Groundbreaking
research introduces audiences to work by emerging artists
that has never been seen in this country, alongside works
by international superstars such as Filip Leu, Carlos Rolon
(aka Dzine), Lauren Kalman, and threeASFOUR.”The exhibition includes approximately 100 objects by artists and
designers, also including Naomi Yasuda (whose work has
appeared on the nails of Madonna, among others), Stephanie Tamez, Mi-Ah Rödiger, and Nora Fok. It is accompanied by a dynamic interactive digital exhibition catalogue
authored by Mint curators, which will be available in the
gallery and via mintmuseum.org.
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From Carolina Makers at the South Carolina State Museum.
SOUTH CAROLINA
The South Carolina State Museum recently opened
a new art exhibition, Carolina Makers, which celebrates
South Carolina makers who are producing handmade
objects for everyday use for people locally and around
the world. Carolina Makers focuses specifically on local
makers from South Carolina, including instrument builders, furniture makers, metal workers, clothing designers
and more. The exhibition spotlights these individuals and
small businesses, the incredible objects they are making and the many ways in which they are enhancing and
enriching lives. There will be a variety of programs and
special events held in conjunction with this exhibition,
including evening live music and acoustic jam sessions
taking place the second and last Tuesday of each month
and a farm to table dinner on Thursday, July 30. The farm
to table dinner will feature locally grown and sourced food
and drinks prepared by South Carolina chefs and bartenders, live music provided by the makers themselves and will
also feature usable dining objects produced by the makers.
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innovations
ARKANSAS
The Clorox Company and Glad Manufacturing in Rogers
have partnered with the Rogers Historical Museum to
offer hands-on and interactive history programs to local
schoolchildren. The Clorox Company awarded a grant
to the Museum to help offset the cost for providing The
Museum’s Rocky Branch field trip program to over 1,000
students in 2015. During the program, students spend
the day just as children 100 years ago would have – writing on slates, completing lessons from vintage textbooks
and playing with toys from the early 1900s during recess.
While the Rocky Branch program is a hit with children,
it’s also popular with area teachers who see the program
as a way to get their students excited to learn about their
heritage. The Rogers Historical Museum has offered the
Rocky branch program for more than 20 years, and schools
throughout Benton and Washington counties, as well as
home school groups participate.
Rodgers Historical Museum Rocky Branch field trip program.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has
launched its third mobile app, CB Outdoors, an interactive guide to the art, plants, and other features of the
Museum’s beautiful 120-acre campus. The app covers
nearly 60 plants that are found on the Museum grounds,
27 art and architecture elements, and five natural features
that are found on the property. It also covers 12 trails,
including the three City of Bentonville trails that connect
to the Museum’s trail system. The free app for Apple and
Android devices integrates with iBeacons hidden on our
grounds to send alerts when users are near a special tree
or plant. The app also gives users the opportunity to participate with the museum community. It encourages the
submission of photos when none are available in order to
aid the museum in capturing the beauty of its 120 acres.
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Trails and Grounds staff will also be using these photos
to help them monitor the health of the grounds. It also
gives users the ability to create their own tours and share
them with others.
LOUISIANA
The Louisiana State Museum has launched its new
website, LouisianaStateMuseum.org. Designed by Trumpet, a New Orleans-based advertising and marketing firm,
the website provides an interactive platform to promote
the nine museums in the statewide network. The site also
features LSM’s new brand created last year. “This stunning website substantially expands Louisiana State Museum’s presence, making our system of museums more
accessible than ever,” Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne said.
“It incorporates best practices of design, functionality
and user experience, allowing visitors to interact with our
museums and connect via social media.” The site incorporates bold images, colors and graphics that bring LSM’s
online resources together with a consistent look and feel,
simplified navigation and improved layout.
From cherished childhood memories of lost New Orleans neighborhoods, to funny or insightful takes on the
formation of New Orleans institutions, NOLA Life Stories features first-person perspectives of the individuals
who have helped shape our community. This innovative
radio program, created by The Historic New Orleans
Collection in collaboration with WWNO-FM, features
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the people who have made New Orleans what it is today.
NORTH CAROLINA
Teens are invited to engage with art and design at the
Mint Museum in a wide range of new ways with the help
of a recently launched initiative, NexGen Mint. Teens’
lives are centered around home and school — and now,
the NexGen Mint’s vision is to offer them a nurturing, creative “third place.” It’s a creative community to exchange
ideas, have fun, interact, and learn from artist role models
and peers. Thanks to major grants from the Jimmie Johnson Foundation and Wells Fargo and additional support
from IBM and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts & Science
Council, the Mint is rolling out a series of new offerings
for students ages 14–18, including: free memberships, opportunities for teens to interact with internationally known
artists and designers, new ways of online interaction via
a new website with curated, teen-focused content, and
scholarships for 30 teens to attend a week-long art camp.
Following a series of teen focus groups during 2014, public
events kicked off with a teen round table with contemporary artist Mel Chin at Mint Museum Uptown in February.
Chin, a former Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center for
Art + Innovation, introduced the participating teens to
his installation SEA to SEE, which he created to analyze
human environmental impact on the world’s oceans in
conjunction with a recent Mint exhibition examining the
centennial of the Panama Canal. And March 21–22, teens
met at Mint Museum Randolph with contemporary Pueblo
artist Rose “Bean” Simpson of Santa Fe, NM, for a handson roundtable and workshop.
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people and places
ARKANSAS
ASU Museum welcomes a new Curator of Collections:
Elisabeth A. Engel. Engel holds a M.A. in Historical
Administration from Eastern Illinois University. She comes
to us with over twelve years of collections experience,
having served as Director of Collections and Exhibits at
Waukesha County Museum in Waukesha, WI, from 2005
to 2014, and Curator of Artifacts at Circus World Museum
in Baraboo, WI, from 2001 to 2004. Engel replaces Julie
MacDonald, who took a job at the LDS Church Museum
of History and Art in Salt Lake City in January.
Eureka Springs Historical Museum announces
Stephanie Stodden is the new Museum Operations
Manager, and Sara Armellini is the new Director of
Collections. The museum is also having a Louis Freund
exhibit starting in May to correspond with May Fine Arts
Month in Eureka Springs. Finally the museum is happy to
announce that Voices from Eureka’s Silent City will take place
October 22–24 and October 30 and 31. This is the seventh year of for the cemetery tour event. Last year they
had approximately 1,300 people in attendance for the five
nights of performances and it continues to be their biggest
fundraiser.
Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie is pleased to
announce two new staff members. Nancy Hancock has
been Executive Director and Beverly West is the new gift
shop manager. They are also premiering a traveling exhibit
Delta Rediscovered: Arkansas County which opens at the
museum on May 22nd through the end of July. It is a collection of photographs called Dayton Bowers’ photography
“pioneering.” The collection is from the early 1800s to mid
1920s and Bowers’ work focused on the lives and culture
of Arkansas County.
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The National WWII Museum in New Orleans offers
college students and high school juniors and seniors a
summer experience unlike any other. Student Leadership
Academy takes students through the history of WWII with
the aim of exploring leadership lessons from one of the
most important periods in world history. This six-night,
seven-day program, July 12–18, immerses students in the
Museum’s wealth of exhibits, artifacts, images and documents with structured Leadership Lesson Debates along
the way. Students will feel what it is like to be a member
of a five-man crew inside a Sherman Tank, inspect the
flight logs of a bomber pilot and handle the gear of an
infantryman in WWII. Students will continually revisit
the theme of “what it means today,” relating the lessons
of WWII to their own lives and the world around them.
The Academy will give students a deeper understanding
of history and the repercussions of decisions, as well as
real-life experience to take them to the next stages of
their lives. The focus on leadership and decision-making
provides the skills needed for success in college and career. Being able to analyze a situation, chart a course of
action, and defend the selected plan will enable students
to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Students who
participate in Student Leadership Academy are eligible to
receive three credit hours from Nicholls State University
in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
The Association of African American Museums (AAAM)
Conference will be held August 4–7, 2015, in Memphis, TN.
For more information visit blackmuseums.org.
The American Association of State and Local History’s
(AASLH) annual meeting will take place in Louisville, KY,
September 16-19, 2015. See aaslh.org.
STATE MUSEUM MEETINGS
Florida Association of Museums
September 8–11, 2015, St. Petersburg, FL
Louisiana Association of Museums
September 13–15, 2015 | Alexandria, LA
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