A Special Thanks: Endowment and Membership Contributions

A  SPECIAL THANKS

SEMC Endowment Contributions

Many thanks to our endowment contributors for investing in the future of SEMC! When you are thinking of honoring or remembering someone, please consider a contribution to the SEMC endowment. For more information, contact Executive Director Zinnia Willits at 404.814.2048 or zwillits@semcdirect.net.

Alexander Benitez Matthew Davis Mary LaGue Elise LeCompte Darcie MacMahon R. Maass Nathan Moehlmann Graig Shaak Robert Sullivan Heather Marie Wells

THE PAST PRESIDENTS CIRCLE

Members of the Past Presidents Circle contribute $150 annually for at least two years to the endowment fund: George Bassi Sharon Bennett David Butler Tom Butler Tamra Sindler Carboni Micheal A. Hudson Douglas Noble Robert Rathburn Graig D. Shaak Robert Sullivan Kristen Miller Zohn

THE WILLIAM T. AND SYLVIA F. ALDERSON ENDOWMENT FELLOWS

Thirty 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  (minimum $5,000) Sylvia F. Alderson Bob Rathburn Graig D. Shaak Nancy & Robert Sullivan Medallion Alderson Fellows  (minimum $2,500) George Bassi Sharon Bennett David Butler Tamra Sindler Carboni William U. Eiland Martha Battle Jackson Pamela Meister Richard Waterhouse

Our Current Alderson Fellows  (minimum $1,000) T. Patrick Brennan Michael Brothers W. James Burns Horace Harmon Brian Hicks Pamela Hisey Micheal Hudson Kathleen Hutton Rick Jackson Andrew Ladis John Lancaster Elise LeCompte Allyn Lord Michael Anne Lynn R. Andrew Maass Darcie MacMahon Robin Seage Person Allison Reid Steve Rucker Heather Marie Wells Kristen Miller Zohn

Other SEMC Contributions

Angie Albright,

Martha Battle Jackson JIMI Fund Scott Alvey, General Operating Nicolle Bowling, General Operating David Butler, General Operating Riggs Ward, 2020 SEMC Intern India Crawford, General Operating TimeLooper, SEMC Masks Julie B. Harris, Martha Battle Jackson Jimi Fund Elise LeCompte, Martha Battle Jackson Jimi Fund Elise LeCompte, Leadership Institute Jason Luker, Martha Battle Jackson Jimi Fund Darcie MacMahon, Leadership Institute Rosalind Martin, Leadership Institute Corinne Midgett, Virtual Programming Mary Miller, Virtual Programming Catherine Pears, Leadership Institute Susan Perry, Leadership Institute Carolyn Reams, La Paglia Fund John Seibold, General Operating Robert Sullivan, General Operating Michael Warren, Annual Meeting Michael Warren, Martha Battle Jackson JIMI Fund

Scott Warren, Seasoned Museum Professional

Scholarship and Virtual Programming Victoria & James Weise, General Operating Heather Marie Wells, Martha Battle Jackson JIMI Fund L. Carole Wharton, Leadership Institute Donna Whitfield, General Operating Zinnia Willits, Leadership Institute Zinnia Willits, President’s Travel Scholarship John Woods, Annual Meeting Scholarships

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SEMC Active Memberships

SEMC thanks all our active members, including those who have recently joined (in bold). Without your support and participation, we could not provide region wide services such as our 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 visit visit semcdirect.net, email Smemberservices@semcdirect.net, or call 404.814.2047. For your convenience, the last page of this newsletter is a membership application.

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Georgia Historical Marker for Mary Musgrove in Savannah’s Lafayette Square.

GEORGIA

The Andrew Low House Museum and NSCDA-GA successfully applied for a Georgia Historical Marker through the Georgia Historical Society to bring Mary Musgrove’s narrative to the historic district of Downtown Savannah. A key player in Georgia history, Mary Musgrove along with Tomochichi helped General Oglethorpe and the English colony survive the first years in Georgia.

The new historical marker telling of Mary Musgrove’s life joins the eight historical markers discussing women’s history in Chatham County and becomes the 14th historical marker on the subject of women’s history erected since 1998. Prior to the erection of this marker in Lafayette Square, Mary Musgrove’s story was

relegated to a marker that spoke more of the land in which her trading post was situated in Port Wentworth. Through an application for a new Mary Musgrove historical marker submitted by the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Georgia, the Georgia Historical Society is able to bring Mary Musgrove’s narrative to the downtown historic district of Savannah.

The Columbus Museum partnered with local artist Tony Pettis and the Housing Authority of Columbus, Georgia to facilitate painting classes and a community art project for youth living at Wilson Homes.

Over the course of two afternoons in July 2021, participants worked alongside Pettis to create a collaborative artwork inspired by their favorite summer activities. Pettis demonstrated his techniques for creating abstract backgrounds before asking them to work together to cover a large canvas utilizing the techniques.

This canvas was then used by Pettis to create a unique artwork for the Wilson Homes’ community room that takes inspiration from the earlier group discussion. Participants also had opportunities to create their own paintings to take home.

“Working with the kids of the Wilson Homes was a lot like the collaborative work I’ve always dreamed of doing,” said Pettis. “Kids are so powerful and filled with potential, this experience was awesome. So thrilled and humbled to have been a part of this.”

The collaborative piece, created by Pettis and the program participants, will be on display alongside two of his other abstract paintings in Pettis’ show at the AC Hotel in Downtown Columbus, GA.

LOUISIANA

The LSU Museum of Art presents The Boneyard: The Ceramics Teaching Collection. Bisque refers to the state achieved after a wet clay demo is completed and then fired once. What remains is a porous, unglazed record of the visiting artist’s creative process that can be referenced year after year by professors and students.

LSU Museum of Art’s The Boneyard: The Ceramics Teaching Collection.

Clarke Brown, LSU Museum of Art’s new curatorial fellow.

Included in this exhibition are over 200 bisque works that provide a valued resource for LSU School of Art’s top-ten ranked ceramics program. The ever-growing collection will be displayed at LSU MOA to imitate the classroom use of the boneyard. The “boneyard” refers to bisque works and how they are stored in studio spaces for teaching and ceramics demonstrations. This exhibition features rotating displays, a reading space, and a ceramics demonstration space that will be activated by MFA students, local artists, and visiting artists to allow museum visitors to share in the boneyard tradition—to watch clay transform and to see artist-specific techniques shared in the openness of the craft tradition. This exhibition is a collaboration between LSU Museum of Art and LSU School of Art. Curated by LSU Ceramics Associate Professor Andy Shaw, LSU MOA Curator Courtney Taylor, and LSU MOA Educator Grant Benoit. Recent update: Now on view until February 2022 (install image below at LSU MOA). More info: https://www.lsumoa.org/ the-boneyard.

The LSU Museum of Art announces Clarke Brown as curatorial fellow. Brown joins LSUMOA’s staff as part of the Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists. Brown’s two year fellowship focuses on African American art—researching new acquisitions and existing works—and gaining skills and knowledge of curatorial practices by working across the curatorial department and developing an exhibition. Originally from Dallas, TX, Brown is a historian and aspiring curator. She earned an MA from New York University spring of 2021 and a BA from Spelman College in 2019. Before joining LSUMOA’s team she interned in museums focusing on curating and museum education. Learn more about the LSUMOA Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists here: https://www.lsumoa. org/inside-lsu-moa/reillyfundannouncement.

The LSU Museum of Art presents recent acquisitions by Black artists, a permanent collection exhibition. On view for the first time at LSU MOA will be works by Radcliffe Bailey, Whitfield Lovell, Madelyn Sneed-Grays, Carrie Mae Weems, Mario Moore, and Gordon Parks, among other recently acquired works. Supported by The Winifred and Kevin P. Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artist. On view until September 26, 2021: https://www.lsumoa.org/ collectionspotlight2021.

SOUTH CAROLINA

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the

College of Charleston presents the exhibition Namsa Leuba: Crossed Looks, the first solo exhibition of SwissGuinean artist Namsa Leuba in the United States. The show will feature over 90 works from the photographer’s projects in Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria, and Benin, and it will premiere new work created in Tahiti.

As a photographer working across documentary, fashion, and performance, Namsa Leuba’s images explore the fluid visual identity of the African diaspora. With a dual heritage between Guinea and Switzerland, Leuba draws inspiration from her own experience growing up between two different cultural traditions.

Leuba’s images are influenced by the Animist traditions of her mother’s family in Guinea Conakry, and the visual codes of statues, masquerades, and religious ceremonies in West Africa. They are also inspired by contemporary fashion and design. The result is a unique perspective that straddles reality and fantasy. She restages and constructs narrative scenes in collaboration with her sitters, incorporating bold colors, striking

LSU Museum of Art’s recent acquisitions by Black artists.

patterns, and intricate clothing and props. Leuba often uses models that she informally meets in the street, who become active collaborators in the portraits.

Leuba’s photographs pose fundamental questions about the medium of photography and its role in forming our understanding of the cultural “Other.” Leuba states: “I have always been characterized as the Other, whether I am too ‘African’ to be European or too ‘European’ to be African. In this unique positioning, I am interested in the politics of the gaze—who is looking, who is being looked at, and the medium of which this looking occurs.”

Through her photographs, Leuba ultimately searches for a visual sense of belonging, of finding a vocabulary that speaks to the experiences and perspectives of not fitting in one ready-made mold. The title of this exhibition, Crossed Looks, references this diverse perspective, creating an alternative visual proposition that transcends fixed modes of representation.

The exhibition is organized by guest curator Joseph Gergel, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria. Namsa Leuba: Crossed Looks is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, and Garden & Gun magazine. This exhibition is supported in part by Belinda and Richard Gergel, Diane and Garey De Angelis, South State Bank, Kathleen and Tom Wright, Carol Perkins and David Rawle, Cindy and Shon M. Barnett, Deena and Walter McRackan, and Marissa Sams. The exhibition’s accompanying publication, Namsa Leuba: Crossed Looks, was designed by Swiss design studio Maximage and will be published by Damiani.

Namsa Leuba: Crossed Looks, on view from August 27 to December 11, 2021. Find out more about the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and this exhibition at halsey.cofc.edu.

Damien, 2015 34 × 47.2 inches Fiber pigment print on Dibond NGL series, Nigeria

Azaca, 2017 26.7 × 31.5 inches Fiber pigment print on semi-gloss paper Weke series, Benin

Untitled 1, 2015 41.34 × 31.5 inches Fiber pigment print on Dibond Tonköma series, Nigeria

Crawford Alexander Mann III, the Telfair Museums’ new chief curator.

Telfair Museums has hired a new chief curator: Crawford Alexander Mann III. Mann will oversee three sites and a 7,000-work permanent collection. An accomplished art-world veteran, Mann will join Telfair in November 2021 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where he has been curator of prints and drawings since 2017. At the Smithsonian, Mann has organized world-class exhibitions including the major upcoming survey Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano. Before the Smithsonian, he served as the Joan and Macon Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island. Mann holds a master’s degree in art history from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in art history and religious studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate at Yale, completing his dissertation titled “When in Rome: Italian Travel and the Pursuit of the Ideal Male Body in Antebellum American Art.” He has authored numerous exhibition catalogs and scholarly publications, lectured internationally, and is a fluent speaker and translator of German and Italian. His many fellowships include those from the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. His research interests include Italian-American artistic exchange on the Grand Tour, artists of the American South, African American printmakers of the 1960s and 1970s, and evolving visual constructions of masculinity, femininity, and gender.

“We continue to attract top talent as one of the South’s leading art museums, and I’m delighted to welcome Alex to Telfair’s leadership team,” said Ben Simons, the museum’s CEO/executive director. “His impressive experience at major institutions, his love of art and history, and his wide-ranging expertise in American art will make us even stronger as we shape our vision for the future. He’s an incredible talent and also a delightful person with inspiring intellectual range and a passion for public engagement with art.”

As part of the museum’s senior leadership team, Mann will oversee a curatorial staff of 23 and a permanent collection of more than 7,000 works of art. Telfair’s collection includes American and European paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts items dating primarily from the 19th century through the present day, with particular strengths in American portraiture, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, and American and English silver. The museum holds major works by Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Sully, Gari Melchers, Childe Hassam, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Robert Henri, George Bellows, William Zorach, Sam Gilliam, and many others, as well as the largest collection of Kahlil Gibran’s visual art in the United States, seminal 20th- century photography by Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, and Bruce Davidson, and essential works by contemporary artists in the museum’s Kirk Varnedoe Collection.

“I’ve long admired Telfair’s handsome buildings and the masterpieces inside,” Mann said. “It will be a privilege to lead this team of curators, educators, and interpreters in celebrating these treasures. I also look forward to hunting for unexplored stories and filling gaps in our collections and programs, so that the museum reflects the full richness of this community. Together we will ensure that Telfair is central to Savannah’s reputation as the creativity capital of the American South.”

About Telfair Museums: Opened in 1886, Telfair Museums is the oldest public art museum in the South and features a world-class art collection in the heart of Savannah’s National Historic Landmark District. The museum encompasses three sites: the Jepson

Center for the Arts, the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, and the Telfair Academy. For more information visit telfair.org.

TENNESSEE

Discovery Park of America welcomes Debra Craig as Director of Finance! Discovery Park of America, in Union City, TN, has announced that Debra Craig, an experienced financial professional, has joined the organization’s leadership team as director of finance. She will manage the business-and finance-related functions of Discovery Park.

Craig has a Bachelor of Science in business administration with a major in finance and a Master of Science in education leadership from the University of Tennessee at Martin. She has most recently been working at UT Martin as a resource specialist with the Department of Educational Studies within the College of Education, Health and Behavioral Sciences.

Before joining UT Martin, Craig worked as a municipal administrator. Prior to that, she held staff accountant positions at the Dyer County Courthouse and Honeywell Consumer Products. Craig has over 20 years of experience in public administration, including financial management and grant administration for NGOs. She is active in various non-profits including serving as vice president of the Dyersburg Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., which conducts community service projects in Obion County, and vice president of the Obion County/Union City branch of NAACP, Inc. She has also served as project manager of N73RED, Inc., mentor in the UTM mentorship collaborative, member of National Society of Leadership

Debra Craig, Discovery Park of America’s new director of finance.

and Success and advisor for Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity.

“Debra is an extraordinary leader with a proven track record and background developing financial strategies that enhance the work of non-profit organizations like Discovery Park,” said Scott Williams, president and CEO. “I’m thrilled she has decided to join our team, and I look forward to working with her as we implement our mission to inspire children and adults to see beyond.”

Craig is a graduate of Obion County Leadership and the Certified Municipal Finance Officer program administered by the UT Institute for Public Service. She is also a volunteer for the Delta Academy Youth Initiative, Union City football, Trudy’s Kids Café and various community music ministries.

For more information about Discovery Park of America, visit www.discoveryparkofamerica.com.