Inside SEMC Spring 2015: The Newsletter of the Southeastern Museums Conference by Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC)

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The Newsletter of the Southeastern Museums Conference spring 2015 | www.semcdirect.net

The 2015 Class of SEMC’s Jekyll Island Management Institute.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTES Susan Perry

SEMC EVENING EVENT AT AAM 2015 ATLANTA JOIN US IN JACKSONVILLE FOR SEMC 2015

INTRODUCING THE JIMI CLASS OF 2015

JIMI LAPAGLIA SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT RoAnn M. Bishop JOHN KINARD JIMI SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT DIRECTOR’S DEVELOPMENTS Making History Personal Cherel Henderson

SEMC PARTNERS WITH AASLH FOR “REINVENTING THE HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUM” WORKSHOP THE CHALLENGE IS ON Endowment Matching Gift Challenge SEMC 2015 OFFICERS AND COUNCIL 2015 MUSEUMS ADVOCACY DAY

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Inside SEMC is published four times a year

Robin Reed Treasurer

Alabama

North Carolina

by SEMC. Annual subscription is included

757.690.8962 | rreed@fmauthority.com

Arkansas

South Carolina

in membership dues.

Casemate Museum, Fort Monroe, VA

Florida

Tennessee

Georgia

Virginia

Design: Nathan W. Moehlmann,

Mike Hudson Past President

Kentucky

West Virginia

Goosepen Studio & Press

502.899.2356 | mhudson@aph.org

Louisiana

U.S. Virgin Islands

Mississippi

Puerto Rico

Museum of the American Printing

officers

House of the Blind, Louisville, KY

David Butler President

staff

865.524.1260 | dbutler@knoxart.org

directors

Susan S. Perry Executive Director

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

Priscilla Cooper

contact semc

Darcie MacMahon Vice President

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,

SEMC | P.O. Box 550746

352.273.2053 | dmacmahon@flmnh.ufl.edu

Birmingham, AL

Atlanta, GA 30355-3246

Florida Museum of Natural History,

T: 404.814.2048 or 404.814.2047

Gainesville, FL

205.328.9696 | pcooper@bcri.org

Julie Harris

F: 404.814.2031

270.575.9958

W: www.SEMCdirect.net

Robin Seage Person Secretary

jharris@riverdiscoverycenter.org

E: membershipservices@SEMCdirect.net

601.442.2901 | rsperson@bellsouth.net

River Discovery Center, Paducah, KY

Historic Jefferson College, Washington, MS

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AAM ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO

30 AAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS 31 A SPECIAL THANKS 33 ACQUISITIONS 40 CONGRATULATIONS 44 CONSTRUCTION 49 EXHIBITIONS 51 INNOVATIONS 57 PEOPLE AND PLACES 60 WHAT’S HAPPENING 63 IMPORTANT DATES 65 SEMC JOB FORUM 65 SEMC MEMBERSHIP FORM 66 IMLS DIRECTOR NOMINATED

Endowment and Membership Contributions

Brian Hicks

Elise LeCompte

Deitrah J. Taylor

662.429.8852 | director@desotomuseum.org

352.273.1925 | lecompte@flmnh.ufl.edu

478.320.4010

Desoto County Museum, Hernando, MS

Florida Museum of Natural History

dtaylorhistorian@gmail.com

Gainsville, FL 32611

The Cultural Center, Georgia College

Kathleen Hutton

and State University, Milledgeville, GA

336.758.5394 | khutton@wfu.edu

Catherine Pears

Reynolda House Museum of American Art,

318.443.0545 | cpears@lsua.edu

Heather Marie Wells

Winston-Salem, NC

Alexandria Museum of Art

479.418.5700

Alexandria, LA 71301

heathermarie.wells@crystalbridges.org

Mary Lague

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,

540.342.5760

Zinnia Willits

mlague@taubmanmuseum.org

843.722.2706 ext. 32

Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA

zwillits@gibbesmuseum.org

The deadline for the Summer 2015

Gibbes Museum of Art

newsletter is May 16, 2015.

Charleston, SC 29401

To submit information for the newsletter,

Jenny Lamb

Bentonville, AR

616.356.0501

please contact the Council Director

jenny.lamb@bellemeadeplantation.com

Allison Reid

Belle Meade Plantation,

504.658.4159 | areid@noma.org

Nashville, TN

New Orleans Museum of Art,

in your state.

New Orleans, LA

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executive director’s notes Susan Perry

California at Riverside, to attend JIMI 2015. This opportunity exemplifies the collaboration of three organizations (NMAAHC, AAAM, and SEMC) to encourage diversity in the museum field. After fifteen years, 246 JIMI graduates from 28 states plus the District of Columbia are a growing community and network of museum professionals.

ow do SEMC museums and cultural institutions

In Washington, D.C., I had another

collaborate to serve the

opportunity to witness the collaboration

changing needs of our

and united voice of the museum

Susan Perry, SEMC Executive Director

communities? The theme for SEMC

community in action at the 7th annual

2015 Annual Meeting is Cultural

Museums Advocacy Day and the Council

Collaboration: Creating a Collective

of Regional Associations. In a critical

In sunny Jacksonville, Florida, SEMC

Vision. In 2015 program proposals,

year for federal and state funding,

Council and Program Committee

I have witnessed the reinvention of

the Southeast had fifty-five museum

met recently at the Hyatt Regency

museums from social media tagging to

professionals, including three JIMI

Jacksonville Riverfront to make plans for

new audience engagement to an open

graduates, one museum trustee, and

our Annual Conference October 12–14,

access movement. How can SEMC

seven students, to speak with our elected

2015. SEMC 2015 Annual Conference is

create a collective vision as museum

officials about the economic impact and

an opportunity to ignite your passion for

professionals to serve the needs of our

educational value of museums in our

museums, engage leadership, transform

rapid changing world?

local communities, states and the nation.

community in selfie culture, create a

The 15th Annual Jekyll Island

The American Alliance of Museums

collaboration, and renew relationships

Management Institute (JIMI) was

(AAM) selected the first two Great

within our museum community. We

the collective vision of dedicated

American Museum Advocates from

invite you to experience the Cultural

museum professionals. They provided

nominations submitted by museums of

Collaboration: Creating a Collective

subject area expertise and practical

all types and sizes, all across the country.

Vision in Jacksonville!

approaches to administrative challenges

The winners were Fernando Valles, an

from their own experiences. Thanks

Iraq war veteran, nominated by the

This year my goal is to “create a

to the generosity of the Smithsonian’s

Chicago Botanic Garden, and Robert

collective vision” by growing a

National Museum of African American

Gray, a retired fire captain and first

diverse SEMC membership, improving

History and Culture (NMAAHC), SEMC

responder at the Pentagon on 9/11 whose

our communication, and providing

offered the John Kinard Scholarship

fire helmets now reside in the National

more educational opportunities as

Fund for two AAAM members, Chieko

September 11 Memorial and Museum

membership benefits. Encourage your

T. Phillips, Exhibitions Manager,

in New York. Next year experience the

institution and colleagues to join SEMC.

Northwest African American Museum,

power of speaking up as a united voice

and Ruth M. Jackson, University of

at Museums Advocacy Day!

collective vision, leverage community

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— Susan Perry, SEMC Executive Director

Fernbank Museum’s Great Hall by Drew Newman

SEMC Evening Event at AAM 2015 Annual Meeting Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta Tuesday, April 28, 7:00 – 10:00 pm SEMC would like to thank Solid Light and Malone Design/Fabrication for their sponsorships of the most unique “culture and cocktail” party in Atlanta, at Fernbank Museum of Natural History, during the upcoming American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting. Museum friends and SEMC members will view the special exhibition The Power of Poison and indulge in Southern food, specialty “poison,” music, and dancing. Fernbank offers a world of adventure and hip social scene. We’ll dance the night away with SEMC, colleagues, and friends. (The deadline for AAM ticketed events was March 27). Silver Sponsors: Malone Design/Fabrication and Solid Light, Inc.

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Cultural Collaboration

CREATING A COLLECTIVE VISION SEMC • OCTOBER 12-14, 2015 Jacksonville, Florida

Join us in Jacksonville

SEMC 2015 ANNUAL MEETING

Cultural Collaboration

CREATING A COLLECTIVE VISION SEMC • OCTOBER 12-14, 2015 Jacksonville, Florida

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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 “hot happenings” at JAX beach, edgy art museums, a wild animal zoo, and 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! Begin to explore Florida’s abundant waterways and cultural collaborations in Jacksonville. SEMC evening events 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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The theme of this year’s annual meeting is “Cultural Collaboration: 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. Get energized with innovative creativity and connect with our communities. Build new partnerships, integrate STEM/STEAM curriculum, engage new audiences, and transform fundraising into philanthropy. 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; • Space for over 64 exhibitors in the Resource Expo; • Evening events at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, MOSH, MOCA, The Ritz Theatre and LaVilla Museum, 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; • 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: Early Bird (4/20 – 7/3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250 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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first row: Carol Messer, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi MS; Schelly Corry, Cook”s Natural History Museum, Decatur, AL; Chieko T. Phillips, Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, WA; Courtney Taylor, Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR; Laura L. Orr, Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA; Kym Maddocks, Old Salem Museums & Gardens, Winston-Salem, NC; Kim Roberts Johnson, The National Museum of African American Music, Nashville, TN; Cathy Wright, The American Civil War Museum, Richmond, VA; Kari Barley, Pioneer Museum of Alabama, Troy, AL; Anne E. Miller, City of Virginia Beach, Department of Museums, Virginia Beach, VA. second row: Emily Epley, Earl Scruggs Center, Shelby, NC; Ruth M. Jackson, University of California, Riverside and Museums Board Member, Riverside, CA; Sean Daily, North Carolina National Guard Museum, Raleigh, NC; RoAnn M. Bishop, Mountain Gateway Museum & Heritage, Old Fort, NC; Stacey Thompson, The Museum and Railroad Historical Center, Greenwood, SC; Alexis A. Rager, National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, VA; Terrance Hunter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL.

JIMI 2015 congratulations to the JIMI Class of 2015, consisting of participants from Alabama (2), Arkansas, California (1), Florida (1), Mississippi (1), North Carolina (4), South Carolina (1), Tennessee (1), Virginia (4), and Washington. This year marks the second of a three-year partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and SEMC to sponsor two scholarships and travel stipends for AAAM members. The

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two John Kinard scholarship awardees were Ruth M. Jackson, Emeritus University Librarian, University of California, Riverside and Museums Board Member, Riverside, California and Chieko T. Phillips, Exhibitions Manager, Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, Washington. Scholarships and/or travel stipends were provided by the state associations of Arkansas (Courtney Taylor, Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff), Mississippi (Carol Messer, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi), North Carolina (Emily Epley, Earl Scruggs Center, Shelby), and South Carolina (Stacey Thompson, The Museum and Railroad Historical Center, Greenwood). The Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI Scholarship was awarded to RoAnn M. Bishop, Mountain Gateway Museum & Heritage Center, Old Fort, NC.

Baratto shows Kari Barley chatting with Sean Daily with Chieko Phillips and Terrance Hunter in background; Brenda Baratto (JIMI Class of 2011) hosted a chili night for the class at her home on St. Simons Island.

Gaylord Brothers provided one scholarship which was awarded to Kari Barley, Pioneer Museum of Alabama, Troy, AL. John and Cynthia Lancaster provided a full scholarship to Kim Roberts Johnson, The National Museum of African American Music, Nashville, TN. Satilla Computer Solutions, St. Marys, GA provided $350 as a breakfast sponsorship.

Carol Messer chatting with Jamie Credle while Ruth Jackson (l) and Schelly Corry (r) smile for the camera.

We opened the awards banquet to all JIMI alumni, and four people paid to attend and support the new graduates — Keith Post, CEO of Satilla Computer Solutions (JIMI Class of 2013), Ellen Strojan (JIMI Class of 2011), and Leah Walker and Josh White (JIMI Class of 2012). Susan Perry also attended, gave a warm congratulatory speech to the class and told them of SEMC activities, and participated in the awards ceremony. Afterwards, the newly minted “JIMI-kins” regrouped at the hotel hot tub and enjoyed adult beverages and snacks purchased with funds provided by JIMI alumni. A couple of brave souls braved the chilly waters of the Atlantic Ocean to keep the JIMI Polar Bear Club alive!

Kym Maddocks asks a question as Terrance Hunter, Alexis Rager, and Chieko Phillips look on.

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JIMI LaPaglia Scholarship Recipient

RoAnn M. Bishop Appreicates Her JIMI Experience

ver feel the world spins a little too fast sometimes? Well, my world seemed to enter warp drive last October when I became director of the Mountain Gateway Museum & Heritage Center in Old Fort, NC. ¶ Born and raised in western North Carolina, there’s no place on earth I’d rather be. But before arriving in Old Fort (a tiny town nestled at the eastern foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains), I had worked as a curator at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh for 14 years. I had largely adjusted to life in the big city and more or less learned what was expected of me. Now, here I was, not only in charge of a museum

(small though it might be), but a staff and buildings (plural!) and an artifact collection, and a budget … and suddenly I felt like I was aboard the Starship Enterprise! ¶ That’s when I remembered a friend having told me about the Southeastern Museums Conference’s Jekyll Island Management Institute. He had attended “JIMI” the year before and couldn’t stop talking about what a wonderful experience he’d had and how much he had learned. Well, I figured I needed all the help I could get and then some, so I applied for JIMI. Then, reality set in. How was I ever going to pay for this immersive, eight-day museum management training program? There are scholarships

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available, my wise friend said. So I applied for the Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI Scholarship. Named for a man who had enjoyed 35 years in museums and the public history field, the scholarship would entirely cover my tuition. And miracle of miracles, I not only got accepted into the JIMI program. But I received the scholarship! ¶ I arrived on Jekyll Island on January 19, having driven non-stop for nearly 6½ hours, paid a $6 entrance toll fee, and managed to maneuver through the marshlands before dark and without hitting one of the island’s prolific deer. Once I had stretched my legs and found a bathroom, things began to look rosier. The cottage, which I would be sharing with three other “JIMI-kins,” was right off the beach! ¶ However, there would be little free time over the next eight days to enjoy sunsets over the ocean, go shelling or admire the driftwood forest along Jekyll Island’s shore. No sir! There were sessions! Every day, even Saturday and Sunday, usually from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and with receptions, “participant sessions,” and group dinners afterward almost nightly. But that’s what I was here for: knowledge and networking,

right? So bring it on! ¶ And they did! The JIMI faculty concisely and delightfully presented more information about how to market your museum, recruit volunteers, manage staff, handle boards, be a leader, raise money, get accredited, plan exhibits, interpret history, care for collections, and prepare for disasters, (among myriad other topics), than I could ever have imagined. And it was all useful, practical information, stuff you could immediately put into practice back home — and all based on years of personal knowledge and experiences. Until the end of my museum career, my three-inch JIMI notebook will be my professional bible. ¶ As for the 17 museum professionals from across the nation who shared my 2015 JIMI experience, they will forever be “family,” people on whom I not only can call for museum assistance but also for moral support. Thanks to them, the JIMI faculty, SEMC, and the LaPaglia Companies, my work at Mountain Gateway Museum now seems much less daunting and much more doable. My warp-speed world has at last wound down, and life is back on Blue Ridge Mountains time, as it should be.

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John Kinard Scholarship Recipients The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture Sponsors Two Scholarships to the Jekyll Island Management Institute

Carol Messer, Schelly Corry, Chieko Phillips, Kim Roberts Johnson, and Cathy Wright working on a group project at JIMI 2015.

The Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) proudly announces the John Kinard Scholarship recipients for the 15th annual Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI 2015). Chieko T. Phillips, Exhibitions Manager, Northwest African American Museum, and Ruth M. Jackson, University of California at Riverside, have been selected as recipients for the John Kinard Scholarship Fund for JIMI 2015. ¶ 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 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.

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director’s developments Making History Personal Cherel Henderson, Executive Director, East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville

ike most in the museum field, I am drawn by curiosity, a love of research, and a passion for presenting stories and information in ways to connect with the public. Those of us in administrative roles, however, more often have to turn our backs on our first love and concentrate, instead, on budgets, staffing, fundraising, and meetings. Yet, the love of research lies just below the surface, tempting us to occasional indulgence.

I am fortunate to have been drawn into two very large research projects during my time at the East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS). The first was as founding director of the First Families of Tennessee (FFT), an ETHS bicentennial heritage project. For membership, applicants must prove descent from a person living in Tennessee by 1796 statehood. The project’s objectives are to recognize the state’s early settlers, create an interest in history and genealogy, build connections across generations, create state pride, and establish a legacy for future generations. Directorship of FFT was an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I came to “know” five, six, seven generations of thousands of families. What most researchers see from the scholar’s level, I glimpsed in everyday lives. I watched Tennesseans over time as they confronted war, depression, changing societal mores, slavery, the Cherokee removal, the loss of lands to federal projects, the shift from farms to factories. I came to liken genealogy research to time travel, freeing us from the bonds of earth to move fluidly across eras and centuries, oceans, continents, and human experiences.

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FFT is now the largest research collection of material on the state’s early settlers, with 15,500 members representing every state and several foreign countries. Applications and required proofs are housed in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection located in the East Tennessee History Center. Interesting, you might say, but what does a genealogy project have to do with a museum? FFT has yielded many unexpected benefits. Energy generated by the project propelled an expansion of the East Tennessee History Center into a new, first-class museum, library, and archival facility.

and silver ring worn by Cherokee Beloved Woman Nancy Ward, a Virginia road wagon, an original string of Cherokee beads, a blood-stained shirt with bullet holes worn by a man killed while evading both Union and Confederate conscription. Experience gained through FFT helped shape the new Museum of East Tennessee History, opened in 2008. Our goal from the beginning was a first class signature exhibition, Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee, to showcase the fascinating, often colorful story, of our 35-county region. We knew what we wanted the exhibit to be but describing it seemed so amorphous. Concepts became clearer as our team of scholars, designers, and staff discussed the possibilities.

FFT brought to light spectacular artifacts that are now in our museum, either as a loan, gift, or purchase, examples being David Crockett’s first gun, a turkey bone

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1. Visitors will understand the history on an intellectual level, yet experience it at a heart level. 2. We will present the authenticity of people telling their own story in their own words, with only enough interpretive text to hold and flow the story.

conversation. “My family had to leave their farm to make room for Cherokee Lake.” “Great granddaddy died in the Civil War,” “I remember Mama telling me how her daddy worked in the mines.”

Experiences, personalities, stories, artifacts gained through the FFT project were important to our ability to implement this concept. Through original quotes, East Tennesseans from all walks of life and varied viewpoints, tell their own stories. Public response has been enthusiastic. A little 96-year-old lady left the exhibit exclaiming, “I found my life in that exhibit. I walked through my life again!” At the recent SEMC conference in Knoxville, an East Tennessee native viewed the exhibit for the first time, commenting, “This exhibit is MY story. It’s my family’s story,” meaning that she found her family’s story reflected in the larger history there. Often, walking through the museum, we catch snippets of

This personal connection concept works equally well with visitors from outside the region. Many arrive with preconceived notions of our mountain and valley inhabitants, only to find their views changed by the authenticity of the “real” people and “real” stories they encounter in the exhibit. One of our evaluators described the exhibit thusly, “The Voices concept is not just an exhibit title, but an approach that carries through the entire museum. The technique perhaps works to greatest effect when it juxtaposes counterposing viewpoints, discreetly offered without editorial comment or explanation.” This grassroots, personal, approach has now become a hallmark for all ETHS programs and exhibitions.

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SEMC Partners with the American Association of State and Local History for “Reinventing the Historic House Museum Workshop” June 12, 2015, 8:30 am | Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta, Georgia This one-day symposium is designed to offer current thinking, practical information, and solutions to the challenges facing historic sites. The Historic House Museum in America is not dead nor are most historic house museums dying. The field, however, needs to take time to reflect and renew as the world around our historic sites continues to change.

Presentations What You Ought to Know about Opportunities and Threats Max van Balgooy, President, Engaging Places, LLC Historic house museums face numerous challenges but figuring out which ones are serious or benign, urgent or important, temporary or long-term, isn’t easy. Max van Balgooy will present his analysis of the most important opportunities and threats facing historic sites in America based on the latest social and economic research, along with a discussion on strategies for responding to these external forces at your house museum. Reinventing the Historic House Museum Ken Turino, Manager of Community Engagement and Exhibitions, Historic New England The purpose of this session is to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the rewards and challenges facing historic house museums today. Historic sites are looking for creative and sustainable ways to make

themselves relevant to their communities. What is very exciting now is that many sites have risen to this challenge using different models and ways of interpreting to look beyond traditional models. The presentation will look at specific ways and examples of how historic houses have engaged with their communities, implemented creative forms of interpretation and programming as well as ways to earn income all to become more sustainable. Inside the Margaret Mitchell House Michael Rose, Executive Vice President, Atlanta History Center Michael Rose will be discussing the lessons that were learned when the Atlanta History Center took over the management of the Margaret Mitchell House. He’ll also discuss items that need to be fixed and the History Center’s future plans for the Margaret Mitchell House. The workshop will also include a tour of the house and a roundtable session regarding the issues addressed at the Margaret Mitchell House. Find registration information at learn.aaslh.org. Cost is $95 members/$170 non-members.

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THE CHALLENGE IS

SEMC’s First Matching Gift Challenge Inspires Endowment Growth 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! 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!

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— Micheal Hudson SEMC Past President

SEMC 2015 OFFICERS AND COUNCIL Officers

Treasurer

Elise LeCompte (partial term)

Robin Reed (1st Term)

Registrar and Asst. Dept. Chair

President

Director

Florida Museum of Natural History

David Butler (1st Term)

Fort Monroe Casemate

Gainsville, FL 32611

Executive Director

20 Bernard Road

352.273.1925

Knoxville Museum of Art

Fort Monroe , VA 23651

lecompte@flmnh.ufl.edu

1050 World’s Fair Park

757.690.8962

Knoxville, TN 37916-1653

rreed@fmauthority.com

865.524.1260

Heather Marie Wells (1st Term) Digital Media Specialist

865.617.2117/c

Past President

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

dbutler@knoxart.org

Mike Hudson

600 Museum Way

Director

Bentonville, AR 72712

Vice President

Museum of the American

479.418.5755

Darcie MacMahon (1st Term)

Printing House for the Blind

479.263.0872/c

Exhibits Director

1839 Frankfort Avenue

HeatherMarie.Wells@crystalbridges.org

Florida Museum of Natural History

Louisville, KY 40206

Gainsville, FL 32611

502.899.2365

Jenny Lamb (partial term)

352.273.2053

mhudson@aph.org

Director of Interpretation & Education

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Robin Seage Person (2nd Term)

Allison Reid (2nd Term)

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Historic Jefferson College

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Washington, MS 39190

One Collins C. Diboll Circle City Park

601.442.2901

New Orleans, Louisiana 70124

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504.658.4159

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Mary LaGue (2nd Term)

Julie Harris (1st Term)

Kathleen Hutton (2nd Term)

Registrar

Executive Director

Director of Education

Art Museum of Western Virginia

River Discovery Center

Reynolda House Museum of American Art

110 Salem Ave SE

117 South Water Street Paducah, KY 42001

2250 Reynolda Road

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Priscilla Cooper (1st Term)

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Birmingham Civil rights Institute

Zinnia Willits (1st Term)

520 Sixteenth Street North

Director of Collections Administration

Brian Hicks (1st Term)

Birmingham, AL 35203

Gibbes Museum of Art

Director

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135 Meeting Street

Desoto County Museum

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Charleston, SC 29401

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843.722.2706 ext 32

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Catherine Pears (1st Term) Executive Director

Deitrah J. Taylor (1st Term)

Alexandria Museum of Art

Cultural Center Coordinator

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The Cultural Center

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Greene St.

318.443.3458

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n Washington, D.C., museum community united for the 7th annual Museums Advocacy Day. In a critical year for federal and state funding, the Southeast had fifty-five museum professionals, including three JIMI graduates, one museum trustee, and seven students, to speak with our elected officials about the economic impact and educational value of museums in our local communities, states and the nation. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) selected the first two Great American Museum Advocates from nominations submitted by museums of all types and sizes, all across the country. The winners were Fernando Valles, an Iraq war veteran, nominated by the Chicago Botanic Garden, and Robert Gray, a retired fire captain and first responder at

the Pentagon on 9/11 whose fire helmets now reside in the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. They shared their powerful and emotional stories about how a museum changed their life. Museums Advocacy Day had 276 registrants, including 218 who represented all 50 states and visited 350 Congressional offices. Forty-five organizations, including SEMC, collaborated with AAM to plan and publicize the event. Five federal agencies (IMLS, NEA, NEH, State Department and NSF) provided information about their agency’s priorities during our day of issue briefings. We had 1,883 tweets using the hashtag #museumsadvocacy, including from several members of Congress. Next year experience the power of speaking up as a united voice at Museums Advocacy Day!

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The American Alliance of Museums Announces New President and CEO Laura L. Lott Becomes 9th President of AAM

he American Alliance of Museums, representing the nation’s museum community, announced the selection of non-profit leader Laura L. Lott as its next president and chief executive officer. Currently serving as chief operating officer, Lott will become the ninth president of the 109-yearold organization and the first woman to lead the Alliance since its founding. Lott brings to the position an extensive background in nonprofit management and a passion for museums as places of lifelong learning. Lott’s appointment follows an extensive search and is effective June 1, 2015. “As chief operating officer since 2010, Laura has led the Alliance through a number of milestone moments, including an organizational re-launch and redesign of the membership and excellence programs,” said Kaywin Feldman, chair of the Alliance Board of Directors and Duncan and Nivin MacMillan director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. “Laura’s vision for the future of the Alliance is aligned with the Board’s strategic priorities to expand the organization internationally and strengthen its position as a thought leader and advocate for museums.” While serving as chief operating officer, Lott developed and led an aggressive turnaround plan to eliminate seven years of operating deficits within two years, while investing

in and launching a complete re-brand, new technology infrastructure and website, and a new museum membership paradigm yielding 50% growth in museum members. “Laura has been instrumental to the Alliance’s evolution over the past five years,” said Dr. Ford W. Bell, who retires as the Alliance president in May. “She has steered and inspired the Alliance staff, serving as an exceptional leader at the Alliance and within the greater museum community.”

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Following Bell’s retirement announcement last summer, the Alliance board appointed a six person search committee. Working with Spencer Stuart, one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms, the committee reviewed a number of excellent candidates from across the country. The Board voted unanimously to appoint Lott during its February meeting.

of challenging circumstances, setting and achieving aggressive programmatic and financial goals. Prior to the Alliance, Lott served as chief financial officer and chief operating officer of The JASON Project, an international nonprofit education program at the National Geographic Society with a mission to inspire and motivate students to learn science through great explorers and events.

“My career has focused on educational programming at global organizations, and my deepest passion for museums is the important role they play in experiential education,” said Lott. “I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished at the Alliance over the past five years in service to the museum field. I’m thrilled to work with the Board and our talented staff and volunteers to take the Alliance to the next level.”

Prior to National Geographic, Lott helped launch the MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom program at the former MCI Foundation and managed its state partnerships as well as MCI’s community relations program. A certified public accountant, Lott began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers focusing on nonprofit clients. She graduated from American University’s Kogod School of Business and currently resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and daughter.

Lott has guided the evolution and growth of several nonprofit education organizations through a multitude

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Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Nominated President Obama Nomintates Kathryn “Kit” Matthew

resident Obama nominated Dr. Kathryn “Kit” Matthew to lead the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Ford W. Bell made the following statement “I am thrilled that President Obama has nominated such an experienced and dedicated museum professional to serve as director of the Institute of Museum of Library Services. Throughout her career, Kit has worked for a wide variety of museums — including the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Historic Charleston Foundation, Please Touch Museum, Science City at Union Station, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Virginia Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Cranbrook Institute of Science, and the Academy of Natural Sciences — and she has amassed a great deal of knowledge about the breadth and diversity of the museum field. Her roles have included director, curator, educator, exhibit developer, fundraiser, volunteer, board member, and in strategic communications and collections management, all of which will be exceedingly

valuable as she works to support museums in their educational and public service roles. Through her work as a peer reviewer for the IMLS-funded and AAMadministered Museum Assessment Program (MAP), Kit has helped numerous museums achieve success in community engagement, strategic planning, and financial stability. Kit has also served as a peer reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and was awarded the AAM Excellence in Peer Review Service award in 2009. These experiences—combined with her work for environmental advocacy organizations, foundations, and in the private sector—make her an excellent choice to lead this vital agency that supports museums of all types. Kit is also acutely aware of the business trends in the museum field, and her experience in resource acquisition will be a critical asset to IMLS as the agency works to serve the entire museum field while federal funding for the agency currently falls far short of the Congressionally-authorized amount.” Dr. Matthew waits for confirmation by the U.S. Senate.

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AAM Seeks Volunteers at 2015 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo April 26–29, Atlanta The Social Value of Museums: Inspiring Change

Are you Ready to Serve Up some Southern hospitality? The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) comes to Atlanta April 25–29, 2015. Five thousand visitors from across the U.S. and Canada and international visitors from around the world come to Atlanta for education, networking, and fun. We need you! 150 hospitality volunteers will greet visitors, provide directions and information on local attractions, and staff the hospitality suites at the Georgia World Congress Center for guests and volunteers. Most shifts are four hours. Volunteer Incentives Include: • • • •

A complimentary Conference tee shirt Collectable commemorative pin Validated Conference parking at the GWCC Volunteer orientation training and an invitation to the volunteer-only networking reception • Admission to open houses at participating museums on Saturday • One free day of Conference registration for working a four-hour shift. The Conference registration alone is a $250 value!

Volunteering is a great way to give back to the community while networking with colleagues and making new friends. Exposure to the Conference educational programs contributes to your knowledge of the best practices in fields such as fund raising, special events management and organizational leadership. Your experience as a volunteer offers important professional development opportunities and may be used to enhance your resume or grow your network. Join us to represent the best of Atlanta. The official deadline to sign up was March 27, but you may contact AAM about further volunteer needs. For more information visit aam-us.org or contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteers@aam-us.org.

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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 Susan Perry at 404.814.2048 or sperry@semcdirect.net. David Butler Patrick Daily Matthew Davis William Eiland Brian Hicks Kathleen Hutton Jennifer Lamb Elise LeCompte Teri Long R. Andrew Maass William Marquardt Heather Nowak Robin Person Allison Reid Pattie Smith Heather Marie Wells Zinnia Willits Glenn Willumson

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 Tom Butler Tamra Sindler Carboni Douglas Noble Robert Rathburn Graig D. Shaak Robert Sullivan Kristin Miller Zohn

THE WILLIAM T. AND SYLVIA F. ALDERSON ENDOWMENT FELLOWS Twenty-four 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

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Medallion Alderson Fellows (minimum $2,500) George Bassi Sharon Bennett Tamra Sindler Carboni Martha Battle Jackson Pamela Meister Richard Waterhouse 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 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 $16,518. Elise LeCompte

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acquisitions GEORGIA Telfair Museums is proud to announce the success of A Collectors’ Evening, which was held on January 15 and led to the museum acquiring seven major pieces for its permanent collection. A Collectors’ Evening was presented by the Gari Melchers Collectors’ Society, which supports and promotes the expansion of the museum’s permanent collection. The first-of-its-kind event allowed patrons to play curator for a night by casting secret ballots to determine Telfair Museums’ next acquisition, which was made possible by the evening’s proceeds. Patrons had the opportunity to vote on a work of art that that was chosen by Telfair’s four curators. The evening turned out to be a rollicking, fun night with cocktails, art- and wine-related live and silent auction items and more. Not only was a winner chosen but to everyone’s amazement, a group of anonymous donors offered to acquire all of the other choices for Telfair Museums. “I am deeply grateful for the generosity of Telfair Museums’ Gari Melchers Collectors’ Society,” said Lisa Grove. “In addition to expanding the museum’s permanent collection, these seven exceptional acquisitions reinforce the interesting variety of objects in our collection. We are excited to share these works of art with the community.” Telfair Museums’ permanent collection consists of more than 7,000 objects including two historic landmark buildings. Telfair is known for its strength in impressionist paintings, and is excited to open Monet and American Impressionism on October 16.

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and other historic documents describing the grand event. ¶ As was Masonic tradition, a copper box containing mementos of the day — including, a copy of James S. Gibbes last will and testament, the 1902 proceedings of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina, the 1902 Year Book of the City of Charleston, a copy of the News and Courier for December 7, 1903, and medals and other memorabilia contributed by ceremony participants — was sealed within the cornerstone. The stone, inscribed “Walter M. Whitehead, Grand Master, A.L., 5903,” was pronounced “true and serviceable” through a series of Masonic rituals. Tools representing the masonic trade — the plumb, rule, and square — were placed on top of the stone as it was lowered into the foundation. The Grand Master scattered corn from the “horn of plenty” and poured wine and oil from silver pitchers onto the stone and tools. Finalizing the ceremony, the Master removed the sanctified tools from the stone and handed them to the builder, a gesture bestowing upon him the responsibility of constructing a building that would endure. The splendid Beaux Arts building originally designed by Frank P. Milburn and constructed by Harry T. Zacharias has endured. The current renovation and expansion project at Gibbes will return much of the building to its original grandeur and will provide new and revitalized spaces to ensure art, culture, and creativity remain a cornerstone of our community.

Contractors working on the renovation and expansion of the Gibbes Museum of Art recently unearthed the building’s original cornerstone. First laid on December 8, 1903, by the Masons of Charleston, the Gibbes cornerstone has been hidden from view for the last 111 years. According to newspaper accounts, thousands gathered along Meeting Street in 1903 to witness members of the Masonic Grand Lodge of South Carolina perform the ceremonial placement of the cornerstone for the South’s first art museum building. Clad in full masonic regalia and accompanied by the Live Oak band, the city’s Masons marched through Charleston’s main streets and gathered at the site where the foundation of the James S. Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery (today’s Gibbes Museum of Art) was being erected. This momentous ceremony was lost to history until 2005 when a photograph depicting the event surfaced. The photograph, discovered in the attic of a Delaware house, originally belonged to Harry T. Zacharias, the contractor for the Gibbes building. It was donated to the Gibbes by Harry’s great nephew, John Zacharias, who found it in his aunt’s house and delivered it personally to Charleston on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Gibbes opening. Dated on the back “Dec 8 1903,” the photograph allowed Gibbes staff members to locate newspaper articles

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NORTH CAROLINA The Mint Museum has acquired the remarkable, large-scale painting Selma (1965) by Barbara Pennington (1932–2013). Measuring nine feet across, this powerful canvas depicts the heart-wrenching events that unfolded during a series of civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, in the spring of 1965. Pennington, an Alabama native and a talented painter who had won a four-year scholarship to study art at the University of Alabama, was working in New York at the time of the Selma marches and attacks. The events unfolding in her home state inspired her to create this monumental canvas, which is unlike the vast majority of her other, more abstract work. Likely drawing upon images that appeared in the mass media, Pennington wove together her narrative into a striking scene that still serves as a powerful, moving representation of these tragic events almost 50 years later. Selma was

recently discovered by the artist’s niece, Charlotte resident Vicki Moreland, while going through Pennington’s studio shortly after her death. Rolled up in a corner, it had not been seen in many years and was a surprising discovery, as the artist worked almost exclusively in an abstract style for the majority of her professional career. “I was amazed when Mrs. Moreland showed me images of Selma,” recalls the Mint’s Senior Curator of American, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Dr. Jonathan Stuhlman, “and even more so when I had the opportunity to see it in person. As we approach the 50th anniversary of these tragic events, Pennington’s painting will serve as a powerful reminder of the struggles and sacrifices of the brave individuals who participated in the Civil Rights Movement.” Selma is currently on view in the museum’s permanent collection galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art on Level 4 of Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts, 500 South Tryon Street in Charlotte.

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Carissa DiCindio (center), the Georgia Museum of Art’s Curator of Education, accepts Exhibition of the Year award at GMAG.

GEORGIA The Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries (GAMG) recently recognized the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia with its Museum Exhibition of the Year award for Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy. The exhibition, co-organized by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, focused on the U.S. State Department’s Advancing American Art project. Advancing American Art began in 1946, with a call for the acquisition of modernist paintings by contemporary American artists. The intent was to travel the art through the Latin American republics, Eastern Europe and Asia. Its objective was to exemplify the freedom of expression enjoyed by artists in

The Old Governor’s Mansion at Georgia College has been named a Smithsonian affiliate, becoming the ninth in the state and the first in central Georgia to receive this recognition. “We are delighted to welcome the Old Governor’s Mansion into the Smithsonian Affiliations program. The museum is not only a singular example of Greek Revival architecture, but it is also the place where all Americans can relive a long stretch of our nation’s history,” said Harold Closter, director of Smithsonian Affiliations. “The Smithsonian looks forward to working in collaboration with the expert staff of the Old Governor’s Mansion and the faculty and students of Georgia College to help visitors and learners gain further insight from the stories and lessons so diligently preserved here.” ¶ The Old Governor’s Mansion will be part of a select group of museums, cultural, educational and arts organizations that share the Smithsonian’s resources with the nation. “The opportunity to be an affiliate of the

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Smithsonian is a great honor for the Old Governor’s Mansion and Georgia College,” said Director Matt Davis. “We look forward to building partnerships for exhibitions, loans and the development of programming. This partnership will be a huge benefit to the Mansion as we continue to build our national profile within the museum field.” The Old Governor’s Mansion is one of the finest examples of High Greek Revival architecture in the nation. Serving as the residence for Georgia’s chief executives for more than 30 years, the Mansion’s history encompasses the antebellum, Civil War and early Reconstruction phases of the state’s history. Such noted state leaders as George Crawford, Howell Cobb and Joseph E. Brown resided in the building and used it as a stage for speeches and also to introduce guests of national standing.

LOUISIANA The Louisiana State Museum is launching 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. The oldest known musical document in Louisiana history is now available to music and history lovers worldwide, thanks to the release of The Historic New Orleans Collection’s newest title, French Baroque Music of New Orleans: Spiritual Songs from the Ursuline Convent (1736). The book features a full-color facsimile of an 18th-century, previously unpublished illustrated collection of songs, which the Ursuline Sisters in New Orleans received in

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2004. He returned to Normandy for the 70th anniversary in June 2014, leading a Museum delegation to the ceremonies and events and reporting on behalf of NBC. Brokaw has been in attendance at nearly every major building opening at The National WWII Museum since 2000 and has been a champion for the Museum in the media and in the fundraising arena. Tom Hanks has lent his tremendous acting, directing, producing, and voice talents to an array of WWII-focused projects over the last two decades. In 2009, The National WWII Museum debuted the exclusive 4D film Beyond All Boundaries, with Hanks serving as executive producer and narrator. Offscreen, he played an active role in the creation of The National WWII Memorial and, as a champion for The National WWII Museum, has been instrumental in achieving its goal to become the preeminent museum on World War II. “Without the efforts of these two men,” said Mueller, “this Museum might not have happened. Their contributions have been that important to our institution.” ¶ The private awards banquet, held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, raised funds to benefit the Museum’s Brokaw-Hanks Fund for Digital Access. This fund supports digitization of The National WWII Museum’s vast and growing collection of artifacts, archival materials, images and oral histories — providing invaluable access to these resources for teachers, students, and others interested in the study of World War II.

NORTH CAROLINA The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership has announced an award of $5,000 for the Asheville Art Museum to support research and planning of a new exhibition on the role of women in the Craft Revival. Tentatively titled History of Craft Development Among Appalachian Women, the exhibition will focus on the influence of women immigrants to Southern Appalachia on female craft artists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this grant cycle, the BRNHA Partnership awarded 22 grants totaling $170,000 in funding to preserve and promote Western North Carolina’s heritage. “We appreciate and are grateful for all the wonderful work that is being

done throughout the region to preserve our heritage and improve our communities,” said Angie Chandler, Executive Director of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership. “This year’s grant cycle was extremely competitive — we had 52 applicants and some great projects presented, but we simply could not fund them all.” The Mint Museum is preparing to launch an expansion of a project to digitize its art collection, thanks to a $100,000 grant from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Mint was among 13 Charlotte arts organizations receiving $1 million in grants. Building on previous grants received from the Knight and from the National Endowment for the Arts, the museum’s expanded digitization project will create virtual tours of the museum and its collections and special exhibitions, plus interviews with curators and artists. The project will enable local and global residents to virtually visit the museum through tools including Google Photosphere Imaging, which enables viewers to see detailed 3-D panoramas, and RTI Imaging, a photographic method allowing the interactive re-lighting of an object from any direction. The digitization work will focus in particular on 100 key works of art in the museum’s collection, including the signature works Threshold by Danny Lane and Mega Footprint Near the Hutch (May I Have this Dance?) by Sheila Hicks. “The Mint is grateful to the Knight Foundation for its significant support of our efforts to continue to bring art to as many members of our global community as possible, both virtually and inside the museum’s walls,” said Dr. Kathleen V. Jameson, president & CEO of the Mint.

VIRGINIA Virginia Association of Museums awarded the 2015 Ann Brownson Award to both Randy Holmes and Steven Blashfield of Glavé & Holmes Architecture. The award recognizes individuals who have provided outstanding service to the Virginia museum community.

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construction VIRGINIA With the completion of an 80,000-square-foot building — a distinctive new Yorktown landmark — the Yorktown Victory Center has reached a midpoint milestone in its transformation into the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. The Yorktown Victory Center and the museum replacement project are managed by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, a Virginia state agency that also operates Jamestown Settlement history museum. In March museum operations transitioned from the existing facility to the new building. Visitors are welcomed in an expansive two-story entrance lobby, with a new orientation video and access to a museum gift shop and a café. Next to the theater is a 5,000 square-foot space for future special exhibitions. A timeline corridor leading to the museum’s outdoor living-history areas borders a 22,000 square-foot space where construction of permanent gallery exhibits, planned to open by late 2016, is underway. The corridor provides a visual journey from the 13 British colonies in the 1750s to westward expansion of the new United States in the 1790s. A short video at the end of the corridor introduces visitors to the museum’s outdoor re-created Continental Army encampment and Revolution-era farm. While work continues on the new galleries, special visitor participatory experiences will be offered in the corridor and nearby classrooms and on an outdoor event lawn. Periodic topics include military tactics, nationalities represented at the Siege of Yorktown, espionage, choosing sides during the Revolution, enlistment in the Continental Army, and military medicine. In addition to public spaces, the new building houses support functions — a meeting and special event space with

a panoramic view of the York River, staff offices, library, historical clothing workshop, exhibit preparation and collection storage, and building and grounds maintenance. The 1976 museum building will be demolished this spring after the transition to the new building is complete, making way for construction of new outdoor interpretive areas and amenities. Construction of the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown began in mid 2012, and the entire project is planned for completion by late 2016, when the new name will replace “Yorktown Victory Center.” Major components of the project total approximately $50 million.

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exhibitions GEORGIA The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition Jay Robinson: Quarks, Leptons, and Peanuts through June 21. The exhibition will feature the work Robinson has created since a fire destroyed his home and studio in the mid-1990s and is organized by William U. Eiland, director of the museum, and Todd

Rivers, head preparator. After the fire, Robinson’s work moved in a different direction and he reinvented himself as an artist, taking inspiration from science. He started studying molecular physics and constellations, moving toward abstraction from a previously realistic approach. Despite the fact that he will turn 100 this year, he continues to create work, painting in the burned studio that he later rebuilt. One painting, an untitled African scene,

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survived the fire and will be shown in the exhibition. The Detroit-born artist earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1937 and later attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, one of the few institutions dedicated to design. There, he studied under Zoltan Sepeshy, Charles Eames, and Harry Bertoia, all of whom had a strong influence on Robinson’s methods. In 1950, he traveled to Africa through the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship; the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters purchased seven of his paintings of his travel documentations for presentations and institutions. His painting of Billie Holiday singing, based on a drawing he made of her from life, is in the museum’s collection but has been out on loan in the traveling exhibition The Visual Blues: The Harlem Renaissance. This is the second exhibition of Robinson’s work at the museum. In 2006, Jay Robinson featured 31 works including sculptures, egg tempera paintings, drawings, oil paintings, and mixedmedia creations from the 1940s to the 1980s. The High Museum of Art’s exhibition exploring the iconic design and creative legacy of the Coca-Cola bottle runs through October 2015. Presented on the occasion of the bottle’s centennial, the exhibition features more than 100 objects, including more than 15 works of art by Andy Warhol and more than 40 photographs inspired by or featuring the bottle. Visitors will have the opportunity to view original design illustrations, historical artifacts and a century of experimentation with the Coca-Cola bottle, which has enticed multiple generations and billions of people worldwide and inspired numerous artists since its inception in 1915. Photographers such as Walker Evans and William Christenberry documented the Coca-Cola bottle’s universal presence in the cultural landscape of 20th century America. The Coca-Cola bottle also helped spur Warhol’s pioneering shift to his breakthrough pop art style. Organized by the High in collaboration with The Coca-Cola Company, the exhibition will be presented in two floors of the High’s Anne Cox Chambers wing. As visitors enter the exhibition gallery in the first-floor lobby,

Ansel Adams with Coke bottle in Yosemite Valley, High Museum.

Three Coke Bottles, Andy Warhol, at High Museum of Art.

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they may interact with more than 500 contemporary 3-D printed bottles suspended from the ceiling that reference the Coca-Cola bottle’s iconic design. The second floor displays will feature three main areas: a section taking visitors through the design history of the bottle, the pop art section with more than 15 works by Warhol, and a photography section including works from the High’s permanent collection.

LOUISIANA Impressions of the Southland incorporates landscapes and cityscapes painted by Ellsworth and William Woodward which depict their view of the South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Woodward brothers were influential in New Orleans and Southern art, instructing and inspiring young artists for years. To honor their contribution to art in Louisiana, the Alexandria Museum of Art has combined two paintings given to Bolton High School in 1916 with paintings loaned from the Ogden Museum of

Southern Art, the Historic New Orleans Collection, The New Orleans Museum of Art, and private collectors to present an exhibition by these two phenomenal artists. In its latest exhibition, The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) examines the lives of individuals caught up in the domestic slave trade and considers New Orleans’s role as antebellum America’s largest slave market. Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade will be on view through July 18, 2015. The domestic slave trade wrought havoc on the lives of enslaved families as owners and traders in the Upper South (Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, DC) sold and shipped surplus laborers to the expanding Lower Sout (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas). Period broadsides, paintings and prints will illustrate how the domestic slave trade appeared in the public sphere, while other items — including ships’ manifests, slave clothing, a patient admission book from Touro Infirmary and a diary from John Pamplin Waddill (the Louisiana lawyer

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who helped free Solomon Northup) — will speak to the experiences of those whose lives were bought and sold. First-person accounts excerpted from published slave narratives and oral histories will be included throughout the exhibition. In addition to objects from THNOC’s holdings, the display includes artifacts from Belmont Mansion, Evergreen Plantation, Library of Congress, Louisiana State Museum, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans, National Archives and Records Administration, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Touro Infirmary Archives and private collections.

NORTH CAROLINA The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to present Jack Tworkov: Beyond Black Mountain, Selected Works From 1952 to 1982, an exhibition that surveys three decades of the art of Jack Tworkov (1900–1982) on view March 27 to

June 14. Tworkov was invited to teach at Black Mountain College in the summer of 1952. By the time he arrived, he had already left an indelible mark on the art world, making a name for himself as a talented abstract painter. Along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, Tworkov was a founding member of “The Club,” which from 1949 until the late 1950s was the primary avant garde forum for art in New York. He was also known as a gifted teacher and a beloved mentor and his contemplative, intellectual approach was embraced at the college. There he continued to champion openness, free expression and interdisciplinary dialogue. While at the college, Tworkov formed strong relationships with composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, Stephan Wolpe, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the young artist Robert Rauschenberg. Beyond Black Mountain revisits Tworkov’s time at Black Mountain College and then surveys significant works from the following three decades.

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Tworkov’s earlier work is marked by a sensual and lyrical sense of line and abstract figuration. Later he began to employ a strong grid structure with a rigid, geometric framework overlaid with color. This exhibition is organized by the Asheville Art Museum and guest curated by Jason Andrew, Curator and Archivist at the Jack Tworkov Estate. This spring, Biltmore House becomes the canvas for an exhibition of more than 40 elaborate costumes from the PBS Masterpiece series Downton Abbey through Memorial Day, May 25. The exhibition Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times juxtaposes elements of the fictional TV series and the real lives of the Vanderbilts who lived in Biltmore House during the same early 20th century era. ¶ Themes explored include the evolution of fashion, nuances of etiquette, changing roles of

women, and the life of service staff. Costumes on display will range from country tweeds, to servants’ uniforms, to lavish gowns and evening attire cut from fine fabrics and decorated with intricate embroidery, lace and beading. The award-winning costumes, created by renowned London costume house Cosprop Ltd., were designed with inspiration from photographs and historic patterns. Some are original pieces from the period, while others incorporate antique decorative elements that inspired the overall costume design. Biltmore bears striking resemblance to the series’ setting and the way of life at Highclere Castle, making it easy for visitors to blur storylines and experience for themselves a bit of life a hundred years ago. “The dayto-day running of Biltmore House was surprisingly similar to what’s depicted on ‘Downton Abbey,’” says Biltmore’s Director of Museum Services Ellen Rickman. “Just like

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River of Forgetting, Mira Gerard, from the Knoxville Museum of Art’s exhibition Contemporary Focus 2015.

Downton has Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes, Biltmore had its own cast of fascinating characters. Displaying these fabulous costumes from the show gives us an unparalleled opportunity to delve into Biltmore’s stories.”

TENNESSEE The Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA) presents two new exhibitions. LIFT: Contemporary Printmaking in the Third Dimension examines the work of international contemporary artists who use a variety of strategies to bring a sculptural dimension to printmaking. Featured artists include Enrique Chagoya, Lesley Dill, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Red Grooms, Jane Hammond, Hideki

Kimura, Nicola Lopez, Leslie Mutchler, Oscar Munoz, Marilene Oliver, Dieter Roth, Graciela Sacco, and Jonathan Stanish. LIFT is organized by the KMA and presented in conjunction with the Printmaking Program, School of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the 2015 Southern Graphics Council International Conference. ¶ Contemporary Focus 2015 is part of a series of exhibitions organized by the KMA that feature significant but underrecognized artists living and working in East Tennessee. This year’s artists are Caroline Covington, Chattanooga; Mira Gerard, Johnson City; and Karla Wozniak, Knoxville. All three examine the uncertain terrain between personal experience and external reality, and between civilization and nature, using both abstraction and representation.

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innovations opportunity to learn about Alabama’s history and travel through time as they tour several significant buildings on campus.

GEORGIA The Augusta Museum of History presented Night at the Museum, a special enchanted evening on March 26, 2015. Specially trained security guards took groups of 20 on a tour to meet historical characters from the region’s past: James Oglethorpe, Emily Tubman, Jacob Phinzy, Ty Cobb, and Mrs. Henri Price. Visitors were entertained and enlightened with the people they met. Beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and music were offered before and after the trek through time.

Amelia and her son William Gorgas circa, 1900. Their family helped shape the University of Alabama.

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ALABAMA The University of Alabama’s history comes to life during guided tours. It is a beautiful fall day in 1880 on the University of Alabama campus. Josiah Gorgas meanders through rows of library books, making a mental note of what is missing, while his wife, Amelia, stays busy in their home nursing a few students who have an awful cough. . . . The Gorgas family, along with numerous others, played a huge role in shaping UA, as well as the community and state. On April 25, visitors will have an opportunity to “interact” with several of these individuals during the University’s first Living History Festival. Hosted by the Alabama Museum of Natural History and the Gorgas House Museum, the event will allow participants an

The New Orleans Museum of Art will host Edible Book Day, an international celebration of literature, art, and food. Museums, libraries, and universities throughout the world participate to create a program for creative individuals and community groups to highlight their artistic, baking, and decorating skills. Local community groups and individuals are invited to bake and decorate cakes inspired by books. All edible books must be “bookish” through the integration of text, literary inspiration or form. Baton Rouge is on the move and public art is popping up everywhere! Located where people work and live, this type of art reflects the history and values of a community. Monuments & Metaphors: Art in Public Spaces at Louisiana

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Art & Science Museum spotlights some of the most endearing and best known public art in Baton Rouge as well as new projects by The Walls Project, the Museum of Public Art, and the Percent for Art program of the Louisiana State Division of the Arts. Preparatory drawings, maquettes, 3-D printer models, and full-scale photographs reveal how these public works came to be, the stories they tell, and how they were made. In conjunction with Monuments & Metaphors, learn the story behind various public artworks in and around downtown Baton Rouge through a two-hour bike tour led by local cultural advocate & documentarian Bennet Rhodes. The tour will meet outside of the Art & Science Museum’s main entrance and end at the River Center, stopping and discussing approximately a dozen monuments along the way. Please bring your own bicycle and helmet to participate.

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VIRGINIA Monticello commemorates their progress on the Mountaintop Project, which has brought to life the stories of the people who lived and worked at Monticello. Explore new restoration work upstairs and on Mulberry Row that offers a better understanding of this historic landmark as a plantation and family home. Patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein moderates a panel discussion about Thomas Jefferson, slavery and the paradox of liberty. The panelists include Tom Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspondent, Rex M. Ellis, Associate Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Meet the people of Mulberry Row, once the plantation’s “Main Street”, by hearing their stories in an outdoor exhibition and the new Mulberry Row App. Venture up the narrow staircase to explore the family quarters, and see the newly-restored upstairs spaces.

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The High Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Katherine Jentleson as the museum’s new Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. She will join the High staff on September 8. Jentleson, who received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University, is a doctoral candidate in art history at Duke University completing her dissertation on the rise of self-taught American artists in the first half of the 20th century. She is the 2014–15 Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. While studying for her PhD, Jentleson held positions at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, where she managed content for the microsite of the traveling exhibition Self-Taught Genius and helped to organize a September 2013 symposium on Bill Traylor. She was curatorial assistant for Angels, Devils and The Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection and Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art. With funding from an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Writ Large grant, Jentleson codesigned and administered the browser-based art trading game Fantasy Collecting. Among other experiences, she was assistant editor at Art + Auction magazine and a founding member and vice president of analytics for Art Research Technologies, a start-up firm that published art market research in the Wall Street Journal. “We are living in a moment when museums all over the world are looking with renewed interest at the work of American, and especially Southern, self-taught artists, but the High has been collecting and exhibiting this irrepressible art for decades,” said Jentleson.

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“Thanks to the Boone family, I look forward to leading a new era in the High’s longstanding support of those visionary artists whose masterpieces importantly broaden our understanding of who can be considered an artist in America and on what terms.”

Museum forward to even greater success.” Prior to her current position, Director of the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, Richter served as Operations Manager and previously Curator at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio. From 1995 to 2008, she served as Curator at the Union League Club of Chicago, a private club with a significant art collection. Richter has also held positions as Curator of American Art at the Dayton Art Institute, OH; and Supervisor of Education at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA. She has curated more than 30 exhibitions, produced many publications, and lectured widely on American art. Richter is A.B.D. in art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she specialized in 20th-century American art. She holds a M.A. in art history from the University of Delaware and is a 1983 graduate of Oberlin College, where she was an art history major and history minor. Richter also attended the Winter Institute in American decorative arts at the Winterthur Museum. “She

Marianne Richter has been appointed director of the Columbus Museum. “Marianne Richter is a highly qualified leader with the experience and credentials to implement our Strategic Plan and to bring lively new-art programming and enhanced public engagement to the Columbus Museum,” said Fray McCormick, the President of the Board. “The Board is excited about her new ideas, leadership, curatorial skills, and strong track record at other art museums. She also has successful experience with outreach, fundraising and expanding her museum’s youngprofessionals group. Marianne has both the administrative skills and academic credentials to take the Columbus

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is well equipped to integrate art and history in new ways at our museum,” added McCormick. Richter will take the reins from Tom Butler, who has served as Director for the past 20 years. The Board saluted his many accomplishments at an event in his honor on November 18. Butler retired at the end of November.

LOUISIANA Louisiana plans to lay-off staff and cut open hours at the state museums in mid-April.

TENNESSEE Dr. John Dichtl will lead the AASLH, becoming President & Chief Executive Officer of the 6,000 plus member association effective May 1. Bob Beatty will be appointed Chief Operating Officer. Dichtl has served for the last nine years as Executive Director of the National Council on Public History, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of History at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Beatty has been director and then Vice President for Programs at AASLH since 2007. He serves as interim President & CEO until May 1, 2015. “After a national search, I am extremely pleased that John Dichtl has agreed to serve as the new leader of AASLH as President & CEO. John’s wealth of knowledge and experience has already made him a key leader in the history field,” said Dr. Julie Rose, AASLH Council Chair and Director, West Baton Rouge Museum. “There has been no more exciting time for AASLH and the history field than now and our association is uniquely poised to take advantage of it. With John as our President & CEO and Bob Beatty as COO, our association has in place a strong and skilled leadership team.” John Dichtl holds an MA and PhD in United States history from Indiana University and a BA in history from Carleton College. For the last nine years he has served as Executive Director of the National Council on Public History and was Deputy Director of the Organization of American Historians from 2000-2005. Internationally acclaimed artist Fred Wilson will present

the Eighth Annual Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Lecture at the Knoxville Museum of Art on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 6:00 pm. As an installation artist and political activist, Fred Wilson explores the relationship between museums and individual works, questioning and deconstructing the traditional display of art and artifacts in museums. Wilson is a 1999 MacArthur Fellow and represented the United States at the 2003 Venice Biennale. His work can be found in the Seattle Art Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Tate Modern, Toledo Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The event is free and open to the public thanks to support from the Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Fund, The Frank and Virginia Rogers Foundation, The Melrose Foundation, and Wayne R. Kramer. Reservations are recommended by contacting ddubose@knoxart.org.

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what’s happening Send information for What’s Happening to Susan Perry at sperry@semcdirect.net.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT The American Association for State and Local History will hold its Annual Meeting and Online Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, September 16–20, 2015. This year’s theme — The Power of Possibility — examines the personal, communal, and organizational journeys that lead to vibrancy, authenticity, social change and sustainability. Now in its tenth year, AASLH’s Small Museums Committee is offer-

ing scholarships to any AASLH members who are full-time, part-time, paid, or volunteer employees of small museums. Each $500 scholarship will cover the cost of the conference registration and the Small Museums luncheon. Any remaining funds may be used to offset travel and/or lodging expenses. To qualify, the applicant must work for a museum with a budget of $250,000 or less. They also must either be an individual AASLH member or work for an institutional member. Application forms are available at http:// community.aaslh.org/small-museum-scholarship/. The deadline for applications is June 12, 2015. Direct questions to Bruce Teeple, Small Museum Scholarship Subcommittee Chair at mongopawn44@hotmail.com.

AASLH develops HistoryLeaders@SHA (Seminar for Historical Administration). If you want to develop your skills as a leader in your institution, if you want to enhance your knowledge of the challenges and opportunities facing the field of history, if you are ready to be part of the larger network of history leaders around the country, then apply to be in the SHA class of 2015. Applications for the Class of 2015 are due May 18, 2015. Please email Bob Beatty at beatty@aaslh.org with your intent to apply for SHA. For more information visit the SHA Website.

The School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and National Museums Liverpool are offering a free online Museum Studies Course “Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum.” Get an introduction to museum studies with this free online course. Learn about the people and ideas that shape museums today www.futurelearn. com/courses/museum. Starts on June 1, 2015. The course has been created by leading academic researchers and museum professionals in the field of museum studies. The Trustee/Director Forum will be held Friday, May 1, 9:oo am to 4:00 pm at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C. Programs will include: “Role of the Trustee: How Proper Governance and Resolutions Can Impact the Individual and the Organization,” “Building an Effective University Museum Advisory Board,” “Executive Leadership Change,” “Lessons in Leadership: Perspectives of Three Board Chairmen.” The keynote speaker is Paul G. Schervish, Director, Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, Boston College. He served as Fulbright Professor of Philanthropy at University College, Cork, Ireland. He has been selected five times to the NonProfit Times “Power and Influence Top 50.” He received the 2013 Distinguished Career Award from the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association. Schervish is the author of Gospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray Their Lives and co-author with Keith Whitaker of Wealth and the Will of God. He is currently writing Aristotle’s Legacy:

The Moral Biography of Wealth and the New Physics of Philanthropy. With John Havens, he co-authored the 1998 report, Millionaires and the Millennium, which predicted the now well-known $41 trillion wealth transfer. Findings from their just reported revised model are reported in The Golden Age of

Philanthropy Still Beckons: National Wealth Transfer and

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Potential for Philanthropy. Schervish helped found and is a faculty member of Legacy Associates’ Wealth Coach Network, a training forum for financial and fundraising professionals. He received a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Detroit, a Masters in sociology from Northwestern University, a Masters of Divinity Degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

NATIONAL MUSEUM MEETINGS The American Alliance of Museums will be holding its annual conference in Atlanta, GA, April 26-29, 2015. Registration is open now: aam-us.org. 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, Kentucky. The conference will run September 16-19, 2015. See aaslh.org.

STATE MUSEUM MEETINGS Arkansas Association of Museums April 9-11, 2015, West Memphis, AR Florida Association of Museums September 2015, St. Petersburg, FL Kentucky Museum and Heritage Alliance June 15–16, 2015, Covington, KY Louisiana Association of Museums September 13–15, 2015 | Alexandria, LA

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