2024 YEAR IN REVIEW
OUR MISSION
Auburn University’s art museum advances research, outreach and instruction through its collections and programs in active and welcoming learning environments.
COVER: Joseph Wolins (American, 1915–1999), Beach Scene , n.d., acrylic on canvas, 16 x 19 inches; Gift of Lee Kirkland to the Lee Kirkland Collection.
OUR VALUES
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, a cultural heart of an Alabama public research institution, is guided by a set of core values that serve its communities.
COLLABORATIONS + PARTNERSHIPS
ENGAGEMENT + LEARNING
INQUIRY + EXPERIMENTATION
STEWARDSHIP + GROWTH
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LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Cindi Malinick
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I recently finished reading All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me , a 2023 memoir by Patrick Bringley. The New Yorker -journalist-turned-Met-museum-guard made his career change after the untimely death of his beloved brother. As he explained, he needed time and space to grieve, think and “stand still.” For 10 years, Bringley observed the mundane and the magnificent, from the routine arrival and departure of objects to the radiance eminating from Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers . Like many museum visitors, he did not study art history formally; his interest arose from a curiosity and search for meaning as he observed millions of people over a decade against the backdrop of some of the world’s greatest art.
The Jule, with a refreshed brand in 2024 and an invitation to Be Curious , also experienced its share of the mundane and the magnificent. Despite differences in scale and scope, Auburn's teaching museum is also a place to stand still amidst the flow of students on their journeys. Beyond art history, they learn to be present, to question and to think creatively. Fostering students’ life skills is our everyday work. Here at The Jule they may reflect upon different viewpoints, ask for help when they get stuck and continue their search to understand the world.
The first Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture in February brought artistic luminaries from across the country together to consider art on exhibit at The Jule, including by the renowned Alabamian Lonnie Holley, eliciting insights into their lives and histories. In October, our inaugural William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art recipient, Binh Danh, a Vietnamese American artist, traveled from California to meet with students and accept the only known such higher education accolade in the country. Both Holley and Danh explore life stories and identities, and beauty and pain, through their use of found materials and the natural world, respectively. Their bookended appearances stand out as significant accomplishments.
In closing, I am reminded of Bringley's reflections on The Harvesters , the 1565 painting by the Dutch artist, Peiter Bruegel the Elder. The author considered how the sometimes-quiet museum space and its art can relate to a “world of churning . . . outside its doors.” Ultimately, he posits that art exists “across a chasm of a world in process.” I couldn’t agree more. The Jule again welcomed everyone to Be Curious , to find answers — or new questions — amidst much swirl and change.
We are particularly grateful to a university administration steadfast in its support; to an enthusiastic and deeply committed Advisory Board; to colleagues across campus, the state and nation; and, of course, to our donors. Our success is your success too.
On behalf of The Jule staff, and in gratitude, Cindi Malinick
35 CAMPUS CONNECTIONS
The Jule programmatically cultivated relationships and expanded engagement with university peers, the broader Auburn community and the state of Alabama.
• Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project (APAEP)
• Auburn Advancement: Alumni Engagement Team
• Auburn Athletics: Women’s Gymnastics Team
• Auburn University Applied Research Institute
• College of Architecture, Design and Construction: School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture
• College of Business: Department of Marketing
• College of Education: Department of Curriculum and Teaching
• College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment: Kreher Nature Preserve: Woodland Wonders Nature Preschool
• College of Human Sciences: Auburn Early Learning Center
Department of Consumer and Design Services
• College of Liberal Arts: Department of Art & Art History
Department of English
Department of History
Department of Music
Department of Philosophy
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work: BraveHeart Center for Place and Purpose
Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures
School of Communication & Journalism
Southern Humanities Review
Student Recruiters
• College of Veterinary Medicine: Auburn Chapter of the Student American Veterinary Medical Association
• Honors College
• Office of Admissions
• Office of Human Resources
• Office of International Programs: Korea CenterKing Sejong Institute
• University Outreach: Auburn Youth Programs' Creative Writing Studio Summer Camp Center for Educational Outreach and Engagement Government and Economic Development Institute Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
• Student Affairs: Office of Greek Life: Delta Zeta Sorority Office of Student Involvement: Auburn University Modeling Board, Philosophy Club, Studio 5 Art HIstory Association, University Program Council (UPC)
• USDA Agricultural Research Service
49 OUTREACH CONNECTIONS
• Auburn Art Education Association
• Alabama Department of Archives and History Volunteers
• Alabama Virtual Academy
• City of Auburn:
Auburn Early Learning Center
Auburn High School
Cary Woods Elementary
Dean Road STEAM Night
East Samford School
Ogletree Elementary
Yarbrough Elementary Afterschool Program
• Auburn Therapy Dogs
• Auburn United Methodist Church:
Jubilee Ministry
REACH Community Respite
• Azalea Storytelling Festival
• Boykin Senior Center
• Boys and Girls Club of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians
• Chambers County Library
• Classical Conversations
• Columbus Museum Members
• Columbus Museum Teen Exhibition Council
• Connections Academy
• Daughters of American Revolution
• East Alabama Boys and Girls Club
• Girl Scouts
• International Women for Peace and Understanding
• Lee County Remembrance Project
• Lee County Young Leaders
• Literary Healing Arts
• Lowndes County Community Life Center
• Montgomery Antiquarian Society
• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
• National Village Ladies Club
• Newbern Library
• Notasulga High School Community Education Workshop and Fair
• Opelika Auburn Film Arts Collective
• Our House
• Percy Julian High School
• Pre-K King Center Head Start
• Project Horseshoe Farms
• Redemption Earned
• Research to Preserve African American Stories + Traditions
• Sacred Soul Wellness
• Safe House Black History Museum
• Smiths Station High School
• Southern Preparatory Academy
• Sumac Cottage
• Tuskegee University
• Woodland Pines Elementary School
• Yes You Yoga and Wellness
The Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture
February 3, 2024
This inaugural half-day symposium featured nationally acclaimed artists and scholars. In line with the university’s mission of education, research and service, the Forum established the museum as a key academic partner in studying Southern art and culture, connected to museum exhibitions on view in 2024.
Featuring conversations with Lonnie Holley and Aleesa Pitcharman Alexander , PhD, Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Co-Director, Asian American Art Initiative, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Bethany Collins and Janet Dees , Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Elizabeth M. Webb and Joy Harjo , 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States
Walter Hood and Taneshia West Albert , assistant professor, Department of Consumer and Design Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Auburn University
- WINNER“2024 SEMC Bronze Award in Media Production: Livestream”
Alabama Edition of the National Scrollathon: Made for More March 14 – September 10, 2024 Corridor Gallery
In March, The Jule hosted the Alabama edition of the National Scrollathon with artists Steven and William Ladd. In a series of hour-long workshops over five days, approximately 450 university and community participants, with and without prior art-making experience, rolled strips of fabric into scrolls. Each artist collaborator contributed one scroll to an eight-by-eightfoot collage and their portrait in a photo mural, both of which will represent Alabama at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Center in 2026 as part of the nation's sesquicentennial celebration.
SCROLLATHON
SCROLLATHON
The William Collins Smith Award for Advancing American Art
October 24 – 29, 2024
Binh Danh of San José, California, visited campus and received the 2024 William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art. The $25,000 annual award, presented by The Jule, honors an American artist or scholarpractitioner who has significantly impacted the American art scene in the spirit of the university’s modernist collection strength, grounded in creativity, innovation and experimentation. Funded by a transformational gift from the Julia and Albert Smith Foundation, the award also honors the legacy of Advisory Board Chair Emeritus, William Collins Smith. The museum convened an independent panel of museum professionals from across the country, including Janet Dees, formerly the Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; David Odo, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia; and Isra El-Beshir, director of museums, Washington and Lee University. The “Auburn Award” is a first-of-its-kind museum award in higher education.
- WINNER“2024 The William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art: Binh Danh”
Binh Danh , Lower Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, CA , June 20, 2014, daguerreotype, 20 x 14 inches.
Black Codes: Art and Post-Civil Rights Alabama
January 23 – July 7, 2024
Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C
With more than 30 objects on loan from private collections and cultural institutions across the nation, this group exhibition showcased four groundbreaking Alabama artists: Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett and Joe Minter. Together, their work chronicled Black America as observed from the Birmingham-Bessemer area—the brutality, the determination and the deeply-lived experiences.
Organized for Auburn by guest curator Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, PhD, the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University.
INQUIRY + EXPERIMENTATION
- WINNER“2024 Southeastern Museum Conference Award for Exhibition Design”
Bethany Collins: Accord
January 23 – June 16, 2024
Noel and Kathryn Dickison Wadsworth and Chi Omega - Hargis Galleries
Montgomery native Bethany Collins is a multidisciplinary artist who explores American history through language. In text assemblages, she foregrounded attempts to hide and forget the darkest chapters through the ways people write and speak about race. The exhibition also included a new series where she molds architectural features from a historic Black church by combining paper and granite dust from a 1921 Stonewall Jackson monument removed from Charlottesville, Virginia.
Arc of Life featured oil paintings by MacArthur Fellow Walter Hood alongside his site-specific installation. The artist recalled growing up in a then-segregated Charlotte, North Carolina before living abroad and pursuing his education and career in an integrated world. Inspired by the Henry Dumas short story of the same name, Ark of Bones represents ancestral connections to Black Americans.
Walter Hood: Arc of Life/Ark of Bones
January 23 – July 7, 2024
Grand Gallery
Radical Naturalism
–Elizabeth M. Webb: a bearing tree is a witness; an oak is an echo January 23 – July 7, 2024
Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Galleries
An artist and filmmaker, Elizabeth M. Webb paralleled her process with John James Audubon etchings from Auburn’s collection. She researched maps and records of her ancestral land in Lee County—documents created by using trees and other natural landmarks to signify property lines. The result was a reflection on ownership, control and identity through prints, 16mm film projection and sculpture.
The Art of Work
August 6, 2024 – June 2025
Auburn University Applied Research Institute Research and Innovation Campus, Huntsville, Alabama
This exhibition outreach initiative aims to inspire and enhance Auburn’s work in the Defense, Aerospace and Biotech sectors within the Applied Research Institute.
Painter and Alabama Polytechnic Instituteera administrator Frank Applebee’s work captures The Plains and manual labor scenes throughout the region, while Auburn alumna Whitney Wood Bailey’s dramatic large-scale paintings demonstrate how artmaking impacts the brain’s ability to heal.
People at Work
August 6 – December 8, 2024
Noel and Kathryn Dickenson Wadsworth Gallery and Chi Omega - Hargis Gallery
Through paintings, prints, photographs and three-dimensional objects from the university art collection, People at Work surveys artists’ portrayals of labor throughout 20th-century North America, a time of prosperity and advancements in workers’ rights.
Rachel Libeskind: The Golden Record
August 6 – December 8, 2024
Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C
The debut solo exhibition by artist Rachel Libeskind gathers relics of daily life, reflecting on the spaces we work in and those meanings for human existence. Her research-based and sculptural approach is driven by Alabama’s NASA connection and the space agency’s interstellar time capsule of the same name. She also includes African American folklore from Auburn’s Special Collections and Archives that researchers gathered over 100 years ago.
INQUIRY + EXPERIMENTATION
Daniel Newman: Radical Naturalism
August 6 – December 8, 2024
Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Galleries
Florida-born artist Daniel Newman, who frequently experiments with digital image manipulation and artificial intelligence, brings his practice into the physical world and exhibits alongside selections from the university’s collection of etchings from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America . The artist collaborates with animals that paint, challenging ideas around non-human creators’ awareness, reason and intelligence, imagining the subjects’ agency in John James Audubon’s series.
John Augustus Walker: Historical Panorama of Alabama Agriculture
August 6, 2024 – July 6, 2025
Grand Gallery
These large-scale murals, produced in 1939 under the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, are a storyboard chronicling Alabama’s first farmers to the technological advances of the day, envisioning progress of what was then the future of the state’s agricultural industry.
Kate Medley: Thank You Please Come Again
October 30, 2024 – May 25, 2025 Corridor Gallery
Travel the American South through photography, food and culture. A visual journalist, Medley stops at gas station– and convenience store–restaurants, chronicling the people and places shaping a sense of self and the community.
NIGHT AT THE
THE MUSEUM
• With his work featured in Black Codes: Art in PostCivil Rights Alabama , artist Joe Minter welcomed over 30 students and faculty from Auburn and Tuskegee Universities to his home and studio in Birmingham. The group toured African Village in America, a historically Black cemetery and the Marc Steel Warehouse, where Minter stores additional objects from the last 30 years.
• Senior interior design students examined The Jule’s Susan Phillips Gardens, using virtual reality to design exterior pavilions for learning, audience engagement and social interaction.
• Artists Binh Danh, Rachel Libeskind, Kate Medley and Daniel Newman attended classes.
• Honors College marketing students audited The Jule’s social media channels, examining the museum’s digital footprint and engagement.
• Part of the First 56, UPC and The Jule Museum dared students to Be Curious at this annual kick off to the semester to encourage museum-going as a healthy habit. Highlights included new exhibitions, a vogue performance by Jeter and the House of Gucci, and a limited-edition Andy Warhol t-shirt.
PHOTO BY ROBERT FINKEL
PHOTO BY ROBERT FINKEL
• Family Days, presented in partnership with Auburn City Schools welcomed elementary school children, parents and caregivers.
• The Jule launched its inaugural Museum in Motion outreach project, Sew Their Names , in partnership with the Mt. Willing Quilters of Lowndes County Community Life Center. Sew Their Names tells the story of the Mt. Willing Quilters who, after the death of George Floyd, began stitching the names of people who were enslaved found in the archives of the Alabama Baptist Church at Samford University. The Jule, in partnership with the Mt. Willing Quilters, presented an exhibition, quilt trail and public events.
• North Carolina-based visual journalist Kate Medley visited East Samford School. In addition to facilitating the visit, The Jule loaned digital cameras to classes so they could document examples of work happening in their community for an upcoming exhibition at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center in 2025.
• In an ongoing collaboration, editors of the Southern Humanities Review and The Jule Museum selected William Gropper’s Home as cover art to commemorate the annual Auburn Witness Poetry Prize honoring Jake Adam York and the associated poetry reading hosted by the museum.
• Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century is the first exhibition to comprehensively survey works by artists in the American South during the early 20th century. It features over 100 paintings and works on paper, including a loan from the university art collection. The exhibition explores themes like time, place, race, family and social struggles, highlighting the contributions of women artists and artists of color. The Jule loaned Frank Applebee’s Untitled, 1947, for the touring exhibition.
Curated by Senior Curator of American Art, Jonathan Stuhlman, PhD, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, and independent scholar Martha Severens; toured in collaboration with the Georgia Museum of Art.
William Gropper (American, 1897–1977), Home , n.d., oil on canvas. Advancing American Art Collection. Frank Applebee (American, 1902– 1988), Untitled , 1947, oil on canvas. Transfer from Auburn University Art Collection, through the Department of Art.
LOANS AND
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Dr. Charles M. Hendrix and Dr. Rebecca Compton Hendrix '11 Endowed Fund for Excellence
Mary Francis Whitfield (1947-2023), Leola's Pain , 2003, watercolor and gouache on Arches paper, 7 x 5½ inches.
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Susan Phillips Endowment
◀ Steven Ladd (American, b. 1977) and William Ladd (American, b. 1978), Made for More , 2024, fiber, rubber bands, pins, ink, glue, painted wood frames. Collaborative Masterwork made by 450 participants at The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art during the National Scrollathon: Alabama Edition , March 11 through 15, 2024.
▶ Mary Francis Whitfield (1947-2023), Mama Picking Up Baby Efrin , 2001, watercolor on Arches paper, 4 x 5.25 inches.
Museum purchases with funds provided by TenSeventyTwo - A Campaign for Collecting and Conserving Art
Bethany Collins (American, b. 1984), Old Ship V , 2023, initialed and numbered on verso, cast per with confederate granite, 8 x 7¼ x 2¼ inches.
Bethany Collins , Old Ship I , 2023, initialed and numbered on verso, cast per with confederate granite, 8½ x 8 x 1½ inches.
▶ Walter Hood (American, b. 1958), Sweet Lorraine , 2023, oil on canvas, 30 x 41 inches.
Walter Hood , The Wake , 2023, oil on canvas, 48 x 72 inches.
Walter Hood , Fontainebleau , 2023, oil on canvas, 48 x 72 inches.
Elizabeth Webb (American, b. 1989), Boundary Exercise (On Perambulation) , 2002, 16mm film loop, color, silent, edition of 3, 1 AP, 264' or one square chain or 7 minutes 20 seconds.
Museum purchases with funds provided by the Netty Murphy Jordan '37 Memorial Fund
Walter Hood (American, b. 1958), Ark of Bones , 2023, acrylic paint on watercolor paper, 40 x 26 inches.
Walter Hood , Ark Model , 2023, wood, 8 x 29 x 8 inches.
/// DISTINCTIVELY AUBURN
The Jule is extraordinarily grateful for the support it received from alumni, friends of Auburn and endowment draws in 2024.
$100,000
Julia and Albert Smith Foundation for The Auburn Award for Advancing American Art Fund for Excellence in Memory of William Collins Smith
$25,000
Auburn-Opelika Tourism
$10,000 AND ABOVE
Dr. Thomas M. Chase '62 and Mrs. Judith Allen Chase '63
Mr. Andrew and Mrs. Millie Gosch for The Millie and Andy Gosch "Silver Dollar" Endowed Fund for Excellence
Drs. Charles M. and Rebecca Compton Hendrix '96, '11 for The Dr. Charles M. Hendrix and Dr. Rebecca Compton Hendrix '11 for Endowed Fund for Excellence
Mrs. Peggy Wallace Kennedy for The Honorable Henry Mark Kennedy '73 and Peggy Wallace Kennedy Endowed Fund for Excellence
Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Scott Phillips for The Auburn Award for Advancing American Art Fund for Excellence in Memory of William Collins Smith
$5,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous
Mr. Lee Kirkland for The Hosea Lee Kirkland Endowed Fund for Excellence in the Memory of Margaret Eason Kirkland
Dr. Gerald S. Leischuck '64 for The Gerald and Emily Leischuck Endowment for Museum Acquisitions
Mr. Preston T. Phillips, Jr. '73 and Mr. Charles Forthofer
Mrs. Monica Clark Smith
Mr. Mark Samuel Sparkman '77 and Mrs. Oenone Hammersley
Mrs. Nancy Virginia Tillman '81 for The Margaret Johnson Tillman '48 Endowed Fund for Excellence
Drs. Patricia Wade Williams and Michael B. Williams for the Michael and Patricia Acquisitions Fund
$2,500 AND ABOVE
Mrs. Janet Zickfield Burns
Dr. Lynn Barstis Williams Katz
Kohnken Family Foundation
Ms. Teresa E. Rodriguez '69
$1,000 AND ABOVE
Dr. Shelley Ann Aistrup and Dr. Joseph A. Aistrup
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. Brantley '70
Mrs. Phyllis Day Davis '72 and Mr. Thomas L. Davis
Mrs. Frances Pick Dillard
Mrs. Patricia Plumlee Disque '63 and Mr. James Disque
Ms. Mary C. Dixon '66
Mrs. Sally Q. Gates '65
Mrs. Margaret A. Gluhman
Mrs. JoAnne J. Hecht '54 and Mr. Robert G. Hecht
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Jaeger
Dr. and Mrs. James Jenkins Jr. '64
Dr. Edward E. Kern III '74
Mr. R. Ward Lariscy Jr. '63
Dr. Barbara Pitts Larkin and Mr. Tom Larkin
Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Lassen III '89
Ms. Molly Lee
The Honorable Ted Little
Mrs. Aldona Jane Petrenas-Mann '14 and Mr. Robert Ashlin Mann
Dr. and Mrs. David B. Paradice
Dr. Stuart B. Price, Jr.
Mr. Guin Robinson '86 and Mr. Tim Parker
The Honorable and Mrs. John Edward Rochester '77
Dr. Peter Schwartz
Ms. Bonnie Lavonia Smith '67
Dr. Samia I. Spencer
Mrs. Elizabeth Gregory St. Jean '70 and Mr. Robert N. St. Jean
Mrs. Peggy Stelpflug '78
Ms. Micki Beth Stiller
Dr. Linda J. Stone and Mr. Jeffrey Ira Stone '79
The Cliboca Foundation
Dr. Donald Davis Thornbury '73 and Mrs. Linda Thornbury
Mrs. Sandra M. Tucci '15 and Mr. James M. Tucci
Mr. Rick Nathaniel White '87
Ms. Jane Luster Williams '69
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mitchell Wood III '78
Mrs. Madonna Wozny '97 and Mr. James Wozny
PLANNED GIFTS
Veta C. Christy and Janet Nicoll
Martin Moss Freeman '77 Endowed Fund for Excellence to Support Educational Engagements
Mr. Lee Kirkland
Mrs. Deborah Johnson Leighton '73
Dr. Stuart B. Price
Mark S. Sparkman '77 Endowed Fund for Excellence
GIFTS-IN-KIND
Auburn Networks, LLC
Mrs. Patricia Plumlee Disque '63 and Mr. James Disque
Dr. Lynn Barstis Williams Katz
Mrs. Peggy Wallace Kennedy
Mr. Lee Kirkland
Dr. Barbara Pitts Larkin and Mr. Tom Larkin
Estate of Albert Marzorini
Mrs. Rebecca McClain Newton
Mr. Preston T. Phillips, Jr. '73 and Mr. Charles Forthofer
Ms. Micki Beth Stiller
ENDOWMENTS
The Milton and Helene Alexander Endowed Fund for Acquisitions
The Art Changes Lives Collections Endowment
The Auburn Award for Advancing American Art Endowed Fund for Excellence in Memory of William Collins Smith
The Elizabeth A. and Thilo D. Best Endowed Fund for Excellence
The Carlisle Endowed Fund for Museum Administration
The Dunlop Family Endowment for Museum Administration
The Robert Ekelund and Mark Thornton Endowment for Museum Acquisitions
The Grisham Endowed Fund for Museum Administration
The Mamie Hardy Memorial Endowment
The Joan Cousins Hartman Fund for Museum Administration
The Netty Murphey Jordan Museum Endowment
The Betty Coston Lassen '54 Endowed Fund for Excellence in Education
The Williams-Mason Endowed Fund for Excellence
The Louise Hauss Miller Audubon Endowment
The Dr. Douglas and Anita Nielson Endowment Fund for Excellence
The Janet L. Nolan Director of Curatorial Affairs Quasi Endowment
The Martin-Perricone Endowed Fund for Excellence
The Sigma Lambda Kappa Delta Endowed Fund for Exhibitions
The Susan Phillips Quasi Endowment
The Albert J. Smith, Jr. Endowed Assistantship
The Jule Collins Smith Advisory Board Endowment Fund
The Jule Collins Smith General Excellence Endowment
The George C. and Nancy S. Thompson Endowed Fund for Excellence
THE JULE'S ADVISORY BOARD
The Jule reports to the University President through Business and Administration. Board members are recommended for appointment by museum leadership and are confirmed through these channels. Board members voluntarily serve as advocates, advisors and fundraisers.
TOP ROW LEFT:
Guin Robinson '86 (CHAIR)
Robert “Bo” Lauder '84 (VICE-CHAIR)
MIDDLE ROW LEFT:
Members with gift of Barbara Pitts Larkin, JD.
RIGHT PAGE:
David Randall “Randy” Johnson '83
Judy B. King
Barbara Pitts Larkin
Stan Lewis '05
Michael O’Neill '74
Honorable John E. Rochester '77
Katherine Samford Smith '17
Dixon Torbert
Ann Denson Tucker
Foster L. Ware, III
Rick White '87
Whitney Wood Bailey '05
George Hofmann ( American, b. 1938), Sudan (detail) , 1989/91, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 34½ x 41½ inches; Gift of Barbara Pitts Larkin, JD.
. WATCH + LISTEN .
Recognized by both the Southeastern Museum Conference and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, The Jule Museum podcast is our monthly series covering visual art at Auburn University, with interviews highlighting students, faculty and visiting artists and scholars.
Our YouTube channel provides another form of visual and audio engagement with the museum for visitors of all kinds. Featuring exhibition walkthroughs, documentary-style films and more, subscribers and viewers can engage even more meaningfully with the objects in the collection and in our galleries.
. AWARDS .
2024 SEMC Gold Award for Media Production
“The Jule Museum Podcast”
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2024 SEMC Bronze Award for Media Production
“Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture” Livestream
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2024 CASE Award Bronze Communications | Podcasts:
“The Jule Museum Podcast”
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2024 CASE Award Best of District III:
“The Jule Museum Podcast”
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2024 SEMC Gold Award for Publication Design: “2023-24 Calendar”
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2024 SEMC Bronze Award for Exhibition Design
“Black Codes”
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2024 SEMC Bronze Award for Media Production
“The Jule at 20”
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The Southeastern Museum Conference (SEMC) is a regional association of museums, museum staff, independent professionals and corporate partners, including standalone and academic museums in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. In addition to facilitating inter-museum connections and collaborations, SEMC's annual awards recognize those organizations excelling in their work from exhibition design to marketing.
The Council for Advancement and Suppport of Education (CASE) is a national higher education association dedicated to educational advancement in areas such as alumni relations, communications and development, and championing education to transform lives and society. Its annual awards recognize those universities and academic entities across the country doing exceptional work within their industry.
