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THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM QUARTERLY MAGAZINE

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he Columbus Museum has many programs and exhibitions this summer for you and your family.

W hy not escape the heat and join us for the return of our Summer Concert Series, featuring monthly performances complemented by tours of the collection? The everpopular Fantastic Fridays will also be back in June and July. These educational programs include performances and hands-on activities for families and summer camp groups. Best of all, these programs are free!

From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, the American West captured the romantic imaginations of many Americans and Europeans as a place of open spaces and endless possibilities. This conception of the West expanded in the late twentieth century to encompass and relate the histories of the native peoples who were displaced by westward expansion and the experiences of all who had moved or immigrated to the region.

Two exhibitions on the Third Floor Galleries offer reflections on the beauty and the complexities of the American West. We are excited to present Ansel Adams: The Masterworks, featuring 30 photographs from the Booth Western Art Museum’s collection by

the acclaimed photographer. Also on view on the third floor, The Idea of the West features the work of three contemporary photographers, Jeremiah Ariaz, Will Wilson, and David Taylor, who examine current issues facing the region and the contrast between notions of the American West found in popular literature and the reality of life there.

The Columbus Museum brings American art and history to life for the communities of the Chattahoochee Valley.

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For lovers of contemporary ceramics, Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden offers a wonderful opportunity to see the work of an artist whose work is in major museums such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Dominguez draws inspiration from his native New Mexico, including flora and Hispano-Catholic imagery. The exhibition, organized by the Museum’s Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of American Art, Jonathan Frederick Walz, will travel to the Dubuque Museum of Art in Iowa after closing here.

I am pleased to report that the Museum’s new fundraising event, Farm to Table(aux), held April 14, exceeded our expectations for its inaugural year.

Its success was only possible due to the support of generous sponsors and volunteers, the latter led by event cochairs Kathelen Amos, Eliza Brewer, and Ivey Evans. We are grateful for the contributions of the participating restaurants, chefs, and artists, and for the recreation of favorite works of art by a team of enthusiastic volunteer performers. Thank you to everyone who made Farm to Table(aux) such an outstanding and fun event!

More information about all of these programs and exhibitions, as well as many others, can be found in this issue of The Muse. I hope to see you at the Museum for these wonderful new exhibitions and summer programs!

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On the Cover: Winter Sunrise, the Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944.

Photograph by Ansel Adams (c) The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

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ANSEL ADAMS

The Masterworks

AUGUST 11 – DECEMBER 30, 2018 | NORDHAUSEN GALLERY

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merican photographer Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) is best known for his black and white images of the American West, particularly Yosemite National Park.

Adams was also an environmentalist.

He primarily used large-format cameras because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images. Over the course of his career, Adams sought to elevate photography to fine art – comparable to painting, sculpture, and music.

Born to older parents, Adams experienced a somewhat solitary childhood.

During this period of solitude, Adams developed a fondness for nature. He spent a large amount of time outdoors, taking long walks on the dunes or along Lobos Creek.

Adams and his family first visited Yosemite National Park in 1916. Adams would go on to spend a substantial amount of time every year in the park from 1916 until his death in 1984.

In the early 1980s, Ansel Adams hand selected, printed, and signed his favorite photographs for members of his family. The 30 prints on display belong Image: Trailside, near Juneau, Alaska, 1947.

Photograph by Ansel Adams (c) The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

“It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.”

– Ansel Adams

to his granddaughter, Virginia Adams Mayhew, who has graciously loaned her collection. This exhibition showcases photographs from an edition known as The Museum Set, a concept originated by Adams and Margaret Weston, gallery owner and wife of photographer Cole Weston, to meet the demand for Adams’ prints.

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THE IDEA OF WEST

AUGUST 11 – DECEMBER 30, 2018 | THIRD FLOOR GALLERIES

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he Idea of West redefines traditional views of the American West, drawing connections between the work of three contemporary photographers and the acclaimed work of Ansel Adams. The exhibition prompts viewers to reconsider their preconceptions of Western landscapes beyond the Mississippi River and the people who live in the region today.

Jeremiah Ariaz grew up in Kansas, a setting that fueled his fascination with the West as both a location and a state of mind. Through several photographic series, he has explored contradictions in factual and fictional depictions of the region, as well as the tension between the Western United States and the West that has been mythologized in the European imagination. In the Almeria region of southern Spain, Ariaz captured three cinema studios that served as the backdrop for Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy and other Spaghetti Westerns.

He later traveled to Germany to examine wildly popular re-enactments of Wild West shows based on the stories of German writer Karl May. Together the 1 photographs create a landscape where fact and fantasy merge and specific locations become hard to pinpoint.

1. Will Wilson, Joe D. Horse Capture, Citizen of the A’aninin Indian Tribe of Montana, Associate Curator of Native American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2012, archival pigment print from wet plate collodion scan. Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe Indian Market, 2012. Courtesy of Will Wilson. | 2. David Taylor, Border Monument No. 1, from “Monuments: 276 Views of the United States - Mexico Border,” 2016, archival inkjet print on 310 gsm; canson infinity rag photographique paper. Gift of Marleen De Bode Olivié and Marc Olivié G.2017.66.18.1 | 3. Jeremiah Ariaz, Cowboy #9, Texas Hollywood (Almeria, Spain), 2012, digital C-print. Courtesy of Jeremiah Ariaz.

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David Taylor received a 2008 Guggenheim fellowship to document all 256 obelisks that demarcate the U.S. border west of El Paso. Most were erected in the 1890s. What sounds like a dry conceptual project resulted in dramatic images that record the differences in the monuments, the changing landscape from east to west, and the implicit tensions created by borders. The entire boxed set of 256 border monument pictures was recently gifted to the Museum, and this project marks their Columbus debut.

With America’s possible construction of a larger wall between the U.S. and Mexico looming, these images could not be more timely.

Will Wilson was born in San Francisco and raised in the Navajo Nation. His work combines 19th-century processes with digital technology to

stimulate dialogue around “photographic exchange” as it pertains to Native Americans. Through a series of ongoing performances—under the general title Critical Indigenous Photograph Exchange (CIPX)—the artist engages his sitters in questions about identity, multiculturalism, and Americanness. Sitters keep the resulting tintype photograph, permitting Wilson to create a digital scan of the image to use for his own records and future artistic projects in exchange.

This “photograph exchange” reflects the vibrancy of Native culture in contemporary portraits of Indians relocated to the West, helping to dispel some of the mythology surrounding this region and its inhabitants.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by

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EDDIE DOMINGUEZ

Garden of Eden

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 – JANUARY 20, 2019 | GALLERIA CASES

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his exhibition, whic h includes several new sculptures never before on public view, debuts Eddie Dominguez and his oeuvre to the Chattahoochee Valley.

The youngest of eight children, Eddie Dominguez grew up in Tucumcari, New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Amarillo on historic Route 66. He came to national prominence in the mid-1980s for clay pieces like Anton’s Flowers II, hybrid works comprised of highly stylized dishes that also stack into sculptural forms. These accolades have led major institutions, like the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Museum of Arts & Design, New York; and the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, to collect his work.

In his oeuvre, the artist frequently references his home state’s vegetation, landforms, weather, and

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Hispano-Catholic culture. Childhood influences also include a plethora of creative female relatives––a mother who sewed, an aunt who crocheted––and a brother who ran an upholstery shop.

The dual nature of Dominguez’s objects, which inhabit the gray area between utility and art for art’s sake, reflects his personal experience as a New Mexican who studied ceramics in the Anglodominated East: whether we see “art” or “craft,” local Hispano or melting pot American depends completely on the immediate context. Dominguez has taught at the University of Nebraska– Lincoln since 1998.

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1. Eddie Dominguez, Thundercloud, 2015, ceramic, courtesy of the artist | 2. Eddie Dominguez, Tree of Life, 1995, Woodcut on paper, courtesy of the artist | 3. Eddie Dominguez, Hope Rosary, 2012, Ceramic installation Courtesy of the artist SUMMER 2018 THE MUSE 5

ART ACQUISITIONS

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he Columbus Museum is pleased to announce its latest acquisition of African American art: a work by artist Robert Neal that depicts a black soldier during the Korean War.

Neal (1916-1987) was a native of Atlanta and worked with prominent

Robert Neal, Rearguard, 1950, oil on linen, Museum Purchase G.2018.17

muralist Hale Woodruff on projects in the Southeast. Later in life he moved to Dayton, Ohio.

“We are particularly excited about this work as it speaks to The Museum’s dual mission to collect, exhibit, preserve, and educate about regional history and American art,” said Jonathan F. Walz, Ph.D., Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of American Art.

The Museum acquired a piece by sculptor and art educator Augusta Savage earlier this year. The well-known sculpture depicts a group of 12 stylized African American singers in graduated heights that symbolize the strings of a harp. A kneeling man at front holds a plaque that reads, “LIF T EVERY VOICE AND SING.”

The Museum’s acquisition of African American art has increased over the past several years, including a robust effort in 2017 that added several works. That was also the year The Museum acquired a painting by artist and Columbus, Ga. native Amy Sherald.

Augusta Savage, Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp), ca. 1939, cast white metal with original bronze patina, The Fund for African American Art G.2018.6

The acquisition was just months before the announcement that Sherald had been commissioned for former First Lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait.

COLUMBUS MUSEUM WILL COLLABORATE WITH CHRYSLER MUSEUM FOR NEW ALMA THOMAS EXHIBITION

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he Columbus Museum and the Chrysler Museum of Art of Norfolk, Va. will co-curate a new Alma Thomas exhibition designed to highlight the many creative outlets throughout the Columbus, Ga. native’s life, officials announced recently. The co-curators for the project will be Jonathan Frederick Walz, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of American Art at The Columbus Museum and Seth Feman, Curator of Exhibitions and Curator of Photography at the Chrysler Museum. The show is anticipated to kick off in Norfolk in 2020.

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discipline of art history to make contributions to our curatorial vision and to the exhibition catalogue,” according to Walz and Feman. “Possible areas of exploration include horticulture, home studies, fashion/design studies, critical race studies, African studies, women and gender studies, social history of the Chattahoochee Valley, and theater/performance studies.”

The Columbus Museum is incredibly grateful to the artist’s sister, Miss John

Maurice Thomas, and the artist’s greatnephew, Mr. Charles Thomas Lewis, as well as other donors, who have given Alma Thomasrelated materials to the Museum over time, including personal tangible property, a very large cache of family photographs, sketches and paintings, student work, documents, and other items. This archive complements materials at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, but it is less well known. It is rich with unplumbed stories Walz and Feman are eager to tell.

Image: Alma Thomas, Air View Of A Spring Nursery, 1966, acrylic on canvas, Museum purchase and gift of the National Association of Negro Business Women, and the Artist G.1979.53

HISTORY ACQUISITIONS

NEW FORT BENNING ACQUISITIONS

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he Museum’s new exhibition, Fort Benning at 100, provides an opportunity to showcase several recent acquisitions related to one of the nation’s largest military posts. These objects are the result of targeted collecting in preparation for this centennial event providing a more inclusive portrait of Fort Benning with photographs featuring Americans of African and Mexican descent, as well as women. Several items date from the Korean War and Vietnam War eras, which have been underrepresented in the Museum’s collection, and many objects relate to soldier-civilian interactions.

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Selected highlights include: • A World War II-era photograph of an African American training regiment, typical before desegregation of the U.S. armed forces in 1948.

• Four photographs of members of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) at work and play during World War II. • A pocket-sized booklet containing 30 photographs of Army Airborne training in 1951. Designed as a souvenir for trainees to keep or send home to family and friends, the booklet is especially notable for its photographs of integrated training

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• A 1961 magazine article that touts the future development of a radiationproof “soldier suit,” equipped with “a jet propulsion gadget of the Buck Rogers type” and built-in heating and air conditioning units.

• A 1969 photograph of a cavalry officer on a horse near a Chinook helicopter. The U.S. Army had largely phased out mounted cavalry units by the Vietnam War, but 1st Cavalry Division helicopters retained an image of a horse to symbolize the mobility of the original cavalry units.

1. “1st Cav Div. 22nd Reunion” photograph, 1969, The Evelyn S. and H. Wayne Patterson Fund G.2017.59 | 2. Airborne Training photograph booklet, 1951, The Evelyn S. and H. Wayne Patterson Fund G.2017.40 | 3. Mechanix Illustrated soldier suit article, 1961, The Evelyn S. and H. Wayne Patterson Fund G.2018.3 | 4. African American infantry training regiment at Fort Benning, 1942-45, The General Acquisitions Fund G.2017.44 | 5. WAC Detachment #1 Softball Team photograph, 1945, Gift of Rebecca Bush in honor of her mother, M. Jill Bush G.2017.75.4 SUMMER 2018 THE MUSE 7

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June: 83rd Field Artillery postcard, 1938, The Evelyn S. and H. Wayne Patterson Fund G.2012.30.2 | June-July: Artillery shell officer’s cap, American, Image courtesy of Hollingsworth Fine Arts | August (Top): Cynthia Hawkins, The Meeting of Megnez, Pheceda, and Mizar (detail), n.d., casein and ink, courtesy of the Cochran Collection | August (Bottom): Summer Concert

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Adult Programs Summer Concert Series

JULY 26 Flower Power & Paper Quilling

Learn the tools and techniques of paper quilling in this one hour Crafting Power Hour! Each participant will create flowers using quilling techniques and make a finished work of art to take home.

6-8 P.M. | FREE

We are turning up the heat in the Museum with the Summer Concert Series. Throughout the summer, the arts collide with music provided by local and regional bands and free guided tours of the Museum’s collection provided by staff and docents. Bring a picnic dinner or purchase one from one of our featured food trucks.

Contact: edu@columbusmuseum.com for more information.

JUNE 21 Simply Beautiful Schroeder Coligium, Jazz and String Quartet and Ensemble JULY 19 East Wind Bluegrass Band AUGUST 16 Fort Benning Maneuver Center of Excellence Jazz Band

Crafting Power Hour 5:30-6:30 P.M.

Get your craft on with the Columbus Museum’s Crafting Power Hour. Each Power Hour will allow you to get hands-on with a variety of materials and create a finished work of art to take home. All materials are provided, and participants will be able to take their creations home with them after each Power Hour. Space is limited and registration is required.

Register by one week prior to each class; Contact: Liliana Harrell, edu@columbusmuseum.com or 706.748.2562 ext. 210

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Lecture Series FREE!

Explore themes within the Museum’s collection and exhibitions through engaging talks by local and regional history and art professionals. Each program is free and open to the public.

Contact: edu@columbusmuseum.com for more information.

JULY 31 NOON-1 P.M.

Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia’s Historic Gardens Talk & Book Signing

Speaker: Staci Catron and Mary Eaddy

Staci Catron and Mary Ann Eaddy, coauthors of the newly published University of Georgia Press book, Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia’s Historic Gardens, will share stories of the evolution of some of the state’s most significant designed spaces, including a nineteenth-century parterre, a rock garden, Country Place Era landscapes, and an urban conservation garden. Come hear about the role of women in the formation and preservation of these gardens, the impact of professional designers, and the influence of the Garden Club movement in Georgia in the early twentieth century. The authors chronicled The Columbus Museum’s BradleyOlmsted Garden in this new publication.

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The Triple Nickles: The History & Art of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion Speaker: David Hanselman and Dawn Williams Boyd

Join us for a fascinating lunch-time talk where history and art meet. David Hanselman, Maneuver Center of Excellence Museum Director at Fort Benning, will discuss the history of the first all-African American Parachute Battalion, while Atlanta artist Dawn Williams Boyd discusses the research and fabrication of her fabric painting Triple Nickles. The Museum’s exhibition, Fort Benning at 100, features Boyd’s painting.

If you are interested in purchasing a $10 lunch, please contact the Education Dept. at edu@columbusmuseum.com two days prior to each program.

This event is made possible through the 10”x10” Art for Education Fund.

LOOK! @ Lunchtime

12:15-12:30 P.M. | FREE!

LOOK! @ Lunchtime is a collaborative viewing exercise and dialogue centered on works of art from the Museum’s permanent collection. Jonathan Frederick Walz, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of American Art, facilitates LOOK! discussions every second Tuesday to explore a new . object each month

Contact: edu@columbusmuseum.com for more information.

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Jonathan Mannion, Jay-Z, New York, 1997; printed 2010

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Joseph DiGiorgio, Southwest Series 49, 1987

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Charles Curran, Self-Portrait, 1892

Youth & Family Programs Summer Camp

Summer camps give your child the opportunity to learn about art through lessons in the studio, hands-on art projects, and gallery walks. The week will culminate with an exhibition of each camper’s artwork.

Contact: edu@columbusmuseum.com for more information.

.JUNE 18 – 22 | 9 A.M.-NOON Crazy About Color (Pre-K; Ages 4-5) Our color explorers will make discoveries about primary and secondary colors, experiment with paint mixing, and more.

Color creators will learn about how artists take inspiration from color, participate in story time and create their own museum masterpieces! $60 Museum member/ $80 future member

JUNE 11-15 | 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Art Sampler (Ages 5-7)

Sculptures, paintings, collages, and selfportraits will be just a few of the many projects participants will experience throughout the week. This camp is perfect for beginners or for campers who want to learn about a variety of ways to make art. $145 Museum member/ $165 future member

JUNE 25-29 | 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Passionate About Painting (Ages 5-7)

Campers will gain inspiration from artists in the Museum’s permanent collection as well as explore the different ways that cultures from around the globe use paint.

Our young artists will leave camp with a variety of new art making skills and a passion for painting!

JULY 23-27 | 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Sensational Sculpture (Ages 5-7)

During this hands-on class campers will explore sculptures from the Museum’s permanent collection to inspire their masterpieces as they learn to assemble, carve, craft and model a variety of sculpted art.

$145 Museum member/ $165 future member

JULY 16-20 | 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Fun with Fiber (Ages 8-10)

Campers will learn the history and practices used in dying techniques in multiple cultures. Join us and discover the tightly interwoven history of fiber and art!

$145 Museum member/ $165 future member

JULY 9-13 | 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Art Passport (Ages 11-13)

Campers will explore different regions throughout the week, making unique stops in the galleries and learning about artists who were born in different countries, traveled to distant places, or used techniques that first developed in other places.

$145 Museum member/ $165 future member

Fantastic Friday

10:30 A.M.-NOON | FREE!

Fantastic Fridays bring a variety of performers and art projects to The Columbus Museum. Seating is on a first-come, firstserved basis.

Contact: edu@columbusmuseum.com for more information.

JUNE 15 African Folktales

Audience interaction abounds as skilled performers, Akili and Jabari, bring to life Anansi, pourquoi, and trickster tales in this inventive and high energy production of Bright Star Theater.

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JUNE 22 L’il Liza Jane

Join storyteller Bobbie Pell as she uses her skills to bring American folklore to life in this exciting presentation of L’il Liza Jane.

JUNE 29 Mission Space: Rescue Rendezvous

Our science kid’s reporter, Kat, gets trapped on a space ship bound for outer regions of our galaxy! Audience volunteers must quickly form Kat’s Mission Control Rescue Team and use math, logic, music, and gaming to get her back.

JULY 13 Many Ways to Count

Parent’s Choice Award-winning “Mr. Greg” encourages the audience to dance, jump, clap, and laugh as they learn to count through creative, innovative sing-alongs and audience participation.

JULY 20 Celtic Fire

Join us as we experience a bit of the history, culture and character of Ireland through song and dance with the band Celtic Fire!

JULY 27 Creek and Cherokee in Georgia

Storyteller Natalie Jones regales our audiences with factual stories about life in Georgia, the Trail of Tears, and Native folktales from each tribe.

TAG Events Teen Yarn Sculpture Workshop AUGUST 25 | 2-5 P.M.

Participants will draw inspiration from the knitted sculptures of artist Nathan Vincent and then will create their own large-scale yarn sculptures in the Studio.

Register by August 17; Contact: edu@columbusmuseum.com for more information. $10 per person

MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS & EVENTS

MEMBERS MAKE MUSEUMS Eat, Drink and Be Arty: First Farm to Table(aux) Brings Art to Life

In what organizers called “a feast for the senses,” the Columbus Museum presented art and farm-totable cuisine in one unforgettable experience in the inaugural Farm to Table(aux) fundraiser Saturday, April 14. About 300 Museum supporters filled the porte cochére and the space surrounding the Museum’s fountain, enjoying cocktails from local vendors, fresh appetizers from area chefs, and the tableaux vivants that brought paintings from the Museum collection to life. Several local artists were on view creating their work – painting, hand-sewn leather, and wood-turning – in live art demonstrations. Art enthusiasts who wanted to expand their personal collection could choose from a variety of beautiful pieces donated for the silent auction, or the ever-popular 10x10 Art for Education Gallery that returned from previous fundraisers.

Dinner was a family-style affair, catered

by JK Culinary, Inc. As bowls of freshlyprepared food were passed around the tables, the twangy sounds of the Eastwind Bluegrass band serenaded the guests. A live auction and raffle topped off the dinner program – which featured comments from Director Marianne Richter and other Museum staff, and was emceed by iHeart Media Senior Vice President of Programming Derrick Greene.

The evening – full of food, laughter, and of course, art – set an incredible foundation for Farm to Table(aux) as a premiere annual event for the Museum.

A huge thanks to the sponsors, artisans, and guests for making the night a success!

See more photos from Farm to Table(aux) at columbusmuseum.com.

Exclusive Alma Thomas Society Event with Wes and Missy Cochran AUGUST 16 | 6 P.M.

Wes and Missy Cochran will give a talk to Alma Thomas Society members about Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss: Abstraction by African-American Women Artists in the Cochran Collection.

RSVP by August 1; Contact: Morgan Wilson, mwilson@columbusmuseum.com, 706.748.2562 ext. 544 12 THE MUSE SUMMER 2018

Izzy Dow, Hair Painting No. 27, La MaMa Galleria, NYC

Young Art Patrons (YAPs) Purchase Party

AUGUST 24 | 6 P.M. | FREE!

We are excited to bring contemporary artist Jarrett Key to the Museum to create a work on site that will be acquired through the YAPs’ fundraising efforts to add to the Museum’s collection.

Key has close Columbus ties as a native of rural Alabama and graduate of Brookstone School. He left the South to attend Brown University. Since moving to New York, Key has been featured in performances, biennales, residencies, publications, exhibitions, and workshops at NYU Tisch, galleries in Brooklyn, Chelsea, LES, Harlem, Boston, Ljubljana and Shanghai. Key’s work is in the collections of the Schomburg Center, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, among other institutions.

Key’s Hair Painting series has been featured at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Harlem Arts Festival in Marcus Garvey Park, as well on television, SLAY TV and CBS 2 NYC. Using his own hair, Key will paint in front of a live audience using an original soundscape that he creates. The Museum will acquire the work created during the performance.

Those who donate $50 or more towards the purchase are invited to a private reception prior to the performance.

Contact: Catherine Aplin, Caplin@columbusmuseum.com or 706-748-2562 ext. 540.

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MEMBERS & CONTRIBUTIONS

JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 2018 The Columbus Museum is proud to recognize our President, Director, Collector and Master Circle members.

Those who joined or renewed within the last quarter are in bold print. **Continuous member for 20+ years *Continuous member for 10+ years

President Circle

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. Amos** Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth M. Henson, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. W. Michael Ogie** Ms. Marleen De Bode Olivié & Mr. Marc Olivié Thornwill Farm, Harris County, Georgia**

Director Circle

Mrs. Lovick P. Corn** Dr. & Mrs. Thornton F. Jordan** Mr. & Mrs. Mason H. Lampton** Mr. & Mrs. John C. Martin II** Mr. & Mrs. Alan C. Ramsay, Jr.** Mrs. Jack S. Schiffman** Mr. & Mrs. Wright B. Waddell**

Collector Circle

Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Amos II Mr. & Mrs. Stephen T. Butler** Mr. Benjamin H. Hardaway III**† Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Hecht** Mr. & Mrs. A. Comer Hobbs, Sr.** Friends of the Museum Dr. & Mrs. Richard S. Robbins** Mr. & Mrs. Otis J. Scarborough** Dr. & Mrs. Otis E. Tillman, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Wade H. Tomlinson III** Dr. Amandah S. & Mr. John T. Turner Dr. & Mrs. Sidney H. Yarbrough III**

Master Circle

Dr. & Mrs. A. C. Alvarez** Dr. Catalina T. Aranas Dr. & Mrs. Champ Baker** Ms. Betsy Eby & Mr. Bo Bartlett Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Beck, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. W. Reynolds Bickerstaff** Mrs. Marjorie B. Bickerstaff** Mrs. James J. W. Biggers** Mr. & Mrs. Wilson W. Blackmon** Mr. & Mrs. James H. Blanchard** Mr. & Mrs. Richard Y. Bradley** Mrs. Minnie R. Bradley** Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Brewer Dr. & Mrs. Philip L. Brewer** Mrs. Donald F. Broda, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. Lance Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Burdeshaw** Mrs. Ann P. Burr** Mr. Dale Caldwell Mrs. Forrest L. Champion, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Crowley** Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Culpepper** Mr. & Mrs. J. Robert Elliott, Jr.** †= deceased

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Flowers* Mr. David Forker III Mrs. Mellie S. Fountain** Mr. & Mrs. Gardiner W. Garrard, Jr.** City Councilor & Mrs. R. Walker Garrett Mr. & Mrs. James E. Gates** Mr. & Mrs. Jack C. Goldfrank** Mrs. Ben M. Greenblatt** Mr. & Mrs. James E. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Kerry W. Hand** Mr. Christopher R. Harman** Mrs. Judye S. Harris** Dr. & Mrs. Ed P. Helton Mrs. Jack C. Hughston** Mr. C. Dexter Jordan, Jr.** Dr. William P. Kendall** Mrs. Jack B. Key, Jr.** Mrs. Elizabeth L. King** Dr. & Mrs. W. Blake Lane, Jr.** Mrs. Donald M. Leebern, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. David Lemieux* Mrs. Margaret O. Lewis** Mr. & Mrs. W. Fray McCormick** Mr. & Mrs. Horace C. McCoy Mr. & Mrs. L. Pierce Miller Mrs. Marie Moshell* Mr. & Mrs. Jerry B. Newman* Dr. & Mrs. Eddie Obleton Mr. & Mrs. William Roland Peek** Mr. & Mrs. Ben B. Philips** Dr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Pippas* Dr. G. W. Richter Ms. Marianne Richter Mrs. Kathy J. Riley** Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Robinson** Mrs. Barbara G. Rothschild** Mrs. Benno G. Rothschild** The Honorable & Mrs. William C. Rumer Mrs. Charlotte Alexander Saunders** Ms. Melanie Slaton & Mr. Ben Holden Dr. & Mrs. J. Lacey Smith Mr. & Mrs. Murray L. Solomon Dr. Eva Sperk Dr. Franklin Star** Ms. Rose H. Steiner* Mr. & Mrs. Clifford J. Swift III** Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Swift, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. Mathews D. Swift** Ms. Patty K. Taylor** Mr. & Mrs. B. Kenneth Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Jack Turner* Mr. & Mrs. William B. Turner, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. William B. Turner III Dr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Wade, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. John W. Walden, Jr.** Mrs. Davis Ronald Watson** Ms. Christine D. Weaver** Ms. Susan S. Wiggins Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wilensky** Ms. E. Worth Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Wilson** Mr. & Mrs. Joel O. Wooten

Patron

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey G. Adams Ms. Betty L. Auten

Miss Lucy H. Bowers** Mr. & Mrs. Lee Brantley Mr. & Mrs. Gary O. Bruce** Mrs. Marvyn D. Cohen* Mrs. Frank S. Etheridge III** Mrs. Marion C. Feighner** Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Foley III Drs. Marlene & Robert Garnett** Mrs. Richard Hallock Dr. & Mrs. W. Lloyd Hudson, Jr.** Mrs. A. Illges, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. John P. Illges III** Mrs. Harold G. Jarrell** Dr. & Mrs. Edward B. Kinner** Mr. & Mrs. R. J. Krieg Dr. & Mrs. Ashok Kumar Ms. Mary Ann Marshall Mr. Patrick Martin Mrs. Louise K. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Jack J. Pease III** Mr. & Mrs. Chandler Riley* Mr. & Mrs. Claude G. Scarbrough III** Mr. & Mrs. Marvin R. Schuster** Ms. Elizabeth A. Taylor** Mr. & Mrs. John P. Thayer Mr. & Mrs. D. A. Turner III Mr. & Mrs. William Clark Turner* Dr. Jonathan Frederick Walz Dr. Robert Wright The Columbus Museum is proud to recognize our Reciprocal, Supporting, and Civic members who joined or renewed within the last quarter. **Continuous member for 20+ years *Continuous member for 10+ years

Reciprocal

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Adams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George L. Atkins* Ms. Marie J. Avant* Mrs. Susan N. Binns** Ms. Miriam Bregman Ms. Judy Bryson Mr. John F. Greenman & Dr. Mary A. Budge** Mrs. Charles W. Burgin** Mr. & Mrs. Jim Cawthorne Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Cohn** Mrs. John H. Deaton, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. Frank Feagle Ms. Susan Schley Gristina* Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Gristina Mr. & Mrs. Dean Haulton Mr. & Mrs. David Hay** Mrs. Ben H. Hudson II** Mr. & Mrs. William C. Huff** Mr. & Mrs. Roderick C. Hunter Dr. & Mrs. Kurt E. Jacobson** Mr. & Mrs. B.R. Johnson Mr. Harry L. Lindsey Ms. Betty Jo Farris & Mr. Gary McCullough Mr. & Mrs. Max R. McGlamry** Dr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Meine** Ms. Judith M. Nail*

Mr. John A. Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Patton Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Peebles** Mr. & Mrs. Ralph W. Satterwhite, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. John F. Schley Mr. & Mrs. John M. Sheftall Mr. & Mrs. John A. Shinkle Mr. & Mrs. Sam Singer LTC (Ret.) & Mrs. Benjamin F. Stahl III** Mr. & Mrs. James Trotter, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. Billy G. Turner** Dr. & Mrs. George Voltz, Jr.** Dr. Scott Kurzer & Shu Wang Mr. & Mrs. Sam M. Wellborn Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Witsell** Mr. & Mrs. James D. Yancey** Mr. & Mrs. Bruno Zupan**

Supporting

Mrs. Lynda Alford** Ms. Anastacia Atkins Mrs. Lyman Blackmar** Mrs. Rita Boyd** Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Branch Dr. Kay E. Campbell Mr. Michael Carmean Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Coolik Tom & Shirley Craddock Ms. LuAnn Craighton Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Dakin* Dr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Dolan* Mrs. Jean Dyer** Mrs. Linda Fink Ms. Elizabeth E. Flowers Mr. & Mrs. R. Spencer Garrard Mrs. Joyce Gosha* Mr. & Mrs. Chris Gray Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Griffin** Mrs. Kay E. Gudger** Mr. Alan Harkness Ms. Rebecca Holman Ms. Ann Howard** Mrs. Melinda M. Hunter* Mr. & Mrs. Terry B. Hurley Mr. Troy Jackson Jeanette & Milton Jones** Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Kent** Mr. & Mrs. Larry A. King** Ms. Nancy Martin Ms. Tiffany Overstreet Mr. Greg Panzer Ms. Margaret Phelps Mr. Brantley Pittman Ms. Maggie Reese Mr. & Mrs. Blake Reinhart Mr. Thomas J. Rice Dr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Sandri** Mr. & Mrs. T. Christopher Shadburn II** Mrs. Agnes A. Shelton Dr. Angela Sims & Mr. John T. Sims Dr. & Mrs. Richard K. Straus, Sr.** Mrs. Elaine Tarpley** Ms. Edweena Thomas Mrs. Robert B. Thompson* (Continues on next page ...)

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The Columbus Museum gratefully acknowledges the following contributions in honor or in memory of special friends.

MEMBERSHIP ( ... Continued from previous page)

Ms. Sarah Tinsley Dr. & Mrs. John P. Tucker** Ms. Rachael White Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wilson Lisa Bieber & David Winship Ms. Lynda Worthington Ms. Rebecca Zajac

Civic

Mrs. Danna Alsabrook Mr. Bruce Armstrong** Ms. Sara G. Barfield

Ms. Eliza Daffin Ms. Jena J. Davis Mrs. Marjorie L. Drury Mr. Carter Eldridge Mr. Amos Frantz Mr. DeAnte’ Hall Ms. Patricia S. Harmann Mr. Brendan Insley Ms. Theresa Jackson Mrs. Peggy Jacobs Ms. Gail Jebavy Mr. A. Stephen Johnson*

Mr. Warner Kennon, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Haines J. Layfield Ms. Patricia Levine Dr. Lewis R. Lieberman** Ms. Ansley Lynn Mr. Ronald M. Mack** Ms. Amanda Massengale Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCarley** Ms. Caitlin Melvin Tad Mike Mrs. Nancy Morrison Mr. James Osborne

Mr. & Mrs. Brad Palmer Ms. Barbara Rivers* Mrs. Jeanne P. Robinson** Nick Rulon Ms. Sandra Schmidt Dr. Kimberly Scott Ms. Ashlyn Shoup Ms. Christine M. Szymanski** Ms. Ashley Taylor Ms. Suzanne Taylor Ms. Sydney Van Heuvel Mr. Alexander Williams

The Columbus Museum gratefully acknowledges the following friends for their contributions:

JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 2018 2018 Farm to Table(aux) Corporate Sponsors Aflac B & B Beverage Company Columbus State University Georgia Power Company Standard Concrete Products, Inc. Synovus TSYS W. C. Bradley Co. 2018 Farm to Table(aux) Patron Sponsors Dr. & Mrs. A. C. Alvarez Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. Amos Dr. & Mrs. Champ Baker The Honorable & Mrs. Barschall Andrews Mrs. Marjorie B. Bickerstaff Mrs. Minnie R. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Richard Y. Bradley Mrs. Donald F. Broda, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen T. Butler Mr. & Mrs. J. Robert Elliott, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Flowers Mr. & Mrs. Gardiner W. Garrard, Jr. Mrs. Ben M. Greenblatt Hall Booth Smith PC Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Hecht Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth M. Henson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. A. Comer Hobbs, Sr. Mr. C. Dexter Jordan, Jr.

Dr. & Mrs. Thornton F. Jordan Dr. & Mrs. Edward B. Kinner Mr. & Mrs. Mason H. Lampton Mr. & Mrs. John C. Martin II Mr. & Mrs. W. Fray McCormick Drs. Kevin T. & Amanda McPherson Mr. & Mrs. W. Michael Ogie Ms. Marleen De Bode Olivié & Mr. Marc Olivié Mr. & Mrs. Alan C. Ramsay, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Robinson The Honorable & Mrs. William C. Rumer Dr. & Mrs. J. Lacey Smith Ms. Rose H. Steiner SunTrust Bank Thornwill Farm, Harris County, Georgia Mr. & Mrs. Wade H. Tomlinson III Dr. Amandah S. & Mr. John T. Turner Mr. & Mrs. William B. Turner, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William B. Turner III Mrs. Davis Ronald Watson Dr. & Mrs. Sidney H. Yarbrough III 2018 Farm To Table(aux) Donors Mr. & Mrs. Richard B. Hare Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Kent Mr. & Mrs. Jack J. Pease III

Mr. & Mrs. Mathews D. Swift Ms. Patty K. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. John P. Thayer 2017 Year End Giving Mr. & Mrs. Herb K. Cawthorne Mr. & Mrs. Marvin L. Smith, Jr. Donation of military jacket Mr. Steven Greenblatt Donation of lobby cards Dr. Carlos Dews Donation of U.S. Army Nurse Corps objects The children of Dorothy Moseley Bacon Donation of artwork by Richard Stankiewicz Michael J. Ettner Donation of artwork by Toru Hayashi Tad Mike Donation to the Fund for African American Art Mr. Patrick Martin Dr. & Mrs. Eddie Obleton Ms. Marleen De Bode Olivié & Mr. Marc Olivié

Donation to the Bradley Olmsted Garden The Lemon Tree Garden Club The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Sponsorship of 2018 Fall Festival Synovus Sponsorship of 2018 Young Art Patrons Activities W. C. Bradley Co. Sponsorship of Art Collecting Workshop Synovus Sponsorship of future exhibits Friends of the Museum Sponsorship of The Idea of the West and Ansel Adams: The Masterworks exhibitions Aflac Sponsorship for Anna Betbeze acquisition Mr. & Mrs. W. Michael Ogie Sponsorship for Dancing on the Edge of Abyss exhibition Dr. & Mrs. Thornton F. Jordan

The Columbus Museum is proud to recognize our active Affiliate Group Members who joined or renewed within the last quarter.

JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 2018

Alma Thomas Society

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen T. Butler Mr. & Mrs. William B. Turner, Jr.

Young Art Patrons Ms. Anastacia Atkins Mr. Drew Barwick Ms. Eliza Daffin Ms. Jena J. Davis Mr. Carter Eldridge

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Ms. Elizabeth E. Flowers Mr. Amos Frantz City Councilor & Mrs. R. Walker Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Chris Gray Mr. DeAnte’ Hall Ms. Rebecca Holman Mr. Brendan Insley Mr. Troy Jackson Ms. Jacy Jenkins & Ms. Cora King Mr. Warner Kennon, Jr. Ms. Ansley Lynn

Ms. Amanda Massengale Ms. Caitlin Melvin Mr. James Osborne Mr. Greg Panzer Mr. Brantley Pittman Ms. Maggie Reese Mr. & Mrs. Blake Reinhart Mr. Thomas J. Rice Mr. Nick Rulon Mr. & Mrs. Ralph W. Satterwhite, Jr. Ms. Ashlyn Shoup Ms. Sarah Tinsley

Ms. Sydney Van Heuvel Ms. Rachael White Mr. Alexander Williams Ms. Rebecca Zajac

JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 2018 In memory of Mrs. Betty T. Lawrence Mrs. Ben H. Hudson II In memory of Mrs. Jill Chancey Philips Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Adams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W. Mizell Alexander Mrs. Laura Boykin Mr. & Mrs. Richard Y. Bradley Mrs. Frank S. Etheridge III Mr. & Mrs. Thelon Hamby Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth M. Henson, Jr. Mrs. Carter Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. King Mrs. Elizabeth L. King Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Martin, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Steven A. Melton Mrs. Louise K. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Larry H. Mize Mr. & Mrs. James R. Moye Mr. Richard Naylor Mr. & Mrs. Lowry Reid Ms. Marianne Richter Mr. William G. Scrantom, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John A. Shinkle Mr. & Mrs. Larry Stevens Ms. Wynne P. Stevenson Ms. Elizabeth A. Taylor Dr. Amandah S. & Mr. John T. Turner Mr. & Mrs. T. Stacey Welch Mrs. Sarah West Ms. Katherine Woodruff Williams In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Sidney H. Yarbrough III Mr. & Mrs. Wayne W. Beck Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. David, Jr. Mrs. John H. Deaton, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Neal B. Littlejohn Dr. & Mrs. Richard S. Robbins Mr. William G. Scrantom, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. George Voltz, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Wade, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wilensky Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Goldsmith

The Columbus Museum is proud to recognize our active Business Partners (Those who joined or renewed within the last quarter are in bold print.)

JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 2018

Business Partners

Aflac B & B Beverage Company Bob Vardaman Events Management Christies Columbus Water Works Georgia Crown Distributing Company JK Culinary J. Smith Lanier & Company Melissa Thomas Realtor Robinson, Grimes & Company, P. C. The Hughston Clinic Townsend Wealth Management W. C. Bradley Co. Wicked Hen

BOARD OF TRUSTEES & STAFF

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2017 –18 Marleen De Bode Olivié, President Carolynn Obleton, Vice President William B. Turner III, Treasurer Melanie Slaton, Corresponding Secretary Marianne Richter, Director/Recording Secretary W. Fray McCormick, Immediate Past President A. C. Alvarez, Daniel P. Amos, Kathelen V. Amos, Sue Anne Baker, Eliza Brewer, Kay Broda, J. Robert Elliott, Jr., Gail B. Greenblatt, James Hall, Charlotte Hare, Robert G. Hecht, Chris Henson, Helen Hobbs, Dori Jones, Thornton F. Jordan, William P. Kendall, Mary Lu Lampton, Deborah R. Lane, David Lemieux, Sallie Martin, Carolynn Obleton,

MUSEUM STAFF

Elizabeth C. Ogie, Garry Pound, Gwendolyn H. Ruff, Otis J. Scarborough, Melanie Slaton, Willette Shalishali, Steve Sharp, Otis E. Tillman, Wade H. Tomlinson, Tyler Townsend, William B. Turner III, Rebecca K. Yarbrough

Marianne Richter, Director

LIFE TRUSTEES:

Jonathan Frederick Walz, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of American Art

Philip L. Brewer, Elizabeth T. Corn, Evelyn T. Crowley, Ethel W. Foley, Judye S. Harris, F. Clason Kyle, Betsy T. Leebern, Jerry B. Newman, Thelma M. Robinson

HONORARY TRUSTEES:

James H. Blanchard, Representative Calvin Smyre, J. Barrington Vaught

Patricia Butts, Assistant to the Director

COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS

Rebecca Bush, Curator of History/ Exhibitions Manager Aimee Brooks, Collections Manager Lauren Fleming, Assistant Collections Manager Liliana Harrell, Curatorial Assistant Cameron Faucette, Exhibition Coordinator and Designer Chris Land, Art and Artifact Handler

NEW EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT

Keith Smith, Exhibition Preparator

EDUCATION

Abbie Edens, Director of Education Christy Barlow, Academic Programs Manager Jessamy South, Youth and Family Programs Manager Kennan Ducey, Community Outreach Coordinator

DEVELOPMENT

Carmen Overton, Director of Development Catherine Aplin, Membership Manager Kelly Cargill, Event Sales Manager Morgan Wilson, Development Assistant

MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS

Bridgette Russell, Director of Marketing and Public Relations

Catherine Aplin

Membership Manager

Catherine was born in Tampa, Fla. and raised in Macon, Ga. She is married to her college sweetheart, Brian, and they have a four-year-old daughter, Annalee, and two dogs, Trooper and Mr. Jack. Catherine joins the Museum’s development department from the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, where she was Director of Membership. She studied communications at Mercer University. Catherine’s mother is from Columbus, so Catherine considers the area a second home after spending many summers here visiting her grandparents. She is thrilled to return to the city and to get know all of the members of the Museum.

Bridgette Russell

Marcolm Tatum, Graphic Designer

Bridgette is a native of Chicago, Ill. who has lived in Columbus for four years. She comes to the Museum from the communications and marketing team at Goodwill Industries of the Southern Rivers, Inc. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Texas Southern University and is working on her MBA with a concentration in marketing from the University of Phoenix.

Bridgette is excited to begin promoting the phenomenal work of the Museum staff and volunteers. She also is looking forward to bringing her husband, Sean, and their infant daughter, Sidney, to new exhibitions and programs.

Kimberly Beck, Deputy Director for Operations

Director of Marketing and Public Relations

Kiara McClellan, Social Media and Online Coordinator

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

Toni Re’al, Accounting Specialist Brooke Starling, Gift Shop Manager/Volunteer Coordinator Sina Niusulu, Museum Shop Associate Andrea Hayes, Visitor Services Representative Nathan Long, Visitor Services Representative Rick McGowan, Security Chief Larry Hunter, Security Deputy Al Johnson, Security Deputy Edward Diamond, Maintenance Engineer Sam Willis, Maintenance Technician Custodians: Martha Culp, Alice Holmes, Dorothy James

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