The Columbus Museum Quarterly Magazine
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Winter 2020-2021
Letter from the Director
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hen I moved to Columbus nearly six years ago, one of the first things I noticed was the unusually strong sense of community found here. Few cities can match the pervasive spirit of volunteerism and philanthropy or the many successful public-private partnerships that we have in Columbus. Even now, a time when precautions for the pandemic require physical distancing and restrictions on the size of gatherings, our community spirit remains strong—perhaps stronger than ever. Within the Museum, there has been no stronger glue in creating a sense of community than Patricia Butts, Assistant to the Director. Patricia is retiring at the end of 2020 after more than 40 years at the Museum. During that time, she has worked in every department, and her valuable knowledge, expertise, and exceptional rapport with members, trustees, and staff have been essential in making The Columbus Museum a great place. We will miss her, but she promises to visit often. Through the programs and exhibitions that The Columbus Museum offers, we seek to reach, connect, and dialogue with as many members of the community as we
The Columbus Museum brings American art and history to life for the communities of the Chattahoochee Valley.
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can. I am pleased to report that this year we are able to expand the Museum PALS program (Pre-K Art and Literacy in Schools) to 19 Title I schools through generous grants from the city’s Office of Crime Prevention and the Rotary Club of Columbus. We have begun a partnership with Magnolia Manor senior living community to provide a virtual program for residents to view and discuss art; this outreach is more important than ever during the pandemic. We will also continue to create programs for students living in Housing Authority of Columbus, Georgia communities during the year. It is only due to the generosity of our members and individual donors, corporate sponsors, foundations, granting agencies, and to our special partnership with the Muscogee County School District that we are able to do this work. Thank you! The Museum’s superb drawing collection is the inspiration for Paolo Arao’s work in the exhibition Paolo Arao: In Dialogue with Drawing. We commissioned Arao, who works in Brooklyn, to create a visual response to more than 24 drawings that he selected from our collection; the drawings that Arao chose will be presented side by side with his response.
One of the most prominent printmakers in Washington D.C., Lou Stovall was an important creator of silkscreened community poster prints. In 1968, he founded Workshop, Inc., a leading printmaking facility. Originally from Athens, Georgia, Stovall is married to Columbus-born artist Di Bagley Stovall. Lou Stovall’s prints are in noted collections such as the Yale University Art Gallery and the British Museum. We are excited to announce What’s Going Around: Lou Stovall and the Community Poster, 1967–1976 will be on view in November. If you have not yet returned to the Museum since we reopened in July, I invite you to join us for these exhibitions as well as online, where we continue to offer virtual programs. As we head into the holidays, we are working on some special outdoor displays that we hope will help spread cheer in what has been a challenging year for the community. The Museum Board, staff, and I are so grateful to you for supporting the Museum during this year. We wish you and your loved ones a restful and wonderful holiday season!
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Di Bagley Stovall, Fruits of Our Lives, 1971, cut film silkscreen print on Strathmore Cerulean paper, courtesy of Di and Lou Stovall
What ’ s Going Around: Lou Stovall and the Community Poster, 1967–1976 New Exhibition | November 14, 2020 - April 11, 2021 | Woodruff Gallery
Community posters are graphic broadsides of grassroots origin. They usually address issues of public concern with a do-it-yourself aesthetic and distribution strategy. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Washington, D.C.’s community posters were simultaneously vehicles for social, political, and cultural organizations, as well as objects of art. They could be found on school bulletin boards and city buses, at clubs and outdoor concert venues, and on the dorm room walls of university students. Despite the ephemeral nature of broadsides and the conservative collecting practices of museums, the significance of the community poster phenomenon convinced Smithsonian curators to procure excellent early examples as the movement unfolded. Lou Stovall’s poster Sun Ra became one of the first community posters to enter the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) when the museum acquired it in 1969. Lou Stovall was born in Athens, Georgia in 1937. He and his workshops became the heart of community poster printmaking in Washington during the long 1960s. He worked alongside Columbus-born artist Di Bagley Stovall, and his downtown printmaking studios attracted artists, activists, musicians, and interested visitors daily. His collaborations spanned the artistic, the musical, and the political, creating a broad visual statement for a city—and country—undergoing changes on a massive scale. Stovall is well known as a master print2 maker in the medium of silkscreen, and museums around the globe, such as the Yale University Art Gallery and the British how one artist engaged art and history in service to the commuMuseum, have collected his work. He has collaborated with art- nity, offering an exemplary—and inspiring—model for our own ists of international acclaim such as Jacob Lawrence, Sam Gil- tumultuous times. liam, and David Driskell, and institutions of great prominence— —Will Stovall, guest curator including the National Gallery of Art and the Peace Corps—have commissioned his distinctive works. What’s Going Around traces the early development of a master Images: 1. Sam Gilliam (with lettering by Lou Stovall), Dance ’72, 1972, cut film, printmaker and his process. It also trains the spotlight on a tur- brushed, and stippled silkscreen print on Strathmore Rhododendron paper, courtesy Di and Lou Stovall | 2. Lloyd McNeill & Lou Stovall, Roberta Flack Day, 1972, cut bulent era of U.S. history not unlike the contemporary moment. of film and brushed silkscreen print on Mohawk Superfine paper, courtesy of Di and This selection of early silkscreen posters provides insight into Lou Stovall 2020-2021 WINTER THE MUSE | 3
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Paolo Arao: In Dialogue with Drawing
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New Exhibition | February 20 - August 8, 2021 | Nordhausen/Callaway Galleries The Columbus Museum has commissioned Brooklyn-based artist Paolo Arao to curate a group of drawings from the Museum’s collection. Each selection will then serve as the stimulus for a visual response by the artist. As the title implies, In Dialogue with Drawing will feature over two dozen pairings, matching Arao’s newly created work with the sheet from the Museum’s holdings that inspired it. Arao is a Filipinx-American artist whose most recent exploration in the studio combines the traditions of textiles and painting. His work is rooted in modernist geometric abstraction. He creates his current work by machine stitching second-hand clothing, hand-dyed fabric, and weathered canvas together into unique objects that straddle the area between painting and sculpture. Arao received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has presented solo exhibitions at Western Exhibitions in Chicago, Franklin Artworks in Minneapolis, Jeff Bailey Gallery and Barney Savage Gallery, both in New York. He has held residencies at such prestigious programs as Skowhegan School of Painting and Images: 1. Paolo Arao, First Breath (for Pia), 2019, Sewn cotton, corduroy, canvas, acrylic and colored pencil, courtesy of the artist | 2. Paolo Arao, Casino Karaoke, 2018, Sewn cotton, canvas, colored pencil, courtesy of the artist | 3. The artist Paolo Arao in his studio, 2019. 4 | THE MUSE WINTER 2020-2021
Sculpture, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and the Fire Island Artist Residency. He is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing and his work has been featured in New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, and Esopus. In Dialogue with Drawing marks the debut of Arao and his work in Georgia. This exhibition is sponsored by WC Bradley.
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The Columbus Museum recently acquired its first historic artifact to bear the name of Columbus Bank and Trust, a name that dominated banking in the region for nearly 90 years. As with many key facets of Columbus history, the city’s largest bank got its start in the mills. Legend has it G. Gunby Jordan witnessed money fall from an employee’s skirt after it became tangled in machinery. After the woman explained she thought it was safer to sew her savings into the hem of a dress rather than leave it at home, Jordan offered to place her money in the mill’s safe and pay her interest. After first creating the Eagle & Phenix Savings Bank, Jordan and W.C. Bradley simultaneously founded the Columbus Savings Bank and the Third National Bank in 1888. The two companies merged in 1930 to form Columbus Bank and Trust, which continued to grow throughout the 20th century. Now known as Synovus (a name first used in 1989), the company claims 294 locations in five southeastern states. After James W. Blanchard became CB&T’s president in 1957, he quickly helped introduce a charge card, one of the first in the United States. Blanchard followed the example of the Diners Club, which became the the first “general purpose” charge card in 1950, followed in 1958 by American Express and BankAmericard, now Visa. (Master Charge, the predecessor of MasterCard, was a relative latecomer in 1966.) These cards’ success hinged on the willingness of several merchants and consumers simultaneously being willing to accept and use these cards issued by
third-party banks, instead of relying on credit or tabs kept by individual stores. This CB&T Charge Account Service Shopping Guide lists by category the names and addresses of dozens of businesses in Columbus and Phenix City that accepted the CB&T charge card. In addition to a chart listing the minimum monthly payments based on the amount charged each month, the booklet extols the charge card’s virtues as a budgeting tool. Drawings of happy women accompany text about how the card gives them a “new way to shop and save” and “better budget control” to ensure that “shopping is a happy time” when it’s convenient for them instead of waiting on paychecks to shop with cash or checks. The visual emphasis is notably on middle- and upper-class white married women, as it was notoriously difficult for women throughout the U.S. to obtain credit cards in their own name. Women applying for credit cards were routinely asked questions about their marital and parental status, forced to bring men to cosign for them if they were unmarried, and discriminated against when it came to receiving fair limits and rates. These practices only became illegal with the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in 1974, due in large part to the work of attorney and future Supreme Court Justice, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in the 1970s.
Image: Columbus Bank & Trust charge card merchant guide, ca. 1960, The General Acquisitions Fund, The Columbus Museum G.2020.32
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2020 HISTORY ACQUISITIONS
Museum acquires first CB&T artifact
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Collecting 2020
In September, The Columbus Museum officially accessioned its first collections objects related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fittingly, the first gift attests to the community-minded spirit of many businesses in seeking to fill urgent needs during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. In early April, Swamp Fox Distilling Company in Buena Vista, Georgia, temporarily discontinued its whiskey production to make hand sanitizer in response to shortages throughout the country and region. At first available only to first responders and essential workers, the distillery eventually opened sales of the product to the general public. The fact that the distillery initially chose to bottle its homemade hand sanitizer in liquor bottles it had in stock suggests the urgency of the moment. During the summer months, Museum staff members donated masks and other ephemera related to their experiences during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as cloth face masks, flyers about COVID-19 testing, and mailers about changes to Georgia election procedures, among other objects. This group of artifacts also includes a protest sign from the March for Justice event that took place in Columbus on June 13, one of many nation-wide protests sparked by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black Americans. These items are an important first step in the Museum’s first foray into rapid-response collecting, but we know that the story of 2020 is far from over. In the coming months, the Museum will continue to collect artifacts that tell stories of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as protests against racial injustice, that have defined 2020 in the Chattahoochee Valley and across the country.
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Objects of potential interest include, but are not limited to:
Homemade masks made by local residents, especially those with an unusual story
Badges or signs from local hospitals or COVID-19 testing sites Signs or flyers from local businesses noting product shortages or buying limits COVID-specific take-out menus or flyers from local restaurants
School assignments or instructions for virtual learning unique to the pandemic Signs or artwork posted in windows to boost neighborhood spirits
Signs or flyers related to conversations about racial injustice and policing
T-shirts or other apparel related to the pandemic, racial injustice, or policing
If you are interested in potentially donating your 2020 artifacts, please send information and pictures of the object(s) to curatorial@columbusmuseum.com.
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Images: 1. Cloth face mask made by Columbus resident, 2020, Gift of Aimee Brooks, The Columbus Museum G.2020.52.4 | 2. Swamp Fox Distilling Company hand sanitizer bottle, 2020, Gift of Swamp Fox Distilling Company, The Columbus Museum G.2020.44 | 3. MCSD E-SPLOST adjusted voting flyer, 2020, The Columbus Museum, Gift of a Friend of the Museum G.2020.58
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2020 ART ACQUISITIONS
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When Art and History Meet The Columbus Museum has recently acquired several art and design objects that relate to historic figures or institutions from the Chattahoochee Valley region. Frank Stewart visited Columbus-born artist Alma Woodsey Thomas at her Washington, D.C. home studio in 1976. The photographer was traveling with a production crew gathering footage for the film that accompanied the show Two Centuries of Black American Art. The groundbreaking exhibition, curated by Thomas’s friend and colleague David C. Driskell, featured Thomas’s work as well as paintings by other artists from her personal collection. Besides capturing an insightful physiognomic portrait of Thomas (fig. 1), Stewart’s image documents several works on paper unknown to the field, the artist’s distinctive fashion choices (often noted in the press), and Thomas’s workspace and materials. It also provides evidence of the artist’s process of generating multiple preliminary sketches on paper before beginning a new canvas. Best known for his jazz images, Stewart has also made significant contributions in the arenas of landscape and genre scenes. He is the subject of an upcoming multiple
venue exhibition organized by Ruth Fine, formerly of the National Gallery of Art. It is scheduled for 2023. Eero Saarinen was born in Finland in 1910 to world-famous parents; his father Eliel was an architect and became the director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and his mother Loja was a textile artist. Saarinen was, thus, surrounded by design his entire life. By the time he was in his teens, he was assisting his father in the creation of furniture and fixtures for the Cranbrook campus. After his studies, he returned to teach at Cranbrook and practice architecture and furniture design with his father. Saarinen came up with the Womb Chair design (fig. 2) in 1943, soon after joining Knoll Associates. Released in 1948, the Womb chair soon became an icon of mid-century modernism; for example, a 1958 Coca-Cola ad campaign showed Santa Claus drinking a Coke in a Womb chair. The Columbus Museum’s example will be included in the upcoming traveling show Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful as part of a vignette that introduces Thomas— who once owned two of the chairs—to exhibition visitors. This mid-century Vase with incised decoration (fig. 3) is an
Image: Fig. 1: Frank Stewart, Alma Thomas, 1976; printed 2019, Gelatin silver print, Gift of Darren and Becky Horne, The Columbus Museum G.2020.3
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important example of African American ceramics. In the 1930s, George Washington Carver, who was then the Director of the Tuskegee Institute, recruited Isaac Scott Hathaway to develop a ceramics program for the school. Hathaway taught in the School of Mechanical Industries and the School of Architecture. As a scientist, Carver was interested in the extraction of pigments from the Alabama red clay, and he and Hathaway worked closely together in the formulation of glazes for ceramic and pottery production. In the late 1940s, Hathaway moved on to the Alabama State College in Montgomery and William Daniel Southall subsequently directed the program from 1952 to 1957. During this time, Tuskegee acquired better, larger kilns, and interest in the craft increased. Very few examples of Tuskegee 4
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pottery have survived, and this vase’s combination of historical significance and mid-century aesthetics make it a welcome addition to the Museum’s holdings. From the Signs; Drawings from Quarantine series, Ethan Shoshan’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (fig. 4), captures the title of author Carson McCullers’s first book in a boldly graphic form. “This series of drawings started during the beginning of quarantine in New York City in March, 2020,” the artist said. “Although these drawings are very illustrative, they also portray signs and signage in a new context. The craft of drawing helps me to focus, to pay attention to the details otherwise lost in common view, conceptualizing the drawings as a meditative way of seeing and being present. These drawings capture some very private fleeting moments that make New York City so special to me, preserving some of these thoughts, experiences, ideas, communities, and hope.” The sheet handsomely augments the Museum’s growing contemporary drawing collection, as it points to one of Columbus’s best known citizens and comments poignantly on the topsy-turvy “new normal” of 2020. The Columbus Museum is grateful to the many donors who have entrusted us with gifts of art or designated purchase funds.
Would you like to join the distinguished group of donors who have presented art, artifacts, or funds designated for acquisitions to The Columbus Museum as outright gifts? For more information contact Hunter Peak, Director of Advancement, at (706) 748-2562 x5420.
Images: Fig. 2: Eero Saarinen, Womb chair with padded footstool, designed 1946; manufactured later, Seat shell: foam-covered molded fiberglass; base: steel rod with polished chrome, Gift of Marleen De Bode Olivié and Marc Olivié, The Columbus Museum G.2020.56.1 A-B | Fig. 3: Unknown artist; “Henre” inscribed on the wall of the vase, “Tuskegee Institute Pottery” inscribed on bottom, Vase with incised decoration, 1950s, Ceramic: cream color background with olive green decoration, The Art Acquisition and Restoration Fund, The Columbus Museum G.2020.43.1 | Fig. 4: Ethan Shoshan, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, 2020, from the Signs; Drawings from Quarantine series, Charcoal and graphite on paper, Gift of the Artist, The Columbus Museum G.2020.54 8 | THE MUSE WINTER 2020-2021
There is no limit to age or creativity as the Education Department team continues to work to bring The Columbus Museum home to visitors. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Education team has expanded virtual programming and started new initiatives for community outreach.
4 years, have limited spaces and filled to capacity almost as soon as registration opened.
New Magnolia Manor Virtual Program Helps Reach Seniors The Education Department has started a new program with Magnolia Manor, where residents can view and discuss art. While COVID-19 canceled our ongoing program for seniors, moving to a virtual format allowed us to stay connected to this audience while keeping them safe. In the virtual format, this program is streamed to residents at Magnolia Manor, who are assisted by staff to see objects from the Museum without ever leaving home.
Youth Art Exhibitions Make Virtual Debut
Youth & Family Programs Manager Jessamy South created activity kits for families to pick up from the Museum for virtual classes.
Mini Makers Move Online The patter of little feet has been missing from the studio since March but one of the popular art-making programs for the Museum’s smallest visitors have gone virtual. Youth & Family Programs Manager Jessamy South created kits in the fall for families to pick up from the Museum, accompanied with supplies, instructions for an art project, and a print of the artwork that inspired it. South also recorded a storytime available for parents to access all month. As with the in-person class, this program is geared toward children ages 2 to
The Barbara Pound Gallery for Education has hosted the artwork of youngsters from schools, organizations, and other programs across the Chattahoochee Valley for decades. But this year, instead of a reception for family and friends, young makers were able to share their work with the click of a button. Exploring Creativity: 2020 After School Art Virtual Gallery features work from Hannan and Georgetown elementary schools and Possibilities of Painting: 2020 Community Art Partners Virtual Exhibition features work created by elementary residents of four housing developments in Columbus. Visit the shows online: columbusmuseum.com/exhibitions/youth-exhibitions
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2020 EDUCATION
Education programs include virtual options for learners from toddlers to seniors
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Despite challenges, the Museum Connects to the Community
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This year has been a challenging one. In response, The Colum- our community to bring art and history to life. Consider making a bus Museum has increased our outreach to connect with visitors donation at columbusmuseum.com/connect on and offline when they can’t come to us. Before the pandemic, the Museum offered several exhibitions and programs that were In the 2019-20 fiscal year, The Columbus Museum well-received by the community, including Saya Woolfalk: Augengaged with the community on and offline: mented Visionary Reality Outpost, Pride of the Swift-Growing South: Tuskegee Institute Photography, and Philip Haas: Sculp30,946 visitors before March 16 ture Breathes Life Into Painting and Music. New adult programs 321 objects added to the collection including Heist! and yoga were popular as well. After the Museum closed its door to the public in March, staff 4,400 activity booklets distributed to Muscogee County worked to create the Virtual Museum, which included tours of and Phenix City Schools and 1,469 activity kits for children exhibitions, artist talks, and other engaging content. For those living in Housing Authority communities who wanted to connect and create offline, Museum staff prepared 2,879 views of virtual programs* free kits to #MuseumFromHome and booklets with hands-on activities for those who wanted – or needed – to unplug. *Based on views of programs hosted online and via social media after March 2020 With your support, the Museum can continue to connect with 10 | THE MUSE WINTER 2020-2021
Patricia Butts retires from Museum after 41 years of service
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Images: 1. Before the Museum closed to the public, visitors enjoyed Saya Woolfalk Augmented Visionary Reality Outpost. | 2. Residents of Warren Williams Homes participated in the sculpture installation as the final phase of the Making Conversation with Warren Williams Homes oral history project. 3. The Museum education team introduced the Museum P.A.L.S. program. 4. Hundreds of people attended the February Fall Festival. | 5.-8. After the Museum closed, many programs moved to a virtual format and the Museum Education staff delivered Museum From Home activity kits to area schoolchildren through the free lunch program.
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The year was 1979. After Tillinghurst Elementary School closed, Patricia Butts had the choice to be transferred to another school in the Muscogee Country School District as an executive assistant or go to work at The Columbus Museum. She chose the latter. “I said, ‘I really want to go to the Museum,’” Butts recalled. “I wanted to do something different.” Now, 41 years later, Butts is preparing to retire, effective in December. Butts says the choice was a good one and working at the Museum was a “perfect match.” She started off working at the front desk of the Museum and then was moved to the Curatorial department and has worked in every area of the Museum before becoming the executive assistant to the director. She has served four or five directors and a few interims in between. Director Marianne Richter frequently refers to Butts as “the glue” that holds the staff together. “The staff and trustees depend on Patricia’s institutional knowledge and great suggestions for how the Museum can continue to improve. I will always be grateful for having her expertise. She has been a wonderful colleague, and we are all glad she won’t go far,” Richter said. In her four decades at the Museum, Butts has watched the collection grow and has seen more diversity not only in acquisitions and exhibitions but also in the people who work there. “Our collection here is wonderful,” Butts said, adding that trustees over the years have taught about the objects the Museum has acquired. “It has changed over the years and grown for the better.” Butts will miss watching the collection grow and she will miss the staff, but says she will stay in touch because she is excited about where the Museum is headed. “The Museum is all-inclusive and good for the community,” Butts said. “The Museum has grown in that respect and I don’t think people realize that. I think the programming and the people who have come into different positions here have made it that way. And we have a very inclusive director who wants the Museum to reflect the makeup of the community. “And I think that’s a good thing.” 2020-2021 WINTER THE MUSE | 11
MEMBERS MAKE MUSEUMS
Farm to Table(aux) goes curbside and virtual The third annual Farm to Table(aux) fundraiser, the popular event that combines history, art, and food, returned with a socially distant twist on September 17. After being rescheduled from an in-person event in March, Farm to Table(aux) organizers regrouped to offer a safe way for guests to enjoy the gourmet cuisine of Celebrity Chef Alex Hitz and participate in a virtual program with entertainment, a silent auction, and raffles. Hitz, lauded as “the Ralph Lauren of food and wine” and the “very best host in the world,” took his skills curbside to greet guests and distribute boxed dinners alongside event chairs Kathelen Amos and Eliza Brewer, Museum Director Marianne Richter, Board of Trustees President D. Steven Sharp, Director of Development J. Hunter Peak, and a host of Museum staff. After attendees received their meals, they returned home to view a virtual program that was a mixture of taped segments and live broadcasts from the Museum stage. The week-long Art for Education silent auction concluded that evening and featured work from acclaimed artists, wine, and trips. Peak said the event was a great success. “Though the evening was different from events past, the Museum is grateful to our guests and supporters, to our co-
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chairs Kathelen Amos and Eliza Brewer, to Chef Hitz, and the wonderful support of our Board to make Farm to Table(aux) happen,” Peak added. “It was a wonderful way to engage with each other and celebrate the mission of the Museum.”
2020 Farm To Table(aux) Artists who donated pieces of work for the Art for Education auction Paolo Arao
linn meyers
Martha Clippinger
Mia Rosenthal
Bo Bartlett
Eddie Dominguez Betsy Eby
Matthew F. Fisher Jerome Hershey
Jody Mussoff
Cristina Vergano Saya Woolfalk Bruno Zupan
MEMBERS & CONTRIBUTIONS JULY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
The Columbus Museum is grateful to recognize our President, Director, Collector & 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. John C. Martin II** Mr. & Mrs. W. Michael Ogie** Ms. Marleen De Bode Olivié & Mr. Marc Olivié** Mr. & Mrs. Alan C. Ramsay, Jr.** D. Steven Sharp**
Director Circle Mrs. Lovick P. Corn** Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Hecht** Dr. & Mrs. Thornton F. Jordan** Mr. & Mrs. Mason Houghland Lampton** Mrs. Jack S. Schiffman** Mr. & Mrs. Wright B. Waddell**
Collector Circle Mrs. Donald F. Broda, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. Stephen T. Butler** Mr. & Mrs. A. Comer Hobbs, Sr.** 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** Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Amos II Catalina Aranas Dr. & Mrs. Champ Baker** Bo Bartlett & Betsy Eby* Cathy & Rennie 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**
Dr. & Mrs. Philip L. Brewer** Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Brewer Mr. & Mrs. Lance Brooks Ed & Suzanne Burdeshaw** Mrs. Forrest L. Champion, Jr.** Craig & Traci Courville* Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Crowley** Mr. & Mrs. J. Robert Elliott, Jr.** Mrs. Marion C. Feighner** Mr. & Mrs. John F. Flournoy Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Flournoy** Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Flowers** Ms. Finn H. Fountain Mrs. Mellie S. Fountain** Cindy & Spencer Garrard Mr. & Mrs. Gardiner W. Garrard, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. James E. Gates** Mrs. Ben M. Greenblatt** Mr. & Mrs. Jack C. Goldfrank** James E. & Kelli Hall Mrs. Richard Hallock Mr. & Mrs. Kerry W. Hand** Mr. Christopher R. Harman** Judye S. Harris** Dr. & Mrs. Ed P. Helton Darren & Becky Horne Dr. William P. Kendall** Mrs. Erwin D. Key** The Lee-Boulton Family Mrs. Donald M. Leebern, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. David Lemieux* Mr. & Mrs. L. Pierce Miller Dr. & Mrs. Eddie Obleton* Mr. & Mrs. Wilds M. Ogie Mr. & Mrs. John Hunter Peak Mr. & Mrs. William Roland Peek** Thom Pegg Mr. & Mrs. Ben B. Philips** Dr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Pippas* Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Poydasheff, Jr. Dr. G. W. Richter Ms. Marianne Richter Mr. & Mrs. Chandler Riley* Mrs. Kathy J. Riley** Mrs. Benno G. Rothschild** The Honorable & Mrs. William C. Rumer Ms. Melanie Slaton & Mr. Ben Holden Dr. & Mrs. J. Lacey Smith Dr. Eva Sperk Dr. Franklin Star**
Ms. Rose H. Steiner* Clifford & Bobsie Swift** Ms. Jeanne R. Swift** Patty Kimbrough Taylor** Jim & Melissa Thomas Townsend Wealth Management Mr. & Mrs. Jack Turner* Mr. & Mrs. William B. Turner, Jr.** Bob Vardaman Events Management Dr. Thomas A. & Sherry F. Wade** Mr. & Mrs. John W. Walden, Jr.** Mrs. Davis Ronald Watson** Ms. Christine D. Weaver** Susan Smith Wiggins Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wilensky** Kay & Billy Winn** Mr. & Mrs. Joel O. Wooten*
Patron Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey G. Adams Ms. Betty L. Auten* Mrs. Marjorie B. Bickerstaff** Mrs. Otis B. Burnham** Lacrecia Cade Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Culpepper* Mrs. Frank S. Etheridge III** Mrs. Marion C. Feighner** Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Foley III** Mr. & Mrs. Pace Halter Mr. & Mrs. John Hudgison Mrs. W. Lloyd Hudson, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. Seth L. Knight III** Mr. & Mrs. R. J. Krieg* Ashok & Mary Kumar Mr. Patrick Martin Mr. & Mrs. Roy E. Martin III** Mr. & Mrs. W. Fray McCormick Dr. & Mrs. Michael Metry Louise K. Miller** Mr. & Mrs. Richard Olson** Ms. Gwendolyn H. Ruff Mr. & Mrs. Claude G. Scarbrough III** Mr. & Mrs. Marvin R. Schuster** Kenneth A. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Sam Singer Celia & Murray Solomon* Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Swift** Ms. Elizabeth A. Taylor** Mr. & Mrs. John P. Thayer
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Tomlinson** Mr. & Mrs. James Trotter, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. William Clark Turner* Mr. & Mrs. Joe V. Windsor** Mr. & Mrs. James D. Yancey** The Columbus Museum is grateful to recognize our Reciprocal, Supporting, & Civic members who joined or renewed within the last quarter. **Continuous member for 20+ years *Continuous member for 10+ years
Reciprocal Mr. & Mrs. W. Mizell Alexander** Mrs. John C. Anderson** Mr. & Mrs. Arch V. Arnold III** Mr. & Mrs. George L. Atkins* Jack & Rebecca Basset Mr. & Mrs. Gill Cargill Mr. & Mrs. James H. Creek Mr. William J. Cunningham, Jr.** William E. Dillard, Jr.** Mrs. Richard C. Edge** Stan Floyd** Mrs. Dana Haas Freeman** Sallie A. Hadden Ms. Robbie Keith Holt Barbara Houser* Mrs. Lula Huff** Mr. & Mrs. Jack B. Key III** Judge & Mrs. John T. Laney III** Drs. Francye & Joseph Largeman Libby & Mike McFalls* Mr. James P. McHenry & Ms. Cheryl Yatsko** Mr. & Mrs. S. L. Mullin Jr.** Ashley & Blake Reinhart Mr. & Mrs. Warren B. Steele II** Dr. & Mrs. John R. Stephenson** Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Ussery** Dr. Joan & LTC (Ret) Darryl Verrett Mr. & Mrs. T. Stacy Welch** Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Yarbrough IV Mr. & Mrs. Bruno Zupan**
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Supporting Mr. & Mrs. Mote W. Andrews, Jr.** Mr. & Mrs. Paul T. Berry III Ms. Elizabeth Ann Bickerstaff** Mrs. Susan N. Binns** Mr. & Mrs. Neil Block Mr. & Mrs. George G. Boyd* Ms. Julie A. Bray** Belle P. Brightwell & Thomas Ford, IV** Dr. Kay E. Campbell Mr. Charles P. Clippinger Rhonda P. Clippinger Mr. & Mrs. J. Hudson Garrett** Dan & Sara Ginter Mrs. Joyce W. Gosha** Mark & Elizabeth Graham Ms. Lynn Hunter Griley** Kay Gudger** Ms. Ann M. Hall Angie & Pete Hart John M. House Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth S. Janke, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David M. Jordan** Nelson & Martha Kittle Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCarley** Ms. Callie B. McGinnis Dr. & Mrs. Scott O. McLaurin Dr. & Mrs. Harold W. McRae* Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Newton** Celia G. Page**
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Page** Mr. & Mrs. Jack J. Pease III** Mr. & Mrs. Billy A. Phelps** Mr. & Mrs. Gregory K. Pridgen** Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Robinson** Mr. Cameron Saunders Mr. & Mrs. T. Christopher Shadburn II** Mrs. Billie C. Smith** Mr. & Mrs. Lance Tankersley* Aiden Townsend Dr. Carl F. Wallman LTG & Mrs. R. L. Wetzel* Mattie K. Wright**
Civic Mrs. Susan F. Boyter** Truman & Herb Cawthorne** Mary & Steve Goff Michael A. Jarvis** Wesley Jones Mary Ann Marshall Mr. Herb Martin* Ms. Barbara Rivers** Jeanne P. Robinson** Doris Meacham Rowe** Ann Spencer* Lisa Walters Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wilson
The Columbus Museum gratefully acknowledges the following contributions in honor or in memory of special friends. In memory of Katharine Kimbrough E.H. Culpepper Evelyn Dukes In memory of Florence Jean Sears Mrs. James W. Rhea In memory of Mrs. Barbara G. Rothschild Mrs. James W. Rhea
In honor of Elizabeth C. Ogie for her birthday Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Beck, Jr. Kerry & Donna Hand Angie & Pete Hart Dr. & Mrs. W. Blake Lane, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Melton Ms. Marianne Richter Ms. Jeanne R. Swift Mr. Hooper Turner Mr. & Mrs. Wilds M. Ogie Sarah & Brooks Watkins
The Columbus Museum is proud to recognize our active Affiliate Group Members who joined or renewed within the last quarter. Alma Thomas Society
Lacrecia Cade Darren & Becky Horne Mr. Harry L. Lindsey Mr. & Mrs. Mason Houghland Lampton Mr. Patrick Martin Mary Ann Marshall Thom Pegg D. Steven Sharp
Young Art Patrons Dr. Kay E. Campbell Mr. Cameron Saunders Ashley & Blake Reinhart Mr. Patrick Martin Mrs. Billie C. Smith
The Columbus Museum gratefully acknowledges the following friends for their contributions: 2020 Farm to Table(aux) Donations Mr. Thomas Lanham & Dr. Deborah Bordelon Sara Flynn Dr. & Mrs. David F. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Gene D. Perkins Joan Swift Redmond The Honorable & Mrs. William C. Rumer Ms. Amy Wood Donation of artwork by William Castellana Gift of the Artist Donation of artwork by Ethan Shoshan Gift of the Artist Donation of artwork by Florence Neal Gift of the Artist Donation of chair & footstool by Eero Saarinen and sculpture by Josiah McElheny Gift of Marleen De Bode Olivié & Marc Olivié Donation of artwork by Annalieu Tigner Cargill Gift of Jonathan Frederick Walz, Ph.D., in honor of Prudence M. Walz
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Donation of COVID 19 related materials Aimee Brooks Matt Towner
Donation for Ben Shahn wood engraving purchase Mrs. Ben M. Greenblatt
Donation of handmade blue & gold star mask Gift of Jonathan Frederick Walz, Ph. D. in honor of Abbie Gail Edens
Donation of local sports teams paraphernalia Kimberly Beck
Donation of St. Thomas Episcopal Church’s Holy Week from Home booklet Gift of Jonathan Frederick Walz, Ph. D. in honor of the Reverend Grace Burton-Edwards Donation of Asians for BLM sign Rachel Vogt Donation of objects from the National Library Service Jack Kinley Donation for David C. Driskell watercolor purchase Mrs. Donald F. Broda, Jr.
Donation of Cobb Memorial Hospital and medical office material Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Beck Donation of Temple B’nai Israel postcard in honor of Kay Broda and Gail B. Greenblatt Friend of the Museum Donation for future Alma Thomas exhibition Aaron Payne Fine Art Aflac Donation for general operations Mr. & Mrs. L. Pierce Miller Clifford & Bobsie Swift The J.W. & Ethel I. Woodruff Foundation
Donation for education programs Columbus Office of Crime Prevention The Rotary Club of Columbus GA The Walter Alan Richards Foundation, Inc. Sponsorship of Museum From Home education booklets during COVID 19 Dr. & Mrs. Sidney H. Yarbrough III Grant for COVID 19 Relief National Endowment for the Arts Georgia Humanities
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2020 –21 D. Steven Sharp, President Chris Henson, Vice President Thomas A. Wade, Jr., Corresponding Secretary Marianne Richter, Museum Director/Recording Secretary Tyler A. Townsend, Treasurer Carolynn Obleton, Immediate Past President
Daniel P. Amos, Kathelen V. Amos, Eliza Brewer, Zack Bishop, Kay Broda, Lance Brooks, Lark Champion, J. Robert Elliott, Jr., Gail B. Greenblatt, James E. Hall, Pace Halter, Robert Hecht, Helen Hobbs, Thornton F. Jordan, Dori Jones, Billy Kendall, Tricia Llewellyn Konan, Mary Lu Lampton, Martin Lyles, Sallie Martin, W. Fray McCormick, Becky Miller, Elizabeth C. Ogie, Deani Pahl, Rebecca Rumer, Gwendolyn H. Ruff, Otis J. Scarborough, Melanie Slaton, Melissa Murray Smith, Otis E. Tillman, E. Worth Williams
LIFE TRUSTEES:
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, Rebecca K. Yarbrough
HONORARY TRUSTEES:
James H. Blanchard, Representative Calvin Smyre, J. Barrington Vaught
MUSEUM STAFF Marianne Richter, Director Patricia Butts, Assistant to the Director
COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS
EDUCATION
Lucy Kacir, Director of Education & Engagement Jessamy South, Youth & Family Programs Manager
Marcolm Tatum, Graphic Designer
Al Johnson, Security Deputy
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
Edward Diamond, Maintenance Engineer
Kimberly Beck, Deputy Director for Operations
Jonathan Frederick Walz, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of American Art Rebecca Bush, Curator of History/Exhibitions Manager
Rachel Vogt, Academic Programs Manager
DEVELOPMENT
Paula Evans, Accounting Specialist Brooke Starling, Gift Shop Manager/ Volunteer Coordinator
Aimee Brooks, Collections Manager
J. Hunter Peak, Director of Development Kelly Cargill, Event Sales Manager
Jori Kent, Museum Shop Associate
Morgan Wilson, Campaign Coordinator
Andrea Hayes, Visitor Services Representative
Miles Kirkpatrick, Assistant Collections Manager Cameron Faucette, Exhibition Coordinator & Designer Keith Smith, Lead Preparator/ Art & Artifacts Handler Yun Nye, Preparator/Art & Artifacts Handler
MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS
Bridgette Russell, Director of Marketing & Public Relations
Sam Willis, Maintenance Technician Custodians: Martha Culp, Alice Holmes Bill Consoletti, Gardener
Rosaline Anderson, Visitor Services Representative Rick McGowan, Security Chief Larry Hunter, Security Deputy
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