Inside SEMC Summer 2015

INS I DE S E MC

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

Jacksonville Riverfront, Site of 2015 SEMC Annual Meeting at Hyatt Regency

Executive Director’s Notes Susan Perry

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Join Us in Jacksonville for SEMC Annual Meeting 2015 Annual Meeting Important Dates

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Nick Gray: Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker

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Founder of Museum Hack Convinces Millennials that Museums are Awesome

Annual Meeting Scholarship Opportunities Annual Meeting Competitions

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19 Get Involved at the Annual Meeting 19 Announcing SEMC’s JIMI 2016 20 Annual Meeting Awards Program

Applications Due October 31, 2016

SEMC’s AAM Event at the Fernbank

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Dancing with Dinosaurs and the Power of Poison Make for an Exhilarating Night

The Challenge Continues

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Help SEMC Match a $10,000 Challege: We’re Almost There!

Graduate Assistants and Historic Columbia Museums

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Assistants Making Invaluable Curatorial Contributions in Mutally-Beneficial Program

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Two Southeastern Museums Receive National Medal

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First Lady Michelle Obama Bestows Museum and Library Services Medal on Amazement Square, in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the Louisiana Children’s Museum in New Orleans

Tubman Museum Opens New Facility

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Largest Museum in Southeast Dedicated to African American Art, History, and Culture

Association of African American Museums Wins IMLS Grant

A SPECIAL THANKS 45 CONGRATULATIONS 52 CONSTRUCTION 60 EXHIBITIONS 64 INNOVATIONS 78 PEOPLE AND PLACES 82 WHAT’S HAPPENING 83 IMPORTANT DATES 84 SEMC JOB FORUM 84 SEMC MEMBERSHIP FORM 85 Endowment and Membership Contributions

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officers

Alabama

North Carolina

Arkansas

South Carolina

David Butler President

Florida

Tennessee

865.524.1260

Georgia

Virginia

dbutler@knoxart.org

Kentucky

West Virginia

Knoxville Museum of Art,

Louisiana

U.S. Virgin Islands

Knoxville, TN

Mississippi

Puerto Rico Darcie MacMahon Vice President

staff

352.273.2053

Susan S. Perry

dmacmahon@flmnh.ufl.edu

Executive Director

Florida Museum of Natural History,

Mary S. Miller

Gainesville, FL

Manager of Communications and Member Services

Robin Seage Person Secretary 601.442.2901

contact semc

rsperson@bellsouth.net

SEMC | P.O. Box 550746

Historic Jefferson College,

Atlanta, GA 30355-3246

Washington, MS

T: 404.814.2048 or 404.814.2047 F: 404.814.2031

Robin Reed Treasurer

W: www.SEMCdirect.net

757.690.8962

E: membershipservices@SEMCdirect.net

rreed@fmauthority.com Casemate Museum,

Inside SEMC is published four times a

Fort Monroe, VA

year by SEMC. Annual subscription is included in membership dues.

Mike Hudson Past President 502.899.2356

Design: Nathan W. Moehlmann,

mhudson@aph.org

Goosepen Studio & Press

Museum of the American Printing House of the Blind, Louisville, KY

The deadline for the Fall 2015 newsletter is August 17, 2015.

To submit information for the newsletter, please contact the Council Director in your state.

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directors Priscilla Cooper

Elise LeCompte

205.328.9696

352.273.1925

pcooper@bcri.org

lecompte@flmnh.ufl.edu

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,

Florida Museum of Natural History

Birmingham, AL

Gainesville, FL 32611

Julie Harris

Catherine Pears

270.575.9958

318.443.0545

jharris@riverdiscoverycenter.org

cpears@lsua.edu

River Discovery Center,

Alexandria Museum of Art

Paducah, KY

Alexandria, LA 71301

Brian Hicks

Zinnia Willits

662.429.8852

843.722.2706 ext. 32

director@desotomuseum.org

zwillits@gibbesmuseum.org

Desoto County Museum,

Gibbes Museum of Art

Hernando, MS

Charleston, SC 29401

Kathleen Hutton

Allison Reid

336.758.5394

504.658.4159

khutton@wfu.edu

areid@noma.org

Reynolda House Museum of

New Orleans Museum of Art,

American Art, Winston-Salem, NC

New Orleans, LA

Mary Lague

Deitrah J. Taylor

540.342.5760

478.320.4010

mlague@taubmanmuseum.org

dtaylorhistorian@gmail.com

Taubman Museum of Art,

The Cultural Center, Georgia College

Roanoke, VA

and State University, Milledgeville, GA

Jenny Lamb

Heather Marie Wells

616.356.0501

479.418.5700

jenny.lamb@bellemeadeplantation.com

heathermarie.wells@crystalbridges.org

Belle Meade Plantation,

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,

Nashville, TN

Bentonville, AR

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executive director’s notes Susan Perry

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scape to sunny Jacksonville, one of the top “Hottest Cities” for cultural experience!

Experience “hot happenings” at JAX beach, an edgy art museum, a wild animal zoo, trendy historic neighborhoods and restaurants. Cool off on the banks of the St. Johns River and stroll under the canopy of majestic Cummer oaks and through the larger-than-life mouth at MOSH. Discover Northeast Florida’s cultural and ecological history at the SEMC 2015 Annual Meeting in Jacksonville!

The theme of this year’s annual meeting is “Cultural Collaborations: Creating a Collective Vision.”

Create cultural collaborations in

Jacksonville and renew your vision for the future of museums.

Discover new horizons in museum leadership, innovative technologies, community engagement, and transformative experiences. Ignite innovative creativity and engage our diverse communities. Connect with museum colleagues networking at SEMC 2015. Tag your social media post with #SEMC2015!

The Jacksonville Local Arrangements Committee has worked hard to plan three fun evening events, offsite tours, and programs. In the keynote address “Museums Are Awesome,” Nick Gray, a Renegade Museum Tour Guide and the founder of Museum Hack, will share best practices and engagement ideas for new audience development. How do you attract Millennials to your museum? Museum Hack has found success with a sustainable model for premium experiences. Get excited about museum experiences.

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Susan Perry, SEMC Executive Director We promise you’ll be energized, enlightened, and entertained.

After twenty years, SEMC members are excited to explore Florida the sunshine state.

Join us to discover Cultural Collaborations: Creating a Collective Vision at SEMC 2015 Annual Meeting October 12–14 in Jacksonville!

— Susan Perry, SEMC Executive Director

Fernbank Museum’s Great Hall by Drew Newman

Cultural Collaboration

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

Join us in Jacksonville

SEMC 2015 ANNUAL MEETING

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Cultural Collaboration CREATING A COLLECTIVE VISION SEMC 2015 ANNUAL MEETING REGISTER NOW! OCTOBER 12–14, 2015 | JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Escape to sunny Jacksonville, one of the top “Hottest Cities” for cultural experience! Experience its pristine beaches, trendy restaurants, vibrant nightlife, edgy art museums, and historic neighborhoods. Cool off on the banks of the St. Johns River and stroll under the canopy of majestic Cummer oaks and through the larger-than-life mouth at MOSH. Discover Northeast Florida’s cultural and ecological history at the SEMC 2015 Annual Meeting!

Explore Florida’s abundant waterways and cultural collaborations in Jacksonville at our exciting events that will highlight Jacksonville museums: Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Museum of Science & History (MOSH), Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (MOCA), The Ritz Theatre and LaVilla Museum, and Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens.

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Jacksonville is the perfect place to explore this year’s theme, “Cultural Collaborations: Creating a Collective Vision” and renew your vision for the future of museums. Discover new horizons in museum leadership, innovative technologies, and community engagement. SEMC’s Program Committee invites you to meet us in Jacksonville to share creative ideas and success stories, explore new directions and emerging trends in museums, and network with the most congenial and supportive group of museum professionals in the nation!

We promise you’ll be energized, enlightened, and entertained. Relax in sunny Florida. You’ll never want to leave! Join us to discover Cultural Collaboration: Creating a Collective Vision at SEMC 2015 Annual Meeting October 12–14 in Jacksonville!

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PARTICIPANTS AT THE SEMC 2015 ANNUAL MEETING WILL EXPERIENCE • Over 65 Sessions and Workshops on engaging your leaders, leveraging community collaborations, exploring new technology, discovering museum pop-ups, engaging selfie culture, creating a collective vision, expanding social media, improving inbox overload, planning for leadership change, exploring environmental conservation, facilitating cultural exchange, making inventory matter, recruiting volunteers, connecting to collections, overcoming disaster, creating living history, embracing community engagement, marketing your strengths, creating teacher-museum partnerships, fundraising strategies, growing African-American museums, emerging museum professionals, and surviving a mid-career crisis.

The complete schedule is online at SEMCdirect.net.

• Resource Expo with over 66 exhibitors. Learn about new products, technology, and services for museums. Don’t miss the Grand Opening celebration and Silent Auction on Monday from 4:30–6:00 pm.

• Evening Events at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, MOSH, MOCA, and the Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens.

• Private Walking Tours of Jacksonville’s historic districts, architecture, parks, and Art in Public Places.

• Keynote Speaker Nick Gray, founder of Museum Hack.

• A Pre-Conference Trip to Historic St. Augustine, our country’s first enduring European settlement.

• Behind-the-Scenes Tours of the Cummer Museum of Art, MOCA, MOSH’s Science Theater and Bryan-Gooding Planetarium, Federal Reserve Bank, Jacksonville’s historic districts, Art in Public Places, and running tour along the St. Johns River.

• A Silent Auction to raise funds for scholarships to SEMC’s 2016 Annual Meeting; • Extensive Networking with your southeastern museum colleagues.

Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront location: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville-Riverfront is our host hotel, located in the heart of Jacksonville’s vibrant downtown with breathtaking views of the St. Johns River: 225 E. Coastline Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32202 Call toll free 1.888.421.1442 or 1.402.592.6464 for group reservations.

Mention the Southeastern Museums Conference for conference rate. room rates: $149/Single & Double Room + 14.13% applicable taxes room block cutoff date: Saturday, September 12, 2015 REGISTER NOW ONLINE AT WWW.SEMCDIRECT.NET FOR EARLY DISCOUNTS: Regular (7/4 – 9/25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300 Onsite (10/12 – 10/14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $375 FAM (4/20 – 9/25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250 Student (4/20 – 9/25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $125; single day $75; onsite $200 Single Day (4/20 – 9/25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150; onsite $200 Trustees Single Day (4/20 – 9/25). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150; onsite $200

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Cultural Collaboration

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

#SEMC2015

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Important Dates July 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEMC Competition deadlines July 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEMC Scholarship Applications deadline August 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEMC Awards Nomination deadline September 12 . . . . . . . . Hotel Room Block reservation deadline September 25 . . . . . . . . Annual Meeting Regular Registration deadline

Keynote Speaker Join your colleagues in Jacksonville for an entertaining and thought provoking keynote talk about why “Museums are Awesome” by Nick Gray, the founder of Museum Hack. We know museums are awesome, but how can we convince Millennials that they are? And how can we entice them to visit our museums? Museum Hack’s mission is to get people excited about great museums all around the world. Guides at Museum Hack give tours that are totally different from most museum experiences: including sassy gossip, games with prizes, and lots of photos. Museum Hack wants to appeal to the cynics, the bored, and the apathetic. They know that a lot of people do not enjoy museums, especially millennials. ¶ Museum Hack has found success with a sustainable model for premium experiences. Learn about best practices and engagement ideas for new audience development. Big companies like Google and Adobe regularly hire Museum Hack to produce their company events at the Met. Museums have also hired Museum Hack for workshops, consulting, and Young Patron program work. ¶ Nick Gray is a Renegade Museum Tour Guide and the founder of Museum Hack.

His company of educators and actors works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other New York City museums. Gray is 33 years old and lives in Manhattan.

Before starting Museum Hack, he was a partner at Flight Display Systems, which manufactured and sold electronic equipment for small private jets and military aircraft.

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Annual Meeting Scholarship Opportunities

SEMC is pleased to offer Travel Scholarships to SEMC 2015 Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL. SEMC Annual Scholarships cover conference registration plus a $500 travel stipend. Those eligible for SEMC Travel Scholarships are Students, Seasoned Museum Professionals (experienced museum professionals), Entry Level Professionals, Historic House Museum Professionals, African American Museum Professionals, and Small Museum Professionals.

Visit SEMCdirect.net for details and application.

Annual Meeting Competitions

SEMC has a number of competitions. Entry deadlines are July 17. The complete competition details as well as how to submit an entry can be found at SEMCdirect.net.

SEMC PUBLICATION COMPETITION The SEMC Publication Design Competition began in 1988 to recognize and reward excellence in graphic design in southeastern museum publications. The competition encourages communication, effective design, creativity and pride of work, and recognition of institutional image and identity.

Winning entries will be displayed at SEMC’s Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, Fl, and featured in the SEMC newsletter.

CURCOM EXHIBITION COMPETITION The SEMC Curators’ Committee is committed to promoting excellence and professionalism in museums within the region. The Exhibition Competition focuses attention on exhibitions of merit that are well designed, have educational value and treat objects with care and respect. The competition showcases the best in our profession and provides benchmarks for regional exhibition efforts in southeastern museums. Winning exhibitions will be announced at the SEMC 2015 Annual Awards Luncheon on October 13, 2015 in Jacksonville, FL and featured in the Winter Issue of Inside SEMC. The competition has four categories: Exhibits with budgets under $25,000, over $25,000, over $100,000; and exhibits with a budget of $1,000,000 or more.

TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION The SEMC Technology Competition began to recognize and reward excellence in the use of technology by southeastern museums. The competition encourages innovation, effective design, accessibility, creativity and pride of work, and recognition of institutional identity. Winning entries will be displayed at SEMC’s 2015 Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, FL (October 12–14, 2015) and featured on the SEMC website.

SPOTLIGHT ON STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION This serves as a showcase for student work and is a way for students to network with experienced museum professionals and other students. Proposals are now being solicited for 10-minute presentations that will be part of a 75-minute session at SEMC’s 2015 Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, FL. The proposal must present work done by the student for a museum as part of an internship, employment (paid or unpaid), or class project. Candidates or recent graduates of a bachelor’s, master’s or Ph.D program are eligible to submit proposals. Selected presenters will receive a free SEMC student membership, gaining instant access to networking, mentorship opportunities, and scholarships.

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Annual Meeting Awards Program SEMC Awards recognize and honor outstanding members of the museum community who have helped shape our profession. Please take a few moments to consider your friends, colleagues, and mentors who, through their work and activities, have provided exemplary service in the southeastern region. It’s easy — enter your application online at SEMCdirect.net. Entry deadline is August 7. To nominate someone for an SEMC Award, please include the following: 1) Nominee name & contact information; 2) Nominator name & contact information; 3) Name of the award; 4) Summary of the nominee’s accomplishments; 5) Two support letters; and 6) Support materials such as the nominee’s current CV, honors, etc.

JAMES R. SHORT AWARD, SEMC’s highest honor, recognizes individuals who have given a lifetime (20+ years) of distinguished service to the museum profession.

MUSEUM LEADERSHIP AWARD recognizes mid-career museum professionals (10+ years) who have shown significant advancement within the profession by leadership in museum activities.

EMERGING MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS AWARD recognizes emerging professionals (2–10 years) who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in museum activities at his or her institution.

OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE MUSEUM PROFESSION AWARD recognizes a leader with 10 years or more of service to an allied or affiliated professional organization.

DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTOR AWARD recognizes a non-museum professional who has contributed his or her leadership expertise, financial support or collections support over a period of 20 years or more to a museum or the museum field in the SEMC region.

Get Involved at the Annual Meeting

CAREER CENTER RESUME REVIEWER Experienced museum professionals are needed to review and critique job-seekers’ resumes at the Annual Meeting Career Center. For more information, contact Career Center Coordinator Elise LeCompte, 352.273.1925, lecompte@flmnh.ufl.edu.

SEMC SILENT AUCTION Showcase your museum or share your hobby and support SEMC by donating an item for our Silent Auction! All proceeds will be used to fund 2016 Annual Meeting Scholarships. Download a donation form at www.SEMCdirect.net or contact Silent Auction Coordinator Jenny Lamb, 615-356-0501, interpretation@ bellemeadeplantation.com.

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ANNOUNCING SEMC’S JIMI 2016 Applications Due October 31, 2015 – 20 –

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he Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) proudly announces the 16th annual Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI 2016).

Scheduled for January 19 - 26, 2016, JIMI is specifically designed for administrators from new and emerging museums and for museum professionals with subject area expertise desiring knowledge of general museum administration and operations. The deadline for JIMI 2016 applications is October 31, 2015. located on historic Jekyll Island, GA, this highly successful training program provides a unique eight-day immersion for museum professionals seeking the opportunity to learn management, personnel and interpretive skills from leading experts. Sessions include leadership and management styles, administration and trusteeship, strategic planning, fundraising and marketing, financial management, developing exhibits, public relations, collections management, disaster preparedness, interpretation, volunteer management, and museum ethics. through the generosity of friends and colleagues of the late Peter S. LaPaglia, the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) and the Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI) are pleased to offer the Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI Scholarship to cover the cost of tuition. In past years, several state associations, including the Arkansas Museums Association, North Carolina Museums Council, Mississippi Museums Association, and South Carolina Federation of Museums, offered scholarship and/or travel assistance to its members. In addition, John and Cynthia Lancaster offer scholarship assistance to a member of the Tennessee Association of Museums. thanks to the generosity of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) is pleased to offer the John Kinard

Scholarship Fund for two staff members of AAAM institutional museums or individual AAAM members to attend SEMC’s Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI).

The two annual scholarships of $1,500 each will cover the tuition for JIMI and travel expenses. The John Kinard Scholarship Fund is established in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Created by an Act of Congress in 2003, the Museum is scheduled to open on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 2015. For information on the Museum’s current programs and exhibitions visit www.nmaahc.si.edu or call 202.633.4751. Please note AAAM membership on your JIMI application. applications for JIMI and the Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI Scholarship are currently available at the website address shown below, with an October 31, 2015, deadline for submitting applications. JIMI is a SEMC program sponsored by Goosepen Studio & Press, Jekyll Island Museum and Historic Preservation, LaPaglia Companies, Satilla Computer Solutions, and North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties. We gratefully acknowledge support from Gaylord Brothers and Goosepen Studio & Press for additional JIMI 2016 scholarships.

JIMI alumni will have a reunion meeting at the annual SEMC meeting in Jacksonville, FL, October 12–14, 2015. In addition, members of the JIMI Class of 2015 will lead a session to discuss their experiences and answer questions about the JIMI program. for additional information, contact Martha Battle Jackson, JIMI Administrator, 919. 733.7862, ext. 236, martha.jackson@ncdcr.gov; John Lancaster, 615.791.4826, jsl2d@me.com; or Susan Perry, Executive Director, SEMC, 404.814.2048, sperry@semcdirect.net or download an application at www.semcdirect.net.

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Photo courtesy of Dan Smith.

SEMC Executive Director Susan Perry and recently retired AAM President Ford Bell hugged by a live dinosaur!

SEMC’S AAM EVENT AT THE FERNBANK SEMC hosted almost 300 people at an evening event at the Fernbank Museum as part of the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting in Atlanta! Attendees indulged in Southern food and specialty cocktails, enjoyed music from Music Maker Relief Foundation Atlanta artists Eddie Tigner and Albert White, and danced under the dinosaurs! They were also able to tour the Fernbank’s latest exhibition, The Power of Poison.

SEMC would like to thank the generous sponsors of this event, Solid Light and Malone Design/Fabrication.

Vicki Vanderlinden and Cynthia Torp (right), owner of Solid Light, a sponsor for the Fernbank event (along with Tom Wright, owner of Malone Design/Fabrication), tours the exhibition The Power of Poison.

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Fernbank educator conducts experiment during The Power of Poison with help from a wary Natasha Hartsfield and Margo Carlock.

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above: A delicious Southern feast at the Fernbank Museum. Photo courtesy of Dan Smith.

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SEMC Quarterly Newsletter Ad MAY 2015

clockwise: 1) Doing the “Dinosaur Stomp”? 2) New SEMC Manager of Communications and Member Services Mary S. Miller, Susan Perry, and outgoing SEMC Manager of Comm. Jill Malool. 3) Nick Gray and Lisa Tremper Hanover light up the dance floor. 4) Former SEMC Treasurer Patrick Daily visits with Lisë Swensson early in the evening. Photos courtesy of Dan Smith.

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THE CHALLENGE

CONTINUES Help SEMC Match a $10,000 Challenge

THE CHALLENGE IS ON to make our Endowment grow. This past year we launched our first Matching Gift Challenge for the SEMC Endowment. Thanks to the generosity of a special donor, all gifts to the SEMC Endowment, up to a total of $10,000, will be matched dollar for dollar for the next two years! Today, thanks to your generous contributions, we are getting close to reaching our goal of $10,000. Now our challenge is to surpass that goal!

As any museum professional will tell you, endowment funds are necessary to stabilize and secure the future for any organization or institution. Some of the strongest museums in our region are the ones who benefit from a healthy endowment.

Likewise, our professional network in the region, SEMC, is stronger because of the William T. and Sylvia F. Alderson Endowment Fund. For over twenty years, professional members and friends of SEMC have made commitments of distinction to the Endowment. Cumulative gifts of at least $1,000 to the SEMC Endowment earn the

donor the title of Alderson Fellow and reflect a personal commitment to the professional association that means so much to each of us. Funds from the SEMC Endowment benefit professional development activities of the association and ensure future growth of our profession in our region.

Some of our strongest supporters of the Endowment are those who have held leadership positions within SEMC. Council members support the fund each year and our Past President’s Circle has provided donations to the Endowment the previous three years as part of a campaign.

Come learn more in Jacksonville, or, if you’d like to accept the challenge now, please make your check payable to SEMC and send to: SEMC Endowment, P. O. Box 550746, Atlanta, GA 30355-3246. If you would prefer to use a charge card you can donate from the “Support SEMC” page of our website, www.semcdirect.net. Thank you!

— Micheal Hudson SEMC Past President

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Graduate Assistants Contribute to Historic Columbia Museums Curatorial Assistant Ellen Robertson and Other Public History Graduate Assistants Help Establish New Interpretive Spaces for Historic Columbia Museums Through Mutually-Beneficial Program

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or decades Historic Columbia has offered University of South Carolina public history graduate assistants opportunities to grow in meaningful ways beyond the textbook and outside the classroom. Hands-on curatorial work has been a meaningful way for these students to build their portfolios and empower HC to reach its goals each year. While experiential learning at HC is not new, projects during the past three years involving secondyear museums-tract public history students have yielded impressive and lasting results in particular. Such work proves

especially exciting and noteworthy when it is central in the organization’s interpretive growth.

Such has been the case at the Robert Mills House, the circa-1823 mansion considered Historic Columbia’s flagship property. When opened in 1967, this architectural jewel operated as a traditional historic house museum featuring period rooms whose contents were assembled with a largely decorative arts approach in mind. The venerable building retained this approach for forty-five years before curatorial

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John Sherrer (a 1998 USC public history alumnus) and Director of Historic House Museums Fielding Freed to create an orientation gallery and revamp the recent acquisitions and ceramics galleries. “Without the assistance of budding professionals such as Ellen, we would be hard pressed to successfully debut new interpretive spaces,” reflects Freed.

opposite: Each school year, curatorial assistants play a vital role in the curation of new interpretive spaces at Historic Columbia. Last year, two curatorial assistants collaborated on what has become a very popular focus gallery on silver (page 31).

staff began to pare back the number of period rooms, replacing them with focus galleries. Instead of three bedrooms and a sitting room on the building’s second story, three traditional galleries explore various aspects of the institution’s overall museum collection.

During the 2014–15 school year, Ellen Robertson, a secondyear graduate student serving as Historic Columbia’s curatorial assistant, worked with Director of Cultural Resources

With a hand in every aspect of exhibition curation, graduate assistants get a taste of what may lie ahead in jobs after graduation. “From artifact research, selection and installation to interpretive narratives, label copy and installing exhibits, Historic Columbia’s graduate assistants do it all, and I wouldn’t want it any other way,” Sherrer says. “We grant them considerable intellectual latitude while providing support in what amounts to a public history laboratory.”

— Carrie Phillips, Director of Marketing & Communications, Historic Columbia Museums

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Amazement Square President/CEO Mort Sajadian, Pastor Shirley Hunter, First Lady Michelle Obama. opposite: Amazement Square Staff Celebrate their National Medal.

Southeastern Museum Recipients of the National Medal for Museum and Library Services Amazement Square, Lynchburg, VA, and Louisiana Children’s Museum, New Orleans, LA

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ongratulations to the two Southeastern recipients of the 2015 National Medal for Museum and Library Services: Amazement Square, in Lynchburg, VA, and the Louisiana Children’s Museum, in New Orleans.

This award is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries for service to the community. For 21 years, the award has celebrated institutions that present extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service to make a

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difference for individuals, families, and communities. The award was presented by First Lady Michelle Obama at an event hosted by the White House on May 18.

Amazement Square, Lynchburg, VA Amazement Square is a hands-on museum with a focus on creating unique learning experiences with lasting impacts on the lives of children and their families, sparking their imaginations, creativity and curiosity. Since opening in 2001, the museum has become a regional resource for education and cultural enrichment. They offer interactive and engaging exhibitions, school programs that bring the Standards of Learning (sol) to life, imaginative interpretive programs and workshops, hands-on outreach activities, cultural festivals and annual events. Their investment in downtown revitalization supports the surrounding community.

“Receiving the National Medal is a tremendous honor for our museum and the people who work to create our unique environment. We continuously respond to the needs of our community and strive to make it the best place for hands-on learning,” says Mort Sajadian, PhD, Amazement Square President/CEO. “This distinction is a testament to the exceptional dedication and passion from our staff, board of directors, volunteers and supporting community — past and present.”

Community Member Shirley Hunter In 2009, Shirley Hunter, who is assistant pastor at Dominion Now Word Ministries, started a low cost daycare

in Lynchburg. Through a partnership with Amazement Square, the daycare provides at-risk children instruction in reading, American Sign Language, Spanish language, and the arts. Pastor Shirley credits Amazement Square with helping the center equip the city’s neediest children with the social and academic skills they need for a great start in kindergarten. She hopes to earn a Child Development Associate Credential and provide similar early learning daycare services to all parts of the city. She says, “Amazement Square helps us make a positive impact in children’s lives by providing an outlet that makes learning fun and gives children a different mindset about life.”

The Lousiana Children’s Museum, New Orleans, LA The Louisiana Children’s Museum offers 30,000 square feet of interactive exhibits and educational programs that encourage learning through play. Beyond its big blue doors, the Museum is working to build a stronger community by fostering the healthy development of children and strengthening the connections between the child and the family, and the child and the community. Louisiana Children’s Museum community programs such as Play Power, Word Play, Literacy Pathways, Family Camp and Sensory Friendly Learning focus on early childhood development, resiliency building, family literacy, parenting and other critical life skills.

“We believe that it is our responsibility to be relevant to our community in a great variety of ways,” said Julia Bland, CEO of the Louisiana Children’s Museum. “The Louisiana

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Children’s Museum’s programs focus on the belief that all children are born full of potential. Offering opportunities and experiences for children to grow into their potential is extremely important.”

Community Member Kanitra Charles Kanitra Charles, a single mother of four, won a yearlong membership to Louisiana Children’s Museum and discovered that the exhibits challenged her children through play and new real world experiences. She enrolled in the museum’s Eat, Sleep, Play and Word Play family programs,

as well as a 20-week parenting course. The programs introduced Kanitra and her children to learning, literacy, and healthy eating concepts that changed their home life. She now prepares healthier snacks for her children instead of junk food and reads with them using books from the class. She feels that her experiences with Louisiana Children’s Museum have helped her children acquire a love of learning and equipped her to support their development. Kanitra says, “My family has shared countless joyous occasions either at the museum or participating in a program of the museum—all eye-opening, fun learning experiences!”

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Tubman Museum Opens New Facility Largest Museum in Southeast Dedicated to African American Art, History, and Culture after 15 years of planning and construction, the Tubman Museum officially opened to the public on May 16. The new Tubman Museum is located in the heart of downtown Macon in the Cherry Street Plaza.

The Grand Opening weekend festivities, in partnership with the 19th Annual Pan African Festival of Georgia, featured a ceremonial parade from the old building to the new Museum, a ribbon cutting and remarks from Richard Keil, the founder of the Tubman Museum. The public enjoyed guided tours and educational activities in the new facility as well as a free concert in the Cherry Street Plaza and a Praise Day Celebration. The Pan African Festival

of Georgia’s festival included an African Marketplace of food, art, and merchandise as well as dance and music performances and other family activities.

The new Tubman Museum was developed by award-winning museum architects and planners, Verner Johnson.

Verner Johnson’s architectural design found its inspiration in the Tubman Museum’s own collection. The museum’s architecture recognizes the power and importance of color, pattern and texture in African American traditions and art, and uses each of them to create a truly unique place which symbolizes an artistically rich and highly spirited part of Macon’s, Georgia’s and America’s cultures.

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Founded in 1981, Macon’s Tubman Museum is the largest museum in the Southeast dedicated to African American art, history and culture. The new facility will house five primary exhibitions: Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People combines historical documents and photographs with works of art that address the legacy of Harriet Tubman as an abolitionist, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and an activist for the rights of African Americans and women.

Black Artists of Georgia brings together collections of both academic and self-taught artists that confront cultural assumptions. It features 49 works, executed in a variety of media, from 40 different artists, including Kojo Griffin, Romare Bearden, and Ana Bel Lee. The History of the Dream is a series of textile panels by prolific fabric artist, Wini McQueen. They pay homage to the individuals, institutions and organizations that have made a positive contribution to the quality of life in

Macon, Georgia and who were instrumental in the founding and development of the Tubman Museum.

From Africa to America is a chronological mural made up of nine panels by Wilfred Stroud. Each panel explores and celebrates a different era in African American history.

From the Minds of African Americans celebrates the ingenuity, as well as the perseverance and creativity of African Americans by highlighting inventors of items like the Super Soakertm and the gas mask.

Named in honor of Harriet Tubman for her life, legacy and courage, the Tubman Museum is the largest museum in the Southeast dedicated to the art, history and culture of African-Americans. The Tubman Museum’s mission is to present African American art, culture and history through diverse exhibitions, innovative educational programs, cutting edge technology and a host of special events throughout the year. It is located at 310 Cherry St., Macon, GA.

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The AAAM will use a grant of $219,424 to guide the development of a strategic plan; assess and refine the priorities of its board of directors; create a recruitment strategy for

an Executive Director; and evaluate and revise AAAM’s existing website and digital media presence. A thorough needs assessment of the state of African American museums will be conducted and the findings will be distributed in a comprehensive summary report along with an updated directory intended to strengthen the role of AAAM as a resource for African American museums and their stakeholders.

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THE PAST PRESIDENTS CIRCLE Members of the Past Presidents Circle contribute $150 annually for at least two years to the endowment fund: George Bassi Sharon Bennett Tom Butler Tamra Sindler Carboni

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THE WILLIAM T. AND SYLVIA F. ALDERSON ENDOWMENT FELLOWS Twenty-six members of SEMC have made commitments of distinction as Alderson Fellows. Their investment of at least $1,000 each is a significant leadership gift, reflective of a personal commitment to the professional association that has meant so much to each of them.

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

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Our Current Alderson Fellows (minimum $1,000) T. Patrick Brennan Michael Brothers W. James Burns David Butler Horace Harmon Pamela Hisey Micheal Hudson Rick Jackson Andrew Ladis Allyn Lord Michael Anne Lynn R. Andrew Maass Darcie MacMahon Robin Seage Person Steve Rucker Kristin Miller Zohn

THE PETER S. LAPAGLIA JIMI SCHOLARSHIP FUND Established in 2008 to honor Pete LaPaglia’s dedication to the museum field and recognize his inspirational leadership of SEMC’s Jekyll Island Management Institute, this fund helps endow an annual JIMI scholarship. 2015 marks JIMI’s 15th anniversary, and SEMC has achieved the goal to bring the fund’s total over $16,205.

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New or Renewal Memberships Received SEMC thanks those who have renewed or joined our organization for the first time between March 2015 and May 2015. Without your support and participation we could not provide region wide services such as our Mentor, Awards, and Scholarship programs, as well as our outstanding Annual Meetings and nationally acclaimed Jekyll Island Management Institute. If you are an individual member and your museum is not an institutional member, please encourage them to join.

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ALABAMA Kenneth Gaddy, Director of the Bryant Museum, greeted their one millionth visitor Pat DuBose with a gift basket and congratulations from the staff. Pat with her husband and twin sons from Saraland, Alabama visited the Museum on April 17. Gaddy stated, “The Museum views it is as a privilege to preserve and display the history of UA athletics.”

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Congratulations to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on receiving the AAM Excellence in Exhibitions Award for their innovative State of the Art exhibition. State of the Art was the result of the ultimate road trip to a thousand destinations. In 2013, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s curatorial team hit the road to investigate what’s happening in American art today. Over the course of a year, the team logged more than 100,000 miles, crisscrossing the United States to visit nearly 1,000 artists. Traveling to communities large and small, the Museum sought to discover artists whose work had not yet been fully recognized on a national level. On their travels, museum curators conducted hundreds of hours of one-onone conversations with artists in their studios. The result of this unprecedented journey was a one-of-a-kind exhibition that drew from every region of the US, offering an unusually diverse look at American art. State of the Art brought together the artwork of more than 100 artists, ranging from works on canvas and paper to photography and video to installation and performance art, and more. The exhibition examined the ways in which today’s artists are informed by the past, innovating with materials old and new, and engaging deeply with issues relevant to our times.

GEORGIA Since opening in August 2003, Booth Western Art Museum has experienced several milestones. At 10:10 am on June 4, 2015, it welcomed its 500,000th visitor. Miss Jenny

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Crum, an 11 year old aspiring artist from Cartersville, entered through the South entrance on what she expected to be a typical visit to her favorite museum. Crum, the daughter of Kristen Lindemer and Mark Crum, utilized their Booth Museum Family Membership for a morning outing with friend Megan Patton. Upon checking in, Booth Museum Director of Marketing Tom Shinall informed Crum that she was the 500,000th visitor to the museum. “It was completely unexpected,” said Crum of the experience. “We walked around downtown waiting on the gates to open so that we could come in and look at the art,” said Crum. On behalf of the Museum, Shinall presented her with a Booth Museum Gift Bag that included books, posters, memorabilia, and a one-of-a-kind cowboy sketch by Booth Museum Director of Special Projects Jim Dunham. Since the age of five, Crum has participated in Booth Art Academy Camps and Classes.

“I love any form of art and I love creating art,” said Crum.

Kent Mullinax, Booth Art Academy Manager says of Crum, “I’ve watched her talents develop as a young artist through her participation in summer camps and classes. This could not have happened to a better person.”

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The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association (LHA) are proud to announce that Michael A. Ross’s The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era (Oxford University Press 2014) as the winner of the 2014 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History. In The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case, Ross offers the first full account of a late-nineteenth-century crime that electrified the South at one of the most critical moments in the history of American race relations. Painting a vivid picture of the Reconstructionera South, the book uncovers the complexities and possibilities that faced a newly integrated society. The Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for Louisiana History, named for the founders of The Historic New Orleans Collection, is awarded annually by THNOC and the LHA. Since its inception in

1974, the prize has recognized excellence in research and writing on Louisiana history. Recipients receive a cash award of $1,500 and a plaque and are announced at the LHA’s annual meeting.

The West Baton Rouge Museum has received two grants to support the research and publication of the history of Cohn High School, the only high school for African American students in the parish. The grants are from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and from DOC DHL, Inc. The grant award from the nonprofit community-based organization DOC DHL, Inc. funded an oral history project of Cohn High School faculty, staff and alumni which were collected in 2014. The tapes were transcribed in 2015 and are available to researchers at the

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West Baton Rouge Museum. Over ten years ago, DOC DHL, Inc. successfully gained recognition for Cohn High School by the National Register of Historic Places. The grant from LEH was a Rebirth Grant from the Louisiana Endowment to write and publish the history of the historic high school. The history will be featured in Cultural Vistas of Louisiana Magazine, published by LEH. The booklet will be published by the West Baton Rouge Museum and will be available for free to the public by request. The research was conducted by Jenna Steward, Julia Rose, and Angelique Bergeron at the West Baton Rouge Museum.

VIRGINIA Congratulations to the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, which was recently reaccredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Accredited status from the Alliance is the highest national recognition achievable by an American museum. Of the nation’s estimated 17,500 museums, 1,048 are currently accredited. To earn accreditation a museum first must conduct a year of self-study, and then undergo a site visit by a two-person team of peers. The Accreditation Commission then considers these results to determine whether a museum should receive accreditation.

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SOUTH CAROLINA The Gibbes Museum of Art, in Charleston, SC, is being restored and renovated and will reopen in the spring of 2016.

In the heart of Charleston’s historic district, construction of the Silver LEED design, by Evans & Schmidt Architects, began in 2014. ¶ The Gibbes was constructed stoutly of solid

masonry in 1905, but without any physical accommodation space for running any electrical piping or air conditioning.

Consequently, as those necessities were added over the years, the ceilings were repeatedly lowered, which totally changed the character of the building’s many spaces. The challenge was to redesign and consolidate these modern day necessities, incorporate additional life safety features,

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and restore as much of the original spatial character as possible. ¶ The original building was incredibly open, dependent entirely on natural light and a few gas light fixtures to illuminate the interior. Over the years, as more gallery hanging space became needed and exhibit layout fashions changed, the natural light was eventually blacked out. Future visitors will embrace the far brighter renovated spaces that better connect the indoor gallery spaces with the outdoor garden.

Because of advancements in glass protected surfaces, the additional sunlight will not harm the artwork and sculpture on display. ¶ Visitors will step through the front door and see clearly through the building all the way to the redesigned garden in the rear. Looking right or left, they will discover the marble flanking staircases enticing them to venture upstairs. A physical visual relationship with the exterior is maintained at all levels, which is contributory in helping to lower stress and increase stamina. ¶ The renovation restores not only the facade but encourages the public to once again freely walk down the 1905 hallways and observe active art studio work and classes taking place on a daily basis as was

originally envisioned in 1905. This practice had been discontinued since the 1960s. The Gibbes Art Museum is one of Charleston’s preeminent cultural institutions, and the renovation will ensure that the future needs of the museum are best addressed while restoring this 110-year-old building as close as possible to its original condition and mission.

VIRGINIA The National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) already tells more than 200 years of the Corps’ rich history, but it’s still a work in progress. The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with the Marine Corps, recently broke ground on the 126,000 square feet that will complete the Museum. The new spaces will include two historical galleries that tell the Marine Corps story from the mid-1970s to the present, a giant-screen theater, an art gallery and studio, classrooms, a children’s gallery, Marine Corps sports gallery, and a Hall of Valor, as well as a changing exhibits area. The entire build-out will take five years, with the new spaces

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opening in phases. The classrooms, children’s gallery, art gallery, Hall of Valor, and theater open in 2017, followed by the historical galleries in 2018. A sports gallery and hall of fame will open in 2019. And finally, the changing gallery opens in 2020, along with a new gallery in the original section of the

Museum that explores the years between WWI and WWII. NMMC will be open throughout construction except for a few months in early 2016 while new aircraft are installed in Leatherneck Gallery.

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exhibitions

From the Motorcycle Memories exhibition at the Boyd Gallery of the Fort Smith Museum of History.

ARKANSAS The popular exhibit, Motorcycle Memories, is on view in the Boyd Gallery of the Fort Smith Museum of History through August 30. The exhibition, which was first presented in 2008, features vintage motorcycles and photographs exploring the “art of the motorcycle” in Fort Smith and the region from the 1940s through present day.

Fort Smith has an historical association with motorcycle culture. Learn about the people and places that put the region on the map for motorcyclists. Quin Winter’s Bike shop on Towson Avenue was the nexus of motorcycle culture in Fort Smith from 1939 until 1975. His sons, Leroy and Robert Winters, gained national fame for their accomplishments in the field of motorcycle racing. In 1940, Fort Smithian Ercie Gann became a charter member of the Motor Maids, a national organization of female motorcyclists. The annual Razorback Run, a one hundred fifty mile round trip ride from Fort Smith to White Rock Mountain

near Mulberry, Arkansas, drew motorcycle enthusiasts from a regional area from 1952 to 1955. Otis Spiker played a vital role in the area cycling culture. As one of the few manufacturers of Henderson motorcycle parts, Spiker gained national recognition as well as becoming a regional motorcycle legend. Motorcycle Memories is designed to unite the “art of the motorcycle” with the generation of Americans that enjoy a lifestyle peculiar to the American mainstream. The exhibition strives to educate future generations about a fascinating spectrum of Americana

GEORGIA Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller created American cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration

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camps. Filming The Camps – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg, on view at the Atlanta History Center through November 20, presents rare footage of the liberation of Dachau with detailed directors’ notes, narratives describing burials at Falkenau, and the documentary produced as evidence at the Nuremberg trials, among other historic material. In addition to this rare footage, the exhibition shows how the violence of World War II and the exposure to the victims of Nazi atrocities caused a complete upheaval in the lives and careers of these three Hollywood directors.

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents the exhibition El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte through September 13. From the international fight against fascism to protecting the proletariat, El Taller de Gráfica Popular (the Workshop for Popular Graphics, or TGP for short) worked diligently to keep pertinent issues before the populace of Mexico and the world. Covering the period from the TGP’s predecessor, the LEAR (the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists), through the most active years of the workshop, the exhibition of approximately 250 works presents an extensive collection of large-scale posters (carteles), small flyers (volantes), books and pamphlets, powerful fine art portfolios and calavera newspapers that exemplifies TGP’s lasting contributions to the Mexican printmaking tradition. The TGP used art to inspire and inform in a country where literacy and communication technology were not widespread. Images of revolution, resistance and unity were often paired with anti-Nazi and anti-fascist messages and printed on the economical, easily distributed volantes and the larger, more visible carteles. ¶ Remarkably prolific, the TGP produced works in a wide variety of media, specializing in linoleum prints and woodcuts. From Raúl Anguiano to Alfredo Zalce, workshop membership included many notable 20th-century Mexican printmakers. The workshop also instructed students from other countries in the techniques of printing and printmaking. During the New Deal era in the United States, some Works Progress

George Stevens and his crew in France, 1944.

Administration artists collaborated on projects with the TGP. Several years later, during the U.S. civil rights movement, Chicano and African American artists such as Elizabeth Catlett would produce work there as well. The proliferation of television and radio in Mexican homes, along with a more stable political environment, eventually made the use of carteles and volantes for disseminating

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information unnecessary, and the workshop’s productivity slowed. The TGP will always be remembered, however, as a distinct part of Mexican history, when art put social and political issues before the people and brought them to life. The accompanying catalogue, which will contain extensive scholarship and images, will be one of the very first authoritative texts in English on the workshop.

LOUISIANA The Alexandria Museum of Art presents two exciting exhibits this summer. ReTooled brings to life the unexpected subject of tools by profiling 28 visionary artists from the Hechinger Collection featuring more than 40 imaginative paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and photographs. All of the works remind us that tools embody the can-do spirit that defines America and the quest to improve our quality of life. The Hechinger Collection began in the 1980s as an initiative to make his rapidly expanding hardware company’s new headquarters appear

At the Georgia Museum of Art, Francisco Dosamantes, Taller de Gráfica Popular: Exposición 20 Litografías, 1939.

less bare and has resulted in John Hechinger’s acquisition of a tool-inspired collection of diverse twentieth century art. Illuminating a variety of modern and contemporary

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above: At the Alexandria Museum of Art, Lucas Samaras, Brush, 1968, silk screen relief. left: Jacob Lawrence, Carpenters, 1977, lithograph.

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art that celebrates an overlooked subject through pun, wit, and wonder, The Hechinger Collection has exhibited at venues such as the National Building Museum, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Joslyn Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design. Retooled will be on view through August 22, 2015 Artists Among Us: Faculty & Friends is an annual invitation exhibition which is inspired by the creative resources in the Alexandria, LA, community and showcases faculty, staff, alumni, and volunteers of some of the arts organizations and arts education institutions in the Central Louisiana region. Artists Among Us will be on view through August 22, 2015.

The landmark exhibition From “Dirty Shirts” to Buccaneers: The Battle of New Orleans in America Culture

commemorates the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans and is on view at the Cabildo on Jackson Square in New Orleans through January 8, 2016. The overwhelming defeat of the British Redcoats at the hands of “dirty shirts” — as the British derisively called their foes — captured the American imagination, contributed to a sense of national identity and propelled Andrew Jackson to the White House. Using a variety of artifacts, images and documents, the exhibit opens with an exploration of the battle’s history emphasizing the diversity of its participants and closes with an investigation of how the battle has been remembered, commemorated and represented. In addition to the more than 100 artifacts, images and artworks from the museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition includes the blue wool uniform coat that Andrew Jackson wore while leading troops at Chalmette, on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

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At THNOC, the exhibition From Winnfield to Washington: The Life and Career of Huey P. Long.

At the Cabildo, coat worn by Andrew Jackson at Chalmette, LA, Jan. 8, 1815. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Although he held office for less than two decades, Huey P. Long (1893–1935) remains one of the most visible, influential and controversial political figures in Louisiana history. Sept. 10, 2015, marks the 80th anniversary of Long’s death, and The Historic New Orleans Collection will examine his career and legacy in the exhibition From Winnfield to Washington: The Life and Career of Huey P. Long.

The free exhibition, located at 533 Royal St., will remain on view through Sept. 20, 2015. Featuring pictorial materials, objects, documents, and audiovisual components drawn from THNOC’s extensive holdings on Long, the exhibition will fill in the details of Long’s life beyond the most

well-known anecdotes. Special programming and public events offered throughout the run of the exhibition will provide further insight into his career and influence.

The recently restored murals painted by the internationally recognized folk artist Clementine Hunter are the focus of a new exhibition at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum in Natchitoches. Best known for her smaller paintings, Hunter completed the murals in 1955 at the urging of Melrose Plantation resident and librarian François Mignon.

The murals decorated the walls of historic African House,

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one of the plantation’s outbuildings, until last year, when they were removed for restorations by a team of fine art conservators. Like many of Hunter’s other artworks, the murals document the social life and customs of African Americans living in the Cane River region. They, along with some of Hunter’s other large-scale artworks, will be on display through April 2016.

The Louisiana State Museum salutes the art of costume design in its new exhibition, From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: Two Carnival Artists, at the Presbytère, 751 Chartres Street, on Jackson Square, in New Orleans. This exhibition of 65 original watercolor costume sketches and two original gowns focuses on the work of two accomplished Carnival designers, Helen Clark Warren and John C. Scheffler. Warren, a Massachusetts native, designed elaborate costumes for kings, queens and captains of various New Orleans krewes from the 1930s to the 1950s while maintaining a thriving fashion design career in New York City.

Native New Orleanian John C. Scheffler gave up a career in architecture in the mid-1960s to work in New York as

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The exhibition will be on view through December 4, 2016.

Running through July 12, the West Baton Rouge Museum will pay tribute to Raful Neal, “Godfather of Baton Rouge Blues,” and his talented family with the exhibition Neal Family Blues. The Blues emerged in the Southern United States at the turn-of-the-century and numerous West Baton Rouge residents played a part. Rooted in African American field hollers, work songs, spirituals, and country string music, the blues captured the hardships of life in the Deep South. Juke joints, weekend parties, and picnics were the primary venue for blues musicians on acoustic guitar, piano, or harmonica until southern blues moved north to places like Chicago where they thrilled wider and wider audiences and inspired rhythm and blues

and rock and roll. Erwinville native Raful and his wife Shirley had 10 kids together; all of them musically inclined.

While other local musicians found fame in the north, Raful remained in the Baton Rouge area to raise his family and contribute to the local music scene. Raful Neal, a member of the Blues Hall of Fame as well as the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, played numerous juke joints and music halls

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across the region including 14 consecutive years at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Sons Kenny and Lil’ Ray Neal have carried rural blues to the international stage, while grandsons Tyree, Chris, and BroBro carry the next generation into the hip-hop scene. The exhibit Neal Family Blues will feature a vintage jukebox playing Neal family albums, as well as instruments, photographs, and video on loan from the family.

Neal Family Blues exhibition at the West Baton Rouge Museum.

Also on view at the West Baton Rouge Museum is When the Cannons Fell Silent, an exhibit commemorating the sesquicentennial of the end of the American Civil War. The exhibition features one of the finest collections of original Civil War prints available, including works published

by Frank Leslie. Mr. Leslie spared no expense in commissioning twenty skilled artists to sketch “every battle, skirmish and military movement, to give to the anxious ones at home a vivid and realistic picture of the real war.”

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From the West Baton Rouge Museum’s exhibition When the Cannons Fell Silent.

Becker, Henry Lovie, Francis B. Schell, A. Berghaus, Wm. T. Crane, C. E. H. Bonwill, J. E. Hillen, E. F. Mullen, and F. B. Wilkie, as well as sketches by officers of both sides of the conflict. The seven prints by Winslow Homer show

the very human side of the Civil War, from breaking a wishbone at Thanksgiving to playing “football” to relieve stress. The Civil War was a dramatic and devastating time in the history of the United States. The exhibition features

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From the exhibition Selected Recent Acquisitions at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.

From the exhibition 25 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.

Louisiana battlefield artifacts and artifacts that represent ways some Baton Rougeans mourned and remembered including mourning jewelry, period scrapbooks, and commemorative plaques. Pieces by artist Angela Gregory are included. The 1886 Confederate Statue commissioned by people of East and West Baton Rouge was typical for many southern cities trying to rebuild after the war’s devastation. The exhibition is on view through August 16, 2015.

Since its launch in April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has provided stunning images of faraway stars, galaxies and nebulae, and has shed light on many of the great mysteries of the universe. Today HST continues to provide views of cosmic wonders never before seen. 25 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope will display some of the most intriguing images taken by the HST. The exhibition will be on view at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge, LA, through August 31.

Also on view this summer at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum is Selected Recent Acquisitions. On view for

the first time are recently acquired paintings and prints dating from the mid-1950s through 2012 by significant American artists, including Bob Kane, Richard Segalman, Hunt Slonem, and Robert Vickrey. The artworks on view were selected from a group of fifteen recent gifts representing the work of eight artists. The artworks were donated to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum by the artists themselves or their estates through the HarmonMeek Gallery in Naples, Florida. The exhibition closes September 13.

MISSISSIPPI Blues Portraits in Steel is on view through October at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, MS. The exhibit is a series of original portrait sculptures by steel sculptor Scott Cawood, depicting legendary Mississippi Delta Blues artists. Scott Cawood is a self-taught sculptor with a deep background in blacksmithing and metal fabrication who lives and works in the historic village of Antietam, MD. He reuses and re-purposes scrap and found steel to create

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almost all of his sculptures. Scott is known nationally for his Siren Of TI, on public display at Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas. And in his native Maryland for several public art pieces including Spire in Frederick, MD, and Climb & Glide along the Great Allegheny Passage in Frostburg, MD. He has received wide recognition for his sculptures and has shown his work in galleries and museums in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore; Miami; New Orleans; Las Vegas; Mesa, AZ; and Maui, HI.

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From July 18 to October 11, 2015, the Asheville Art Museum will feature Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm by Asheville photographer Ken Abbott. After discovering the old Sherrill’s Inn in 2004 while chaperoning his daughter’s preschool field trip to Hickory Nut Gap Farm, Abbott, a newcomer to Western North Carolina, spent the next several years photographing the Fairview, NC, house and family. Sherrill’s Inn, a stagecoach stop and drover’s stand along an important trade route to Rutherfordton, NC, and

parts east, became the private home and farm of Jim and Elizabeth McClure in 1916. Jim, a distinguished Protestant minister, started the Farmer’s Federation in the early 1920s, and Elizabeth, a painter educated in Paris prior to WWI, set about creating a home and gardens at the old inn. After almost 100 years of busy family life, the home and working farm have become an important center for the Fairview community, as well as a monument to Elizabeth’s sense of the importance of beauty in daily life. Ken Abbott received his MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art in 1987, and spent 15 years as chief photographer for the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He moved to Asheville with his family in 2002. The exhibition will be accompanied by the book Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm about which Alex Harris, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, writes, “Ken Abbott’s photography and Hickory Nut Gap Farm is a marriage made in heaven, or about as close as we get to heaven here in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina. For almost a hundred years, one extended family has lived on and created a uniquely beautiful farm

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and community in this place. In Useful Work, Ken Abbott so thoroughly and beautifully depicts the surface and soul of this home and farm, that he reminds us how the best photographers can focus on something seemingly small, yet evoke our common humanity. This book represents an extraordinary achievement in life and in art.” For further details visit ashevilleart.org and kenabbottphoto.com.

From the Asheville Art Museum’s exhibition of Ken Abbott’s Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm.

Tattoos, nail art, jewelry, and fashion — the newest Mint Museum-organized exhibition, Body Embellishment, explores the most innovative artistic expression in the twenty-first-century international arenas of body extension, augmentation, and modification. The exhibition will be on view through September 6, 2015, at Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts, 500 South Tryon Street in Charlotte. The human impulse to ornament the body is an ancient desire that crosses cultures. Seeking to modify the natural skin and shape of the body, people have created imaginative ways to expand and distort, and add color, pattern, and narrative. Focused on twenty-first century innovators, this exhibition provides a glimpse at

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inventive designers from around the world who explore the role of the body and its embellishment.“What makes Body Embellishment such a fascinating exhibition is its exploration of radical ways artists are redesigning our bodies to reflect twenty-first century life,” said Annie Carlano, the Mint’s senior curator of Craft, Design, & Fashion. “Through interventions with skin, nail extensions, wearable sculpture, and redefined body shapes, designers from throughout the globe are expressing emotional and intellectual responses to the everyday, individual and group identity, and ever-shifting concepts of beauty. Groundbreaking

research introduces audiences to work by emerging artists that has never been seen in this country, alongside works by international superstars such as Filip Leu, Carlos Rolon (aka Dzine), Lauren Kalman, and threeASFOUR.”The exhibition includes approximately 100 objects by artists and designers, also including Naomi Yasuda (whose work has appeared on the nails of Madonna, among others), Stephanie Tamez, Mi-Ah Rödiger, and Nora Fok. It is accompanied by a dynamic interactive digital exhibition catalogue authored by Mint curators, which will be available in the gallery and via mintmuseum.org.

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From Carolina Makers at the South Carolina State Museum.

SOUTH CAROLINA The South Carolina State Museum recently opened a new art exhibition, Carolina Makers, which celebrates South Carolina makers who are producing handmade objects for everyday use for people locally and around the world. Carolina Makers focuses specifically on local makers from South Carolina, including instrument builders, furniture makers, metal workers, clothing designers and more. The exhibition spotlights these individuals and small businesses, the incredible objects they are making and the many ways in which they are enhancing and

enriching lives. There will be a variety of programs and special events held in conjunction with this exhibition, including evening live music and acoustic jam sessions taking place the second and last Tuesday of each month and a farm to table dinner on Thursday, July 30. The farm to table dinner will feature locally grown and sourced food and drinks prepared by South Carolina chefs and bartenders, live music provided by the makers themselves and will also feature usable dining objects produced by the makers.

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innovations ARKANSAS The Clorox Company and Glad Manufacturing in Rogers have partnered with the Rogers Historical Museum to offer hands-on and interactive history programs to local schoolchildren. The Clorox Company awarded a grant to the Museum to help offset the cost for providing The Museum’s Rocky Branch field trip program to over 1,000 students in 2015. During the program, students spend the day just as children 100 years ago would have – writing on slates, completing lessons from vintage textbooks and playing with toys from the early 1900s during recess.

While the Rocky Branch program is a hit with children, it’s also popular with area teachers who see the program as a way to get their students excited to learn about their heritage. The Rogers Historical Museum has offered the Rocky branch program for more than 20 years, and schools throughout Benton and Washington counties, as well as home school groups participate.

Rodgers Historical Museum Rocky Branch field trip program.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has launched its third mobile app, CB Outdoors, an interactive guide to the art, plants, and other features of the Museum’s beautiful 120-acre campus. The app covers nearly 60 plants that are found on the Museum grounds, 27 art and architecture elements, and five natural features that are found on the property. It also covers 12 trails, including the three City of Bentonville trails that connect to the Museum’s trail system. The free app for Apple and Android devices integrates with iBeacons hidden on our grounds to send alerts when users are near a special tree or plant. The app also gives users the opportunity to participate with the museum community. It encourages the submission of photos when none are available in order to aid the museum in capturing the beauty of its 120 acres.

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LOUISIANA The Louisiana State Museum has launched its new website, LouisianaStateMuseum.org. Designed by Trumpet, a New Orleans-based advertising and marketing firm, the website provides an interactive platform to promote the nine museums in the statewide network. The site also features LSM’s new brand created last year. “This stunning website substantially expands Louisiana State Museum’s presence, making our system of museums more

accessible than ever,” Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne said.

“It incorporates best practices of design, functionality and user experience, allowing visitors to interact with our museums and connect via social media.” The site incorporates bold images, colors and graphics that bring LSM’s online resources together with a consistent look and feel, simplified navigation and improved layout.

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NORTH CAROLINA Teens are invited to engage with art and design at the Mint Museum in a wide range of new ways with the help of a recently launched initiative, NexGen Mint. Teens’ lives are centered around home and school — and now, the NexGen Mint’s vision is to offer them a nurturing, creative “third place.” It’s a creative community to exchange ideas, have fun, interact, and learn from artist role models and peers. Thanks to major grants from the Jimmie Johnson Foundation and Wells Fargo and additional support from IBM and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts & Science Council, the Mint is rolling out a series of new offerings

for students ages 14–18, including: free memberships, opportunities for teens to interact with internationally known artists and designers, new ways of online interaction via a new website with curated, teen-focused content, and scholarships for 30 teens to attend a week-long art camp.

Following a series of teen focus groups during 2014, public events kicked off with a teen round table with contemporary artist Mel Chin at Mint Museum Uptown in February.

Chin, a former Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center for Art + Innovation, introduced the participating teens to his installation SEA to SEE, which he created to analyze human environmental impact on the world’s oceans in conjunction with a recent Mint exhibition examining the centennial of the Panama Canal. And March 21–22, teens met at Mint Museum Randolph with contemporary Pueblo artist Rose “Bean” Simpson of Santa Fe, NM, for a handson roundtable and workshop.

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people and places ARKANSAS ASU Museum welcomes a new Curator of Collections: Elisabeth A. Engel. Engel holds a M.A. in Historical Administration from Eastern Illinois University. She comes to us with over twelve years of collections experience, having served as Director of Collections and Exhibits at Waukesha County Museum in Waukesha, WI, from 2005 to 2014, and Curator of Artifacts at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, WI, from 2001 to 2004. Engel replaces Julie MacDonald, who took a job at the LDS Church Museum of History and Art in Salt Lake City in January.

Eureka Springs Historical Museum announces Stephanie Stodden is the new Museum Operations Manager, and Sara Armellini is the new Director of Collections. The museum is also having a Louis Freund exhibit starting in May to correspond with May Fine Arts

Month in Eureka Springs. Finally the museum is happy to announce that Voices from Eureka’s Silent City will take place October 22–24 and October 30 and 31. This is the seventh year of for the cemetery tour event. Last year they had approximately 1,300 people in attendance for the five nights of performances and it continues to be their biggest fundraiser.

Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie is pleased to announce two new staff members. Nancy Hancock has been Executive Director and Beverly West is the new gift shop manager. They are also premiering a traveling exhibit Delta Rediscovered: Arkansas County which opens at the museum on May 22nd through the end of July. It is a collection of photographs called Dayton Bowers’ photography “pioneering.” The collection is from the early 1800s to mid 1920s and Bowers’ work focused on the lives and culture of Arkansas County.

DISPLAY PROTECT EXPLAIN To find out more about our art display systems contact: Paul Mastriani 10-31 Inc. Toll-Free: (800) 862-9869 Email: pmastriani@10-31.com www.absoluteproduct.com

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

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NATIONAL MUSEUM MEETINGS

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans offers college students and high school juniors and seniors a summer experience unlike any other. Student Leadership Academy takes students through the history of WWII with the aim of exploring leadership lessons from one of the most important periods in world history. This six-night, seven-day program, July 12–18, immerses students in the Museum’s wealth of exhibits, artifacts, images and documents with structured Leadership Lesson Debates along the way. Students will feel what it is like to be a member of a five-man crew inside a Sherman Tank, inspect the flight logs of a bomber pilot and handle the gear of an infantryman in WWII. Students will continually revisit the theme of “what it means today,” relating the lessons of WWII to their own lives and the world around them.

The Academy will give students a deeper understanding of history and the repercussions of decisions, as well as real-life experience to take them to the next stages of their lives. The focus on leadership and decision-making provides the skills needed for success in college and career. Being able to analyze a situation, chart a course of action, and defend the selected plan will enable students to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Students who participate in Student Leadership Academy are eligible to receive three credit hours from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) Conference will be held August 4–7, 2015, in Memphis, TN. For more information visit blackmuseums.org.

The American Association of State and Local History’s (AASLH) annual meeting will take place in Louisville, KY, September 16-19, 2015. See aaslh.org.

STATE MUSEUM MEETINGS Florida Association of Museums September 8–11, 2015, St. Petersburg, FL Louisiana Association of Museums September 13–15, 2015 | Alexandria, LA

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