UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MUSEUM OF ART
IMPACT REPORT
2023–2024
Mission
The University of Arizona Museum of Art advances the academic and research mission of the University, inspires critical dialogue among campus and community audiences, and celebrates art as essential to our lives through the stewardship and interpretation of its expanding collection of art and archives.
UAMA staff, led by the Strategic Planning Committee, began formulating a new strategic plan to span from Fall 2024–2027. The plan is informed by the museum’s mission and vision, setting actionable goals for the years ahead. Particular areas of focus are learning and engagement, collection stewardship, visitor experience and access, and sustained success.
A Word from the Director
DEAR FRIENDS OF THE UAMA,
As we close out the 23/24 year at UAMA and my first official year as director, I am proud of our accomplishments and filled with gratitude for the museum’s staff and supporters who helped make them possible.
This was an inspiring year with a robust exhibitions schedule, highlighted by solo exhibitions of two beloved Arizona artists, Marlowe Katoney and Annie Lopez. Their exhibitions were incorporated into many class tours and inspired a variety of public events and programs. We also lent artworks from the museum’s permanent collection — among them our Mark Rothko and Kerry James Marshall paintings — to prestigious institutions in the United States, France and Germany. Although we missed enjoying them here at UAMA, it was exciting to see them incorporated into major exhibitions that generate new scholarship to the field.
We launched a new and dynamic website made possible through a generous bequest by Rosemary Blonigan, a former Art Education student who often visited the museum in her breaks between classes. In addition, the beautiful upgrades in the Arts District — including the Marroney Theatre, sculpture oasis, courtyard, and grand staircase — are nearing completion and have already enlivened the area and increased the museum’s visibility.
While there has been much to celebrate, this year was not without its challenges. We completed a feasibility study and subsequently launched a capital campaign to build a new museum, which was featured as one of the University of Arizona’s Fuel Wonder campaign priorities. The building project was soon put on pause as the university announced significant financial challenges and leadership changes. As we work through this transition, we continue to fundraise for mission-critical initiatives, including staff positions and art conservation, to ensure the museum’s sustainability and commitment to excellence.
I look forward to keeping you updated on exciting news in the coming year, including a new three-year strategic plan, a major art conservation project, facility improvements, the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Mapping Q, and the blockbuster exhibition Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES – From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
Olivia Miller Director
PEOPLE
At the heart of UAMA is a talented and dedicated staff of eleven who each help to fulfill the museum’s mission through their essential roles. The UAMA is further supported by its Leadership Council, volunteer docents and student interns.
Staff
Olivia Miller, Director
Willa Ahlschwede, Assistant Curator, Education & Public Programs
Violet Rose Arma, Curatorial Assistant & Administrative Support
Todd Caron, Security Officer
Albert Chamillard, Exhibition Specialist
Louis Estrella, Lead Security Officer
Chelsea Farrar, Curator of Community Engagement
Sara Swayden, Archivist
Myriam Sandoval, Visitor & Member Services Lead Kristen Schmidt, Collection Manager/Registrar
Christine Rose Weir, Senior Marketing Specialist
Leadership Council
Charles & Moira Geoffrion
Cita Scott
Lauren Rabb
Liz Hernandez
Rob Leff
Marc & Fleurette Wallach*
Randy & Abby Greene*
*Have since retired from Leadership Council
Docents & Student Gallery Educators
UAMA docents and gallery educators create meaningful art experiences with learners of all ages, from K12 school classes to university courses and community groups. These passionate volunteers and students bring artworks and exhibitions to life through interactive tours in the museum’s galleries, guiding people to look closely and make connections with art, ideas and each other. Led by Assistant Curator Willa Ahlschwede, docents and gallery educators work with UAMA staff to complete training, ongoing education, and research as well as to support events and special projects.
Amelie Allen
Gerry Bates
Sarah Bodney
Patricia Brooks
ami dalal
Krysta Ellis
Isabelle Holden
Jenna Green
Linda Lee
Devan Marín
Barbara Martin
Sara Salek
Lexie Shaw
Rand Tapscott
Patti Tuori
Ed Warner
Joël Williams
Constance Wit
Interns
Camilla Benning-Zapien, BA student in Gender and Women’s Studies | Education Intern
Jason Carrick, BA student in Classics, Anthropology and Art History | Collections and Exhibitions Intern
Linda Garcia Escobar, BFA student in Art and Visual Culture Education | Education Intern
Molly Hedlund, BA student in Art History and Classics | Collections Intern
Rylie Mizer, BA student in Art History | Ed & Marti Slowik Curatorial Intern
Raven Moffett, PhD student in American Indian Studies | Education and Curatorial/Collections Intern
Maddy Schierl, MA student in Art and Visual Culture Education | Education Intern
Delaney Thomas, MA student in Classics | Education and Collections Intern
Jade Vidal, BFA student in Art and Visual Culture Education | Education and Curatorial Intern
Jennie Weiss, MA student in Art History and PSM in Economic Geology | Kornhaber Art History Scholar
Matt Clemens, MA student in College of Information Science | Archive of Visual Arts Intern
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
Pulse: Weavings and Paintings by Marlowe Katoney
OCTOBER 14, 2023 – MARCH 23, 2024
Trained as a painter at the University of Arizona, artist Marlowe Katoney (Diné) was taught to weave by his maternal grandmother in 2010. Since then, Katoney has used a hybrid approach to his weaving practice, combining elements from painting, color theory, perspective, and composition with traditional Navajo iconography and designs.
The subjects of Katoney’s work are varied, as he literally and figuratively weaves traditional imagery with contemporary pictorial practices. Many works directly relate to events in his life, while others are drawn from larger concepts related to popular culture, street art, nature, family and Navajo culture. As the artist explains:
“For me, being an artist is an ongoing pursuit of freedom. It’s of the aesthetic of not being limited to the notion of having to abide by the popular [perceptions] of beauty or to create something readily identifiable as being ‘Navajo’ but instead it’s to deconstruct old ideas to create new ones… Addressing subject matter and composition in this way contextualizes traditional Navajo weaving into contemporary art.”
Pulse featured approximately thirty weavings and paintings created over the span of fifteen years that were drawn from both private and public collections.
The exhibition was curated by Dr. Anya Montiel, Curator and Native American Art Historian, and Olivia Miller, UAMA Director and Curator. It was made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Fall Exhibitions Reception
OCTOBER 26, 2023
This evening reception marked the opening of Pulse: Weavings and Paintings by Marlowe Katoney, as well as celebrated the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition. It began with a VIP event featuring remarks by co-curator Olivia Miller, refreshments and musical entertainment by guitarist Facundo Martinez. The public portion included music by DJ Alias, hands-on art-making activities and a special breakdance performance — an homage to a cultural scene that served as inspiration for Katoney’s weaving series Axis Radius
Event captured by Nikita Marie Photography.
MORE PULSE PROGRAMMING
Instagram Live with Textile Experts
In this four-part educational series on Diné textile arts hosted via Instagram Live, UAMA and the School for Advanced Research (SAR) explored everything from historical perspectives to contemporary approaches through interviews with artists and cultural experts. Guests on the series included Marlowe Katoney, Venancio Aragon, Velma Kee Craig and Darby Raymond-Overstreet.
Gallery Talk with Pulse artist Marlowe Katoney and co-curator Anya Montiel
OCTOBER
28, 2023
Dr. Anya Montiel — a Native American Art Historian and Curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian — spoke with Winslow-based artist Marlowe Katoney (Diné) about his weaving practice.
Contemporary Diné Weaving with Velma Kee Craig NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Velma Kee Craig (Diné), Assistant Curator at the Heard Museum and a textile artist who teaches Diné weaving workshops across Phoenix, gave an in-person talk at the museum. She has co-curated multiple Heard Museum exhibitions, including Substance of Stars, Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles, and Toward the Morning Sun: Navajo Pictorial Textiles from the Jean-Paul and Rebecca Valette Collection.
Hip-Hop, Culture and Latinx Spirituality with Alex Nava
MARCH 28, 2024
During this in-person gallery talk inspired by themes in the Pulse exhibition, Professor of Religious Studies Dr. Alex Nava considered the role that hip-hop played in his youth and how it helped shape his fascination with words, poetry and social justice. He also looked at how the genre has evolved over its 50 years, focusing on the sub-genre of Latinx hip-hop — including reggaeton and Latin trap — and how it has captured the struggles, adversities and triumphs of Latinos in the Americas.
Annie Lopez: Origin Story
JANUARY 13 – JUNE 8, 2024
Annie Lopez is a storyteller. Informed by family history, remedies, and lived experiences as both a MexicanAmerican and fourth-generation Phoenician, her stories are told with text and images through her signature photography and cyanotype prints.
The UAMA exhibition Origin Story highlighted two main bodies of the artist’s work: her dress forms and the Storybook series.
Lopez’s striking dresses are fashioned from vintage photographs printed as cyanotypes on tamale wrappers and woven together. The material holds a strong cultural connection, recalling tamale preparation with her family on Christmases past.
While demonstrating her inherited skills as a seamstress, Lopez highlights the financial demands of the art industry. Her use of ready-made materials focuses her craft on story and message, rather than the cost of creating. She says:
“I use materials that people can find anywhere; you can use a pencil, you can use this paper. Be more flexible with your artwork.”
The Storybook series imprints memories: Lopez’s experience of being singled out because of her skin tone, a time when her father found a discarded couch in the alley, and her appearance on the “Romper Room School” show in 1963. Though personal and often poignant, her stories are relayed with a humorous wit.
Both the dress and Storybook works invited UAMA visitors to consider their own origin stories and to think critically about how family histories are documented and remembered.
Origin Story was co-curated by UAMA Curatorial Intern Rylie Mizer (BA Art History), pictured at right with Director Olivia Miller.
Virtual Conversation with the Artist
JANUARY 24, 2024
During this virtual conversation with Director Olivia Miller, Lopez discussed her artistic evolution and provided background for her work on view at UAMA. Nationally recognized and highly awarded, Lopez was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. Her art practice, which focuses on the Chicano and Mexican experience in the Southwest, has taken her across the country. Lopez was honored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and awarded the 2016 Arizona Governor’s Arts Award. She was featured in Phoenix Magazine’s “Best of the Valley 2023,” The New York Times’ “The Much-Vaunted American Melting Pot,” and many more.
Reception for Annie Lopez: Origin Story
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
In February, UAMA celebrated the exhibition with an evening reception featuring a members preview, remarks by the artist, refreshments, musical enrichment and a tortilla printing press activity.
Cyanotype Workshop at Museum Day
MARCH 23, 2024
At the first annual University of Arizona Museum Day, Lopez taught workshop participants how to create cyanotypes using crafts, special paper and the sun.
Artist Annie Lopez at the Origin Story reception.
SCAN TO WATCH!
The Vault Show: Staff Picks
MAY 27 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
The UAMA collection is comprised of approximately 7,000 works of art that span many centuries and cultures. The Vault Show creates an opportunity to bring artworks out of storage and showcase selections from the permanent collection in new and interesting ways.
In this iteration of The Vault Show, each UAMA staff member selected between one and four works of art, creating a colorful and thematically-diverse exhibition ranging from realistic and figural to surreal and abstract.
This exhibition was supported by the Jack and Vivian Hanson Endowment.
Vault Show organizer Violet Rose Arma poses in front of Charles Littler’s Desert I — one of her picks for the exhibition — alongside Littler’s daughter Selina.
Desert Triangle was curated by Sophie Briley (BA Art History, ‘23), the Edward and Nancy Strauss curatorial intern.
Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
JUNE
3 – DECEMBER 21, 2023
The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is a collaborative project born from the mind of self-proclaimed art agitator Karl “Krrrl” Whitaker, who wanted to showcase the artistic merit within the desert of the American Southwest.
Krrrl traveled around the “desert triangle” — a region defined by Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso — to recruit 29 other printmakers, and in 2015 the “Desert Triangle Print Carpeta” was born. These artists were given no other instructions but to print on 22- x 30-inch paper and to avoid total abstraction.
Through these works, the UAMA exhibition explored themes of gender and sexuality, religious and spiritual icons, personal narratives, social and political critique, and sense of place.
Panel Discussion with Desert Triangle Artists
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
In this virtual panel discussion, UAMA Director Olivia Miller talked with Krrrl and three other contributors to the portfolio: El Paso contemporary visual artist, muralist and printmaker Ramon Cardenas; Tucson painter, printmaker and ceramist Cristina Cárdenas; and El Paso contemporary artist Manuel Guerra.
SCAN TO WATCH!
Tucson artist Ruben Urrea Moreno with his print Before the Migration at the fall Art After Dark event.
MFA Thesis Exhibition
APRIL 13 – MAY 11, 2024
An annual tradition since 1970, the UAMA was proud to host the 2024 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition along with the School of Art’s Joseph Gross Gallery.
During the last year of their coursework, graduates work closely with faculty to develop a body of original art to present to the public in lieu of a written thesis. The end result offers visitors the opportunity to see new, cutting-edge art in a variety of mediums and styles.
MFA Thesis Closing Reception
MAY 9, 2024
This reception celebrated artists Dana Smith, Jacqueline Arias, Drew Grella and Nathan Cordova — who exhibited at UAMA — as well as Hanan Khatoun, Tessa Laslo and Anita Maksimiuk — who exhibited at the Joseph Gross Gallery.
Scenes from the MFA Closing Reception.
COMMUNITY EXHIBITIONS
Making Care Drop-In Makers’ Space
Art museums play a vital role in the health and wellbeing of our communities by providing quiet spaces to learn, reflect or experience emotional responses to visual works of art. That is why UAMA offers Making Care, a reoccurring makers’ space where visitors of all ages can play, explore and create, transforming the gallery into a temporary studio through active art making. The space encourages visitors to slow down, check in with themselves, extend their time in the galleries, or simply give in to the act of play while experimenting with a rotating offering of art materials and museum educator-designed prompts.
JUNE 24 – OCTOBER 10, 2023
Centered on the idea of “care,” gallery activities included self-care trading cards, zen doodling, origami, collaborative sketchbooks, a Lego wall and seek-and-finds. A QR code provided visitors with quick access to “The Art of Mindfulness,” a UAMA audio guide that offered five multi-sensory tour stops.
OCTOBER 25, 2023 – FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Inspired by the exhibition Pulse: Paintings and Weavings by Marlowe Katoney, gallery activities included a collaborative loom, paper weaving, mini-looms, card stock sewing and eye dazzler postcards. A “Visitor Gallery” wall provided a space for visitor-artists to leave their creations.
Our Stories: High School Artists
FEBRUARY 17 – MAY 18, 2024
What unique artistic practices have teachers and student artists developed in classrooms across Southern Arizona? What ideas do young artists want to express, and how do they do it through art? This annual exhibition showcases the creativity and artistic achievement of high school artists across Tucson and Pima County. Artworks are chosen for the exhibition and submitted by local high school teachers.
High School Closing Reception
MAY 18, 2024
UAMA joined families and friends in celebrating 47 talented youth from 18 different high schools across Pima County — the largest cohort of High School Artists yet! The event included an award ceremony and, of course, cake.
Five participating artists were also chosen to receive the Outstanding Emerging High School Artist Award, selected by a jury of UAMA staff and University of Arizona School of Art faculty. In partnership with the School of Art, UAMA offered $1,000 tuition awards to any Outstanding Emerging High School Artist recipient who enrolls as a BA or BFA major at the School of Art in the next two years. Jurors judged artworks based on craft, originality, overall composition, and development of the idea or concept.
OUTSTANDING EMERGING ARTIST AWARD WINNERS
Gwen Alviar, Boxed., Catalina Foothills High Teacher: Zoe Reinhardt
Portia Bentley, Daughters of Cain, Walden Grove High Teacher: Tracy Brown
Brenton Delp, All Your Heart’s Desire, Ironwood Ridge High Teacher: Eileen Rubelmann
Sophia Gladieux, Small Moments, Ironwood Ridge High Teacher: Eileen Rubelmann
Paula Solorzano, Deflated Balloon, Salpointe Catholic High Teacher: Lisa Krikawa
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Sienna Crumbley, Flower Nicho, Rincon High Teacher: Amy Wood
Reagan Dinsdale, Pizza Cat & Burger Cat, Ironwood Ridge High Teacher: Jill Menaugh
Sophie Koren, Carnival of The Animals, Empire High Teacher: Ben Koss
Samantha Turnage, Brothers From Another Mother, Sabino High Teacher: Leva Daly
THANK YOU TO THE JURORS:
Colin Blakely | Director, School of Art
Carlton Bradford | Associate Professor, 3D, School of Art
Jenn Liv | Assistant Professor, Illustration, Design and Animation, School of Art
Alejandro Macias | Assistant Professor, 2D, School of Art
Sara Swayden | Archivist, UAMA Archive of Visual Arts
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
The Return of Rothko
APRIL 25, 2024
“There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend... One day the black will swallow the red,” recited Professor Patrick Baliani, playing artist Mark Rothko.
After six months in Paris on view in Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Mark Rothko retrospective — the largest exhibition of the artist’s work ever assembled — UAMA’s Green on Blue returned home.
To celebrate the painting’s return, Professor Baliani and Franke Honors students Nic Owen and Mireya Borgen performed John Logan’s “Red,” a dramatic account of Rothko’s life and work. The play was course material in two of Professor Baliani’s classes in the spring term: “Modern Art and Mental Illness” and “Visual Art and Brain Studies.”
The performance took place in UAMA’s Modern Art Gallery, where Green on Blue served as the backdrop.
What Did Goya See?
APRIL 11, 2024
In April, Vice President for the Arts & Dean of the College of Fine Arts Andy Schulz presented his award-winning research on the work of Francisco de Goya. A leading scholar on 18th- and 19th-century Spanish art, Schulz took his point of departure from the title I Saw It given to a print in Goya’s The Disasters of War series. He highlighted the events troubling Europe during Goya’s career and explored how bearing witness to them may have shaped the artist’s work. The talk was accompanied by a viewing of Goya prints in the UAMA collection.
SCAN TO WATCH!
Iconoclasm in the History of Art
MAY 7, 2024
During this virtual art talk, Monica Andrino — a University of Arizona student graduating with a major in Art History and minor in German Studies — joined Professor of German Studies Dr. Albrecht Classen in exploring the destruction of cultural objects and monuments through the lens of art history. They offered an introduction to the topic from a medieval perspective, then examined both historic and contemporary examples from around the world.
SCAN TO WATCH!
Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium
MARCH 15, 2024
UAMA was pleased to host AHGSA’s 33rd annual symposium. One of only 30 symposia in the country and possibly the oldest of its kind, the event is organized and led by graduate students. Nine students presented, including four from the University of Arizona’s School of Art. The event was accompanied by a viewing of works from the UAMA permanent collection.
School of Art student Jennifer Weiss presents at the AHGSA Symposium. Photo: Michael Chesnick
Virtual Art Trivia Happy Hour
UAMA hosted ten Art Trivias during the 2023–24 academic year, with themes ranging from “Battles” and “Architecture,” to “Color” and “Fashion.” The series, now in its fourth year, continues to be among the museum’s most popular events.
Art After Dark
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
UAMA kicked off its fall season with extended hours, free admission and lots of artsy fun! In honor of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition, this installment of Art After Dark celebrated all things prints. Tucson’s Tanline Printing gave hands-on letterpress demonstrations, the RISO Club was on-site to share their work and School of Art graduate students had a selection of their process artworks for sale.
The event also featured the first hybrid round of our typicallyvirtual Art Trivia Happy Hour series. Questions highlighted prints in the UAMA permanent collection, and a special pop-up exhibition showcased a sampling for in-person attendees to enjoy.
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
After a positive reception in the fall, Art After Dark returned in the spring. This time, UAMA was delighted to be joined by two neighbors in the Arts Oasis: the Center for Creative Photography and the School of Art Galleries. On top of extended hours and free admission, visitors enjoyed a scavenger hunt, fun art activities and more trivia!
Participants in UAMA’s first-ever hybrid Art Trivia, which took place at Art After Dark.
UA Museum Day
MARCH 23, 2024
UAMA and its Archive of Visual Arts (AVA) participated in the University of Arizona’s inaugural Museum Day along with seven other cultural institutions and collecting units on campus. Bridging the arts and sciences, units included the Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium, Insect Collection, Poetry Center, Worlds of Words Center, Arizona State Museum, John E. Greivenkamp Museum of Optics and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Museums offered free or reduced admission to mark the event.
UAMA
Visitors enjoyed free admission and fun activities while checking out the museum’s latest exhibitions. Highlights included an Art Sprouts event for children ages three to five and their families, Bilingual Story Time with Aprender y Jugar, a Smile AZ photobooth and a cyanotype print workshop with artist Annie Lopez.
AVA
Typically accessible by appointment only, the AVA hosted an open house, giving the general public a glimpse inside. Archivist Sara Swayden gave an in-depth presentation on its mission and the collections within its care. Visitors learned how the archives are managed, engaged with sample materials and toured the facility.
Scenes from UAMA’s fall Art After Dark event.
Art Sprouts!
UAMA collaborated with two University of Arizona Early Childhood Education courses, TLS 309 and TLS 411, to develop and facilitate literacy-based activities for Art Sprouts! — a Saturday program for families with children ages three to five.
ECE students were mentored by Curator of Community Engagement Chelsea Farrar and pulled themes for activities from UAMA exhibitions, such as weaving (Pulse), textiles (Origin Story) and prints (Desert Triangle).
UAMA also invited campus and community partners to participate, creating richer experiences for participants and their families. Partners included the university’s RISO Club, Aprender y Jugar, Agnes Attakai, the College of Public Health and artist Annie Lopez.
Art Sprouts! was offered on six Saturdays throughout the 2023–24 academic year, engaging 154 children and adults. Attendees enjoyed arts-based play and exercising their creativity muscles, and ECE students gained valuable hands-on experience with arts education and community engagement.
Early Childhood Education students pose in the UAMA lobby with a paper dress made by Art Sprouts! participants.
Members Mornings
Members Morning is a series where the UAMA opens one hour early to Museum Members on the first Saturday of every month. Members enjoy exclusive programming and mingling with one another over coffee, pastries and eight centuries of art. Here’s a sampling of programming in 2023–24:
2023
July | “Water in the Desert” presented by Violet Rose Arma, Curatorial Assistant
August | “Portraits” presented by UAMA Docent Ed Warner
September | Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum visit led by Jordan Halter
October | “War and Surrealism” presented by UAMA Docent Gerry Bates
November | Faculty Spotlight with artist Alejandro Macias
December | Winter Collection Viewing
2024
January | New Acquisitions Collection Viewing
February | Black History Month Collection Viewing
March | Women Depicting Women Collection Viewing
April | Earth Month Collection Viewing
May | “May the Fourth be with You” Space Art Collection Viewing
June | Human Rights Collection Viewing
Other Members Events
Museum Members enjoyed other exclusive programming throughout the year, including a VIP reception for the Pulse exhibition in October, a behind-the-scenes tour with the director in December, a studio visit with artist Barbara Grygutis in January, a members preview of the Origin Story exhibition in February and a guided tour of Sculpture Tucson in May.
New Faculty Reception
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Hosting the New Faculty Reception organized by the Office of the Provost is an annual tradition at UAMA and a highlight of the fall semester. This year’s reception included an introduction to Pulse by Director Olivia Miller, the exhibition’s co-curator.
OUTREACH
Mapping Q “On the Road”
UAMA’s Mapping Q program invites LGBTQ+ youth ages 13 to 24 to explore identity through art. Over the 2023–24 academic year, the program went “on the road,” offering a total of 18 workshops both online and at seven in-person venues on campus and across Tucson. These venues included the Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th, Snakebite Gallery, Woods Memorial Library, Museum of Contemporary Art – Tucson, UA Campus Health and UA RISO Club.
The series launched in Summer 2023 with a workshop at the Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th. From September to March, youth met at the Woods Memorial Library on the fourth Tuesday of every month for arts-based activities that engaged them in topics directly relevant to their lives. In the spring, Mapping Q teamed up with Campus Health’s Wellness Wednesdays series, creating a supportive space for LGBTQ+ students to increase their wellness IQ. The year closed out with a five-week workshop series developed and facilitated in collaboration with the UA RISO Club and held at the Book Arts and Letterpress Lab.
In total, the “On the Road” series saw more than 90 meaningful engagements with youth participants who explored topics like self-care, community building and harm reduction through the visual arts. The program also provided internships for two University of Arizona students, giving them the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in arts education in both the museum setting and community.
UAMA CELEBRATES THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAPPING Q PROGRAM IN FALL 2024! ALONG WITH A SPECIAL EXHIBITION, THE OCCASION WILL BE MARKED BY WORKSHOPS, LECTURES AND A RECEPTION.
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BE-LEAF AND BLOOM
In April, UAMA Curator of Community Engagement Chelsea Farrar and education intern Linda Garcia Escobar facilitated a hands-on arts and wellness activity as part of “Be-Leaf and Bloom,” a UA Campus Health initiative aimed at substance- and social mediause harm reduction, as well as building coping skills for stressful events. Over 25 students stopped by the table, where they practiced on personal mini-looms.
AWE WALKING AT UAMA
In collaboration with Creative Encounters in Awe Walking, a program of Innovations in Healthy Aging, UAMA hosted two Awe Walks this academic year. Jenna Green — an Arts and Visual Culture Education PhD student and UAMA gallery educator — co-facilitated the workshops, inviting walkers to explore color while they practiced mindfulness.
Creative Encounters in Awe Walking gives students and community members tools to maximize positive health benefits while taking short walks. Backed by recent neuroscience research, the goal is to promote an accessible and affordable wellness practice across the lifespan. The series is run by Dr. Jennie Gubner and her PhD student Sydney Streightiff.
CASE STUDIES IN CARE
Chelsea Farrar and Jenna Green joined panelists Drs. Carissa DiCindio (University of Arizona), Dana Carlisle Kletchka (Ohio State University) and Callan Steinmann (Georgia Museum of Art) to present “Case Studies in Care: Cultivating Spaces and Collaborations in Universities through Art Museum Education” at the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries virtual conference in June 2024.
Staff in the Community
Willa Ahlschwede, Assistant Curator of Education & Public Programs, and Archivist Sara Swayden served on the Arizona Arts Diversity and Inclusion Committee as co-chairs from UAMA. In this role they supported D&I initiatives, awards for students and events. Along with Alex Moral from the Center for Creative Photography, they developed and co-facilitated a Data Dialogue session for staff from UAMA, CCP and Arizona Arts Live to share results from the 2023 Arizona Arts Climate Survey.
Curatorial Assistant & Administrative Support Violet Rose Arma presented at the National Art Education Association’s Annual Conference in April 2024. In her presentation “Art for All: Experiencing Art Beyond Sight,” she shared her research on how art museums can be more accessible to people with visual impairment. Violet also authored an article on museum accessibility published in Legacy magazine, as well as a list of accessibility guidelines published on the American Alliance of Museums website.
Exhibition Specialist Albert Chamillard curated FUNHOUSE at the Pidgin Palace Arts gallery, which featured his own work as well as artists Amber Doe, Karlito Miller Espinosa, Eli Blasko, Geneva Foster Gluck, Treynor Tetik and Racheal Rios. Albert also served as a juror of UA’s “On Our Own Time” employee art exhibition along with Violet.
Albert’s work You’re Better Off Dead, composed of 666 hand-crushed cans, on view in FUNHOUSE. The exhibition also featured Amber Doe’s retour à la maison (colonized language), pictured at left.
Personal & Professional Development
Chelsea Farrar, Curator of Community Engagement, served on the advisory committee for the Family Pride Initiative, a collaboration among the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation and Dr. Russ Toomey with the Norton School of Human Ecology.
Chelsea also served as a panelist for the Tucson Unified School District’s Arizona Arts Proficiency Seal and as a judge for the third annual District 5 Youth Art Contest, as well as spoke about her role as a museum educator via Google Meet with students at Mancos High School in Colorado on their Career Day.
Director Olivia Miller shared the concept and curatorial process behind her exhibition The Art of Food during a presentation at The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida. The exhibition was on view at the Baker as part of a multi-leg museum tour after leaving the UAMA in Spring 2022.
Violet Rose Arma, Curatorial Assistant & Administrative Support, participated in a four-week “Ableism 101” workshop held by the University of Arizona’s Disability Cultural Center (DCC).
Myriam Sandoval, Visitor & Member Services Lead, became a Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA) through Visit Tucson in Fall 2023. By expanding their awareness of attractions, experiences, gastronomy, history and culture of the region, CTAs are knowledgeable about all that Tucson and Southern Arizona have to offer. This means Myriam is well-equipped to answer any questions about Tucson that UAMA visitors might ask, like where to eat and what else to see!
Archivist Sara Swayden participated in multiple professional development engagements this year, including with the Digital POWRR (Preserving Objects With Restricted Resources) Project Institute, a Threat Assessment & Management training, and a Stop the Bleed training. She also attended a virtual session focused on emergency planning for collections care, and a grant-writing seminar hosted by the Northeast Document and Conservation Center.
Lead Security Officer Louis Estrella and Security Officer Todd Caron received Campus Security Authority (CSA) certification, making them part of a broader university effort to both report crime and provide resources to victims.
In December, multiple staff members attended a copyright presentation generously offered by the Office of General Counsel (OGC) at the Center for Creative Photography. OGC colleagues shared important information on copyright, fair use, moral rights and other legal considerations relevant to museum professionals.
In the spring, Collection Manager/Registrar Kristen Schmidt led a weekly yoga class in the galleries. The class — which welcomed staff of all ability levels — promoted healthy stress management, strength, mobility, flexibility and balance.
Chelsea Farrar poses with Pima County’s District 5 Supervisor Adelita S. Grijalva and her fellow Youth Art Contest judges after reviewing over 300 submissions and selecting five winners.
EDUCATION, INTERPRETATION & RESEARCH
Guided and Self-Guided Group Visits
Ranging from preschoolers to retirees, over 4,100 students and community members explored UAMA this year as part of a group visit or field trip. UAMA educators — including staff, student gallery educators and volunteer docents — facilitated meaningful learning experiences and moments of connection uniquely possible in an art museum environment.
Roughly 1,077 K12 students representing 27 schools or extracurricular programs exercised their imaginations — as well as the ability to look closely, think critically and share ideas — while exploring centuries of artworks from around the world.
About 2,500 members of the campus community visited UAMA as part of a course or group tour. These students and faculty represented 45 different university courses and programs, spanning disciplines from Astronomy to Landscape Architecture. At least 280 students from regional community colleges also visited with their classes.
A Dorrance Scholar student takes notes during a group tour at UAMA. The tour is an annual part of the program, which instills college-going traditions in future generations of Arizonans through financial access, academic support and unique enrichment experiences.
University of Arizona Course Collaborations
Every year UAMA works with university faculty to embed art and museum experiences into courses, whether they are one-time visits or semester-long collaborations. The museum becomes a learning lab for students through customized activities, presentations by museum staff and experiential projects in research, curation and teaching practice.
ART, BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
UAMA collaborated with the Franke Honors College course “Art, Borders and Boundaries,” taught by Dr. Kate Alexander, throughout both the fall and spring. Each semester, students in the course visited the museum multiple times, meeting with staff in preparation for their group exhibition. Inspired by themes in the course, they selected works from the UAMA permanent collection, researched them and wrote corresponding labels. The students then exhibited their selections and interpretations in a pop-up exhibition at the museum, offering the public the opportunity to see their collective scholarship.
NAVAJO LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
Director Olivia Miller, co-curator of the Pulse: Weavings and Paintings by Marlowe Katoney exhibition, collaborated with Dr. Aresta TsosiePaddock of the American Indian Studies Department and the students in her Navajo language course to translate wall labels for the gallery. Dr. Tsosie-Paddock also provided audio translation of an interview with the artist, accessible through the UAMA Connects Mobile Guide.
SCAN TO LISTEN!
MEDICAL HUMANITIES FOR ALL
Throughout Fall 2023, Assistant Curator Willa Ahlschwede and student gallery educator Jenna Green collaborated with Dr. Amy Hu — Director of Medical Humanities and Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the UA College of Medicine — to guide all first-year medical students in practicing skills like observation, interpretation, communication and empathy. Instead of applying these skills with patients in a clinical setting, the roughly 130 students approached artworks in the museum, moving outside their comfort zones and uncovering shared meaning through open-ended discussion. The collaboration expanded to include residents, interns and faculty from the Internal Medicine division, and, in Spring 2024, it included an inaugural session for 35 residents from the Family and Community Medicine division.
Willa Ahlschwede, Assistant Curator of Community Engagement & Public Programs, poses with Professor Sami Raynes-Houseknecht’s “Forensic Accounting” class. The visit included a presentation by Director Olivia Miller on “Fakes and Forgeries” followed by a communication exercise in the galleries.
Special Collection Viewings
Expanding access to artworks beyond current exhibitions, UAMA staff work with courses from a variety of disciplines, as well as researchers and community groups, to pull artworks from the vault for close study in the museum classroom. Viewings for courses are often developed around themes or artistic phenomena, and UAMA staff collaborate with instructors to both curate lists of relevant works and facilitate conversations about them. Examples include:
• School of Art professor Cerese Vaden’s “Collage and Constructions” students viewed diverse examples from the permanent collection.
• School of Art instructor galen dara’s illustration students spent time sketching with a selection of examples from throughout history.
• Pima Community College instructor Lisa Hastreiter Lamb’s “Drawing and Design” students viewed surreal and narrative artworks to inspire their final project: a symbolic self-portrait.
• School of Art associate professor Larry Gipe’s “2D Studies” students selected drawings in a variety of media and styles to view.
• School of Sociology assistant professor Dr. Samantha J. Simon’s “Policing and Society” students explored visual representations of policing and the justice system throughout history.
• Department of Agricultural Education associate professor Dr. Matt Mars’ “Innovation and You” course analyzed artworks depicting critical perspectives on technology, innovation and human ingenuity.
• School of Art instructor Jonathan Marquis’ students examined the intricate etchings of Giovanni Piranesi as part of a unit on 2- and 3-point perspective drawing. Students then created their own projects inspired by the 18th-century artworks.
• School of Art assistant professor Dr. Jeehey Kim brought her art history students to view examples of contemporary East Asian art.
• School of Art professor Dr. Irene Romano’s “Art of Plunder” course learned about fakes, forgeries and friendly copies in the history of art with Director Olivia Miller. They then viewed artworks that were donated to UAMA in the mid-20th century and later discovered to be forgeries.
Intern Project Highlights
Education interns Camilla Benning-Zapien and Maddy Schierl helped Curator of Community Engagement Chelsea Farrar get UAMA’s Mapping Q program — an artmaking workshop series for LGBTQ+ youth — “on the road.” Camilla facilitated four arts-based workshops at UA Campus Health, developed to complement their Wellness Wednesday themes. Maddy, in collaboration with the School of Art’s RISO Club, created a five-week hybrid workshop series where participating youth collaborated on designs and learned how to create risograph prints.
Education intern Linda Garcia Escobar enhanced special exhibitions Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, Pulse: Weavings and Paintings by Marlowe Katoney, and Annie Lopez: Origin Story with engaging hands-on activities. They ranged from weaving to printmaking, and enabled museum visitors to explore the processes and materials used by the artists on view. Linda also reached community members beyond the museum’s walls, facilitating workshops for students at the CATalyst Studio and co-facilitating “Bridging Borders: A Tortilla Press Printmaking Workshop” at the W.A. Franke Honors College.
Education and curatorial intern Jade Vidal worked closely with Assistant Curator Willa Ahlschwede to support interpretation and design of Paul Valadez: Selections from the Great Mexican-American Songbook, on view starting in Summer 2024. Jade researched the artist and other exhibitions of his work, then helped draft didactic text and lay out the gallery — including an interactive poetry activity and reading area. Jade continues her internship through Summer 2024 and is developing a digital educational resource detailing the history and significance of Japanese woodblock prints in the UAMA collection.
Linda shows guests how to use a tortilla printmaking press at the Annie Lopez: Origin Story exhibition reception.
Education and curatorial intern Raven Moffett — an MFA graduate now working toward a PhD in American Indian Studies — used interdisciplinary expertise to interpret artworks by Southwest and Indigenous artists. Working with Willa Ahlschwede, Raven completed a comprehensive review of Indigenous artists in the UAMA collection, updating how their heritage or tribal affiliations are described in the museum database and including more specific and culturally-relevant terms. The project culminated with a public viewing of works by contemporary Indigenous printmakers — an opportunity to connect with Indigenous community members, organizations and campus partners. Raven also developed educational materials for the exhibition Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, gathering biographical information for the 30 artists featured in the portfolio and creating a guide to printmaking processes and terminology that could be used by docents, teachers and students.
In addition to co-curating the exhibition Annie Lopez: Origin Story, curatorial intern Rylie Mizer supported provenance research on collection objects marked for deaccession.
Collections research and education intern Delaney Thomas, advised by Dr. Irene Romano, worked with Willa Ahlschwede and Collection Manager/Registrar Kristen Schmidt to conduct provenance research on a group of ancient Mediterranean objects in the UAMA collection. After archival and object-based research, Delaney wrote an academic paper describing her findings on the origin and chain-of-custody of several limestone and terracotta heads — fragments of votive sculptures from ancient Cyprus. She then developed a blog post for general audiences exploring the history and importance of provenance research, using these UAMA objects as her case study.
AVA SUMMER INTERNSHIP
In May 2024, the Archive of Visual Arts recruited an intern from the UA iSchool of Information. Masters candidate Matt Clemens is working alongside Archivist Sara Swayden to process backlogged collections. Clemens is receiving hands-on experience in applying archival theory and DACS standards in a real-world setting.
Jennie Weiss was the 2023–24 Kornhaber Art History Scholar, a graduate or advanced undergraduate student who is selected by art history faculty in the School of Art to complete a research-based project relating to the UAMA permanent collection. Supported by Willa Ahlschwede and Kristen Schmidt, Jennie combined her background in art history and geology to research depictions of mining and extractive industries in collection artworks. In addition to an academic paper on her work, Jennie wrote interpretive materials and curated a popup exhibition as part of the Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium. She also created thematic lists of artworks that can aid curators and researchers in the future.
COLLECTION
Loans from the Collection
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Spam , 1995
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map Exhibition
THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK, NY (ORGANIZER)
19 April to 13 August 2023
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH
15 October 2023 to 7 January 2024
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
15 February to 12 May 2024
Kerry James Marshall, Century Twenty One , 1992
Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America Exhibition
FRIST ART MUSEUM, NASHVILLE, TN (ORGANIZER) 15 September to 31 December 2023
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON 18 February to 12 May 2024
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, WASHINGTON, D.C. 6 July to 22 September 2024
Horace Vernet, Portrait of the Marchesa Cunegonda Misciattelli with Her Infant Son and His Nurse , 1830
Horace Vernet 1789–1863 Exhibition
PALACE OF VERSAILLES, FRANCE 14 November 2023 to 17 March 2024
Detail of Morris Louis’ 1957 painting No. IV.
Sargent Claude Johnson, Untitled, n.d., and Self-Portrait , 1947-1967
Sargent Claude Johnson Exhibition
THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART MUSEUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS, SAN MARINO, CA
17 February to 24 May 2024
Mark Rothko, Green on Blue ( Earth-Green on White ), 1956
Mark Rothko Retrospective Exhibition
FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS
18 October 2023 to 2 April 2024
Narsiso Martinez, USA Product , 2021
Just Cause: The Power of Contemporary Art in Social Engagement Exhibition
MESA CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM
7 October to 10 December 2023
Rozeal, divine selektah...big up , 2006
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century Exhibition
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART (CO-ORGANIZER)
26 March to 9 July 2023
ST. LOUIS ART MUSEUM (CO-ORGANIZER)
25 August 2023 to 1 January 2024
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT
22 February to 26 May 2024
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM
28 June to 29 September 2024
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
23 November 2024 to 23 March 2025
From Top: Kerry James Marshall’s Century Twenty One at Frist Art Museum (Image courtesy of Frist Art Museum, Nashville. Photo by John Schweikert); Mark Rothko’s Green on Blue at Fondation Louis Vuitton; Rozeal’s divine selektah...big up at the Cincinnati Art Museum; and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s Spam at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Image courtesy of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Photo by Kevin Todora).
Works
Acquisitions
The UAMA acquired a number of interesting and exciting objects for both its permanent collection and the Archive of Visual Arts this year. The majority were generously donated by patrons and friends of the museum.
UAMA
Käthe Kollwitz, From many wounds you bleed, oh people, n.d., Line etching, drypoint, aquatint and burnisher (restrike) | Gift of Daphne Daly
Rembrandt van Rijn, Peasant Family on the Tramp, n.d., Etching (possibly second state) | Gift of Jennifer Clarke
Erwin Rehmann, Bronze Rod IX (bronze) and Polygrams, 1969, 12 works on paper | Gift of the Rehmann-Zumsteg Estate
Sheila Pitt, Various, 1998–2013, 8 prints | Gift of David Contreras
Reg Butler, The Manipulator, 1954–1956, Shell bronze and welded iron | Gift of Gwendolyn Weiner
Various Artists, Oaxaca Collective, 2010–2020, Portfolio of 35 prints | Gift of Karl Whitaker
Marlowe Katoney, Survivor: An American Experience, ca. 2012, Germantown yarn weaving | Gift of Jim Hutson-Wiley and Olga Echevarria
Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs, Mother and Child, 2004, Linocut on paper | Gift of Paul Gold and Greer Warren
pictured, by Artist (Clockwise from Top): Käthe Kollwitz, Rembrandt van Rijn, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs and Reg Butler.
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Veloy Vigil, Autumn Song, Ten-color from five-aluminum plates | Gift of John Attardi
David Andres, Sphenoids — San Juan River, 1980, Acrylic, gouache and mica on sewn rice paper | Gift of the artist in memory of Diane Theriault and Nancy Ingersoll
AVA
In November, Director Olivia Miller and Archivist Sara Swayden took a trip to Pasadena, California to meet with donor Bina Garfield — daughter-in-law of portrait artist Frances O’Brien. During the visit, Mrs. Garfield donated two folders of correspondence letters and photographs to be added to the Frances O’Brien Collection at the Archive of Visual Arts.
Rights & Reproductions
The reach of the Museum’s collection is expanded and its impact strengthened when images are used in research or publications.
This year, scholars, students and museums from across the globe requested images for art history research papers, presentations and class lessons, monographs and textbooks. Requests came from Arizona, Colorado, France, Spain, Germany, Korea, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Mark Rothko’s Green on Blue (Earth-Green on White) saw particularly broad exposure. As expected, it was published in the catalogue for Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Mark Rothko retrospective, where it was on loan in the fall. It was also used as a comparison image in several publications, illustrating Rothko’s influence on artists such as Chu Teh-Chun, Caspar David Friedrich and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Artist Barbara Rogers, Professor Emeritus of the School of Art, donated one painting from her Gardens series titled Shrines to Botanical Relics #15, along with seven lithographs and two boxes of ephemera. These pieces will join her archival collection at the AVA, adding to the understanding of her depth and diversity as a leading mixed-media artist in the Southwest.
Detail of Jungle Red, a 1983 lithograph by Barbara Rogers and recent addition to her collection at the Archive of Visual Arts.
Above: An image of UAMA’s Portrait of the Marchesa Cunegonda Misciattelli with Her Infant Son and His Nurse by Horace Vernet appeared in a magazine publication about the Palace of Versailles’ exhibition on the artist.
In Memoriam
Richard Hunt
SEPTEMBER 12, 1935 — DECEMBER 16, 2023
Natural Form Number 6, 1968, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. Memorial Fund
Ed Mell
1943 — FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Cloud Canyon I [detail], Oil on linen, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. Memorial Fund
Lucas Samaras
SEPTEMBER 14, 1936 — MARCH 7, 2024
Box #25, 1964, Mixed Media, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. Memorial Fund
Richard Serra
NOVEMBER 2, 1938 — MARCH 26, 2024
Untitled [detail], 1990, Two-panel screenprint and Paintstik on coated paper, Gift of Daniel Powers
Audrey Flack
Frank Stella
MAY 12, 1936 — MAY 4, 2024
Star of Persia I [detail], 1967, Color lithograph on graph paper, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. Memorial Fund
Liz Whitney Quisgard
1929 — APRIL 21, 2024
Conflict [detail], 1957, Oil on Masonite, Gift of Edward Joseph Gallagher, Jr.
MAY 30, 1931 — JUNE 28, 2024
In 2016, UAMA staff had the pleasure of spending time with Audrey Flack, who came to put the finishing touches on a sculpture the museum commissioned. She painted right in the Gallagher Gallery, inviting visitors to observe her at work and even stopping to spend time with an excited group of youth artists from Flowing Wells High. She gave a public presentation and obliged to take a photo with her 1977 painting Marilyn (Vanitas), one of the most iconic works in the permanent collection. She was an artistic pioneer, creative force and lovely person, and we at UAMA will always cherish our memories of this special visit.
Photo by Marie Teemant.
16,520
Campus Community Visitors
4,145
4,835 Visitors on a Tour
UAMA Connects Mobile Guide: 935
1,507 5,045 Active Users Sessions Page Views
83K
YouTube Views
545 Social Media Interactions
1,100
7,600 New Website Users
In the News
Highlights from more than 30 media hits:
October 18, 2023 | Hyperallergic
“Southwest Printmakers Look to the Borderlands”
October 25, 2023 | The New York Times
“Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and In Half Light”
January 30, 2024 | AZPM
“State of the ArtZ: UAMA Pulse Exhibit”
March 1, 2024 | Southwest Contemporary “Marlowe Katoney: Living Histories”
March 1, 2024 | AZ Mirror
“LGBTQ+ youth face increased risk for suicide and barriers to accessing mental health care”
March 14, 2024 | ABC 15
“Mystery deepens: Was the de Kooning painting the only stolen art in couple’s home?”
May 4, 2024 | The Guardian
“FBI looks into thrill-seeking teachers alleged to have been global art thieves”
Virtual Program Attendees
May 8, 2024 | Southwest Contemporary “Work in Progress with Annie Lopez”
GIVING HIGHLIGHTS
Website Makeover
In March, UAMA unveiled a fresh, new website thanks to a generous bequest from Rosemary Blonigan. This enabled UAMA to work with the FORM Group — a Clevelandbased creative services firm for arts and culture nonprofit organizations — who customized the site to the museum’s needs. The result is an intuitive and visually-engaging visitor experience with interactive features and a focus on telling the museum’s stories.
Abercrombie Frame Restoration
With support from its Leadership Council and private donors, UAMA was honored with a matching gift from Eli Wilner & Company to restore an artist-selected frame for a unique glass painting by Gertrude Abercrombie. Eli Wilner & Co. has completed over 15,000 framing projects for private collectors, museums and institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the White House.
Emergency Hardware Grant
The AVA was awarded funding for emergency hardware support from the Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N). Created by the Library of Congress in 2010, DPOE-N enables small libraries and archives to purchase back-up storage for digital archival content, ensuring its accessibility to present and future generations.
Thank you
for your support
Alan Willenbrock & Dr. Peggy Jones
Andrea L. Miller
Anonymous
Archive of Visual Arts Endowment
Ashley Ross Busy Bee Signs
Charles A. & Moira M. Geoffrion
Cita M. Scott
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
Daphne Daly
David Andres
David S. Contreras
Deborah Garza Chavez
Dede McKnight
Don G. Vandegriff
Dorrance Foundation for Education
Edward & Nancy Strauss
Elizabeth L. Hernandez
Fleurette & Marc Wallach
Gallagher Foundation
Gary Tenen & Abbie Stone
Gerald M. & Charlene Bates
Gloria L. & Robert S. McMillan
Gwendolyn Weiner
Irma Bolm
Jack & Vivian Hanson Foundation
James Huntington Foundation
Janet T. & Aaron J. Hollander
Jeanne Pickering & Michael S. Andrew
Jeanne R. & Thomas Weir
Jennifer Clarke
Jennifer L. & Scot M. Hutchison
Jim Hutson-Wiley & Olga Echevarria
Jim E. Tharp & James B. Lindheim
John Attardi
John A. Hudak
John F. Wogan
Jon T. & Linda W. Ender
Joseph & Coppelia L. Samaha
Judith G. Liebman
Karl Whitaker
Kathryn Jessup Memorial Internship Endowment
Kathryn K. & Timothy F. Torrington
Dr. Kayla Boyer
Kerry H. & Herbert R. Stratford
Larry N. Deutsch & William F. Parker Jr.
Lauren W. & David J. Rabb
Les R. & Susan R. Wallach
Louise R. Glasser
Margaret T. & Arthur D. Hittner
Marilyn S. Joyce
Marti & Ed Slowik Curatorial Internship
Michael Bylsma
Michael G. Byrne
Olivia Miller
Pamela J. Parry
Pat P. Jessup
Patricia L. Brooks & Malcolm A. Compitello
Paul M. Gold & Greer Warren
Peter S. & Alice L. Briggs
Randy N. Spalding & James E. Cook
Rehmann-Zumsteg Estate
Rob & Susan Ahlschwede
Robert D. & Frances J. Leff
Robert J. & Adelaide D. Valentine
Robin & Jack Lavin
Rosemary M. Blonigan Trust
Sam & Belle S. Deutsch Endowment
Sean N. Bailey Art Museum Fund
Stanley Glickman
Steven B. Ratoff
Susan W. Kornhaber
Terra Foundation
Terry M. Filipowicz
Tilghman & Kimberly Moyer
William & Barbara Dantzler Estate