SEMC Annual Report 2017 Southeastern Museums Conference 2 From the President

In my first year as SEMC President, I have been honored to serve such an amazing organization with such tremendous colleagues from around the Southeast. Although Hurricane Irma caused me to miss the annual meeting in , I have heard rave reviews. Many thanks to Executive Director Susan Perry, the SEMC Council, Past President David Butler (who stepped into my shoes), the Program Committee, and all of the sponsors, presenters, and conference participants for making it one of SEMC’s best attended and most successful conferences on record. I hope all of you who attended the conference left inspired and invigorated.

SEMC also made progress this year on numerous strategic initiatives, from more intentionally developing the annual conference program to serve members at all levels of their careers to updating our website and branding platforms. Perhaps most importantly, we launched a Leadership Institute initiative. Based on the success and outcomes of SEMC’s JIMI program, other national surveys, and an initial feasibility study, it is clear there is a need for high level,

SEMC Legacy Reception, Annual Meeting, 2017, New Orleans 3 affordable leadership training focused on small- to and landing the year in the black, SEMC is the mid-sized institutions. The SEMC Council decided only regional museum organization with an to pursue an IMLS grant, recently submitted, endowment, and that endowment continued to to plan and pilot such a Leadership Institute. prosper this year. Currently at a fund balance Partnering with us is the Association of African of $476,192, proceeds help to ensure SEMC’s American Museums, and planning participants financial sustainability and provide opportunities include many recognized experts. The aim is to for strengthening service to members. equip a new generation of museum leaders with outward-looking skills and stratagems to increase All in all, it’s been a terrific year. A special their effectiveness as leaders and their ability to thanks to Executive Director Susan Perry for her create a productive and inclusive environment leadership and dedication. And a big thanks to within the museum and among the museum’s all of you for being a part of SEMC and making board. We will continue to pursue funding to make it such a great organization! this exciting initiative a reality. Darcie MacMahon It is also a pleasure to report on SEMC’s financial Director of Exhibits & Public Programs, health. In addition to the successful conference Florida Museum of Natural History

4 Annual Meeting Attendance Has Increased 160% Since 2011 5 Our Mission

The Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) is a networking organization that serves to foster profession- alism, mutual support, and communication. A non-profit membership association, SEMC strives to increase educational and professional development opportunities and improve the interchange of ideas, information, and cooperation. Our History

1951: SEMC was established at a meeting in 1959: First five-year plan and added Arkansas Norfolk, Virginia. It was agreed that the to the SEMC. organization should include the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 1960: Hosted two professional development Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, workshops in North Carolina on museum South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, training and historic house restoration. and Virginia. SEMC’s first task was to appoint a committee to get the Southeast 1960s: Hired first SEMC staff with $25,000 included in a Congressional bill to foundation grant to carry out further appropriate money to provide places of safe- training workshops; SEMC urged the keeping for museum objects in case of war. American Alliance (formerly Association) of Museums to formulate a museum 1956: Maryland, Delaware, and the District of accreditation program. Columbia petitioned to join SEMC. The Council suggested they form their own 1969: SEMC established a three-day organization, today known as the Mid- annual meeting. Atlantic Association of Museums.

6 1970s: Local arrangements and program 2005: SEMC established a Hurricane Katrina committees were established for the grant fund and awarded over $500,000 to annual meeting; SEMC published a museums and museum employees affected directory of educational resources. by the storm in Mississippi and Louisiana.

1977: SEMC was officially incorporated; 2010: SEMC established a partnership with and exhibitors were added to the Atlanta History Center where the SEMC annual meeting. office relocated.

1982: Moved the central offices of SEMC 2013: SEMC, the five other regional museum to Memphis. associations, and the American Alliance of Museums completed the first 1986: Moved SEMC offices to Baton Rouge. National Museum Salary Survey, the only comprehensive study of its kind for our 1992: A full-time Executive Director and a diverse field. Director of Office and Memberships services had been hired. Shortly after 2017: SEMC, the five other regional museum that, SEMC’s endowment was established associations, five state museum associations, to promote financial stability. including Florida and Virginia, and the American Alliance of Museums completed 1996: The JumpStart Program began. This the 2017 National Museum Salary Survey. program flourished during the first decade of the 21st century and is now known as the Now: SEMC continues to create programs like Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI), JIMI and the National Museum Salary offering an eight-day intensive museum Survey to support its ongoing mission to training to museum professionals with foster professionalism and support for two years’ experience or more. museum professionals.

2003: Moved the central offices of SEMC to Atlanta.

7 SEMC Net Assets Have Increased 214% Since 2011 8 Impact Plan

In 2017, SEMC Council launched our Organizational Focus: Advance racial/ethnic first Impact Plan, for 2017–2019. diversity of its membership, including individuals, museums, and the council. Impact: SEMC members, at all stages of their career, find professional support and camaraderie Action Plan Focus: from the SEMC leadership and members as they • Technology deepen their knowledge of museums, strengthen • Annual Gatherings their practice and skills, promote diversity, • Honing Our Craft and serve SEMC fellow members in need. • Marketing/Communication • Inclusion Our Past Year Highlights

This fall SEMC launched our Endowment Gift you to those who contributed in the past year; the Campaign to reach half a million dollars. SEMC SEMC endowment now stands at $476,192. continued its goal of financial stability and sustainability in fiscal year 2017 with a net of SEMC had an awesome annual conference in New $60,879, and added $7,000 to the SEMC Reserve Orleans with a record of over 700 registrants; 650 Fund and $53,879 to the SEMC Endowment. Thank attended due to the impact of Hurricane Irma.

9 In 2017 the SEMC Exhibitions, Publications and New Orleans. In the keynote address, Dr. Jessica Technology Competitions had 143 entries and 56 Harris brought culinary history into museums. The award winners. In addition to the selected four Council discussed our impact and joint vision for student presentations, this was the first year of SEMC’s future. Students Work in Museums (swim) poster showcase. The SEMC Scholarship program offered 15 travel The Jekyll Island Management Institute 2017 (jimi) awards scholarships, four more than the previous had national impact with participants from nine year, including the Presidential scholarship, Southeastern states and from outside our region sponsored by Darcie MacMahon, the African including Washington, D.C., California, and Indiana. American Museum Professional scholarship, Thanks to the generosity of the Smithsonian’s and two scholarships for historic house museum National Museum of African American History professionals, sponsored by Lunney House and Culture (nmaahc) and a four-year partnership Museum and John A. Woods Appraisers. Sixty- with the Association of African American Museums three program sessions, 12 off-site tours/workshops, (aaam), SEMC was pleased to offer theJohn Kinard and 60 Resource Expo exhibitors provided new Scholarship for two AAAM members to attend JIMI. ideas, professional expertise and best practices. JIMI 2017 provided leadership training for the most This year many programs focused on diversity, diverse class in the past seventeen years. inclusion, equity, and social justice: “Interpreting African American History & Culture,” “Diversity SEMC wants to serve members’ diverse needs Across the Museum: Staff, Trustees, Exhibitions and improve communications. SEMC has & Programs,” “Interpreting Slavery in the 21st expanded the content of social media coverage Century,” ”Equity and Inclusion in Educational and digital communications. In 2017, SEMC Programming,” “Inclusion in the Classroom,” “Civil offered complimentary Institutional Membership War to Civil Rights: African American History and to new AAAM members. We restructured the National Park Service Sites in the Southeast,” ”Brave Corporate Membership program so that Corporate New World: Critical and Controversial Issues,” Memberships renewed by June 30, 2017. We had 146 “Generating Empathy Across Race and Time: new members in FY 2017, for a total membership Innovative Strategies for Interpreting Slavery,” of 2,267, including bundled members. SEMC “Slavery and Community: Inclusive Interpretation surveyed our members and focused on programs at the Whitney Plantation,” “Achieving Diversity: that serve the diverse needs of Southeast museum Volunteer Programs,” “Equity and Inclusion Action professionals. SEMC realizes the potential to grow Team,” and an African American History tour in our membership, and wants to provide more

10 membership benefits and resources. In 2017 SEMC are passionate about the professional support, redesigned our logo and website camaraderie, and network of SEMC, and in the past www.semcdirect.net. year provided more opportunities for professional learning for Southeastern museum professionals. Also in 2017 SEMC leadership focused on the organization’s impact on museum professionals. Susan Perry We are planning a Leadership Institute. We Executive Director, SEMC

11 12 13 A Special Thanks to Our Conference Sponsors

Gold Sponsor Lucullus Culinary Antiques, Art & Objects (SEMC 1220 Exhibits, Inc. (Evening Event at the National Council’s Legacy Reception) WWII Museum) Solomon Group (Director/Trustee Luncheon) Leslie Hindman Auctioneers (Director/Trustee SunTrust (Registration Table) Reception) Travelers (Director/Trustee Luncheon)

Silver Sponsors Resource Expo Sponsors Collector Systems (General Session/Keynote Speaker) Malone Design/Fabrication (Grand Opening Reception) Gallagher & Associates (tote bags) Old New Orleans Rum (Grand Opening Reception) National Museum of African American History Our Fundraising Search (Grand Opening Reception) & Culture, Smithsonian Institute (McKenna Riggs Ward Design (Grand Opening Reception) Museums off-site tour) Solid Light, Inc. (General Session/Keynote Speaker) Lanyard Sponsor WSP (General Session/Keynote Speaker) HealyKohler Design

Bronze Sponsors: Mobile Guide Sponsors Alexander Haas (Director/Trustee Luncheon) CultureConnect (NOLA) DLR Group (Director/Trustee Luncheon) OnCell (conference program) L. Carole Wharton, LLC (conference reception)

14 SEMC Scholarship Sponsors Ogden Museum of Southern Art SEMC 2016 Silent Auction (SEMC Traveling Southern Food & Beverage Museum Scholarships) The McKenna Museums – George and Leah Darcie MacMahon (President’s Scholarship) McKenna Museum of African American Art & John A. Woods Appraisers (Historic House Museum Le Musee de f.p.c. Professional Scholarship) The National WWII Museum Lunney House Museum Directors Scholarship (Historic House Museum Professional Scholarship) JIMI 2017 Sponsors: SERA Sponsors Cynthia and John Lancaster, JIMI 2017 scholarship Transportation Consultants International Gaylord Archival, Inc., JIMI 2017 scholarship (Registrars Respite co-sponsor) John Kinard Scholarship Fund, in collaboration Willis Towers Watson (Registrars Respite co-sponsor) with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Past Perfect (Dan Silosky Award for Excellence in African American History and Culture, two JIMI Collections Management and Registration) 2017 scholarships Dietl International Services (two SERA travel Goosepen Studio & Press scholarships) Keith Post, Satilla Computer Solutions, JIMI 2017 Gaylord (SERA member discount) breakfast sponsor Arkansas Museums Association (ama), JIMI 2017 Evening Event Host Museums: scholarship for tuition Contemporary Arts Center Mississippi Museums Association (mma), JIMI 2017 scholarship for travel New Orleans Botanical Garden North Carolina Museums Council (ncmc), JIMI 2017 New Orleans Museum Art scholarship Ogden Museum of Southern Art South Carolina Federation of Museums (scfm), JIMI The National WWII Museum 2017 scholarship for tuition/travel South Carolina Military Museum 2017 scholarship Off-Site Tour/Program/Workshop Sponsors Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI Scholarship, JIMI 2017 Beauregard-Keyes House and Garden Museum Hermann-Grima House Historic New Orleans Collection New Orleans Museum Art

15 Thank You SEMC Members We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our member­ museums, corporations, and benefactors during 2017

CORPORATE MEMBERS Collector Systems, LLC 10-31 Inc. Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts 1220 Exhibits, Inc. Cortina Productions ADM2 Exhibits & Displays, Inc Creative Arts Unlimited, Inc. Alexander Haas Crystalizations Systems, Inc. ANR Transport LLC CultureConnect Aon/Huntington T. Block Insurance Agency Daruma Tech Art Conservation Delta Designs Ltd. Artemis Fine Art Services Dietl International Services Aurora Storage Products, Inc. DLR Group Available Light dmdg2 Belfry Historic Consultants Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc. Blackbaud ECS Conservation/HF Group Blair, Inc ERCO Lighting Bonsai Fine Arts Inc Exhibit Concepts, Inc. Building Four Fabrication Explus, Inc. Capitol Exhibit Services, Inc. Fabrication Specialists, Inc. Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals FedEx Custom Critical Charlotte Van and Storage Fessel International Chicago Scenic Studios, Inc. Four Colour Print Group Cinebar Productions, Inc. Frina Design

16 Gallagher & Associates Rising Museum Board Gaylord Archival, Inc. Seibold Security, Inc. Glavé and Holmes Associates Skinner, Inc. Goosepen Studio & Press Solid Light, Inc. Gunnar USA, Inc. Solomon Group Haizlip Studio stabaArts, Inc. HealyKohler Design Studio Displays, Inc. Hollinger Metal Edge StudioAmmons Inc. HW Exhibits The Design Minds, Inc. Impact Communications The Donning Company Publishers Interactive Knowledge The History Workshop Keen DC, LLC Think Proxi Laura Plantation Thrive Payments Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Tour-Mate Systems Limited ListenUp Audio Transport Consultants International Lord, Aeck & Sargent Inc. Travelers Mallory Alexander International Logistics Universal Fiber Optic Lighting LLC. Malone Design/ Fabrication University of Oklahoma College of Liberal Studies Manask & Associates U.S. Art Company, Inc. MasterPak, Inc. VIP Transport Fine Arts Service Mathes Brierre Architects WSP MBA Design & Display Products Corporation Method- 1 Museums INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS Mid-America Arts Alliance MuseumRails A.E. Backus Museum of Art OnCell African American Military History Museum Our Fundraising Search Aiken County Historical Museum Preservation Society of Charleston Alabama Department of Archives and History Print File, Inc Albany Museum of Art Printology Signs & Graphics Aldie Mill & Mt. Zion Historic Parks Q Media Productions, Inc. Alexandria Museum of Art Quatrefoil Associates Altama Museum Riggs Ward Design Amelia Island Museum of History

17 SEMC Received $62,542 in Contributions (including the Endowment) in FY2017

18 Amory Regional Museum Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Inc. Anderson County Museum Booth Western Art Museum Andrew Low House Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University Angola Museum Burritt on the Mountain Anniston Museum of Natural History C.H. Nash Museum Appleton Museum of Art Cameron Art Museum Arkansas Arts Center Camp Van Dorn WWII Museum Arkansas National Guard Museum Cape Fear Museum of History & Science Art Center Sarasota Capital Park Museum Art Museum of the University of Memphis (AMUM) Carolinas Aviation Museum Asheville Art Museum Catawba Science Center Atlanta History Center Center for Puppetry Arts Augusta Museum of History Charlotte Museum of History B.B. King Museum Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art Bailey-Matthews Shell Foundation Children's Hands on Museum Barrington Hall/City of Roswell Georgia Children's Museum of Oak Ridge Bartow History Museum Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home Bass Museum of Art City of Miami Black Police Precinct and Beaches Museum & History Park Courthouse Museum, Inc. Beaufort History Museum Coastal Georgia Historical Society Beauregard-Keyes House Coastal Heritage Society Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Collier County Museums Belle Meade Plantation Columbia Museum of Art Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art Computer Museum of America/ Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum Imagen Ventures LLC Bethune-Cookman University/Bethune Foundation Contemporary Arts Center Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Cookeville Museums Birmingham Museum of Art Coral Gables Museum Birthplace of Country Music Museum Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Blowing Rock Art & History Museum Cross County Museum & Archives Blue Ridge Institute & Museum Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bob Campbell Geology Museum CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center

19 Culture & Heritage Museums Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens Fort Lauderdale History Center Curtiss Mansion, Inc. Fort Wayne Museum of Art Customs House Museum & Cultural Center Frazier History Museum Dade Heritage Trust Friends of Cassidy Park Museums Daura Gallery - Lynchburg College Frist Center for the Visual Arts David J. Sencer CDC Museum Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation/ Davies Manor Association Museum Imagination Place Deerfield Beach Historical Society, Inc. Gaston County Museum of Art & History Delta Cultural Center Georgia College & State University DeSoto County Museum Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia Discovery Park of America, Inc. Georgia Southern University Museum Division of State Historic Sites and Properties, Goodrum House/Watson-Brown Foundation NCDCR Greensboro Historical Museum Downing Museum at Baker Arboretum Greenville County Museum of Art Drayton Hall Greenwood Museum Dunedin Fine Art Center Gregg Museum of Art & Design Earl Scruggs Center Guilford College Art Gallery East Tennessee Historical Society Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center Edison & Ford Winter Estates Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University Hampton Roads Naval Museum Elliott Museum and The House of Refuge at Hampton University Museum Gilbert's Bar Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Etowah Youth Orchestras Arts + Culture Eudora Welty House Henry B. Plant Museum Farragut Folklife Museum Henry Morrison Flagler Museum Flagler Museum Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses Florence County Museum Hickory Hill Florida Craft Art Hickory Museum of Art Florida Department of State High Museum of Art Florida Holocaust Museum High Point Museum Florida Museum of Natural History, Hills & Dales Estate University of Florida

20 Deborah Mack, Jessica Harris, and Priscilla Cooper, at the 2017 SEMC annual meeting, New Orleans 21 SEMC Launched an Endowment Gift Challenge to Reach a Half a Million Dollars

22 Historic Augusta, Inc. Kentucky Derby Museum Historic Carson House Kentucky Historical Society Historic Columbia Foundation Kentucky Museum/Western Kentucky University Historic Edenton State Historic Site Kings Mountain Historical Museum Historic New Orleans Collection Knoxville Museum of Art Historic Oakland Foundation, Inc. KSU: Museums, Archives & Rare Books Historic Paris-Bourbon County/Hopewell Museum Kentucky Native American Heritage Museum, Inc. Historic Resources and Museum Program, LaGrange Art Museum City of Raleigh Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Historic Westville Lee Gallery, Clemson University History Museum of Mobile Leepa-Rattner Museum HistoryMiami Levine Museum of the New South Horry County Museum Liberty Hall Historic Site Hunter Museum of American Art Lighthouse Art Center Museum & School of Art Huntington Museum of Art Lightner Museum Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Longwood Center for the Visual Arts International African American Museum Louisiana Art & Science Museum International Museum of the Horse Louisiana State Museums Division Iredell Museum Louisiana State University Museum of Art Iron & Steel Museum of AL Louisiana's Old State Capitol James K. Polk Home Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami James Monroe Museum Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve Lunney House Museum Jekyll Island Museum Lynchburg Museum System Joel Lane Museum House M.W. Warner Transportation Museum Johns Hopkins University Advanced Madison Morgan Cultural Center Academic Programs Magnolia Mound Plantation Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Maier Museum of Art at Auburn University Man in the Sea Museum Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Mandarin Museum & Historical Society Kennesaw State University – Museums, Manship House Museum Archives & Rare Books Maria V. Howard Arts Center Kentucky Department of Parks Marietta Museum of History

23 Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts Mountain Heritage Center, Masur Museum of Art Western Carolina University Matheson History Museum MS Coast Model Railroad Museum McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture Muscarelle Museum of Art McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina Museum Center at 5ive Points Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University of Louisiana Museum of Art – DeLand Memorial Hall Museum Museum of Arts and Sciences Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Museum of Design Atlanta Mennello Museum of American Art Museum of Fine Arts Menokin Foundation Museum of Florida History Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University Museum of Science & History Middle Tennessee State University Museum of the American Printing House Middleton Place Foundation for the Blind Midway Museum, Inc. Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Mint Museum Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum Museums of Tusculum College Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience National Civil Rights Museum Mississippi Children’s Museum National Museum of the Marine Corps Mississippi Department of Archives & History, National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum Division National Sporting Library & Museum Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum, Inc. National World War II Museum Mississippi Museum of Art NC Transportation Museum Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Newcomb Art Museum Mobile Museum of Art North Carolina Museum of History MOCA Jacksonville North Myrtle Beach Area Historical Museum Modernism Museum Mount Dora Northeast Georgia History Center Monticello/Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Brenau University Mooresville Public Library Oak Alley Foundation Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage Office of Historic Alexandria Morris Museum of Art Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (OUMA) Morse Museum of American Art OHA

24 Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art Rowan Museum, Inc. Okefenokee Heritage Center Rural Heritage Museum, Mars Hill University Old Governor’s Mansion/Sallie Davis House, Sallie Mae Ligon Museum and Archives Georgia College Sautee Nacoochee Community Association Old State House Museum SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center SCAD Museum of Art Orange County Regional History Center Schiele Museum Orlando Museum of Art Shiloh Museum of Ozark History Osceola County Historical Society Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center Page-Walker Arts & History Center South -Halifax County Museum Patricia & Philip Frost Museum of Fine Arts and History Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation South Carolina State Museum Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, St. Mary’s Submarine Museum University of Louisiana at Lafayette Steeplechase Museum Paul W. Bryant Museum, University of Alabama Sumter County Museum Pendleton District Commission Swope Art Museum Pensacola Lighthouse and Museum T.R.R. Cobb House Pensacola Museum of Art/UWF Historic Trust Tampa Bay History Center Pigs-In-Flight Tampa Museum of Art, Inc. Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Museum Taubman Museum of Art Pinellas County Historical Society/Heritage Village Telfair Museum of Art Pioneer Museum of Alabama Tellus Science Museum Polk Museum of Art Portsmouth Museums Tennessee Valley Museum of Art President James K. Polk State Historic Site/NC Dept. The Art Museum at the University of Cultural Resources of Kentucky Reuel B. Pritchett Museum The Bascom Reynolda House Museum of American Art The Charleston Museum Ringling College of Art and Design The Children's Museum of The Upstate River Discovery Center The Chrysler Museum of Art Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking The Columbus Museum Rocky Mount Historical Association The Crossroads Museum Rocky Mount Museum The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

25 26 The Fralin Museum of Art at the University UNC Charlotte, Department of History of Virginia (Public History Program) The Guntersville Museum University of Mississippi Museum The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art & Historic Houses The Mitchell Young Anderson Museum UNO Arts Administration Program The Museum at Mountain Home University of Richmond Museums The Museum of Contemporary Art University of West Alabama of Georgia Upcountry History Museum – The Natchez Institute – Historic Natchez Furman University Foundation UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures The Oaks House Museum UWF Historic Trust The Old Slave Mart Museum Venice Museum & Archives The Ralph Foster Museum Vero Beach Museum of Art The Royce J. & Caroline B. Watts Museum, Virginia Beach History Museums West Virginia University Virginia Historical Society The Speed Art Museum Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Wolfsonian – Florida International Vulcan Park & Museum University Washington and Lee University Thomas County Historical Society Walter Anderson Museum of Art Thronateeska Heritage Center Waterworks Visual Arts Center Tryon Palace Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc. Tubman African American Museum WCU Fine Art Museum Tuscaloosa Museum of Art: Home of the Weatherspoon Art Museum Westervelt Collection Weems-Botts Museum Tuskegee University West Baton Rouge Museum U.S. Marshals Museum, Inc. West Virginia Division of Culture and History U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Museum Wetzel County Museum U.S. Army Women’s Museum Whalehead in Historic Corolla Union County Heritage Museum Whitney Plantation University Museum & Historic Houses Wiregrass Museum of Art University of Alabama Museums Wofford College University of Louisville Yeiser Art Center

Martha Battle Jackson, SEMC Annual Meeting, 2017, New Orleans 27 SEMC Has Increased Its Membership 166% Since 2011

28 SEMC Has 146 New Members in Fiscal Year 2017

29 Thank You to Our 2017 Endowment Contributors

Many thanks to our endowment contributors in 2017 for investing in the future of SEMC! The growth of SEMC’s endowment is essential to ensure that our organization will be able to provide opportunities for learning and networking for museum professionals in the Southeast.

The Past Presidents Circle Judith Bonner Darcie MacMahon David Butler Rebecca Nagy Members of the Past Presidents Sharon Campbell William Paul, Jr. Circle have contributed $150 Priscilla Hancock Cooper Catherine McCrory Pears annually for at least two years Matthew S. Davis Robin Seage Person to the endowment fund. John Gause Keith F. Post Dawn Deano Hammatt Robin Reed George Bassi Julie Harris Michael Scott Sharon Bennett Brian Hicks James G. Shepp David Butler Micheal Hudson Robert Sullivan Tom Butler Kathleen F. G. Hutton Deitrah Taylor Tamra Sindler Carboni Linda Orr King Michael Scott Warren Micheal A. Hudson John Lancaster Heather Marie Wells Douglas Noble Elise V. LeCompte Zinnia Willits Robert Rathburn Deborah Lynn Mack Kristen Miller Zohn Graig D. Shaak

30 The Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI Robert Sullivan Pamela Meister Scholarship Fund Kristin Miller Zohn Richard Waterhouse Established in 2009 to honor Pete LaPaglia’s dedication to The William T. and Sylvia F. Current Alderson Fellow the museum field and recognize Alderson Endowment Fellows (minimum $1,000) his inspirational leadership Thirty members of SEMC have T. Patrick Brennan of SEMC’s Jekyll Island made commitments of distinction Michael Brothers Management Institute, this fund as Alderson Fellows. Their W. James Burns helps endow an annual JIMI investment of at least $1,000 each William U. Eiland scholarship. 2017 marked JIMI’s is a significant leadership gift, Horace Harmon 17th anniversary, and the fund reflective of a personal commitment Brian Hicks has reached over $22,409. to the professional association that Pamela Hisey has meant so much to each of them. Micheal Hudson Brian Hicks Kathleen Hutton Martha Battle Jackson Rick Jackson Elise LeCompte Platinum Alderson Fellows Andrew Ladis Catherine Pears (minimum $5,000) John Lancaster Sylvia F. Alderson Elise LeCompte Other SEMC Contributions Bob Rathburn Allyn Lord Graig D. Shaak Michael Anne Lynn These funds contributed to Nancy & Robert Sullivan R. Andrew Maass the annual meeting, JIMI, Darcie MacMahon membership, or general Robin Seage Person operating funds for SEMC. Medallion Alderson Fellows Steve Rucker (minimum $2,500) Heather Marie Wells Holly Akkerman (jimi) George Bassi Kristin Miller Zohn George Bassi (jimi) Sharon Bennett Sharon Bennett (jimi) David Butler Aaron Berger (jimi) Tamra Sindler Carboni Kyle Bryner (scholarship) Martha Battle Jackson Jamie Credle (jimi)

31 Patrick Daily (General Operating) Christian Edwards (jimi) Thank You Volunteers James Gardner (jimi) SEMC wants to express our deepest gratitude to our volunteers who Martha Battle Jackson (jimi) contributed countless hours in 2017. A special thanks goes to SEMC John S. Lancaster (jimi) leadership – Officers, Council Directors, and committees. Annual Pam Meister (Annual Meeting) conference, JIMI, and other SEMC programming would not be Anne Elizabeth Miller (jimi) possible without your help. Thanks to all for your time! Michael Moore (jimi) National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Staff Officers Institution (jimi) Executive Director President Lisa Nicoletti (jimi) Susan S. Perry Darcie MacMahon Keith Post (jimi) Florida Museum of Natural Ghila Sanders (jimi) Manager of Communications History, Gainesville, FL Rhonda Tyson (jimi) and Member Services Michael Scott Warren (jimi) Jessica Keys Vice President Debra Watkins (jimi) (through October 2017) (beginning September 2017) John Witek Zinnia Willits (beginning January 2018) Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC SEMC P.O. Box 550746 Secretary Atlanta, GA 30355-3246 Robin Seage Person Phone: 404.814.2048 Historic Jefferson College, Website: www.SEMCdirect.net Washington, MS Email: membershipservices@ SEMCdirect.net Treasurer Robin Reed Fort Monroe Casemate, Fort Monroe, VA

32 Past President Brian Hicks Michael Scott David Butler Desoto County Museum, (beginning September 2017) Knoxville Museum of Art, Hernando, MS High Point Museum, Knoxville, TN High Point, NC Kathleen Hutton (through September 2017) Deitrah Taylor Reynolda House Museum Milledgeville, GA Directors of American Art, Glenna Barlow Winston-Salem, NC Heather Marie Wells (beginning September 2017) Crystal Bridges Museum of Columbia Museum of Art, Jenny Lamb American Art, Bentonville, AR Columbia, SC Discovery Center at Murfree Spring, Murfreesboro, TN Alexander Benitez (beginning September 2017) Elise LeCompte Moundville Archaeological Park, Florida Museum of Natural The University of Alabama, History, Gainesville, FL Moundville, AL Deborah Mack Kyle Bryner Smithsonian’s National Museum of the Shenandoah Museum of African American Valley, Winchester, VA History and Culture, Washington, D.C. Priscilla Cooper (through September 2017) Catherine Pears Birmingham Civil Rights Alexandria Museum of Art, Institute, Birmingham, AL Alexandria, LA

Julie Harris River Discovery Center, Paducah, KY

33 A Snapshot of SEMC’s Reach Conference 2017 Attendees: 650 JIMI 2017 Participants: 20 Twitter Followers: 1,804 Southeast Museums Advocacy Day Participants: 100 Linked In Members: 1,238 Facebook Followers: 1,178 SEMC Website Page Views: 140,090

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36 Statement of Financial Position

FY2017* FY2016 You can support SEMC general operations, Assets the SEMC Endowment, the Peter S. LaPaglia Cash & cash equivalents $250,328 $225,578 Scholarship Fund (supports JIMI tuition Investments $389,953 $339,390 scholarships), Legacy Society (Planned Giving) Receivables/Prepaid $35,835 $9,337 or other activities by donating online at www. SEMCdirect.net. SEMC has created the Total Assets $676,116 $574,304 Legacy Society to recognize the generosity of individuals who have included the Liabilities & Fund Equity Southeastern Museums Conference in their Liabilities $70,436 $66,990 wills or estate plans. Your planned gift will Fund Equity $605,680 $507,315 make a difference in the services of SEMC and the future development of our profession. For Total Liabilities & Fund Equity $676,116 $574,304 more information, please refer to the Legacy Society brochure at www.SEMCdirect.net.

*Note FY2017 is July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.

How Does SEMC Program Expenditures Spend Your Management Money? Operational Expenditures 37 SEMC Has 2,267 Total Members including bundled members

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