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Henry Clay Presentation Quilt, ca. 1850 (detail) from the Kentucky Museum’s exhibition Faces & Places.

Executive Director’s Notes Susan Perry 4 save the dates: october 20–22, 2014 semc annual meeting in Knoxville, tennessee 5 2013 semc award winners 6 art & commerce in the history city A review of the 2013 SEMC Annual Meeting 14 EMERGING MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS ATTEND VALUABLE PROGRAMS AT THE SEMC ANNUAL MEETING 18 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS RESPOND TO 2013 ANNUAL MEETING 20 NEW SEMC SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ANNOUNCED 22 CURATOR’S CORNER Dennis and Diadamia Doram: A View of the American Dream Julie Maio Kemper 23 get involved in semc! 32

semc Inside SEMC is published four times a year Robin Seage Person Secretary Alabama North Carolina by the Southeastern Museums Conference. 601.442.2901 | [email protected] Arkansas south Carolina Annual subscription is included in Historic Jefferson College, Washington, MS Florida tennessee membership dues. Georgia virginia Patrick Daily Treasurer Kentucky West Virginia Newsletter Editor: Susan Perry, Semc 828.322.4731 | [email protected] Louisiana u.S. Virgin Islands Design: Nathan W. Moehlmann, Hickory Landmarks Society, Hickory, NC Mississippi Puerto Rico Goosepen Studio & Press George Bassi Past President staff officers 601.649.6374 | [email protected] Executive Director Susan S. Perry Mike Hudson President Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 502.899.2356 | [email protected] Laurel, MS contact semc Museum of the American Printing SEMC | P.O. Box 550746 House of the Blind, Louisville, KY directors Atlanta, GA 30355-3246 Priscilla Cooper T: 404.814.2048 David Butler Vice President 205.328.9696 | [email protected] F: 404.814.2031 865.524.1260 | [email protected] Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, W: www.SEMCdirect.net Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN Birmingham, AL E: [email protected]

– 2 – a special thanks: SEMC Endowment & Membership 33 semc welcomes newly elected council officer and directors 40 acquisitions 42 congratulations 43 construction 48 innovations 51 people and places 54 what’s happening 67 important dates 69 semc NEw job forum 69 semc membership form 70

Julie Harris Jenny Lamb Allison Reid 270.575.9958 616.356.0501 504.658.4159 | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] New Orleans Museum of Art, River Discovery Center, Paducah, KY Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, TN New Orleans, LA

Brian Hicks Kathryn A. Lang Deitrah Taylor 662.429.8852 | [email protected] 504.589.3882 x114 | [email protected] 478.320.4010 Desoto County Museum, Hernando, MS Jean Lafitte NationalH istorical Park [email protected] and Preserve, New Orleans, LA Perry, GA Kathleen Hutton 336.758.5394 | [email protected] Darcie MacMahon Heather Marie Wells Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 352.273.2053 | [email protected] 479.418.5700 Winston-Salem, NC Florida Museum of Natural History, [email protected] Gainesville, FL Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Mary Lague Bentonville, AR 540.342.5760 James Quint [email protected] 803.252.1170 x36 The deadline for the Spring 2014 Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA [email protected] newsletter is Februrary 24, 2014. To submit Historic Columbia Foundation, information for the newsletter, please Columbia, SC contact the Council Director in your state.

– 3 – This fall SEMC Council approved executive a strategic plan. Here’s SEMC’S director’s THREE-YEAR CHARGE: • Grow SEMC Membership and notes serve their diverse needs. • Improve Communication. Susan Perry • Provide new opportunities for Professional Development. ew Year’s Day inspires • Strengthen educational and a moment of reflection networking opportunities at on the past year and Annual Meeting. anticipation of the New • Recruit and engage NYear. 2013 has been an exciting SEMC Leaders. year of cultivating relationships, • Provide Administrative Susan Perry, SEMC Executive Director understanding current needs, and Support. providing relevant resources for • Operate sound and museum professionals. I continue transparent Finances. on a new scholarship opportunity to be impressed by your passionate for historic house museum commitment to SEMC as a member. In the New Year, we will move professionals to participate in forward with our joint vision for SEMC annual conference. SEMC Council, Program SEMC and its relevance to our Committee, Corporate Sponsors museums. Please ask SEMC to SEMC annual conference is an and the Local Arrangements provide a regional workshop for opportunity to convene creative Committee contributed to the your museum community. To thinkers to envision innovative success of SEMC 2013 Annual better serve your needs, SEMC just programs, dynamic exhibitions, Meeting in Savannah, Georgia. If launched an Exhibition Exchange best practices and fundraising you were among the 487 attendees Forum and self-serve Job Listing resources. Plan to attend SEMC at this conference, you experienced on our newly designed website. 2014 Annual Meeting October art and history on off-site tours and 20–22 in Knoxville, Tennessee. evening events at the Savannah Thanks to the generosity of the Submit a program proposal museums. Fifty-six program Smithsonian’s National Museum for the conference by January 31 sessions and sixty Resource Expo of African American History and deadline. exhibitors provided new ideas, Culture (NMAAHC), SEMC is professional expertise and best pleased to offer theJohn Kinard In the New Year, let’s move forward practices. In the keynote address, Scholarship Fund for two staff with providing more opportunities Dr. Stan Deaton encouraged us to members of AAAM institutional for Southeast museum profes- consider the role of history in our museums or individual AAAM sionals. Happy New Year! present. I enjoyed listening to our members to attend SEMC’s Jekyll members and discussing our joint Island Management Institute — Susan Perry, vision for SEMC. (JIMI). In 2014, SEMC will provide SEMC Executive Director

– 4 – Experience an intoxicating mix of authentic Off-site tours will include the vast collections of the Appalachian culture, a wealth of historic properties, rich University of Tennessee’s McClung Museum of Natural 2013 semc Civil War heritage, and edgy new art in a bustling urban History and Culture, historic house museums dating to as setting with easy access to the great outdoors — all at the early as the late eighteenth century, and institutions and sites SEMC 2014 Annual Meeting in Knoxville! dedicated to African-American heritage. We hope to provide award winners Nestled in the foothills of the Smokies, Knoxville’s lively opportunities to experience the natural delights of the rugged and historic downtown is dense with great restaurants, urban wilderness within walking distance of downtown, and shopping, and entertainment. SEMC evening events will the cutting edge technology of nearby Oak Ridge. center around Gay Street, one of America’s great main streets We promise you’ll be energized, enlightened, and and the home of the East Tennessee History Center and the entertained. There might even be a drop of moonshine if historic Tennessee Theatre, and World’s Fair Park (where you’re lucky. You’ll never want to leave! the conference hotel is located), site of the 1982 exposition Join us in Knoxville for the SEMC 2014 Annual and its iconic Sunsphere and the Knoxville Museum of Art. Meeting October 20–22! KNOXVILLE– 5 – Winner of an Emerging Museum Professional Award, Josh White, with, l-r, Rhonda Tyson, Martha Battle Jackson, Julie Harris, and Pam Meister. 2013 semc award winners

EMC Awards are given in recognition of innovation, service and leadership in museum professionals. The SEMC Awards Committee, chaired by Patrick Daily, honors outstanding colleagues who have helped shape the world of museums. The awards were presented on Wednesday, October 9, Sas part of the Annual Awards Luncheon.

– 6 – Winner of the James R. Short Award, in recognition of her long and accomplished service to the museum community, Allyn Lord kept attendee’s enthralled with her acceptance speech – not least for its humility, but certainly because she delivered it in verse! photo courtesy of © john slemp with the bright ring foundation and aerographs aviation photography.

James R. Short Outstanding Service Engagement Project, Reynolda Award Recipient to the Museum House Museum of Art, Allyn Lord, Director, Shiloh Profession Award Winston-Salem, NC Museum of Ozark History, Recipient Joshua E. White, Executive Springdale, AR Chris Goodlett, Curator of Director, Yeiser Art Center, Collections, Kentucky Derby Paducah, KY Museum Leadership Museum, Louisville, KY Award Recipients SEMC 2013 Jamie Credle, Director, Davenport Emerging Museum Publication Design House Museum, Savannah, GA Professional Award Competition Kristen Miller Zohn, Curator of Recipients The SEMC Publication Design Collections and Exhibitions, The Emily Wilder Santillo, Assistant Competition was begun in 1988 to Columbus Museum, Columbus, Director for Creative Services, recognize and reward excellence in GA Project Manager for Digital the graphic design of Southeastern

– 7 – museums’ publications. The Library of Congress for The Civil Silver Award Winners competition encourages War in America in the category Gregg Museum of Art & Design communication, effective design, of Gallery Guides for Farfetched: Mad Science, creativity, pride of work, and Fringe Architecture and Visionary recognition of institutional image Engineering in the category of and identity. The SEMC 2013 Books and Catalogues Publication Design Competition Coordinator was Holly Akkerman of the Telfair Museums. The following institutions won awards in the SEMC 2013 Publication Design Competition:

Gold Award & Best in Show Winner Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville for “Slow” in the category of Invitations

Georgia Museum of Art for Facet in the category of Newsletter

Georgia Museum of Art for “Elegant Salute XIII” in category of Campaign

Gold Award Winners Georgia Museum of Art for Kress in category of Books and Catalogues

Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville for “Slow” in the category of Posters

– 8 – Jamie Credle, Museum Leadership Kristen Miller Zohn, Museum Chris Goodlet, Outstanding Service to Award Recepient, with SEMC President Leadership Award Recepient. the Museum Profession Award Recepient. Michael Hudson.

Cheekwood for “LIGHT: Bruce Historic Arkansas Museum in Honorable Mention Munro at Cheekwood” in the category of Newsletter Florida Museum of Natural category of Invitations History for 2012 Annual Report in category of Annual Reports

– 9 – Emily Wilder Santillo, Emerging At the SEMC Awards Luncheon, Award Co-Chairs Patrick Daily Museum Professional Award Recepient. and Allison Reid with Victoria Cooke on left.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts South Arts for The Sum of Many for Carrie Mae Weems: Three Parts in category of Books and Decades of Photography and Catalogues Video in category of Books and Catalogues

Gregg Museum of Art & Design for Art Without Artists in category of Books and Catalogues

Georgia Museum of Art for Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomac in category of Books and Catalogues

– 10 – Georgia Museum of Art for Museum of Contemporary Art Huntsville Museum of Art for DeWain Valentine: Human Scale Jacksonville for Sarah Emerson “Psychedelic” in category of in category of Brochures and in category of Gallery Guides Invitations Rack Cards

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Cheekwood for “LIGHT: Bruce Fine Art, Auburn University Munro at Cheekwood” in for “Art Interrupted: Advancing category of Campaign American Art Symposium” in Arkansas Arts Center in the category of Invitations category of Newsletter

Frist Center for the Visual Arts for Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video in category of Campaign

– 11 – Staff members from award-winning museums display their certificates at the 2013 SEMC Annual Awards Luncheon.

SEMC 2013 under $25,000 Commendations for Exhibition Excellence in Exhibition Outstanding Exhibition Competition Clay Center for the Arts and Henry Morrison Flagler Sciences for Wavelengths: The Museum for Capturing the Cup: The SEMC Exhibition Competition Art & Science of Color and Light Yacht Racing During the Gilded Age recognizes and rewards Commendations for SCAD for Pose/Re-Pose: Figurative excellence in the research, design, Outstanding Exhibition Works Then and Now development, educational value Alexandria Museum of Art for and effectiveness of exhibitions in Immersive Space over $100,000 Southeastern museums. The 2013 over $25,000 Excellence in Exhibition SEMC Exhibition Competition Excellence in Exhibition Children’s Museum of Oak Chair was Nathan Jones. One Columbus Museum for Rocio Ridge for Kids Go Green! Award of Excellence is given Rodriquez: Divergent Fictions — A Environmental Center and in each budget category. Selection of Works from 1988–2012 Gardens

– 12 – Commendations for Alice-Taylor Colbert, Dean, Patricia Shandor, Visitor Services Outstanding Exhibition College of Arts & Humanities, Coordinator/Collections Frist Center for the Visual Arts Lander University, Greenwood, SC. Manager, Lexington County for Carrie Mae Weems: Three SERA Scholarship Coordinator Museum, Lexington, SC Decades of Photography and Video is Heather Thayer Culligan, Osceola County Welcome Collections Manager, Atlanta SEMC’s President’s Center and History Museum History Center, Atlanta, GA. Scholarship for Osceola County Welcome Marco Salis, graduate student/ Center and History Museum SEMC 2013 Annual intern, Savannah College of Art Meeting Scholarship and Design (SCAD), over $1,000,000 Recipients Congratulations Atlanta, GA Excellence in Exhibition to all our 2013 sponsorship winners! Robert Russa Moton Museum SERA-SEMC Travel for The Moton Story: Children of Student Scholarship Courage Jenna Stout, PhD student, Middle Entry-Level Professional: Tennessee State University, Sarah Conlon, Collections SEMC 2013 Annual Murfreesboro, TN Manager in the Museum Division, Meeting Scholarship Mississippi Department of Ar- Sponsors & emerging Museum chives and History, Jackson, MS Coordinators Professional Deanna Cudiff, Collections Thank you to our scholarship Manager, Mississippi sponsors for their generous Department of Archives and support, and to coordinators History – Museum Division, for their hard work. The four Flowood, MS SEMC Traveling Scholarships are Jan Levinson, Outreach Archivist, supported by the SEMC Alderson Richard B. Russell Library, Uni- Endowment and proceeds from versity of Georgia, Athens, GA the SEMC’s 2012 Silent Auction. The SEMC President’s Scholarship small museum category is sponsored by SEMC President Stephanie Hardy, Site Manager, Micheal Hudson. Funds for Historic Stagville State Historic the SERA Scholarships are Site, Durham, NC sponsored by SERA. SEMC’s Mary Jones-Fitts, President/ Scholarship Coordinators are Director, Marengo County Karen Utz, Curator, Sloss History and Archives Museum, Furnaces National Historic Demopolis, AL Landmark, Birmingham, AL; and

– 13 – Evening event at the SCAD Museum of Art. art & commerce in the history city

EMC experienced art and history at the 2013 Museum, Savannah Children’s Museum, Battlefield annual meeting in Savannah, GA. If you were Memorial Park, and Telfair Museums, including Owens- among the 487 attendees to this conference, Thomas House, Telfair Academy, and Jepson Center. you encountered the Southern hospitality of Savannah and walked the squares filled with We relived times of dreadful pestilence at Davenport Shistoric houses, churches, and monuments. Thanks to House Museum, where it’s always 1820 and the Yellow the Local Arrangements Committee, we enjoyed low Fever rages. Experienced Savannah on off-site tours country food, music, and libations at SCAD Museum of of Civil War Savannah, Discovering 1820s Savannah, Art, Savannah History Museum, Georgia State Railroad Ships of the Sea garden, Battle of Savannah, historic

– 14 – Evening event at the Telfair’s Jepson Center.

City Hall, African American American Art and Brian Hicks Scott Chamness, Stephanie Chill, Landmarks, Mighty 8th, and of Desoto County Museum Timothy England, Alexandra Jones, Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. coordinated fifty-six educational Debbi Linn, Yunyun Ma, Amanda The conference culminated with sessions. A special thanks goes Noll, Rebecca Proudfoot, Janine the commemoration of the Battle to John Lancaster, who served Rogers, Marco Salis, and Heather of Savannah by Jamal Toure and as our audio-visual coordinator. Marie Wells assisted in the setup of the keynote address by Stan Appreciation also goes to the the Resource Expo, AV, and off-site Deaton, senior historian at Georgia staff of theAtlanta History tours. Historical Society. Dr. Deaton Center and SCAD students, charged museum professionals who worked the registration desk Our Corporate Sponsors supported to realize that history shapes our and served as the best resource the conference and made possible present. for information. We appreciate the Resource Expo. A special your donations to the Silent thanks goes to Travelers as the SEMC would like to thank the Auction coordinated by Jenny Gold Event Sponsor. countless volunteers who assisted Lamb and the Belle Meade and planned the conference. Plantation staff. The SEMC Thanks for your participation in The Program Committee led by Career Center provided career SEMC’s 2013 Annual Meeting! Join co-chairs Kathleen Hutton advisors coordinated by Elise us for more fun in Knoxville, TN, of Reynolda House Museum of LeCompte. SEMC volunteers for the 2014 Annual Meeting.

– 15 – A special thanks to the SEMC Coastal Heritage Society: 5. aNR Transport LLC 2013 Annual Meeting Sponsors! BattlefieldM emorial Park 6. aon/Huntington B. Insurance Congregation Mickve Israel 7. arcadia Publishing SEMC 2013 Annual Davenport House Museum 8. blair, Inc. Meeting Sponsors Flannery O’Connor 9. borroughs Corporation Childhood Home 10. bright Ring Foundation bronze Sponsors Harper Fowlkes House 11. capitol Exhibit Services, Inc. Alexander Haas Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace 12. charlotte Van & Storage (Directors Session Track) Massie Heritage Center 13. charlton Hall Auctions Nicasio Design & Development The National Museum of the 14. cinebar Productions, Inc. (SEMC website redesign) Mighty 8th Air Force 15. conservation By Design- SunTrust (Registration Table) Research Library & Municipal North America Archives, City of Savannah 16. coreStrategies for Resource Expo Sponsor SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah Nonprofits, Inc. Solid Light, Inc. (Grand Opening College of Art and Design 17. Delta Designs Ltd. Reception Bourbon Tasting & Ships of the Sea Museum 18. the Donning Company Bronze Sponsor) Telfair Museums: Jepson Center Publishers, Inc. 19. Douglas Mund designgroup Lanyard Sponsor SEMC Scholarship 20. Explus, Inc. Healy Kohler Design Sponsors 21. Frina Design SEMC 2012 Silent Auction 22. gaylord Bros. Evening Event Sponsors (SEMC Traveling Scholarships) 23. georgia Association of Gold Event Sponsor: Travelers Micheal Hudson (President’s museums and Galleries Bronze Sponsors: Scholarship) 24. georgia Museum of Art L. Carole Wharton, LLC Sam Rogers, Carolina Publishing & UGA Press Gecko Group Associates (3 Scholarships) 25. glasbau HAHN america LLC host museums SERA Sponsors 26. glave & Holmes Architecture Coastal Heritage Society: Savannah Transport Consultants International 27. goosepen Studio & Press History Museum, Georgia State (Registrars Respite co-sponsor) 28. gropen, Inc. Railroad Museum, Battlefield Willis Fine Art & Specie (Registrars 29. healyKohler Design Memorial Park, Savannah Respite co-sponsor) 30. hecht Burdeshaw Children’s Museum architects, Inc. SCAD Museum of Art Resource 31. hollinger Metal Edge, Inc. Telfair Museums: Telfair Academy, Expo 32. immediatag Jepson Center, Owens-Thomas Exhibitors 33. Four Colour Print House 1. 1220 Exhibits, Inc. 34. lF Creative Group 2. association of Academic 35. lord, Aeck & Sargent Off-Site Tour Sponsors museums and Galleries 36. luxam, Inc. The Beach Institute, 3. Accelerando 37. malone Design/ King-Tisdell Cottage 4. american Alliance of Museums Fabrication

– 16 – 52. the Design Minds, Inc. 53. the History Workshop 54. universal Fiber Optic lighting LLC 55. university Products, Inc. 56. u.S. Art Company, Inc. 57. university of South carolina Press 58. viking Metal Cabinet Company 59. Wingin’ It Works Thanks to SEMC 2013 Silent Auction Contributors Aiken County History Museum Arcadia Publishing Barrington Hall Belle Meade Plantation Cape Fear Museum of Science & History Crystal Bridges Museum Davenport House Museum Dorfman Museum Figures Georgia Museum of Art Gregg Museum of Art & Design Hampton Roads Naval Museum Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Martha Battle Jackson Monticello Mudpuddle Studio Evening reception at the Owens-Thomas House. National Museum of the Marine Corps Reynolds House Museum 38. mallory Alexander 44. Q Media Productions, Inc. of American Art international 45. riggs Ward River Discovery Center 39. mba Design & Display 46. sEMC/Knoxville 2014 Robin Person Products Corp. 47. sEMC Career Center The Beadwings 40. mDL, Investment Consultant 48. solid Light, Inc. Tuscaloosa Museum of Art 41. mid-America Arts Alliance 49. stabaArte Virginia Association 42. museumRails 50. studioAmmons Inc. of Museums 43. Pope Video Productions 51. studio Displays, Inc. West Baton Rouge Museum

– 17 – Emerging museum professionals talk shop in the lobby of the Hilton Savannah Desoto. Emerging Museum Professionals Attend Valuable Programs at the SEMC Annual Meeting

merging Museum Professionals (EMPs) have also found excellent opportunities for making contacts grown into a major presence at SEMC, to the and beginning new professional relationships, as well as benefit of all. Meeting so many new faces this for learning and sharing their experiences with others. year in Savannah, hearing their ideas, and see- This year, SEMC had more sessions and events aimed at ing the creativity and passion they bring to the EMPs than ever before. Efuture of the field, was an exciting opportunity for many long-time SEMC participants. SEMC 2013 Savannah “Museum Next: A World Café on the Next Phase of had a record for student participation with 43 students. Museums” was a popular event that combined speed SCAD students participated as conference volunteers dating and deliberative dialogue about the following for off-site tours, evening events, tote bag assembly, and questions. What are the big questions that face the registration. Students, recent graduates, career-chang- museum community today? How do perspective of ers, and those in the early stages of their museum career EMPs and longtime leaders in the field differ?H ow can

– 18 – the viewpoint of a collections manager reshape the ques- professionals from around the region about the exciting tions posed by a curator, educator, or administrator? In digital projects museums are working on today.” Lauren the World Café, participants probed pressing concerns Shenfeld, graduate student in Museum Studies from in our field, networked, and discussed their own chal- The George Washington University, spoke on “Pearls for lenges and ideas during conversations about topics that Pesach: The Relationship between Postwar Affluence matter most to their museum and career. and the Acculturation of Southern Jewish Women.” And Allison Baker, Curatorial Assistant at McKissick In another speed dating session, “Museum Designer. Museum, University of South Carolina, concluded the Is this for you?,” participants had an opportunity to talk session with “Managing Mayhem: What to Do When one-on-one with a number of professional designers a Backlog of Unprocessed Collections Go Awry.” Pam serving the museum community. Barbara Fahs Charles, Meister, Curator at Mountain Heritage Center, Western Partner with Staples & Charles Ltd., invited twelve exhibit Carolina University, and Courtney Tollison, Curator at designers and SCAD students for an open ended Q and A Upcountry History Museum, Furman University, mod- session. This program shed light on the somewhat opaque erated this program and encourage students to submit field of museum interpretive planning and design and the papers for next year’s conference. career opportunities and constraints it offers. The Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI), SEMC’s As Emerging Museum Professionals, we often focus eight-day museum management course, is designed for on what we must do to get a job, but we do not always both emerging and mid-career professionals to further think about what comes later. In the program “Emerging their knowledge about general museum administration Museum Professionals: First Job, What Next?,” Kanani and operation. This year EMPs had the chance to learn Hoopai, Education Manager at Dumbarton House, led more about this opportunity from JIMI graduates, both a discussion of practical ways to focus on your current through the session “What is JIMI, and What Can it Do position while growing your skill set and looking ahead for You?” and through the more informal JIMI Luncheon. to the future. Another great opportunity, the SEMC annual Career The “Spotlight on Student Research” session, which Center, offered a chance to get advice on resume build- invites college students across the region to submit ing and other aspects of the job search from seasoned papers for presentation, had so many excellent entries professionals. this year. Scott Chamness, graduate student in History at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, talked And of course, EMPs had a more informal opportunity about “Publicity and Interaction through Social Media to get to know each other at the Emerging Museum Platforms: Museums and Reddit.” Wendy Madill, graduate Professional gathering in Savannah. James Quint, SEMC student in Historic Preservation at Clemson University, Council Director and founder of Southeast EMPs, con- discussed “The History of Domestic Servant Bells, cluded, “I love SEMC because it’s a great opportunity to 1740-1900.” After presenting “Collaboration and Digital connect with individuals who are doing amazing things Media Projects: The Making of ‘Ghosts of the Horseshoe’ in our profession. To be given an opportunity to share Mobile App,” Amanda Noll, a graduate student in Public ideas and talk about successful programs, interactions, History at University of South Carolina, notes that “My and experiences is so valuable for me. Why reinvent the first SEMC Annual Meeting was a wonderful forum to wheel when I can use successful techniques and adapt present my graduate work in digital history and to talk to them to the context of my museum’s environment.”

– 19 – Scholarship Winners Respond to SEMC 2013 Annual Meeting

EMC Traveling Scholarships, funded by the SEMC Throughout the conference, I found the content Alderson Endowment and proceeds from the of the sessions to be pertinent to my graduate course SSEMC’s 2012 Silent Auction, are awarded each of study. The student research presentations allowed year to outstanding applicants to cover travel expenses me to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of differ- associated with attending the Annual Meeting. ent presentation techniques. As both a historic house museum and Downton Abbey enthusiast, I was Scholarship winner Stephanie Hardy, Historic particularly impressed with the research on domestic Site Manager at Historic Stagville, Durham, NC, says servant bells and the interpretation of servant life. At that “I had such a positive experience at the SEMC 2013 the upcoming annual conference, I hope to be pre- Annual Meeting! I learned so much from the sessions senting my own research and connecting with those and the other professionals in attendance.” possessing similar research interests. The special events richly complemented the sessions. Another Small Museum Award recipient Patricia I arrived early enough to watch the Davenport House Shandor, Visitor Services Coordinator/Collections Museum’s yellow fever living history performance on Manager at Lexington County Museum, shares highlights Sunday evening. This engaging experience was the from the conference, “Aside from the many ideas and perfect introduction to Savannah’s rich history. Besides tips gleaned from the sessions, the conference was being entertaining, it also tied directly in with my schol- also a great way for someone new to the field like me to arly interest in the interpretation of health, medicine, establish a base of contacts. Some of the most helpful and sanitation at historic house museums. My other people I met at SEMC were the ladies from HHMAG favorite event was the preservation tour at the Juliette whom I worked with on a database project at the Gordon Low Birthplace Museum. Harper Fowlkes House. They had practical advice about As a student working in the historic preservation databases and numbering systems in an historic house field, I enjoyed the opportunity to learn about historic museum which I have put to use in my museum.” preservation in a city steeped so greatly in history and architecture. As a graduate student from Middle Tennessee State University, Jenna Stout writes about her first With the Emerging Museum Professional Scholar- experience at the conference: ship, Deanna Cundiff, Collections Manager in Museum Division, Mississippi Department of Archives It was my privilege to attend the 2013 SEMC & History, had the opportunity to participate in the Conference in the historic setting of Savannah. As a following programs: first-time attendee and travel scholarship winner, I benefitted significantly from the sessions, networking Informative sessions, such as “Photographing Your opportunities, and special events. Collection,” “Collections Insurance Trivial Pursuit,”

– 20 – and “Museum Volunteering: Overcoming Obstacles as a SEMC intern,” Marco Salis notes that “it was and Strategies for Success,” along with fun and enter- wonderful to see it all happening and to meet such a taining evening events, provided me the opportunity great and diverse community of museum professionals to meet many museum colleagues. I was intrigued in person. I am very thankful for receiving the SEMC to hear about the numerous museums around the President’s Scholarship.” southeast and the various projects and programs peo- ple are working on at those museums. I look forward We’re so glad that our 2013 scholarship winners were to the sessions next year’s conference will offer as well with us in Savannah this year, and we want to extend as continually developing and sustaining relationships a warm thanks to everyone who participated in the with those whom I met. Silent Auction, ensuring that welcome new faces and indispensable old friends will be able to join us next year “After contributing to organizing the Annual Meeting in Knoxville.

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– 21 – New SEMC Scholarship Opportunities Announced

John Kinard Scholarship Fund

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 theJohn 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.

As the first recipients of the John Kinard Scholarship Fund, Will Guzman, Associate Director of Meek- Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives in Tallahassee, Florida, and Ju-Coby Pittman, CEO/ President of Eartha White Museum at Clara White Mission in Jacksonville, Florida, will be participating in Jekyll Island Management Institute January 21–28, 2014.

Historic House Museum Scholarship

SEMC will offer a new travel scholarship for historic house museum professionals to participate in SEMC Annual Meeting. John A. Woods Appraisers is the donor for the Historic House Museum Scholarship. In the spring, application information for SEMC 2014 Scholarship Program will be available at www.SEMCdirect.net.

– 22 – Portraits of Dennis and Diadamia Doram, business and land owners, who began their lives enslaved.

round a corner in the Kentucky Historical curator’s Society’s permanent exhibit, “A Kentucky Journey,” two portraits sit enclosed in a corner large glass case. These are the images of Dennis and Diadamia Doram, dated A1839. Like many prosperous 19th century Kentuckians, Dennis and Diadamia Doram: the Dorams paid to have their portraits made. The dif- ference is that these two people started life as slaves. A View of the Despite cultural and legal obstacles, they became busi- ness and land owners in Danville, Ky., well before slavery American Dream was abolished. Looking at their faces, it is easy to imagine they are gazing at the American dream in the distance. It is not the same view as the European-Americans in their Julie Maio Kemper, Curator, community, yet the Doram family was able to achieve Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY many of the things that make up the American dream:

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Fig. 1: Pierre Daura, Untitled (Street PICIRII 3), 1929. Oil on canvas, 17 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. (44.2 x 36.5 cm). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. home ownership, successful businesses, educated and (1803-1890), the son of a Danville, Ky., tavern owner and successful children, social standing, and freedom. banker. Davenport was educated at Danville Academy and became an accomplished portrait artist despite little Treasure Found training.2 He later moved to Illinois, but during the 1820s The portraits themselves have an interesting history. and 1830s painted the business elite of Kentucky’s Boyle, Viola Gross of Frankfort, Ky., a great-granddaughter of Madison, Mercer, Garrard, and Lincoln counties. The Dennis and Diadamia Doram, spent years researching portraits of Dennis and Diadamia Doram were painted the genealogy of her family.1 She learned that two fam- in 1839 and are believed to be the only paintings of Afri- ily portraits had been found in a Boyle County barn that can Americans Davenport created. He also painted por- belonged to another descendent of the Dorams. Mrs. traits of Mrs. Isaac Shelby, the wife of the first Governor Gross contacted the Kentucky Historical Society about of Kentucky, and abolitionist John Brown, both of which acquiring the portraits which led to the Kentucky His- are in the Kentucky Historical Society collections. torical Society Foundation raising funds to purchase the portraits in July 2000. When the portraits arrived at the Kentucky Historical Society in 2000, they were beyond poor condition. They The portraits were painted by Patrick Henry Davenport were dirty and covered with mold. There was moisture

– 24 – Portrait of Dennis Doram before restoration.

damage on the bottoms indicating that they had been They both had suffered physical damage as well. Den- sitting on the ground for some time. The paint had crack- nis Doram’s painting had a 12-inch tear in the upper left led and there were small flecks of paint missing. A dark hand corner; however Diadamia’s was in worse condi- yellow film on the canvas formed because PatrickH enry tion. The canvas had separated from the stretcher at the Davenport had added excess oil to his paint. Also, the top and had deteriorated at the bottom. The most se- varnish he used had yellowed almost to a brown, hiding rious damage was a 26-inch tear across the face of the the features and details of the paintings. painting that had originated from a puncture hole. The

– 25 – only good news was that there were no previous repairs and conservation to remove.

A conservator spent over six months repairing the dam- age. Treatment included cleaning the canvases, apply- ing Japanese tissue to the tears in the paintings, making new stretchers, and filling in the missing paint with gesso putty and pigments. The cleaning and removal of dirt, soot, and yellowed varnish alone took over 60 hours to complete.3

Today the portraits are in very good condition. It is once again possible to study the faces of these extraordinary people and their story.

Portrait of Diadamia Doram before restoration. Both portraits had suffered considerable damage, most conspicuously severe Dennis and Diadamia Doram holes and tears in the canvas. Dennis and Diadamia Doram are notable for their achievements at a time when social and political forces were aligned to prevent any glimmer of the American dream for people of African descent in this country.

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– 26 – Dennis Doram was born into slavery at Danville, Ky., in Diadamia Taylor Doram was born in 1810. She, her 1796. His mother Lydia Doram was owned by General mother Cloe, and her siblings were the slaves of Moses Thomas Barbee, who was also her father. Dennis’s fa- O. Bledsoe of St. Louis, Mo. Diadamia’s father, Gibson ther was also named Dennis Doram. Family stories say he Taylor, was a free man of color. In 1814, Gibson Taylor was at least part Native American and was not a slave.4 paid Bledsoe $700 to free his wife and children. The Tay- When Thomas Barbee died, the younger Dennis was less lor family moved to Kentucky shortly afterwards. Diada- than a year old. General Barbee’s Feb. 7, 1797, will freed mia was raised in Harrodsburg, Ky., but there is little else his daughter Lydia Doram and her children. But freedom known about her youth. The next documented event in came for the children only after they reached a partic- Diadamia Taylor’s life is her marriage to Dennis Doram ular age. For the female children, it was age 26. For the on Feb. 15, 1830 in Mercer County, Ky. Together, these male children it was age 31. The will stipulated that all of two former slaves embarked on an unlikely journey that the children were to be educated in reading and writing, other African Americans with less education and fewer and the boys were also to be taught mathematics.5 One opportunities could not take. family historian found evidence that Dennis Doram was conducting business as early as 1814.6 His 31st birthday History Revealed and freedom arrived in 1827 and Dennis was working and One hundred and seventy years after the Doram’s mar- farming for himself. It is clear that he was successful be- riage, their great-granddaughter, Viola Gross, brought cause in fewer than ten years he was buying Danville town the Doram paintings and the Kentucky Historical Society lots. When and how he met Diadamia Taylor is unknown. together, but Mrs. Gross also had treasures of her own.

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– 27 – In 2006, she donated 65 original documents pertaining Dennis and Lydia Doram, Dennis’ parents. It was created to the Doram-Rowe family to the Kentucky Historical in Tennessee where the elder Doram couple had moved Society. This collection, supported by other research, years before. The document is peculiar because Dennis pinpoints steps the Doram family took on their path to Sr. is believed to not have been a slave and was deceased achieve the American dream. by 1839. The 1840 Federal Census indicates that Lydia Doram may have been living with her son Dennis and Freedom Diadamia. Perhaps she sought this confirmation of free- The Doram-Rowe Family Collection details the family dom before she left Tennessee. story after the marriage of Dennis and Diadamia. The one exception is the earliest document in the collection. Home Ownership Dated 1829, the document is a certificate of freedom Documented in both the Doram-Rowe Family Collec- verifying Diadamia Doram’s release from slavery on April tion and the Boyle County records is a land deed for the 11, 1814. Thirty-four years later, Diadamia’s daughter purchase of a lot of land on “the Main” street in Danville, Martha A. Doram, also secured a certificate of freedom. Ky., by Dennis Doram on Feb. 1, 1836. The lot had a brick It too is part of the collection. According to Mrs. Gross, building on it and some outbuildings. Doram paid 1/3 of Martha (who was her grandmother) sought this docu- the cost up front and paid the rest in installments over ment because she was about to get married. Perhaps Di- two years. If and how long the family lived there is un- adamia used the same reasoning since she married Den- known as the Dorams continued to purchase town lots. nis one year after the date of her freedom documents. This includes a house on 3rd Street that still stands to- Another certificate of freedom in the Doram-Rowe day (now 233 Martin Luther King Blvd.) and land with a Family Collection from 1839 includes the names of house on the Danville turnpike in 1854.

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– 28 – Between 1837 and 1860 the Dorams’ purchased over An 1851 paid receipt in the Doram-Rowe Family Col- 300 acres of land, most along the Dix River in Boyle lection written by Danville school teacher Willis Rus- County. One of the first of these purchases was made sell proves that the Doram children were educated. The from an heir of General Thomas Barbee, Dennis’s previ- 1850 Federal Census confirms that all of their children ous owner. General Barbee’s nephew, Thomas Barbee, from age 7 to 17 were enrolled in school. Dennis and sold the Dorams a little over six acres of land 10 years Diadamia’s daughter, Sarah, attended Berea College in after General Barbee’s will freed Dennis. The Dorams the 1870s.9 It is unknown if any of their other children also purchased land in Indiana. Although purchased continued to a higher education, but it indicates that from different owners, the land lots appear to be adja- the family treasured education for daughters as well cent to each other. How they used this land is unknown. as sons. A generation later grandson Thomas Madi- It is important to note that although the Doram’s were son Doram, earned a doctorate in veterinary medicine. the wealthiest free blacks in Boyle County, Ky., they still He was the second African-American to do so in the owned only about 1/5th of the amount of land compared United States. to the largest white land owner.7 On December 23, 1864, Joshua Doram wrote to his fa- Successful Businesses ther from Louisa, Ky. (Louisa is located in eastern Ken- The 1860, county tax records reported that the Doram tucky near the Virginia state line). Joshua and his older family held property valued at $10,800. This included brother Thomas both joined the 114th United States farm land, four town lots, eight horses, thirty cattle, Colored Troops. His short letter mentions that Confed- thirty hogs, one goat, one bull and one slave. The Doram erate troops were surrendering every day and arriving in land was most likely used to raise a variety of crops, but little more than rags for clothes.10 The brothers joined there might have been a good amount of hemp too. the United States Army together, as was common at the time, mustering at Camp Nelson in Kentucky. The 114th Family stories indicate that Dennis Doram also ran a Regiment participated in the Siege of Petersburg and rope factory and a hemp business. Evidence supporting the Appomattox Campaign and was in Appomattox, Va., that includes an account receipt for the year 1840 in the when the treaty documents were signed. Doram-Rowe Family Collection. It lists rope and cord sold to D. Yeiser from 1835–1839. Also, one of Dennis Both brothers returned home and started businesses. and Diadamia sons and Dennis’ brother are listed in the Joshua became a barber and later ran a grocery on Sec- 1860 Federal Census with an occupation of “rope spin- ond Street in Danville.11 He may have had a side business ner.” Yet in the same year Dennis is listed as “farmer.” as well. According to the Semi-weekly Interior Journal of Stanford, Ky., Joshua was accused of selling alcohol Educated and Successful Children on several occasions in the dry county of Boyle. Thomas Dennis and Diadamia Doram had 12 children.8 Perhaps went a different direction. After the war, Dennis Doram two of the 12 did not make it to adulthood. Of the few loaned him money to buy a farm.12 Tax records and news- personal letters in the Doram-Rowe Family Collection paper accounts indicate Thomas was raising horses. He most are from their children. Along with other docu- was still buying horses in the 1880s and is listed in the ments, it is possible to gather who the children were and 1895 Wallace’s American Trotting Registry. Thomas sold how they were raised. his farm in 1902 at the age of 65.13

– 29 – Another Doram son served in the United States military. schools for newly freed slaves after the Civil War. Dennis Robert Cassius Clay Doram was a Buffalo soldier. He en- was also a delegate of the First Convention of Colored listed in 1868 and left the service in 1879 due to disabil- Men of Kentucky.15 This organization was created in 1866 ity. The Doram-Rowe Family Collection includes three to advance the rights of African Americans in Kentucky, letters he wrote home. Military records list Robert’s oc- starting with lobbying the Legislature for voting rights. cupation as a mason, yet he is not listed in business or census records after 1870. Another indicator of social status in pre-Civil War Ken- tucky was slave ownership, and Dennis Doram did own Information on all of the 12 children has not yet been slaves. There is no documentation in the Doram-Rowe found, but there are pieces of information that help Family Collection that indicates ownership of slaves. tell the story. For example, the Interior Journal remarks Other records provide evidence that Dennis Doram was about a dispute regarding Susan Doram’s rock quarry in a slave owner. He freed a woman named Mary who was 1898. This was 10 years after she had her maiden name about 25 years old in 1846. A year later, he freed a woman restored as her legal name by the county court. named Lydia.16 The 1860 Slave Schedule lists Dennis as owning one male slave aged 56 and that there was one Social Standing “slave dwelling” on his property. Research indicates that Dennis and Diadamia Doram had good standing in the community. Their roles as free Because Dennis was responsible for most legal transac- blacks who were land owners speak both to their reputa- tions, there is little evidence about Diadamia’s charac- tion and their ability to build relationships outside the ter. She is listed as Dennis’s wife in only one of the land African American community. There is one indication deeds in the Doram-Rowe Family Collection. A Freed- that Dennis Doram was not well regarded by everyone. man’s Bank record from 1873 gives some additional in- In 1850, Fred Visschon refused to allow Dennis to pur- formation, but nothing of her character. An obituary in chase his land which was going up for auction. For some 1883 describes Diadamia as “a very worthy woman” and reason the family kept this document and it is in the “a devoted member of the Methodist Church for over Doram-Rowe collection. fifty years.”

Dennis was a leader in the African American commu- Pieces of the American Dream nity of Danville. Receipts in the Doram-Rowe collection The portraits of Dennis and Diadamia Doram illustrate show that Dennis paid another person’s debt on at least one family’s quest for the American Dream. Not all the two occasions. During the Civil War, Dennis had served pieces are there, and what is there prompts questions as an intermediary for a least a two soldiers in the United about African Americans owning slaves, the rights of States Colored Troops. Elijah Irvine of the 114th United free blacks in pre-Civil War Kentucky, and 19th century States Colored Troops sent Dennis $80 to give to his commerce. At the Kentucky Historical Society, the por- wife, Sophia. He requested Dennis open a bank account traits are used to ask these questions. But they also serve for Sophia and approve how she spent that money. as reminders that there are entire generations of African American families that have little or no documentation Family stories indicate that he helped start a school for to reveal their story. the higher education of African Americans.14 This is supported by the fact several African Americans, lead In March of 1866, Dennis Doram served on the finance in part by Dennis’s son Gibeon Doram, started creating committee for the First Convention of Colored Men of

– 30 – Kentucky. The committee drafted a statement of inten- Portrait Painter” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. tions. A portion of it seems to embody Dennis’ view of Vol. 51, No. 3, (Autumn 1958), p. 250 the American Dream: 3. McKay Lodge Fine Arts & Conservation Laboratory, Inc. “Conservation Report: Dennis and Diadamia Doram Portraits” We are native and to the manner born; we are part and (unpublished manuscript, 2001). parcel of the Great American body politic; we love our 4. Gross, Two Hundred Years of Freedom, 45. country and her institutions; we are proud of her great- 5. Thomas Barbee’s Will, Mercer County, Kentucky. Book 2, ness and glory in her might; we are intensely American, Box NO. 22 [M310], pp.31-34 allied to the free institutions of our country by sacri- 6. Doram, Tai. “Heritage Lost, But Now Found!” fices, the deaths and the slumbering ashes of our sons (unpublished and undated manuscript), 26. and our fathers, whose patriotism, whose daring and 7. Brown, Richard C. “Free Blacks in Boyle County.” devotion, led them to pledge their lives, their property The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 87 (1989) and their sacred honor, to the maintenance of her free- 8. The names of the children vary depending on dom, and the majesty of her laws. Here we are intended the source, but the number seems consistent. to remain, and while we seek to cultivate all of those 9. Sears, Richard D. Berea Connection. Special Collections virtues that shall distinguish us as good and useful cit- & Archives, Hutchins Library, izens, our destiny shall be that of earnest and faithful Berea College, 1996, p. 42. Americans, and we recognize no principle, we allow no 10. Letter from Joshua Doram to Dennis Doram doctrine that would make our destiny, other, than the 23 Dec. 1864. Doram-Rowe Family Collection, destiny of our native land and fellow countrymen. 1829–1975 MSS 21. Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Ky. 11. U.S. City Directories 1821–1989, Danville, Kentucky, 1877–78, p. 132; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. NOTES 12. Will of Dennis Doram, Oct. 17, 1870. Doram-Rowe Family Research Paper presented at SEMC 2013 Annual Meeting by Julie Collection, 1829–1975 MSS 21. Maio Kemper, Curator, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY; 13. Interior Journal. (Stanford, Ky.) 1881–1905, also published in the Kentucky Historical Society’s online Ancestors February 3, 1882, and January 10, 1902. magazine. 14. Doram, Tai. “Heritage Lost, But Now Found!” Unpublished and undated manuscript. p.29 1. Gross, Viola. Two Hundred Years of Freedom: A Genealogy 15. Astor, Aaron. Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and History of the Doram, Rowe, Barbee and Allied Families. and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri. Louisiana (Kinnersley Press, 2003), 2. State University Press, 2012, p.146 2. White, Judson. “Patrick Henry Davenport: Pioneer Illinois 16. Gross, Two Hundred Years of Freedom, 62.

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LOUISIANA Dick Stephens. The Stephenses lent On view at the New Orleans Mu- THNOC approximately 150 of their seum of Art, see NOMA’s new ac- decoys, wildfowl art, and books for quisition America by artist Will Ry- the two-part 2007 exhibition Birds man. This interactive life-size log of a Feather: Wildfowl Carving in cabin explores the history of the Southeast Louisiana, which explored United States through a symbolic se- the work of craftsmen carvers who lection of materials. turned utilitarian hunting aids into beautifully crafted and hand- This summer, a flock of faux-feath- painted folk art. In fall 2012 the Ste- ered friends took up residence in phenses donated more than 300 The Historic New Orleans Col- decoys and wildfowl-related paint- Miniature decoy; 1960; wood; by Laurent lection’s orientation center. The 60 ings, posters, books, and stamps to Verdin, Sr.; The Historic New Orleans handcrafted duck decoys on display THNOC. The selection on display Collection, gift of Anne and Dick are a sampling from the recently ac- includes at least one item from each Stephens and Family, 2012.0376.1.292. quired decoy collection of Anne and identified carver in the donation.

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Linda Crowe Chesnut, center, recepient of the Georgia Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities. georgiA Council. Chesnut has made significant and long-lasting contributions to the cultural heritage of Georgia through Linda Crowe Chesnut, citizen scholar and chair of her pioneering work in the field of Georgia’s decora- the Georgia Museum of Art’s Decorative Arts Advi- tive arts. Since 1980, Chesnut has participated in every sory Committee, has received the Governor’s Award for statewide major exhibition of Georgia’s decorative arts, the Arts and Humanities. For 26 years, the Governor’s including those of the Atlanta Historical Society, the Awards have been presented to individuals selected High Museum of Art and the Georgia Museum of Art, due to their contributions to Georgia’s creative industry through loans, consultation and networking. ¶ Ches- through innovative programs, community collaboration nut is a driving force for the Henry D. Green Center and long-term financial commitment to the arts in Geor- for the Study of the Decorative Arts, a research center gia. Partners of the Governor’s Award include the Geor- housed at the Georgia Museum of Art and dedicated gia Council for the Arts and the Georgia Humanities to the study of Georgia’s material culture. Also closely

– 43 – involved with the Museum of Early Southern Decorative type of engaging family programming that epitomizes Arts (MESDA), Chesnut assisted its staff in research- The Wonder Collective’s extraordinary institutions,” ing and documenting hundreds of Georgia objects. As a said Val Marmillion, Managing Director of The Wonder result of Chesnut’s participation in the annual Colonial Collective. “Families across the country are looking to Williamsburg Antiques Forum for 26 years, the Virginia us as they search for destinations that offer truly special institution has integrated Georgia art and scholarship in experiences.” ¶ The Wonder Collective formed based the regional and national canon. The 5-year landmark on an unwavering commitment to transforming the lives exhibition opening in 2014 at Colonial Williamsburg will and educational opportunities of children and families serve as a summation of southern decorative arts schol- in communities nationwide. This diverse new consor- arship and collecting for the past 50 years. It will be the tium covers a national map, creating a gateway to learn- first inclusion of Georgia decorative arts in an exhibition ing through the unique offerings of children’s museums, of national status. science centers and aquaria, botanical gardens, historic attractions, and music and art institutions. Armed with The Atlanta History Center showcases its commit- polling data and trends identified by family travel ex- ment to family learning by celebrating those memorable perts, the consortium of twenty museums was estab- moments when individuals truly become a family. From lished to meet the needs of American families yearning StoryCorps 10th anniversary showcase of family conver- for affordable, educational and intergenerational family sations to the Day of the Dead, or “Dia de los Muertos,” experiences beyond highly marketed commercial at- to “Magic Mondays” for preschoolers, the Atlanta His- tractions. In the coming months, the Wonder Collective tory Center offers engaging family programs. “This is the will highlight the extraordinary collections and events of

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– 44 – its members, with a special emphasis on programs with Center’s new planetarium that will be part of their building intergenerational appeal. To learn more, please follow expansion, scheduled for ground breaking in spring, 2014. the Wonder Collective at: https://www.facebook.com/ The Living Arts & Science Center was the only Kentucky collectivewonder?ref=hl. For more information, con- organization to receive an IMLS award this year. tact Val Marmillion at Marmillion + Company at vam@ mcopr.com, or by calling 303-995-8884. LOUISIANA kentucky The West Baton Rouge Museum is one of 473 insti- tutions across the country awarded the set of four films The Living Arts & Science Center in Lexington is re- chronicling the history of the civil rights movement. The ceiving $55,092 through the Museums for America grant powerful documentaries, The Abolitionists, Slavery by program of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Another Name, Freedom Riders, and The Loving Story, in- (IMLS), a federal agency. The grant award will support clude dramatic scenes of incidents in the 150-year effort the purchase of a new mobile digital planetarium and to achieve equal rights for all. Freedom Riders received an multi-media astronomy and space science programming. Emmy in 2012, and The Loving Story and The Abolitionists The new mobile planetarium will become part of the Liv- have been nominated for Emmys in 2013. Each of the ing Arts & Science Center’s Wonders on Wheels (WOW) films was produced with NEH support, and each tells re- program that provides hands-on arts and science pro- markable stories of individuals who challenged the social grams for schools and libraries across the state. The and legal status quo of deeply rooted institutions, from programs will also be utilized in the Living Arts & Science slavery to segregation. Created Equal programs bring

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LOUISIANA one promising a frank focus on civil rights and the other a sweep of history from pre-European settlements to National World War II Museum in New Orleans is Elvis Presley and more. The Mississippi Civil Rights offering the purchase of Campaigns of Courage Com- Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History — memorative Bricks. These commemorative bricks will be two museums under the same roof — are scheduled to part of the atrium of the Museum’s next great pavilion open in Jackson in 2017, the state’s bicentennial. Hank — Campaigns of Courage: European and Pacific The- Holmes, director of the state Department of Archives aters. Their goal is to have the entire atrium filled with and History, said the exhibits won’t minimize the parts the names of families and their veterans when they open of the past that some might consider embarrassing or the Road to Berlin exhibit gallery in 2014. uncomfortable. The two museums will have more than 200,000 square feet combined and are to be built not MISSISSIPPI far from the Capitol in Jackson. The state has commit- ted $40 million, and Holmes said officials are trying to Mississippi breaks ground on side-by-side museums that raise $14 million in private donations. ¶ The civil rights are expected to break ground of their own in how they museum, focusing on 1945-70, will display the rifle that a depict the Southern state once rocked by racial turmoil, white supremacist used in 1963 to kill Medgar Evers, the

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– 48 – Mississippi NAACP leader whose slaying helped propel Lou Hamer, who pushed for voting rights for all citizens the struggle for equality to national attention. The rifle in the 1960s and ‘70s. The Mississippi Civil Rights Mu- has been on temporary display the past few months at seum joins other facilities across the nation in addressing the state archives building, next door to the future mu- America’s complex history of race relations. ¶ Like many seums’ site, as part of an exhibit commemorating Evers’ Deep South states, Mississippi had segregated schools legacy and the 50th anniversary of his death. The civil and public facilities until the 1960s and 1970s — facili- rights museum will have a display about the 1955 slay- ties that people in power once falsely labeled “separate ing of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American but equal.” Holmes said African-Americans’ stories will from Chicago who was said to have whistled at a white be integrated into both museums, not simply segregated woman in a rural Mississippi grocery store. Till was kid- into the civil rights segment. The Museum of Missis- napped, badly beaten and shot in the head, and his body sippi History will include information on the Choctaw dumped in the Tallahatchie River. Till’s mother allowed and Chickasaw Indian civilizations, which were thriving photos of his brutalized body to be published, galvaniz- before European settlers arrived. It will recognize the ing the fledgling civil rights movement. The same mu- diverse groups that shaped the state, including the Chi- seum will focus on the “Mississippi Burning” killings of nese who settled in the Delta’s agricultural flatlands. It civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney also is to include exhibits on slavery, the Civil War and and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba County in June 1964. the Jim Crow era when laws imposed racial segregation And, it will include exhibits devoted to people like Fannie in many public places in the U.S.

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The Swan House at the Atlanta History Center was one of many Georgia set locations used during the film- ing of the movie The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Fans of the Hunger Games will enjoy the tours of the Swan House featured in the upcoming film Catching Fire through January 6, 2014. The Capitol Tour experience includes a guided tour through Swan House showcasing the rooms that were used during filming. Visitors will have exclu- sive admittance to a behind-the-scenes exhibit dis- playing photos from the production at Swan House and Information such as the presence of a gate around this St. Louis No. 1 select props from the film. Snap a photo at two unique tomb, the names and dates on the closure tablet, and the presence of photo opportunities presenting recreations of portions ornamentation will all be incorporated into the digital survey. of sets from scenes in the movie. Once the tour leaves the interior of Swan House, visitors may head outdoors In the 28 years that have since passed, countless closure to explore the gardens and lawn and capture more tablets—the square or rectangular slabs that cap sealed photo opportunities from the film. See more at: http:// tombs and often list names and life dates—have been www.atlantahistorycenter.com/cms/Swan+House/116. stolen, destroyed, or lost to environmental deterioration. html#sthash.4xZonIae.dpuf. The new digital survey preserves the information from the original 1980s survey. The project is still in its pilot LOUISIANA form, focusing only on survey data from St. Louis No. 1, but in time, all nine cemeteries will be brought into the The Historic New Orleans Collection is giving New digital fold. The Collection hopes to have the pilot ver- Orleans’s oldest cemeteries a 21st-century boost. Ear- sion of the survey available for public perusal in 2014. lier this year, staff curatorH oward Margot and Wil- liams Research Center intern Sofia Papastamkou started Swag the Mix Tape Vol. 1 is a series of videos and mixtapes digitizing a detailed survey of nine of the city’s historic from 2012 which includes original music produced by New cemeteries, which THNOC and the nonprofitS ave Our Orleans-native Rashaad Newsome, in collaboration with an Cemeteries originally conducted from 1981 to 1985. The array of visual and recording artists, including Stefanos Ko- project will make information about each burial-ground roneos, Kevin Jourdan Zion Prodigy, Laurie Anderson and tomb or crypt accessible online or in person at the Wil- Maluca Mala, among many others. Through January 2014, liams Research Center. The Collection’s original cem- the LSU Museum of Art will feature Swag alongside sev- etery survey targeted St. Louis Nos. 1 and 2, Lafayette enteenth- and eighteenth-century portraits from the LSU Nos. 1 and 2, St. Joseph Nos. 1 and 2, Odd Fellows Rest, Museum of Art’s early collection, in an installation called Por- Cypress Grove, and the historic section of Greenwood. traiture: Style and Ornament. The proximity of the Museum’s

– 51 – In addition to expanding the Gen- eral Claire L. Chennault Exhibit, the Chennault Aviation and Mili- tary Museum is expanding their educational programs and learn- ing resources. Their website, www. chennaultmuseum.org now has les- son plans for educators, students and parents. They are also working From mixtape videos by Rashaad Newsome at the LSU Museum of Art. with the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor’s, Educational Direc- traditional portraits with Newsome’s Honoring our Heroes, presented tor, Shauna E. Tonkin, Ph.D. to en- multi-sample mixtape videos puts by Morgan Stanley, included the hance and expand our current and a contemporary spin on questions world premiere of “Dreams of the future educational opportunities for about wealth, style and class. Fallen,” a compelling new composi- our area’s students and schools. Fu- tion for piano, chorus and orchestra ture plans include historical young The National World War II Mu- by award-winning composer Jake actor’s troop, summer day camps, seum and Louisiana Philharmonic Runestad and Aaron Copland’s and expanding our “Please Touch Orchestra presented Honoring Our “Lincoln Portrait,” narrated by John Me” stations, where children are Heroes, a Veterans Day Concert Goodman, star of the upcoming encouraged to interact with special Event featuring John Goodman. film Inside Llewyn Davis. items and artifacts.

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May through November of 2013, the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum (BRAHM) mounted Art Among Friends, a large show of American Impressionist paint- ings drawn from four private collections in the North Carolina High Country. Curated by Jonathan Stuhlman, Curator of American Art at the Mint Museum, in Char- lotte, Art Among Friends: Four Collections of American Art was so well received, with high visitation and media at- tention, that it has now traveled to the Cameron Art Mu- seum, in Wilmington, through February 16, 2014. ¶ Span- ning one of the most dynamic periods of American art history, the show’s eighty-one paintings and one bronze sculpture were created between roughly 1880 and 1940 and portray the evolution of American Impressionism to Urban Realism. Americans abroad, Massachusetts art colonies, The Philadelphia Ten, Women artists, The Eight, and modern life are themes represented by art- ists such as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Jacket of exhibition catalogue Art Among Friends: Four Collections of American Art, featuring Young Tennis Player, SEMC ad_Layout 1 8/13/13 10:01 AM Page 1 c. 1920, by Agnes Millen Richmond (1870–1964). Oil on canvas. Curated by Jonathan Stuhlman, of the Mint Museum of Art, for the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum. CHARLTON HALL C Discover Extraordinary Objects Childe Hassam, Charles Paul Gruppe, Anthony Thieme, H Mary Bradish Titcomb, William Lester Stevens, Aldro Discreetly Assisting Museums Thompson Hibbard, Edith Lucille Howard, Theresa Fer- For Over 85 Years ber Bernstein, Constance Cochrane, Lilian Westcott Art+Auction Magazine voted Charlton Hall as one of the Hale, Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, Maurice Top 250 Auction Firms Worldwide! Brazil Prendergast, Thomas Hart Benton, and numer- Our experienced staff of specialists has assisted dozens of museums across the country ous others. ¶ The success of the BRAHM exhibition in- with deaccessions, private sales, and appraisals. spired a clothbound, 96-page catalogue, which serves as For more information, contact our museum and estate specialists a “memento of a remarkable partnership forged among 803-779-5678 collectors, museum professionals, and friends,” writes Joann C. Mitchell, Executive Director of BRAHM, in [email protected] 7 Lexington Drive, West Columbia, SC 29170 the foreword. Designed and published by JIMI alumnus www.CharltonHallAuctions.com Nathan Moehlmann of Goosepen Studio & Press, the limited-edition catalogue is available directly through the museum: www.blowingrockmuseum.org.

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Rogers Historical Museum is pleased to announce that John Burroughs, the assistant director, is now the new di- rector. On October 26, 2013, Gaye Bland retired as Direc- tor of Rogers Historical Museum. The new assistant di- rector will be Terrilyn Wendling, who is currently curator of collections, and the new curator of collections will be Jami Roskamp. GEORGIA

The Flannery O’Connor–Andalusia Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce and welcome Elizabeth Wylie as the new executive director at Anda- Elizabeth Wylie, new executive director for the Flannery O’Connor– lusia. Ms. Wylie served as the Director of Business Devel- Andalusia Foundation. opment for Finegold Alexander + Associates (architec- ture and planning practice) in Boston from 2008 to 2012. She has also served as a private consultant for the last became a journey that can best be described as “the ul- two years, providing strategy, marketing, development, timate road trip.” Making its North American premiere and sustainability planning for museum, cultural, con- at Fernbank Museum, Marco Polo: Man & Myth features servation, and preservation organizations and associated more than 80 objects including coins, ceramics, artwork, industries. She has held upper-level administrative posi- maps and more. ¶ From Marco Polo’s homeland in Ven- tions at the Boston Center for the Arts, the Rhode Island ice to his final destination in China, the exhibition reveals School of Design Museum in Providence, and the Aid- the many cultural influences and customs he observed, ekman Art Center at Tufts University in Medford, Mas- highlights the impact of exchanging ideas along the Silk sachusetts. She is a veteran professional with significant Road, and sheds light on his encounters inside the Mon- management, writing, fundraising, marketing, and com- gol Empire, including the Court of Kublai Khan. Along the munication skills. way he became an experienced merchant, knowledgeable explorer and keen observer. ¶ Exhibition galleries high- Experience the story of the ultimate adventure traveler, light the diverse landscapes and cultures encountered on Marco Polo, and relive his epic excursion along the Silk his journey, which were chronicled in one of the most im- Road in the exhibition Marco Polo: Man & Myth at Fern- portant travelogues of all time, The Travels of Marco Polo. bank Natural History Museum through January 5, Both man and myth today, he is forever recognized as the 2014. Twenty-four years and thousands of miles later, it quintessential traveler.

– 54 – SCAD Museum of Art features the while simultaneously recovering in- Wendell Castle in Rochester, New exhibition Diana Al-Hadid through fluential visual histories. York, helped shape the American January 12, 2014. This exhibition studio furniture movement through- highlights Diana Al-Hadid’s unique Wendell Castle’s exhibition Wander- out the 1960s and 1970s, and he exploration of art historical refer- ing Forms, Works from 1959–1979 will remains one of the most important ences to examine sculptural and be at SCAD Museum of Art through American furniture makers work- pictorial space and convey a world February 2, 2014. Wendell Castle’s ing today. Wandering Forms includes turned upside down. Her recent exploration of form and function a variety of furniture pieces from large-scale gypsum and metal sculp- blurs the boundaries between art, chairs and tables to lighting and the tures, small bronzes and drawings craft and design and has changed intricate drawings from Castle’s ar- are inspired by myriad sources, in- the way we look at furniture today. chives. This exhibition originated at cluding Italian and Northern Renais- The first major investigation into the Aldrich Contemporary Art Mu- sance painting, Gothic architecture his iconic and groundbreaking early seum to coincide with Castle’s 80th and Hellenistic sculpture. Known for work in more than 20 years, this birthday and was organized by cura- her innovative methods that extend exhibition surveys the renowned tor Evan Snyderman and Aldrich ex- pictorial devices used to expand American designer’s wood and fi- ecutive director Alyson Baker. perspective into three-dimensional berglass objects, and presents re- space, Al-Hadid opens up new ter- lated materials from his archives. The Tubman African American rain for contemporary sculpture The handmade pieces created by Museum is hosting a very special

– 55 – A Flight from Destiny, Schenck, from the Booth Western Art Museum’s exhibition Today’s West! exhibition The Excavation of Lost Souls through January Drawn from the unparalleled collection of the Buffalo Bill 11, 2014. The exhibition features a selection of mixed me- Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, Booth Western dia paintings by Maryland-based artist Ulysses Marshall. Art Museum opened a new exhibition, Today’s West! Ulysses Marshall is a native of Vienna, Georgia. Marshall Contemporary Art from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. creates images using paint, collage and a variety of found Today’s West!, through April 13, 2014, immerses visitors in and recycled materials. His works explore the history and the artistic developments that have occurred in Western culture of African Americans from the perspective of a art over the past 50 years. The exhibition features over community in exile; cut off from its cultural and spiritual 60 contemporary masterworks in a variety of media that roots. both parallels and supplements the Booth Museum col- lection, showcasing additional examples by artists in the

– 56 – Booth collection along with work 1830 to 1930. The dust of the Civil by artists never before exhibited at War had barely settled when Hor- Booth. The exhibition layout echoes ace Greeley, editor of the New York three themes represented in the Tribune, famously urged America’s Booth permanent collection galler- youth to turn from the rubble and ies: Habitats and Inhabitants, Collid- go west. America’s future was an- ing Cultures, and Faces of the West. chored in the frontier. Between For more details on Today’s West!, 1800 and 1900, the nation more visit www.boothmuseum.org or call than tripled in physical size. With 770.387.1300. the purchase of the Louisiana Terri- tory from the French in 1803, Amer- As a companion exhibition, the ican land holdings doubled with the High Museum of Art is featur- stroke of a pen. At the beginning of ing Go West! Art of the American the nineteenth century, less than Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center seven percent of the American of the West through April 13, 2014. population lived west of states that This exhibition considers the evolv- bordered the Atlantic Ocean; at the Yellowstone Falls, Albert Bierstadt, from ing notion of the American West century’s end, those regions hosted the exhibition Go West! at the High through more than 250 paintings, more than fifty percent. Americans Museum of Art sculpture, photographs and Na- were going west. Few aspects of tive American artifacts dating from American history have been more

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– 58 – Orphans Home2 – Louisville Baptist Orphans Home Quilt, 1882–83 Eugenia Garnett Murray Quilt, ca. 1885–1893 (detail) from the (detail) from the Kentucky Museum’s exhibition Faces & Places. Kentucky Museum’s exhibition Faces & Places. decisive in shaping this nation than the exploration and Springfield’s Lincoln Legacy Museum, the Lincoln Heri- settling of the western frontier. This exhibition considers tage National Scenic Byway, the Joseph Holt Home near the evolving notion of the American West through more Cloverport, and Lincoln Memorial University near Mid- than 250 artworks and artifacts dating from 1830 to 1930, dlesboro. These sites represent important connections outlining a West of popular imagination that continues to the sixteenth president’s life and legacy. ¶ Kentucky’s to inform American values of independence, innovation, Lincoln Heritage Trail was re-established in 2008 during and individualism today. the state’s Lincoln Bicentennial celebration. Signature sites include the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National The exhibition The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden will Historical Park near Hodgenville, the Mary Todd Lincoln also be at the High Museum through January 19. The House in Lexington, and Camp Nelson near Nicholas- Tuileries, a major Parisian tourist attraction, is one of ville. The Lincoln Heritage Trail is not only a physical the greatest public gardens in the world. The Art of the journey through Lincoln’s life, it is a personal journey Louvre’s Tuileries Garden brings Paris to Peachtree Street, that continually brought Lincoln back to the place, cul- with picturesque boxed holly trees on the piazza, sculp- ture, and citizens of his native state. The trail is admin- ture drawn directly from the grounds of the Tuileries, istered by the Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail Alliance, Impressionist paintings, and a three-screen video of a a 501-c-3 nonprofit organization. For more information, stroll through the garden. visit www.kentuckylincolntrail.org. kentucky The Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky Univer- sity opened a new textile exhibit, Faces & Places, in the The Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail, a driving tour Richardson Quilt Gallery. The show includes more than of historic sites related to Abraham Lincoln, has recently 40 quilts and other textiles that incorporate images of expanded to include five additional attractions. These people or the built environment or provide a sense of include Louisville’s Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park, place into the textiles. George Washington, Henry Clay,

– 59 – Fom the Behringer-Crawford Museum’s exhibition Our Story: Northern Kentucky’s Contribution to the Vietnam War Effort. the Puritans, Father Thomas Mer- For more information, go to wku. Kentuckians during and following ton, Robert Penn Warren, and Don edu/kentuckymuseum. the Vietnam War, with an emphasis Quixote are some of the “faces” on personal recollections of those depicted on the quilts and cover- Behringer-Crawford Museum who served. A series of lectures, lets in the exhibit. Representations (BCM) presents Vietnam: Our Story, panel discussions, and other special of the built environment include Northern Kentucky’s Contribution events will complement and en- a school house, honeymoon cot- to the Vietnam War Effort through hance the stories presented within tage, and public structures. Several August 31, 2014. Vietnam: Our Story the exhibit. In appreciation of their quilts in the show reflect family, reflects upon the experiences, con- sacrifice and service, veterans from school, and church relationships. tributions, and impact of Northern all eras and all current military

– 60 – Silver Tea Service by Asa Blanchard, Coin Silver, Engraved A.M.P., ca. 1815. Photograph by Bob Lanham. From the Liberty Hall Historic Site’s exhibition Kentucky Made.

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Liberty Hall Historic Site, Frank- fort, presents Kentucky Made: Dec- orative Arts from the Liberty Hall Collection. This permanent exhibit, opening March 15, 2014, features some of the finest examples of Ken- tucky made pieces from the Liberty Hall collection. The exhibit explores the social and cultural landscape of 19th century Kentucky through the

– 61 – work of silversmiths, weavers, furni- Rouge Museum. As part of our original artifacts from all of these ture makers, and painters. Some of ongoing commemoration of the movies and more. ¶ Although films the artists represented include: Asa sesquicentennial of the Civil War, have been shot in Louisiana since Blanchard, Matthew Harris Jouett, the West Baton Rouge Museum is the beginning of the 20th century, Oliver Frazer, and Paul Sawyier. Lib- hosting a display of memorabilia the film industry has turned into erty Hall Historic Site is located in from films with Civil War scenes a billion dollar business here due Frankfort, Kentucky. For more in- shot in Louisiana including Beauti- to a tax credit program that made formation, www.libertyhall.org. ful Creatures, Jonah Hex, Abraham it more profitable to film mov- Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Un- ies in Louisiana. In 1992 Louisi- louisiana defeated, Band of Angels, North and ana was the first state to roll out a South: Book II, Reconstruction, Horse major film subsidy program. A de- The display entitled, Filmed in Loui- Soldiers, Convicts, The Beguiled, Je- cade later, in 2002, the Legislature siana: Civil War Era Movie Memora- zebel, Louisiana, and Autobiography greatly expanded the film credits, bilia will be on view from through of Miss Jane Pittman. The exhibit which spurred significant growth in January 12, 2014 at the West Baton will include photos, video clips, and the state’s film industry. Louisiana

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– 62 – historian Richard Holloway got in- now hangs at LVGHG and will travel absconded with the artifact and re- volved with the local film industry as to St. Louis for the latter part of the turned to the HGGHH museum to early as 1983 as a reenactor for Civil exhibition. The exhibition explores call the Archdiocese of New Or- War movie scenes. He has amassed objects, ideas, and experiences leans, caretakers of the tomb and a collection of items from the mov- related to the Mississippi River to notify Grima descendants. The ies that he was involved in as well as through contemporary commis- Archdiocese applauded our direc- earlier movies filmed in Louisiana sions and historical works from lo- tor for her fast and fearless moves with Civil War subject matter. cal institutions. Click here for more that saved the nineteenth-century information. architectural detail. The tomb is in- Hermann-Grima and Gallier tact — urn and all — and reigns as a Historic Houses, New Orleans, A recent phone call from a Save beautiful monument to the Grima, are pleased that they were able to Our Cemeteries guide informed the Montegut, Pugh and Foley families lend a 19th-century painting to the Director of the Hermann-Grima/ who are buried within. exhibition The River Between Us, Gallier Historic Houses, Mamie a collaboration between Longue Gasperecz, that one of the cast- Louisiana Arts and Science Mu- Vue House and Gardens (LVGHG) iron urns from the Grima tomb in seum, Baton Rouge, features Gar- and Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. St. Louis # 1 had been removed den of Industry: Cynthia Giachetti Louis. An eglomise (reverse paint- and dragged around the far side of and Ben Diller through January 5, ing on glass) of a steamboat on the the monument. Mamie, ran to the 2014. The most recent installation Mississippi River, which has been cemetery to find the urn lying in the by sculptors Cynthia Giachetti and part of the Gallier House collection, dirt, but at least still at the site. She Ben Diller explores the paradox

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– 63 – between the ideals of nature and industry, concepts fundamental to the American dream. Giachetti’s organic, sinuous ceramic forms are in stark contrast to Diller’s super- sized emblems fabricated out of wood. Working together yet inde- pendently, their collaborative work draws upon the myriad associations suggested by the juxtapositions of their very different sculptural forms.

Fritz Bultman: An American Abstrac- From the LSU Museum of Art’s exhibition Getting There. tionist is also exhibited at Louisiana Arts and Science Museum. Fritz Bultman (1919–1985), an artist from Louisiana, took part in a semi- large-scale working model train, nal moment in American art. In the capturing the grandeur of rail travel. 1940s and ’50s, Abstract Expres- This travel themed exhibition also sionism emerged, placing New York showcases objects of fine art, in- at the center of the global art world cluding photographs by train enthu- and catapulting the artistic careers siast and retired conductor, Forrest of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pol- Becht, and rare objects of interest lock, and many others. Bultman like the 1836 publication of Mitch- worked alongside these famous ell’s Traveler’s Guide Through the peers, including Robert Motherwell United States, an illustrated guide to who cited Bultman as among the the major roads and steamboat and most talented of their generation. canal routes throughout the United This exhibition focuses upon Fritz States. Bultman’s life and his artistic influ- ences, such as Hans Hofmann and LSU Museum of Art also features Henri Matisse, during this exciting Right Here, Now through February period in American history. 16, 2014. Right Here, Now presents the work of 24 working faculty- At LSU Museum of Art, in Ba- artists from the LSU College of Art ton Rouge, Getting There features and features more than 85 works in a selection from the museum’s col- lection of antique and vintage toys inspired by travel and exploration. From the LSU Museum of Art’s exhibition The Greater Baton Rouge Model Right Here. Railroaders have constructed a

– 64 – the College’s eight studio areas: photography, painting and drawing, printmaking, graphic design, foundations, sculpture, ceramics and digital media. Right Here, Now offers viewers an opportunity to experience the artworks of those who are instructing and inspiring future artists.

New York-based artist Lesley Dill’s I Gave My Whole Life to Words explores her visual poetry at LSU Museum of Art. An interdisciplinary artist, Dill freely ranges from sculpture, printmaking, and photography to create in- stallations that become an open book for the viewer. The exhibition features the first public showing of Dill’s Extasie series, which debuted at the Miami Biennale in 2012. Lesley Dill will present a lecture entitled “We Are Animals of Language” as part of the LSU College of Art Confederate flag; 1864; silk, cotton, wood, ink; The Historic and Design Paula G. Manship Endowed Lecture Series. New Orleans Collection, gift of Clyde Cucullu, 1989.119.2. From THNOC’s exhibition Occupy New Orleans! Voices from the The Louisiana Children’s Museum, New Orleans, Civil War. worked in collaboration with Wheelock College (Bos- ton) to plan a study tour to Reggio Emilia, Italy. The tour was comprised of “children’s museum teams” — includ- Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, Nirvana, Muse, and the Red ing children’s museum professionals, community lead- Hot Chili Peppers. ers, higher education professionals, designers and evalu- ators. The goal was to learn from the global best practice In its latest exhibition, The Historic New Orleans Col- on early childhood learning, and to bring back models lection explores New Orleans during the Civil War. From for our various communities and our field. Stay tuned to 1862 until 1865, New Orleans, the largest and most pros- hear a report on this unprecedented journey! perous city of the antebellum Deep South, was occupied by Union troops. The city emerged from the conflict with Louisiana Art and Science Museum, in Baton Rouge, its infrastructure intact but its psyche fractured. Occupy features The Little Star That Could, at the Pennington New Orleans! Voices from the Civil War taps the experi- Planetarium. What are stars made of? What’s in our gal- ences of ordinary men and women — Northerners and axy? Meet the Milky Way Gang and analyze and interpret Southerners alike — to tell the story of the war years. data to find out how planets are born, why stars shine, Exhibition visitors will discover that these 19th-century and the difference between stars, planets, and moons. voices sound remarkably modern, for debates over the This fun and educational film is great for all ages. In Rock meaning and cost of occupation continue to this day. the Dome, amazing three dimensional visuals, full color ¶ The 19th annual Williams Research Center Sympo- lasers, real-time effects, and well-loved alternative mu- sium, “Home Front, Battlefront: Louisiana in the Civil sic will captivate you in this new cosmic light show. Sit War,” will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, on back and see the music of a playlist featuring Audioslave, January 25, 2014. Sessions will take place at the Hotel Beck, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, 311, Modest Mouse, Monteleone.

– 65 – Image in which Christopher Oakley discovered President Lincoln. Descriptive graphics (screenshot) by 5Winfographics, Smithsonian.com.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve whose recent discovery of President Lincoln in an 1863 New Orleans was part of the government shut down. photograph by Alexander Gardner has won him much However, they are back up and running. They are cur- acclaim. Professor Oakley discussed and illustrated the rently hosting fire department visits at all sites (New research work he is currently leading at UNC Asheville Orleans, Marrero, Lafitte, Chalmette, Thibodaux, Lafay- on “The Virtual Lincoln Project” and how this research ette, and Eunice) so that they can become familiar with has led to the discovery of a previously unknown photo- areas containing artifacts. This is an annual event that is graphic image of Abraham Lincoln. This image of Lincoln conducted to help in the prevention of loss during sal- was taken in Gettysburg on the day of the Gettysburg vage and overhaul after a fire. Address, 150 years ago on November 19, 1863. The pre- sentation included information on Civil War stereo pho- norTH CAROLINA tography, photographer Alexander Gardner, and how Oakley debunked previous claims that Lincoln is seen The Asheville Art Museum hosted Christopher Oak- riding a horse in Gardner’s stereo photographs of the ley, assistant professor of new media at UNC Asheville, dedication ceremony at the National Soldier’s Cemetery.

– 66 – what’s happening Send information for What’s Happening to Susan Perry at [email protected].

PROFESSIONAL years the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (SEEC) DEVELOPMENT has been learning from our youngest learners how to ex- plore objects and museums. Together we have used ob- 10th Annual Symposium Building Museums will be jects to create and understand our world. This seminar March 16 – 18, 2014 in Miami, Florida. For more informa- covers the fundamental principles of SEEC’s approach to tion, see www.midatlanticmuseums.org/building-muse- object-based learning. Drawing from our own experience ums.html. and current research on the science of learning, Learning Through Objects provides educators with models for The Small Museum Association (SMA) is planning more creative encounters with objects in and out of mu- its 30th Annual Conference, which will be held in Ocean seums. This program features hands-on, object-based City, Maryland, February 16-18, 2014. exercises, gallery visits, guided discussions, and lectures from educators and artists. SEEC staff will present in- Literacy Development for Toddlers and Twos formation about their own practice and be available Using Storytelling and Fine Arts is January 29, 2014. for questions throughout the seminar. For information The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center is proud to contact Betsy Bowers, [email protected], 202.633.9587, offer an afternoon seminar to examine how you can en- National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. rich your infant and toddler program with children’s lit- erature, art and objects. Very young children thrive in an MuseumPests.net goes live at Colonial Williamsburg! environment that is rich in exposure to everyday objects, After ten years of creating online IPM resources for stories and visual images. Age appropriate books, art the museum, library/archive, and historic site commu- prints and objects can appeal to toddlers and two year nity we are partnering with the Colonial Williamsburg olds and help them understand the world around them. Foundation to hold a two-day conference and work- Develop this innate curiosity by creating an environment shop program. MuseumPests 2014: Integrated Pest that supports arts-rich learning in your classroom while Management for museums, libraries, archives, and maintaining a sense of trust as you nurture the growth of historic sites will be March 27–28, 2014. each child. This afternoon seminar will show you strate- gies and creative ideas designed to rejuvenate you as a semc state museum professional and inspire your work with the children in association your classroom. For information contact Betsy Bowers, annual meetings [email protected], 202.633.9587, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Alabama Museums Association (AMA) Date: February 10–11, 2014 Learning Through Objects: Museums and Young Location: Florence, AL Children Seminar is February 27 and 28, 2014. For 25 www.alabamamuseums.org/members/annual.php

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Florida Association of Museum (FAM) Virginia Association of Museums (VAM) Date: Sept tba, 2014 Date: March 15–18, 2014 Location: Jacksonville, FL Location: Alexandria, VA www.flamuseums.org www.vamuseums.org/AnnualConference/ForAttendees/ tabid/82/Default.aspx Georgia Association of Museums (GAMG) Date: January 22–24, 2014 West Virginia Association of Museums (WVAM) Location: Dalton, GA Date: tba | Location: tba www.gamg.org/newsandevents.html#Conference www.museumsofwv.org

Kentucky Museums and Heritage Alliance (KMHA) resourceS Date: June 22–24, 2014 Location: Morehead, KY “[The Children’s Museum of Atlanta] outreach program www.kymuseums.org/annualmeeting.html reaches all learners; Kinesthetic, Visual and Auditory… the children are engaged and excited about learning…” Louisiana Association of Museums (LAM) This statement is just one of many comments that The Date: April 27–30, 2014 Children’s Museum of Atlanta (CMA) has received Location: Natchitoches, LA from teachers, parents and Learning Center direc- www.louisianamuseums.org tors involved in our Connected Learning Connected Community (CLCC) outreach program. CMA began Mississippi Museums Association (MMA) the program in 2007 to meet a need for outreach and Date: April 5–8, 2014 education in underserved Atlanta neighborhoods. Our Location: Laurel, MS “Imaginators” (actor/educators) visit 7 neighborhoods www.msmuseums.org every month, reaching over 1,000 children from birth to 8 years old. The program is uniquely designed for each North Carolina Museums Council (NCMC) community based on focus groups and surveys and what Date: March 23–24, 2014 the community decides that it needs from a children’s Location: New Bern, NC museum. The results have been amazing . . . and trans- www.ncmuseums.org/conf_program.asp formative for the museum and the communities we work in. CMA received funding from IMLS to turn the program South Carolina Federation of Museums (SCFM) into a free tool kit that can be used by any museum in their Date: March 12–14, 2014 community work – it includes everything from a strate- Location: Camden, SC gic plan to an evaluation tool kit that covers the abc’s of www.southcarolinamuseums.org/conference.html everything from focus groups to program evaluation. To learn more about the tool kit and the program, please see more at childrensmuseumatlanta.org/about/connected.

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