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B l o w i n g R o c k A r t & H i s t o r y M u s u e m L E T T E R F R O M T H E TABLE OF P R E S I D E N T CONTENTS Dear BRAHM Family, L E T T E R F R O M 0 1 Thank you for the honor you have given me by your D I R E C T O R confidence and support as President of BRAHM for the past three years. It has been with the unwavering support E N R I C H 0 2 E X H I B I T I O N S of the great Board of Directors of BRAHM, our tremendous Staff, and your joining in this journey we have been on together that makes BRAHM the jewel it is! E D U C A T E 0 5 W I L S O N E D U C A T I O N C E N T E R This past year has been one of extremes - that is an understatement! From record attendance and terrific E N G A G E 0 6 exhibits, to the reinvention of BRAHM in a virtual world - P R O G R A M S our fabulous Staff has risen to every challenge and performed in a way beyond professional! Not enough C O N N E C T 0 7 praise can be given to them one and all. Thank you Staff, S P E C I A L E V E N T S you are amazing! 0 8 S T E W A R D S H I P There is not enough space on this page to talk about our R E S P O N S I B L E F I N A N C I N G many exhibits - I'll let the photos and memories do the talking and allow Executive Director Lee Carol Giduz, 0 9 our Curator Dianna Cameron, the entire staff, and our G R A T I T U D E F O R O U R M E M B E R S many unsung heroes - our volunteers - to take the credit. It is for us the BRAHM family to say thank you!To the outgoing Board it is inadequate to say thank you for all you have done and given.To Sandy Huff, our incoming President and to the incoming Board, we have your back as you have had ours.Thank you each and everyone for being a member of The Blowing Rock Art and History Museum! You each make the Museum better. Sincerely, Bo Henderson BRAHM Board President 2019 BY THE NUMBERS 2,966 3,039 608 30,349 children provided volunteer hours memberships museum visitors with arts donated (up 28% from 2018) programming 0 2 | 2 0 1 9 A N N U A L R E P O R T ENREXIHCIBHITIONS In perhaps our biggest accomplishment to date, BRAHM featured two monumental exhibitions highlighting the story of the Cone family in North Carolina and the famous art collection of Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone. The sisters believed that art encouraged vital conversations and created a significant collection of modern art, including over 500 works by Henri Matisse. Over 17,000 visitors came to see the Cone Sisters' collection and stories of the Cone family in ways that had not ever been shared before. We were fortunate to display artwork bequeathed to the Baltimore Museum of Art, Modern Visions, Weatherspoon Mountain Views: The Art Museum, and Cones of Flat Top private collections Manor within the Cone family. July 20 - November 30, 2019 Rankin East Gallery Special thanks to Wells Fargo, the lead presenting sponsor of Modern Visions, Modern Art, as well as Carrie Streeter, Historian and Guest Curator, the Balitmore Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, the National Park Service, the Greensboro History Museum, the Blowing Rock Tourism Development Authority, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Appalachian State Modern Visions, Modern University, Welborn & Patricia Alexander, Nancy Art: The Cones Sisters in Hirschland Ramage, Jane and Richard Levy, North Carolina and many other members of the Cone and August 3 - November 30, 2019, Lindau families for their collaboration and Rankin West Gallery contributions to these exhibitions. "For a small town like Blowing Rock, we are very fortunate to have such a fine facility filled with dedicated staff to make this significant contribution. We are proud to have a museum of such stature." - C H A R L E S H A R D I N , P R E S I D E N T B L O W I N G R O C K C H A M B E R O F C O M M E R C E 2019 E X H I B I T I O N S | 0 3 EXHIBITIONS The 152nd Annual International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society May 3 - July 21, 2019 Atwell Gallery Southern Strands: North Carolina Fiber Art May 25 - October 27, 2019 Fort Gallery Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective Nov 9, 2019 - Feb 22, 2020 Fort Gallery Sound Machines: Stringed Instruments by the Capozzoli Guitar Company Nov 23, 2019 - April 11, 2020 Atwell Gallery Sallie Middleton: A Life in the Forest Dec 13, 2019 - March 21, 2020 Rankin West Shared Spaces: Wildlife Wood Sculptures by Pete Lupo Dec 13, 2019 - March 21, 2020 Rankin West Image Credits (from top to bottom): (1) Bivenne Harvey Staiger (Cromwell, CT).