BOARD OF TRUSTEES & SPONSORS MOAS STAFF contents 2015 BOARD OF TRUSTEES MAJOR SPONSORS Executive Director Thomas Hart, President ANDREW SANDALL 4 exective director report Melinda Dawson, Vice President GOLD Bright House Networks Administration Staff Bridget Bergens, Second Vice President Brown & Brown, Inc. ASHLEY ADAIR, Security Linda M. Hall, Secretary Cici and Hyatt Brown JUSTIN ALISA, Security 5 board president report J. Lester Kaney, Assistant Secretary LEE ASHTON, Security Guild of the Museum of Arts & Sciences JOHN BRUCE, Security Cory Walker, Treasurer Halifax Health MARK CARRUTHERS, Guest Services Associate 6 operating summary Amy Workowski, Assistant Treasurer Travel Host Magazine JENELLE CODIANNE, Director of Marketing and Public Relations Zgraph, Inc. Carol Lively Platig, Past President STEVE CONKLIN, Director of Finance ROBERT CONSOLO, Planetarium Educator 8 exhibitions Cici Brown, Trustee Liaison SILVER COREY COOK, Guest Services Associate Liz Chanfrau Bethune-Cookman University DEAN CORMIER, Facilities Assistant STEVEN DALLAS, Head of Security Todd Huffstickler Cobb Cole 11 events Daytona Beach News-Journal ERIC GOIRE, Director of Operations Janet Jacobs KELSEY HANSEN-KRAUSE, Education Assistant Daytona Beverages, LLC Kim A. Klancke, MD AUSTIN HARDIN, Security Daytona International Speedway 12 grants and development Carl W. Lentz, III, MD, FACS NICOLE HARPSTREIT, Guest Services Associate Jon Hall Chevrolet WAYNE HARRIS, Security Chris Lydecker Mastando Media LORI HOEPFINGER, Guest Services Associate Eileen McDermott NASCAR ® ASHLEY HOLLIS BUSSEY, Planetarium Educator 14 gifts Katherine Hurst Miller RLF Architects NICHOLAS INCANNELLA, Security JESSI JACKSON SMITH, Director of Development Ellen O’Shaughnessy BRONZE ARIEL JENNIS, Planetarium Educator 16 building and grounds Allison Morris Zacharias Bahama House DAN MAYNARD, Facilities Assistant NICOLE MESSERVY, Education Associate Best Western Aku Tiki Inn PETER MILLER, Maintenance Assistant 17 collections Bomar Construction ANTHONY MILLSAP, Security HONORARY TRUSTEES Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University AMANDA MITCHELL, Security Miriam Blickman Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center MONICA MITRY, Membership and Volunteer Coordinator 18 rentals and events Anderson Bouchelle (Deceased) Gary R. Libby Trust AMANDA NEELY, Director of Sales and Special Events J. Hyatt Brown Giles Electric Family HANH NGUYEN, Guest Services Associate Tom and Peggie Hart PATRICIA NIKOLLA, Guest Services Manager Alys Clancy (Deceased) FREDRIKA PAULIG, Events Assistant 20 educational programming Tippen Davidson (Deceased) Consuelo and Richard Hartmann Ed and Pat Jackson ANGELO PIERCE, Security Susan Root Feibleman (Deceased) CODY ROGERS, Security Jon Hall Chevrolet JASON SCHREINER, Planetarium Educator 24 marketing and public relations Thurman Gillespy, Jr., MD Dr. and Mrs. Kim A. Klancke Herbert Kerman (Deceased) ERIN SCHWEITZER, Security Jill Simpkins and L. Gale Lemerand ROY SHAFFER, JR., Maintenance Supervisor Chapman Root (Deceased) Stuart and Lisa Sixma LISA SHAW, Guest Services Associate 26 new planetarium update Jan Thompson (Deceased) David and Toni Slick ISRAEL TAYLOR, Physical Plant Assistant SunTrust Bank JEREMY WALKER, Security Curatorial Staff 28 guild REPRESENTATIVES MEGAN FINLEY, Curatorial Assistant Kathy Wilson, RUTH GRIM, Chief Curator President of the Guild of the ERIC MAUK, Curator of Exhibits 29 annual awards Museum of Arts & Sciences SETH MAYO, Curator of Astronomy ROBERT WAHLRAB, Curatorial Assistant J. “ZACH” ZACHARIAS, Senior Curator of Education and Curator of History Executive Director Emeritus GARY R. LIBBY Art Director NIKKI MASTANDO, Mastando Media involved knew how spectacular the Board of Trustees Report executive director report space was going to be. With so much space under construction during 2013 2015!! What a year of celebration for the Museum! and 2014, it was gratifying to see our visitors and donors still supporting The Museum of Arts and Sciences has just concluded an exceptional year us and letting us know that they were of completed activities, marking the successful culmination of multiple as eager as we were to enjoy the new years of loss, recovery, watchful waiting, thoughtful planning, complicated spaces. design, timely and economical construction, and joyful display of new facilities. Just summarizing everything that has been accomplished is We had also kicked off the 2015 breathtaking. year with the unveiling of the newly reimagined Root Family Museum Train Heading the list was the completion of the enclosure of the Root Family Station, allowing visitors to enjoy the Museum Train Station in November 2014, followed by the reinterpretation spectacular Hiawatha and Silver Holly of the collections in the Root Family Museum. With the continued support railcars in a comfortable and fresh and generosity of the Root Family Foundation, the project has updated and environment. Benefitting from a total enhanced one of the most popular experiences for visitors to the Museum. exterior restoration, these two icons from a more elegant age provided Another highly anticipated event was the February Gala Opening of the the centerpiece of a dedicated Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art. This new museum was a gift to the railroad history display. The newly air- community at large to last for generations which will showcase the entire conditioned building gave us the ability collection of Florida art acquired by the Browns. The festivities were also to bring many railroad artifacts out of the opportunity for the announcement of the campaign for the Brown MOAS Executive Director, Andrew Sandall, with Cici and Hyatt Brown at the ribbon cutting for the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art in February 2015. storage to be put on display, some for Endowment for operating support of the Brown Museum, which was well the first time ever. The Train Station was on its way to reaching its $15 million goal by yearend. just a part of the work we undertook in It would be difficult to not look back on 2015 as a initial concepts went through many iterations, the Root Family Museum to help better Closely following the Root Family Train Station opening came the multi- pivotal year for the Museum of Arts & Sciences – mostly trying to wrangle with the issue of scale tell this story of a family at the center day celebration of the completion of the West Wing Renovation. Together one that would bring the organization well, and as it proved difficult to find architectural forms of one of the greatest success stories with the relocation of the Planetarium in 2014, the construction of the new truly, into the next phase of its storied existence. that retained their integrity once taken up to the in American industrial history. Now West Wing addressed prior flooding vulnerabilities and gave new homes The devastating floods of 2009 not only damaged 26,000 square feet (the size of the final building). visitors are even more deeply engaged to the Giant Ground Sloth and the Prehistory of Florida Gallery, the Cuban the Museum’s buildings, but also took a mental The solution came by reversing the question to in one of the most popular areas of the Collection, the Karshan Center of Graphic Arts, the Marzullo Gallery, and the toll on the whole institution as the work to find a vernacular architectural style that was of Museum. Gillespy Gallery. Less visible to visitors but of great significance to Museum rebuild slowly began. By the end of the calendar that size to begin with. The result was to create operations, the West Wing now provides spacious, fully usable “back of year, we could proudly tell the community that a totally state-of-the-art museum building that With so much of the Museum campus house” space for collection gathering, storage and maintenance, and we finally had the entire Museum reopened and represented a modern take on a North Florida professional office space for curatorial staff. The 6+ year adventure with under construction, it would be easy the West Wing that began with a May 2009 flood reached its conclusion had truly put the flooding behind us. tobacco barn. The interior followed that stylistic to view 2015 as a difficult year, but we theme, but the featured systems rivaled any art with the help of FEMA funds through an alliance with the City of Daytona were buoyed throughout by the kind Beach and a County of Volusia ECHO grant. The reimagined space of the West While 2015 would again be a year dominated museum in the world to the benefit of such an words and support from our visitors, by construction, it was also the year where the important collection. Wing will enable special exhibitions, events, and programming for decades donors, and the community. Our to come. pieces finally fell into place and long awaited education programs remained popular, projects reached their completion. No project When the Museum finally opened to the public, it and the new Planetarium in particular WHEW! And if that was not enough, the Board of Trustees acted on an was as eagerly awaited as the opening of the Cici was a magnificent celebration shared with many drew visitors and schools in record and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art in early February of our friends and supporters. I can still vividly opportunity that arose late in the year, to move forward with a new project numbers. Our Museum Guild continued to construct a new Guest Services Entry Hall that will enhance visitor and 2015, marking not only the end of a 3 year remember standing at the podium, speaking to stay busy, raising much needed construction project, but also the culmination to the audience of elected officials and trustees guest experiences in a truly professional way. This will be funded through funds for our operations. Our Board a generous gift from Dr. Thurman and Elaine Gillespy to match another of a decade long dream of two of our museum’s that preceded the ribbon cutting ceremony of Trustees got to work in shaping the County ECHO grant. Design and construction are targeted for 2016, with a – and indeed our community’s – most ardent and seeing the crowds growing at the entrance organization, ready for it to emerge projected opening in 2017.