UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF ART 2013–2014 ANNUAL REPORT The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) is funded by the General Education Fund of the University of Iowa (UI) through the Office of the Provost and by the generous support of its members and donors. UIMA@IMU Cover image: Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956) Mural (detail), 1943 Oil and casein on canvas 1375 Highway 1 West Tel: +1 319 335 1727 95 5/8 x 237 ¾ in. (242.9 x 603.9 cm) 1840 Studio Arts E-mail: [email protected] Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959.6 Reproduced with permisson from Iowa City, IA 52242-1789 Website: uima.uiowa.edu the University of Iowa Copyright ©2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 • Senior Living Communities (SLC) Outreach Program • School Programs Collections Acquisitions • Advisory Board • Press Collaborations and Mentions in • Development Committee Regional Media • Members Council • Professional Activities • Museum Staff • Staff Executive Summary 5 Registrar & Collections Management 41 Sponsors 2013–14 10 • Luce Foundation Grant • Loans Curatorial 11 • Rights & Reproduction Requests • Accessions • Exhibitions • Professional Activities and Outreach • Pollock on the Move • Staff • Curatorial Initiatives • Donors and Fundraising Membership Activities 49 • Professional Activities and Outreach • Press Collaborations and Mentions in • The UIMA’s Annual pARTy Regional Media • First Fridays • Legacies for Iowa • The Director’s Circle Lecture Audience and Participant Totals 23 Development and Finance 51 Education 24 • Exhibitions • Programming: Public, Donor/Volunteer, smART Talks • K–12 School Programs • On-Site Exhibition and Gallery Tours UIMA 2013–2014 ANNUAL REPORT 3 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF ART 2013–2014 PERSONNEL LIST ADVISORY BOARD MUSEUM STAFF James Hayes, Chair; Madgetta Dungy, Robert Fellows, Kate Baranowski – Gallery Attendant Alan Fredregill, Budge Gierke, Susann Hamdorf, Myrene Hoover, Betty Breazeale – Secretary Ann January, Robert S. Kinsey III, Linda Paul, Nathan Savin Kevin Chamberlain – Preparator, Legacies Kathleen Edwards – Chief Curator Steve Erickson – Preparator Sarah Luko – Registrarial Assistant DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Dale Fisher – Curator of Education Cory Gundlach – Curatorial Assistant Amir Arbisser, James Hayes, Myrene Hoover, Pat McFarland, Cody Gieselman – Marketing Assistant Nathan Savin, Joyce Summerwill, Alan Swanson, Buffie Tucker, Catherine Hale – Curator of African and Non-Western Art Nancy Willis, Thais Winkleblack, Darrell and Shirley Wyrick Pat Hanick – Director of Development Lexi Janezic – Preparator Amanda Lissack – Members Council Assistant MEMBERS COUNCIL D. Jeff Martin – Registrar Ellandrea Mckissack – Gallery Attendant Polly Lepic, Chair; Anna Barker, David Bright, John Chadima, Alexandra Minchich – Education Coordinator Wallace Chapell, James Conard, Tim Conroy, Jessica Doro, Sean O’Harrow – Director Will Downing, Beth Hanna, Kristin Hardy, Kay Irelan, Diane Scott/Alex Brannaman – Accountant Teresa Kelly, Emily Lennon, Kumi Morris, Matt Niebuhr, Josh Siefken – School Programs Outreach Instructor/Assistant Kathrine Nixon, Brenda Pearson, Mark Seabold, Kristen Temple, Curator of Education Mary Westbrook, Nancy Willis, Pope Yamada, Laurie Zaiger Samantha Steines – Gallery Attendant Sarika Sugla – Curatorial Assistant, Legacies Emma Van Dyke – Gallery Attendant Elizabeth Wallace – Public Relations Coordinator Yang Meng – Graphic Designer Katherine Wilson – Assistant Registrar UIMA 2013–2014 ANNUAL REPORT 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report serves as an overview of activities The seven primary goals for the institutional MUSEUM ATTENDANCE & of the University of Iowa Museum of Art for year can be summarized as follows: PROGRAM PARTICIPATION the university academic and fiscal year: July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. • further develop the expansion of The year included hugely popular programs audiences (breadth and depth), including and the year ended with the grandest finale geographical reach (e.g. grow statewide imaginable: the exhibition Jackson Pollock’s attendance) and increased interaction Mural at the J. Paul Getty Museum March With over 14,000 works of art, the University with Iowa students, academics, and 11 to June 1, 2014, attracted the highest of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) is one of the visitors; total of any show in the history of the most important and historically significant • prepare the institutional groundwork Getty: 304,394. This Getty collaboration is art museums in American higher education. for a new museum facility in Iowa City; clearly the most successful public project Since its founding in 1969, established with of the UIMA in recent memory and we are art donated to the university by Peggy • expand the breadth and depth of the immensely thankful to the Getty for their Guggenheim, the Elliott family, the Stanley collection, exhibitions, events, and work and support during the project and family and others, the museum has been educational offerings; beyond. widely recognized in a number of areas, • raise the national and international from 20th century American and European This attendance number helped bring the profile of the museum in the world of painting to art from West Africa, from 19th annual total for 2013–2014 to 538,260 art history, art collections, and museums; and 20th century American prints to Pre- museum visitors and program participants, Columbian ceramics and textiles, as well • increase the role of the museum and a significant increase over the previous as many other strengths. The past four further collaborative partnerships within year’s all-time record of 146,470, which itself decades have been punctuated by a series the university; develop institutional was a slight rise over 146,466 for 2011–2012 of important achievements and acquisitions partnerships across Iowa; and 91,631 for 2010–2011. It is important that have helped create the reputation that to note that the museum’s attendance has • make progress towards raising $5,000,000 it deservedly enjoys today. This long track remained steady over the period of the past in donations and pledges to create an record makes the successes in 2013–14 all few years. This record total includes 81,216 endowment fund for future exhibitions, the more impressive, given that the bar visitors to the UIMA galleries at the Figge programs, and activities; has been set so high for so long and given Art Museum in Davenport, 5,902 visitors the previous year had broken so many • strengthen staff numbers and expertise, to the UIMA@IMU space, 4,760 people performance records. so that the museum is able to handle attending member and public events, the challenges presented by the six 2,694 participating in university tours and previous goals. programs, and 25,505 students taking part UIMA 2013–2014 ANNUAL REPORT 5 in K–12 school offerings across the state. In of the project, a tour of the current Museum both involved major publications: New Forms accordance with standard industry practice, of Art space, and a presentation of the resulted in a book that included contributions the museum is now including website traffic, vision for the new museum. This meeting from three expert authors in American art— including 32,796 visits to the Art & Life in allowed interested parties to network so Erika Doss of the University of Notre Dame, Africa web portion of the exhibition and that respondents can consider the full range Joni Kinsey of the University of Iowa, and 64,172 visits to the main UIMA website. of potential collaborators. Kathleen Edwards of the UIMA; Art & Life in Africa resulted in a website that included The RFQ participants were due to officially contributions from 32 expert authors in sub- MUSEUM FACILITY PROGRESS respond by July 1, 2014. Each development Saharan African art. team was to submit materials as detailed in The university has determined that it would the RFQ, which would lead to the selection In the Visual Classroom, found in the Richey not be feasible or responsible to continue of one team by the university. All of these space of the IMU, the UIMA hosted smaller to use the former building as a museum steps and approvals are necessary in order groupings of art that related to specific of art, as the collection can no longer be for the UIMA to progress towards a new university course offerings, such as the insured at that location. The new museum museum facility, and FY2014 was a significant recently acquired UIMA Phat Bike by Black will be reflective of the UIMA’s status as a year in this regard. Sheep Bikes, Winner of the Best Titanium top university art museum. Construction Award at the 2013 North American Handmade Bicycle Show, that On March 13, towards the end of FY2014, EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS serves as a model for students taking UI the University of Iowa released its Request School of Art and Art History Professor Steve for Qualifications (RFQ) to identify potential Exhibitions drawn from the permanent McGuire’s popular bicycle design course. partners capable of developing appropriate collection and outside institutions, as well Also displayed was an extensive selection and available land for a new Museum of as loans by other collections, enhanced and of Robert Arneson’s ceramics and prints in Art, to be located directly adjacent to the broadened the offerings by the UIMA. This support of Arneson biographer Professor core of the academic campus and within year, important exhibitions were organized Jonathan Feinberg’s visit and lecture. A walking distance for students. The university by the museum, including New Forms: The small exhibition of Latin American prints envisioned the space as part of a larger Avant-Garde Meets the American Scene, coupled with a selection of Pre-Columbian mixed-use development, with a vibrant 1934–1949, Selections from the University ceramics was displayed as part of an academic combination of university, commercial, and of Iowa at the Black Box Theater in the research project by Dr. Ellen Hoobler from residential uses in keeping with the long- Iowa Memorial Union (IMU), and Art & Cornell College in Mount Vernon, IA, and term vision of downtown Iowa City. Life in Africa, also hosted in the Black Box her students. Theater in the IMU.