Three art gallery supporters and volunteers successfully raised funds to
restore the Director / Curator position to full-time for 2002-2003
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After
the Art Gallery's budget and staffing were reduced by 50% last July,
the college
authorized a group of volunteers led by Gallery supporters Dr. A. Kelly
Maness Jr., Judith Weller Harvey, and Charlotte Straney, to embark on a fund-raising campaign to restore the staffing and budget to its former level. The special nature of this position and concerns for the Permanent
Collection led these individuals to become involved and encourage others to support the Art Gallery.
In October, after the death of Dr. Maness, emeritus president William R.
Rogers joined the group, and an endowed fund was created to permanently sustain
a full-time position of director/curator. The group's goal is
to raise $500,000 by December 31, 2003.
The "Guilford College Art Gallery Fund" is a permanently endowed
fund, from which earnings are to be used first to offset 60% of the salary
costs (including fringe benefits) of a full time director/curator, and
second, to support the operating costs of the Gallery to the extent funds
are available each year after offsetting the 60% director/curator's salary
costs.
In order to meet the intent of the fund during the
fundraising period, each year the corpus may be released from the
permanently restricted fund to cover that portion of the 60%
director/curator's salary costs in excess of the earnings available
in the temporarily restricted fund. If at any time after December
31, 2003, the balance in the permanently restricted fund falls below
$25,000, then the entire balance may be transferred to the temporarily
restricted fund to be used to offset the costs of operating the gallery.
Please
contact the gallery if you would like a pledge card!
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North Carolina Arts Council Awards Grant for upcoming
program: Igbo
Visions: Art , Literature, and an African Culture's Values |
Guilford College Art Gallery has been awarded a grant from the state
Arts Council to support the presentation of an art exhibition by two Igbo
artists from southeastern Nigeria, planned for Spring 2003, with 4-day
residencies by the two artists joined by an Igbo author, to include class
visits, readings, and public presentations, both on the Guilford campus
and at the nearby public library.
The event is the first in a biennial series of
programs pairing artists and authors from specific world cultures, which
was envisioned by Guilford College Art Gallery director Theresa Hammond
and Hege Library director, Mary Ellen Chijioke. The link between the
literary and visual arts is the major focus of the planned series and
guided the selection of artists and author.
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Storage Panels Added to Art Storage Room |
The Art Storage Room, located on the lower level of Hege Library
adjacent to the Director/Curator's office, will soon be better equipped to
store framed two-dimensional works of art. The Storage Room presently has 11
roll-out panels that are designed to hold paintings and framed prints,
drawings, and photographs; 2 sets of flat files for unframed 2-d art;
shelving for 3-d works of art; plus an art preparation area, where works
of art are framed, or otherwise prepared, for
exhibition.
As the number of works in the Permanent Collection has more than tripled
since the Art Storage Room was designed and equipped, additional
storage capacity has become necessary. The art preparation area has
been moved to a secure section of the library basement, thus freeing more
space in the climate-controlled and access-alarmed Storage Room. Nine
additional roll-out panels will be installed, creating more than 1000
square feet of storage capacity, while using only 63 square feet of floor
space.
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On-Line Collections Database updated with recent acquisitions |
The latest addition to the Art Gallery's Collections Database
was completed recently by gallery intern Nicole Porter Willcox '02, an art
student majoring in sculptural ceramics. More than 100 objects of
traditional African sculpture, donated by Dr. A. Kelly Maness, Jr., can be
viewed on the website now, classified by the Peoples who created them.
Building on the work of Sarah Miller, an earlier student intern who
assisted in cataloguing this collection, Nicole assisted in photographing
the objects, and learned html (hyper-text markup language) in order
to design the new web pages.
During the fall semester 2002, senior integrative studies major Gigi Burkhalter
( volunteer) and senior art major Melissa Taylor (work-study)
assisted with updating the Collections Database with even
more recent
acquisitions. The Art Gallery plans to further enhance the current collections and
exhibitions pages with additional photographs. If you have suggestions for
other improvements please contact us!
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New Display of Faculty Portraits in Hege Library |
A portrait of JERRY GODARD, Dana Professor of Psychology and Literature (1966-2002), was given recently to the College, in Jerry’s honor, by his colleagues and former students. Susan Mullally Clark, former director of the photography program at Guilford, made the portrait, which is on display in the first floor study area of Hege Library (near the windows overlooking New Garden Rd.), along with other faculty portraits presented to the college in recent years. Come by and take a look!
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