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What's New - May 2003 |
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What's New - May 2003 |
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The Institute for Museum & Library Services has selected Guilford College Art Gallery in Guilford County to receive a 2003 Institutional Assessment grant from its Museum Assessment Program (MAP). Guilford College Art Gallery is one of sixty-five museums in the United States and its territories chosen for a MAP Institutional Assessment award. MAP is a cooperative program between the IMLS and the American Association of Museums designed to help museums assess their strengths and weaknesses and plot a course for future development. The Institutional Assessment, which reviews the museum’s entire management and operations, includes the completion of a self-study questionnaire, an on-site visit by one or more museum professionals who talk to staff, governing officials and volunteers, and make recommendations for future improvements and plans. “Thanks to the support of the federal Institute for Museum & Library Services, Guilford College Art Gallery will begin a concerted effort to set priorities, prepare for strategic planning, and operate more efficiently, thereby improving our services to the community and increasing our base of support,” said Theresa Hammond, director and curator of Guilford College Art Gallery. “Museums in the Museum Assessment Program are taking important steps to professionally manage their institutions,” said IMLS Director Robert Martin. “Each year this program helps hundreds of museums receive high quality professional advice in communities across the country. “Since 1981, MAP has provided more than 5,000 successful assessments, leading to improved professional standards and practices within museums of all sizes which in turn produces better service for the American public,” remarked Edward Able, President and CEO of the American Association of Museums. “This accomplishment reflects the great value of the long-standing partnership between America’s museums and the federal government.” IMLS is a federal grantmaking agency located in Washington, D.C. that fosters leadership, innovation and a lifetime of learning by supporting museums and libraries. |
Guilford College Art Gallery recently received a cash donation from an anonymous donor for the purpose of purchasing an outstanding work of art from the college’s Senior Thesis Art Exhibition. The gift was made in honor of excellence in teaching by Department of Art faculty. This is the sixth year this purchase award has been made available by the donor. At the donor’s request, Terry Hammond, director & curator of the
Art Gallery, Roy Nydorf and Adele Wayman, co-chairs of the Department of
Art, select the recipient. After deliberating over the merits of each
artist’s work, they chose Noah Howard’s mixed media painting on board
entitled, Memory: 1. the power, act, or process of recalling to mind
facts previously learned or past experiences…. The painting now
becomes part of the Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.
Howard, from Raleigh, NC, is a candidate for the Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree with Departmental Honors. Noah Howard, Memory: 1. the power, act, or process of recalling to mind facts previously learned or past experiences…, mixed media on board, 48 x 48 inches.
“Noah brings a high degree of resolution to his ambitiously-scaled painting, Memory…,” commented Roy Nydorf, co-chair of the department of art. “The mixture of dynamic imagery, intense psychological power, and sophisticated process in use of materials made this a very successful painting." “This award gives us the opportunity to recognize the outstanding talent presented annually in the Senior Thesis Exhibition, and for that I’m grateful,” said Terry Hammond, director & curator. “While there were many excellent works to choose from, Noah’s painting stood above the rest in terms of its complexity and made what is always a difficult decision, somewhat easier.”
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Melissa Taylor, who has worked for the Art Gallery as a curatorial assistant since Spring 2001, is graduating in May with a B.A. in Painting. Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Melissa is headed to Hawaii with her pet bunny, Apricot, where they'll join their friend, David Grimsley '02. Melissa hopes to continue painting and perhaps find employment in an art gallery. Good luck, Melissa!
Melissa
Taylor '03, featured with her oil on canvas portrait of Apricot in the
Senior Thesis Art Exhibition
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More Storage Panels Added to Art Storage Room |
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The Gallery remained closed for more than a year and suffered another damaging flood in July 2002. In November, the College installed a new Water Alert® system in the ceiling that will sound a local alarm as well as alert the College's security staff in the Bauman Telecommunications Building. On January 24, 2003, the gallery re-opened with the exhibition, "Lyrical Lines: the Works of Obiora Udechukwu and Ada Udechukwu."
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