MUSEUM NOTES
staff notes
Nina Guzman, assistant editor
Ashaé Burgess, assistant curator of education
Adam Clark, Museum Shop manager
Ashaé Burgess joined the museum as assistant curator of education in September. She has several years of experience as a gallery teacher at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio, and holds bachelor’s degrees from Miami University, where she studied classical humanities, Black world studies and women’s studies. LeAnne Hilliard , from our business office, left the museum at the beginning of September to move to Portland, Oregon.
Nina Guzman joined the museum as assistant editor August 1. Guzman previously worked at the Lamar Dodd School of Art as its art library coordinator and at the New Georgia Encyclopedia. She studied creative writing in college and has contributed to many magazines, including BUST and LitHub. Adam Clark is our new Museum Shop manager. He comes to us from the UGA Bookstore, which he co-managed. He’s excited to take the reins of the shop and for his son to participate in museum events like Family Day.
gifts
Smitty Award
The Georgia Museum of Art received the following gifts between April 1 and June 30, 2022.
This year’s recipient of the M. Smith Griffith Volunteer of the Year Award (known as the “Smitty” for short) was Freda Scott Giles , who received the honor at the Friends Annual Meeting on August 16. Dr. Giles is a former professor of theater at the University of Georgia and an active member of the Athens-area Links, Inc., a group that partners with the museum on the Lillian C. Lynch Citation at our annual Black History Awards Celebration. She has been very involved with the board of the Friends of the Museum and has chaired the committee for the Black History Awards Celebration, contributing hours of her time and being a pleasure for the staff to work with. She also joined the museum’s Board of Advisors in July.
In honor of Nelda Damiano by Ann & Joseph Frierson Jr.
In memory of Mary Arnold Erlanger by Samuel Carleton, Suzanne & Allen King Jr., and Wyndham Robertson
In memory of Matthew Wade by Brenda & Michael Wade and Lucy Rowland
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