AWARDS
GRANTS
In FY23, we received 11 grants totaling $237,170 from the following organizations: Georgia Council for the Arts, Goizueta Foundation, Furthermore / The J.M. Kaplan Fund, Inc., the Parker Benevolent Fund, the Piedmont Charitable Foundation, Inc., the Southern Humanities Fund, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Turner Family Foundation, Inc., the UGA Parents Leadership Council and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. These grants funded projects for UGA students, research into our collection, exhibitions, program- ming in the Clarke County School District and more. BIG CHANGES FY23 brought the retirement of longtime director William Underwood Eiland, who had headed up the museum since 1992. David Odo, of the Harvard University Art Museums, was hired as the new director and began work just before the end of the fiscal year. Bill’s retirement coincided with the beginnings of the museum’s 75th an- niversary celebrations, and Elegant Salute XVII (the museum’s biennial gala fund- raiser) honored both milestones, raising more than $435,000 to fund programs and long-term stability.
In FY23, the museum won awards from the Georgia Association of Museums (an exhibition award for “Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund,” organized by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, and patron of the year for Alan Rothschild Jr.), the Southeastern Museums Conference (in publication design, including a best in show for museum graphic designer Noelle Shuck’s design of Facet, its quarterly newsletter), the Southeastern Registrars Associa- tion (for Annelies Mondi, who has served as the museum’s deputy director, interim director and special advisor to the director over the past couple of years) and the Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau (William U. Eiland, the museum’s retiring director, received the Louis Griffith Hospitality Leadership Award).
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