MUSEUM notes
DEEPER ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT
Funding from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation has enabled us to achieve a long-time goal and hire an associate curator of campus and academic engagement. Alexis Gorby started in the new position in mid-August, at the beginning of the UGA fall semester. She came to us from Oxford University, in England, where she is completing her doctoral degree in classical archeology. This new position at the museum is dedicated to teaching university course visits to the museum from all departments using the collections and will focus on increasing overall campus engagement.
NEW CURATORIAL ASSISTANT IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Parris Baker-Coley, deputy director of business operations.
Also thanks to funding from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the museum hired Ciel Rodriguez as curatorial assistant in contemporary art. Rodriguez will bring research, administrative and organizational support to our current and emerging curatorial projects in modern and contemporary art. She has a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, focusing on interdisciplinary studio arts and museum studies. She previously worked as a museum preparator at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University; gallery assistant and art handler at the Athenaeum and Dodd Galleries; studio manager at the Lyndon House Arts Center; and graduate intern in curatorial and exhibition design and preparation departments at the Georgia Museum of Art.
MUSEUM BUSINESS OFFICE STAFF CHANGES
Lisa Conley, longtime Georgia Museum of Art business manag- er, retired August 1. During her tenure at the museum, she was instrumental in helping the museum move into the modern age, with a lot of work on the transition to OneSource by UGA business and finance. Following her departure, Parris Baker-Coley joined the museum staff as deputy director of business operations September 1. In this new role, Baker-Coley has taken over Conley’s responsibilities – supervising the business office, the Museum Shop, the securities and facilities team and IT – but the role has been expanded to encompass strategic planning and other big-picture items. Baker-Coley was most recently a business support leader at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmen - tal Sciences, where he oversaw all financial, business and human resources matters for the department of plant pathology and the department of horticulture, each of which spans three campuses (Athens, Griffin and Tifton). He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Florida in political science and a master’s degree in higher education administration from UGA.
PATRICIA MILLER SELECTED FOR UGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
Patricia Miller, deputy director of collections and exhibitions and head registrar, was named to the 2024 – 25 Women’s Leadership Fellows program at the University of Georgia. The Women’s Leadership Fellows will meet throughout the year with key administrators to discuss the organization and functions of higher education as well as current issues and challenges. At each of the sessions, fellows have a chance to interact with one another and discuss approaches to prob- lem solving in higher-education administration.
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