MUSEUM NOTES
AWARDS
STAFF NOTES
Nina Guzman (our assistant editor) and Zach Decker (gal- lery guide) have left the museum for new positions. Nina is working at the Brown Media Archives on campus, and Zach is working for Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services as a park assistant. Molly Stevens joined the staff as education programs assistant. She is a graduate student at the Univer- sity of Georgia, finishing up her master’s degree in classical languages. Molly has interned at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the National Museum of Asian Art and has ex- perience as a middle- and high-school teacher. Katie O’Neal started in November as the museum’s senior accountant. Katie is a graduate of UGA with degrees in accounting and anthro- pology. Jessica Luton joined the museum staff as assistant editor, also in November. Jessica is also a freelance journalist who has written for Flagpole Magazine, Georgia Health News, Likethedew.com and the Huffington Post.
Ashlyn Davis , our Pierre Daura Curatorial Research Assistant, married Kenneth Williams on October 8 in Hahira, Georgia. Congratulations!
William Underwood Eiland and former Athens-Clarke County commissioner Kathy Hoard
William Underwood Eiland , museum director, received the Louis Griffith Hospitality Award in October from the Athens Conven - tion and Visitors Bureau (CVB). The award recognizes a manage- ment-level employee for leadership in the local hospitality industry. Nominees are evaluated on management, leadership skills and their vision for the hospitality industry. Award winners display foresight and exceptional leadership skills and have positively impacted the Athens-Clarke County hospitality industry and the community as a whole. Annelies Mondi , former deputy director of the museum, received the Dan Silosky Award from the Southeastern Registrars Associa- tion (SERA). This annual award recognizes an individual registrar or collections professional for outstanding contribution to the field and honors long-time SERA member Dan Silosky. He is remem- bered for his dedication to the profession, witty outlook on life and love of scholarship. A vital member of SERA, he served as the corresponding secretary (1984 – 88), was the West Virginia state representative and chaired the 1992 Membership Survey. The museum received both a gold in the magazines and newslet- ters category and a “Best in Show” award in the 2022 Southeast- ern Museums Conference Publication Design Competition for this publication (Facet), designed by museum graphic designer Noelle Shuck . The competition showcases the best in the profession and provides benchmarks for regional publication efforts in southeast - ern museums. This is the third year in a row that the museum has won “Best in Show” for one of its publications and the second year Shuck has snagged the award.
Head registrar Tricia Miller and curator of American art Jeffrey Richmond-Moll both presented at the Southeastern Museums Conference annual meeting, held in October in Bentonville, Arkansas. Tricia’s session was titled “Gifts That Keep on Taking: Managing Large Donations” and addressed donor relations, large-scale processing, budget implications, deaccessioning and much more. Jeff’s was titled “Expanding the Impact and Reach of Art Collections” and featured three curators talking about how museums can increase the pool of donors to their collections and find ways to diversify their collections to improve impact. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Paine College’s Evelyn G. Etheridge Conference on the Harlem Renaissance, Shawnya L. Harris , the museum’s Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Dias- poric Art, spoke on some of the leading women artists of the Harlem Renaissance at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta in October. Sage Kincaid , associate curator of education, presented “Visitor Experience of Mindfulness in an Art Museum” at the Art Education Research Institute annual symposium, held in October at the University of Georgia.
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