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Show from the director Dear Members and Friends: In recent months, the Museum's staff and volunteers have been engaged in a challenging and exciting strategic planning process. We've been asking ourselves: What does the UMFA of the future look like? How do we shape and grow our staff, collections, and programs to best serve the needs of our audiences? How can the Museum meet your needs as a UMFA patron? UMFA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Marcia Price, Chair Cynthia Sue Anderson Robert F. Bennett Toni Bloomberg Jim Bradley* Fred Esplin* Suzanne Ferry* Lynn Fey John H. Firmage Jonathan Freedman Clark P. Giles Michael Hardman* Wesley G. Howell, Jr. John C. Jarman Georgianna Knudson* Al Landon Mihail S. Lari Jack Livingood Michele Mattsson* W. Brent Maxfield Mary S. McCarthey Kathie Miller Nicole Mouskondis Rashelle Perry A few staff members joined me recently on "study trips" to visit museums in Seattle, L.A., the Bay Area, and Austin, to bring great ideas and best practices home to Salt Lake City. Our visits at these varied but wonderful museums were nothing short of inspiring, and one central point kept rising to the surface.The UMFA must strive to use art boldly to inspire exploration of and discussion about important topics of our day in a "safe" and intellectually creative environment. We must acquire and exhibit the very best art and ensure that all visitors-no matter their familiarity with art or museums, their education level, age, or ethnicity-have welcoming, enjoyable, and enriching experiences at the UMFA. Much of what is on view at the Museum this spring asks us to think about portraiture-photographs, paintings, and sculpture of people-and how we interpret and explain the "other" with such imagery. I hope you'll visit again and again to enjoy our current offerings, including Mike Disfarmer's small but powerful photographs and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's astonishing "imagined" portraits. Of course, at the center of our portrait-themed exhibitions is Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West, which has gotten nice write-ups in Western Art & Architecture, Fine Art Connoisseur, and other regional publications. As always, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will strive to be a source of wisdom, delight. and inspiration in a world that needs all three. We welcome your ideas as we work to envision the UMFA of the future and, as always, we thank you for your ongoing support! Shari Quinney Chris Redgrave Robert H. Rose Ann B. Scott Joanne F. Shiebler Diane Stewart Naoma Tate Elizabeth F. Tozer Raymond Tymas-Jones* Marva Warnock * Ex-Officio With warm regards, ~VJ=- Gretchen Dietrich, Executive Director THEU UNIVERSITY OF UTAH The UMFA gratefully acknowledges the continuing support it receives from the University of Utah, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks Program, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City Arts Council, C. Comstock Clayton Foundation, Estate of Aurelia B. Cahoon, Anne M. and David S. Dolowitz. Helene Druke Shaw Family, Katherine W. Dumke & Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr. Foundation, George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Marriner S. Eccles Foundation, The William Randolph Hearst Foundations, Emma Eccles Jones Foundation, Wilma T. Gibson Family, Jeanette and 0. Ernest Grua, Jr. Fami ly. Estate of John W. and Helen B. Jarman, National Endowment for the Arts, LaReta C. Madsen Family, Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation, John & Marcia Price Family Foundation, S. J. & Jessie E. Quinney Foundation, Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Family Foundation, George Q. Morris Foundation, Estate of E. Frank Sangu inetti, Ms. Suzanne M. Scott, State Office of Education, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Paul L. & Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, UMFA Board of Directors, Docent Council, Friends of Contemporary Art. Friends of Utah & Western Art and UMFA Members. |
