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August 19, 2020

Up to the Challenge

Typically during the summer months, I’m happily organizing exhibitions to install in all the Museum’s permanent collection galleries. Covid-19 prompted rethinking installations to increase safety and social distancing. This fall, the west gallery where visitors usually peruse selections from the...
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August 13, 2020

Caring for Our Visitors and the Museum

Altered Plans & Precautions • Although exhibitions are on view, fall programming is curtailed. • Please note: Capacity monitoring is for everyone’s safety; if busy times occur, waiting to enter the Museum may be necessary. • If possible, consider weekday...
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August 12, 2020

Salute to Shari

Organizations, especially relatively small ones like the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum that engender long tenures among staff, are a lot like families . . . and close-knit ones, at that. We don’t just work together, we get to know...
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August 5, 2020

Out the Door

The evergreen I recall from childhood extended to the heavens, and courage was measured by letting go while hanging from a limb eight feet above the ground. The creek meandered – burbling over rocks, exposing imaginary quicksand, nourishing buttercups, and...
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July 22, 2020

Tribute to Maynard Reece

Thirty-one years ago, I had the pleasure of phoning Maynard Reece to tell him the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum wished to honor him as the 1989 Master Wildlife Artist in tandem with that fall’s Birds in Art exhibition. I...
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