Black and Hispanic
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museums fight tougher
fund-raising battle
< : *By VICKI BROWN
Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ?
, At the edge of Fisk University's
*' Campus sits an aging brick build
ing that holds works by Degas,
Cezanne and primitive African
" sculptures of which the Fisk com
? 'munity is very proud.
The problem is that the
African art works are seldom seen
by the black community Fisk his
torically has served. There's no
<oom. -
!; Works by such renowned
American artists as Romare Bear
ijen, Jacob Lawrence and Aaron
pouglas are seldom displayed due
4(o limited gallery space and are in
ganger of deteriorating due to
poor storage.
% The new director of Fisk's
Carl Van Ve'chten Gallery needs
$1 million to get the museum and
its collections ready.
. / "I don't even have any clerical
Assistants. I'm talking about
salaries for an. administrative
assistant, money for a registrar, a
curator," says Minnie Marianne
Miles.
That's not to mention a
planned restoration of a gallery for
the African-American works or
publicity costs to advertise The
Alfred Stieglitz Collection donat
ed by artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
That collection is on permanent
display and contains works by
S'Keeffe, Degas, Cezanne, Diego
[vera and Stieglitz, and was val
ued at $8.7 million in 1984.
The museum has an annual
budget of about $90,000 a year,
mostly from the state. It received a
$100,000 grant from AT&T to
renovate a gallery for permanent
display of African-American
works and a $50,000 grant from
The Ford Foundation for conser
vation and gallery management.
The museum, on the campus
of a traditionally black college
which has itself struggled to sur
vive, shares many handicaps
endured by other black and His
panic institutions.
-The Ford Foundation found in
a 1989 study that museums with
collections focusing on the art of
particular ethnic or minority
groups faced worse problems than
general museums.
The study found most were
established in the last 30 years and
had a high level of government
support and a low level of individ
ual contributions.
"The most significant differ
ence with minority arts organiza
tions is that the availability of pri
vate, individual and patron sup
port is less," said Ruth Mayleas,
program officer for the Education
and Culture Program of the Ford
Foundation.
The philanthropic organiza
tion is in the final year of a three
year grant program aimed at help
ing black and Hispanic museums
upgrade collections, acquire new
works and strengthen museum
management.
"One finds often in black and
Hispanic communities that the
habit of giving to the arts is less
developed and also, the resources
are less," Mayleas said.
On the other hand, she said
many of the museums are good at
serving their own cultural commu
nities, but have more difficulty
attracting general viewers.
"We tend to be institutions
rooted in a. community and
become part of stabilization in an
economic sense, an oasis for a
broad community of school chil
dren, senior citizens and families,"
said KinShasha Conwill, the direc
tor of the Studio Museum in
Harlem, one of the nation's oldest
and most well-known black muse
ums.
She said many minority muse
ums are younger, less visible and
don't have endowments or major
private donors. They were formed
because major institutions gave
little attention to the works of His
panic, black, Asian or American
Indian artists.
Marie Acosta-Colon, director
of the Mexican Museum in San
Francisco, says the art and culture
of people of color was considered
second class,, a reflection of the
overall status of the community.
But she and Conwill believe
minority museums and the growth
in ethnic populations are changing
that.
"Our own efforts to bring to
light the work of African-Ameri
can and Latino artists have vastly
increased the knowledge and
interest in that work," Conwill
said. The experience of the Mexi
can Museum suggests location can
be a problem, too.
A move in 1985 from the
Mission District of the city, basi
cally a Hispanic community, to the
more white, suburban Fort Mason
area, and aggressive fund-raising
efforts turned around the finances
of the museum of Mexican and
Hispanic art.
"We#went from operating at a
deficit and having a staff of two
people to operating in the black
with a staff of 14," said Diane
Robey, publicist for the museum.
Acosta-Colon said the budget
is now about $1.5 million a year.
And she was startled by a recent
survey which found membership
isn't Hispanic, Mexjcan and Hispanic artists.
She attributes that to the move ^The drawback, she said, is
and San Francisco's close proxim- that the museum is no longer easi
ity to Mexico, which makes resi- ly accessible to the community it
dents more aware of the art of was formed to serve.
1
Citizen of the Month
y- s s ^ S-,v s % 'i s "? v ^
D'Antwanette Feider, ? first grader at Forest Park Elemen* 1
tary School was?ecentiyseiected as "GoodiCttttaw of the
Month." She le the daughter of Dr. Oennle and Or. Pm
Fe<der. Theaeieciion wae baaed oh good behavior, goo*
manner*, strong effort 10 make good grades, taking toitia* ,
ttve, being lieipfui, following class and school rules and
respecting others. Her picture will appear on the school's
"Hall of Fame Wall", ahe wifi also receive a certificate and |
bs recognized at a speciai luncheon to be hosted at Forest
iiClub to help
j! The Flower Niche Garden Club
;fmet at noon, Saturday, May 18 at
jihe home of Mrs. Carolyn Boyd,
;2510 Wallingford Road. President
'Edythe Williams called the meeting
to order by repeating the collect.
???Secretary Bessye Dobson read the
minutes of the previous meeting.
**The Fourth District Garden Council
report followed.
The club plans to take part in
> ; the Clean and Green Campus Con
? ^test with the Winston-Salem/
^Forsyth County School system by
, -^acting as judges. This is part of the
Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful
Incorporated program.
dity clean-up
Plans were made for the club's
June 7 picnic at Winston Lake.
Assignments were made for the
June 1 Standard Flower Show and
the August North Carolina Federa
tion of Gardens Convention. Flow
er Niche Garden Club member Ms.
Louise Smith, is the chairperson.
Members who attendtJ .v-Twe:
Mrs. Leola Sadler, Mrs. Grace
Lowery, Mrs. Mozella Williams,
Mrs. Savannah Lewis, Mrs. Vivi
enne Conley, Mrs. Gwendolyn
Greene, Mrs. Louise McGhee, Mrs.
Elsie McKay, Mrs. Marian Wooten,
Mrs. Eunice Smith and Mrs. Ber
' nice Davenport.
UNC found innocent
of racial/sexual bias
. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ?
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill was innocent of racial
and sexual bias, a spokesman for
the Civil Rights Division of the
U.S. Department of Education says.
Spokesman Roger Murphy
said Monday there was a problem
in the UNC-CH School of Den
tistry, but investigators did not label
the trouble between a male and
female worker as sexual harass
'ment. He did not elaborate on the
incident
UNC-CH officials said they
would respond to the investigation
in a statement today.
Federal investigators spent sev
eral months going through records
and talking with school officials
about some workers' complaints of
bias in employment at the state's
flagship public university.
The employees had said the
university was guilty of sexual bias
by not hiring and promoting
females in the campus police
department; not giving equal pay to
women in the purchasing depart
ment; and retaliating against female
workers in housekeeping.
There were also claims that the
school didn't hire black instructors
in biochemistry and biophysics on
the basis of race. -
Murphy said UNC-CH did fail
tp adhere to requirements of univer
Sity policies and procedures by not
reporting the alleged harassment in
a timely manner.
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