October 22 | 2020
SEMC is Excited to Announce the 2020 Competition Winners
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SEMC 2020 Competition Winners

SEMC 2020 Awards Recipients

Link to 2020 Business Meeting/Keynote Recording
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Dear SEMC,

In a year that continues to challenge our southeastern museum community, it feels amazing to highlight museums and museum professionals that have shown consistent resilience, grace, courage, creativity, scholarship and technological savvy. Whether celebrating forward-thinking, inclusive exhibitions, brilliantly designed museum publications or a museum app that we just can't put down, all the 2020 competition winners are to be congratulated for truly inspiring projects that deserve widespread recognition.

Likewise, our 2020 award recipients have all distinguished themselves in a multitude of ways, whether over long careers or in the last few years. We celebrate their leadership, empathy, professional expertise and hard work on behalf of the museums and communities they serve.

Congratulations to all our 2020 competition winners and award recipients. SEMC is so proud of your accomplishments!

With appreciation,

Zinnia Willits
SEMC Executive Director
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Many thanks to the 2020 Exhibition Competition Co-Chairs and Judges:

  • Ann Rowson Love, PhD, Associate Professor, Director, Museum Education & Visitor-Centered Curation, Liaison to The Ringling  Department of Art Education, Florida State University
  • Emilie Arnold, Exhibition Developer, Dalton, Georgia 

2020 Exhibition Competition Judges:

  • Rebecca Bush, CurCom representative, Curator of History/Exhibitions Manager, The Columbus Museum
  • Jeremy Underwood, NAME representative, Building Four Fabrication
  • Michelle Schulte, EdCom representative, program chair, and Gallery Director/Chief Curator at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, Pensacola State College
 
Category: Annual Reports
Gold: Gibbes Museum of Art

Silver: Florida Museum of Natural History

Bronze: Wiregrass Museum of Art

Category: Book & Catalogues
Gold: Vitus Shell: 'Bout It 'Bout It, The Political Power- Hilliard Art Museum - University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Silver: Appalachia Now! An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia- Asheville Art Museum

Bronze: Envisioning the Future- Asheville Art Museum

Honorable Mention: Material Georgia 1733 – 1900: Two Decades of Scholarship- Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

Category: Brochures and Rack Cards
Gold: Live at the Mint Brochure- The Mint Museum

Silver: Asheville Art Museum

Bronze: Never Abandon Imagination Rack Card- The Mint Museum

Honorable Mention: Site Brochure- Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site 

Categorgy: Campaigns
Gold: Grand Opening Celebration- Asheville Art Museum

Silver: Adore Adorn Exhibition- LSU Museum of Art

Bronze: Never Abandon Imagination Campaign- The Mint Museum 

Honorable Mention: L'Amour du Vin- Knoxville Museum of Art

Category: Gallery Guides
Gold: Immersed In Light: Studio Drift at The Mint Gallery - The Mint Museum

Silver: Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom curriculum guide- SCAD Museum of Art

Bronze: Form & Function: Shoe Art by Chris Francis curriculum guide- SCAD FASH
Museum of Fashion + Film

Category: Invitations
Gold: Telfair Ball Invitation- Telfair Museum

Silver: Celebrate Reynolda invitation- Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Bronze: Classic Black Opening Invitation- The Mint Museum

Honorable Mention: 2020 Coveted Couture Save the Date- The Mint Museum

Category: Magazines & Newsletters
Gold:Art Talk/LSU Museum of Art Newsletter- LSU Museum of Art 

Silver: Binder Magazine- Columbia Museum or Art

Bronze: History Matters- Atlanta History Center 

Honorable Mention: Time Travelers' Gazette- Orange County Regional History Center

Category: Mailers & Calendars 
Gold:Telfair Museums 

Silver: Marco Island Historical Society 

Bronze: Muscarelle Museum of Art at William and Mary 

Category: Posters
Gold:15th Anniversary Poster- LSU Museum of Art

Silver: Yard Party for Art hand screen-printed souvenir- Wiregrass Museum of Art

Category: Best in Show
Gold:Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi- Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
Many thanks to the 2020 Publication Competition Chair and Judges:
  • Monty Fields, Curator of Exhibits, Kentucky Derby Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

2020 Publication Competition Judges:
  • Scott Erbes, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Michael Herbert, Creative Director, Solid Light, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Chelsea Niemeier, Senior Graphic Designer Kentucky Derby Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
 
Category: Applications  

Silver: Wiregrass Museum of Art - Museum App Launch

Bronze: Sautee Nacoochee Cultural Center - Explore Helen and Sautee Nacoochee Phone App

Category: Campaign

Silver: Hunter Museum of American Art - Glenn Ligon Campaign

Category: Digital Education 
Gold: Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University - Digital Education Resources for the Pandemic Pivot

Silver: Orange County Regional History Center - Museum App Launch

Bronze: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Virtual Programs - Virtual Art By The Glass & Studio at Home

Honorable Mention: Northeast Georgia History Center - Free Livestream History Programs for the Public

Category: Digital Marketing 
Gold: Wiregrass Museum of Art - Yard Party for Art website and related digital marketing campaign

Silver: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Trails & Grounds Takeover with Clay Bakker

Bronze: Georgia Museum of Art - Daily Inspirations on Instagram

Honorable Mention: North Carolina Museum of History - History at Home

Category: Gallery Installations 
Gold: Riggs Ward Design - Mercer Music At Capricorn

Silver: Hunter Museum of American Art - Glenn Ligon Interactive 

Category: Media Production
Gold: Orange County Regional History Center - Curating a Tragedy: Documenting the PULSE Nightclub Shooting

Silver: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston- Colin Quashie : Linked

Bronze: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - CVBR

Honorable Mention: Wiregrass Museum of Art - One Night Only - A Virtual Event for Members 

Category: Student Projects 
Gold: Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary  - Rising: The American Indian Movement and the Third Space of Sovereignty

Silver: Northeast Georgia History Center - Glass to Digital: Restoration of Early Twentieth Century Negatives
 
Many thanks to the 2020 Technology Competition Co-Chairs and Judges:
  • Anna E. Tucker, Curator, Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Scott Warren, Historic Site Manager II, President James K. Polk State Historic Site, Pineville, North Carolina 

2020 Technology Competition Judges:
  • Scotty Almany, Digital Media, Programming & Exhibit Logistics Manager, Birthplace of Country Music
  • Lizz Biswell, Associate Director, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
  • Alexander Brooks (Jury Chair), Education Manager, Gaston County Museum, Dallas, North Carolina
  • Kate Daly, Visual Culture Archivist, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia  
  • Dana-Marie Lemmer, Director and Curator, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama
  • Ainsley Powell, Curator of Collections, City of Raleigh, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department, Historic Resources and Museum Program, Raleigh, North Carolina                                  
 
Congratulations to the 2020 SEMC Award Recipients

Read the SEMC press release about these amazing museum professionals and the awards they received HERE
Emerging Museum Professional Award
Caitlin (Katy) Menne  

Curator of Education 

North Carolina Maritime Museum 
at Southport 

Southport, North Carolina
Museum Leadership Award
Brenda Tindal

Director of Education and 
Engagement

International African American 
Museum 

Charleston, South Carolina
Service to the Museum Profession Award
Susan Perry 

Executive Director (2011-2020)

Southeastern Museums Conference 

Atlanta, Georgia

James R. Short Award
Marilyn Laufer 

Director Emerita  

Jule Collins Smith Museum of 
Fine Art at Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

Did you miss the 2020 Annual Business Meeting and Keynote Address?
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Now you have the opportunity to listen to Christy Coleman's AMAZING Keynote address again (and again!)

The 2020 Keynote Address was generously sponsored by Solid Light
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We want you to know that we greatly appreciate your support through membership and will continue to work hard to provide training, virtual connection and resources to our southeastern museums community. 
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Zinnia Willits, Executive Director
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