Saint Mary's College Museum of Art 'Behind the Scenes' 4/20/24
“A great day yesterday at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art “Behind the Scenes” tour. I love what they are doing! Their team is super smart, creative, entrepreneurial, service-minded, always learning. They ARE what a museum should be.” Tom PaperFrom: Museum Art <museum@stmarys-ca.edu>Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 9:57 AMTo: Museum ArtSubject: REMINDER: Saint Mary's College Museum of Art 'Behind the Scenes' members event - Saturday April 20th from 3-5pmFollow Up Flag: Flag for follow upFlag Status: FlaggedDear Museum Supporter,We look forward to seeing you at the Saint Mary's College Museum of Art 'Behind the Scenes' members event which takes place this Saturday April 20th from 3-5pm.Please note that we will not be meeting at the Museum of Art but instead we will meet at the Saint Mary's College Rheem Campus located at 380 Moraga Road in Moraga, California.Free parking can be found in the large lot in front of and to the side of the building. There will be signs directing you to the location of the tour.Should you have any questions about the event please don't hesitate to call us on (925) 631-4379. See you on April 20th! *******************(Transcription of Tom Paper voice note)So I had a great day visiting the St. mary's College Museum of Art, behind the scenes event, which took place at in Moraga, three, 80 Marauga Road. It looked like a safe way, re converted. They have, um, like, three rooms. One room, they do photographs, and then two other rooms are for storage of items. Their temperature controlled. There were, I think, four people from the museum, and then about 20 or so patrons. We got a great tour. It’s amazing the care they take into each piece. They have 3 or 4 % of their collection, which is on display, and most museums have, like, only 1 %. Now, maybe they don't have a big permanent collection, but it's, doesn't. I mean, they've got 5000, 5000 items. They're ethnographic items, which are kind of like folk art items. Was one of the biggest collections that they have. UM, which was really interesting. UM, leo showed me. So Leo and John work on the on the UM, hanging of all the exhibits and managing the collection from the backside. And Leo built this little, kind of like a mini library that people have in their houses. He built a little mini museum. And so he was showing that off. That was really cool. Um. What else? Let's see, they have their own photographic capability to digitize pieces, but they, they've got a long ways to go. Apparently, they digitized a bunch of their art and put it on the website, and then the school changed something about the website. And, and, um, john mentioned that he lost some things, and then Brit said she had the same experience, so that was too bad to hear. UM. They have a couple different ways of hanging things and accessing pieces. UM. The collection is quite varied. UM saw some artists that I actually recognized. UM Beth van Housen, who I think is Mary Hospitals, one of her favorite artists, had some pieces in their collection. Um, they're moving into a bigger, a bigger campus, or a bigger place to store all of their art. And so they're gonna be raising some money for that. They got an NEA grant for that. So we heard from Lauren Mcdonald, who's the director of the Museum of Art. Um Brit Royer is a curator, super smart, super articulate. I can't believe her recall of images. John Schneider is the director of collections. Um, terror. Hard. You works on the team. And then Leo. Um, I like Leo. I didn't get his, his last name, but he's been with him for about a year, john, I think, 14 or 15 years. Um, brit went to Davis. Lives in Oakland. Bridge, working on a dozen or so different exhibits at any one time, which seems like a lot, because they only have two or three exhibits each year. UM. It's a great it's a great collection. And it was fun to see. UM, how they manage it all. I'm trying to think of what else they talked about. Can't remember. UM Anyway, it was a great event. I was really glad that I went. John loves John loves maps. So we bonded on that. Brit asked me about the revenue plan for Pixium, which was a great question. I said, well, I love the helping people cure rate and helping people, um, helping people curate more efficiently, and then helping people who are not curators, but they're the consumers to consume curated material. Um, anyway, hope to be back and continue to stay involved with with what they're doing.keyword: curatedvisits
