MMFA - Key Persons
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- Manager of Family and Community Services
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- Association Elected Trustee
MMFA Director Brooks Joyner departed after more than six years of thoughtful leadership and helping transition the Museum from downtown to Blount Cultural Park. Longtime Deputy Director Gracie Hanchrow served as Interim Director.
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- Immediate past President
- Member of the Officers Team
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- Building Maintenance Supervisor
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- IT Manager / Service Maintenance
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- Association Elected Trustee
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- Association Appointed Trustee
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- Association Elected Trustee
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- Operations Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Association Appointed Trustee
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- Association Elected Trustee
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- Association Elected Trustee
- Director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Ed Bridges, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History for 30 years, deferred the many research projects of his retirement to serve as interim director of the Museum.
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- Member of the Security Officers Team
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- Manager of Student and Teacher Programs
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- Head of Learning and Programs
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- Member of the Security Officers Team
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- Association Appointed Trustee
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- Head of Association Finance
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Treasurer
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- Artist
- Contributor to the Arts in Alabama
Kelly Fitzpatrick is perhaps the greatest contributor to the arts in Alabama during the twentieth century. Not unlike Alabama native Clara Weaver Parrish, Fitzpatrick tirelessly championed for the arts, by supporting and founding a number of art organizations and teaching. While his art never reached national recognition along with other Regionalist painters, Alabama will forever be in debted to this great painter.
2) Ausfeld and Neal, 11. For some European artists World War I affected their art in opposite ways than that of Fitzpatrick. For example, Otto Dix (1891-1969) created paintings that depicted the horrors of war and its affects on the population.
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- Association Appointed Trustee
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- Manager of Adult Programs
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- Association Elected Trustee
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- Member of the Officers Team
- President
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- Head of Curatorial
- Senior Curator
Senior Curator Margaret Lynne Ausfeld contributed significantly to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art's landmark exhibition, Edward Hopper: The Watercolors, as well as to its accompanying publication of the same name.
Mark Johnson was appointed director. Over the course of his tenure, Mark would go on to shape the institution in many ways, including two expansions; the establishment of a Studio Art Glass collection, now numbering 52 pieces; and the acquisition of 100 photographs by a renowned photographer, Yousuf Karsh.
Mark Johnson retired after 23 years as the Museum's director. In commemoration, the Museum honored the contributions of its longest-serving chief executive by carving Mark's name and years of service on the stone lintel above the MMFA's main entrance and by naming him the Museum's first director emeritus.
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- Association Elected Trustee
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- Association Elected Trustee
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- Association Elected Trustee
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Secretary
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- Member of the Security Officers Team
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- Member of the Security Officers Team
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- Association Elected Trustee
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- Association Appointed Trustee
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Vice President