Press Release For New Director

Hi Docents,

 

Here is the press release link for the museum’s new director.

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.asp?view=3063

Have a great weekend.

Shannon

 

Shannon Eakins

School Tour Instructor/Volunteer Coordinator

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3016

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

The News Tribune - Art museum gets a new boss

The News Tribune - Art museum gets a new boss (print): "Art museum gets a new boss

Director with national gallery credentials will head Tacoma institution

JEN GRAVES; The News Tribune
Last updated: March 1st, 2005 03:25 PM (PST)
Stephanie Stebich, the 39-year-old protégé of charismatic, influential museum directors in Cleveland and Minneapolis, is coming to Tacoma to strike out on her own.

On Monday, the board of trustees voted unanimously to name Stebich the 10th executive director in Tacoma Art Museum’s history. She replaces Janeanne Upp, who left TAM to join her husband in Idaho in July, after a five-year tenure during which the new, $22 million Antoine Predock-designed facility opened in 2003.

Stebich won the post from a hefty pool of 200 applicants, culled by the Connecticut-based search firm Management Consultants for the Arts. The job pays $125,000, said TAM vice president Judith Nilan.

Stebich starts in early April – doing work she has prepared to do her entire career.

“I just feel incredibly lucky, and it just seems like a wonderful fit,” Stebich said. “The building is a knockout. It’s got a wonderful reputation. It’s a very community-centered institution, and it wants to be even more so.”

Stebich (pronounced “stee-bish”) has an impressive resume.

She has spent more a decade in museums working up to assistant directorships at institutions more than five times the size of TAM: the Cleveland Museum of Art and, most recently, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where she was third in charge.

No less than Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak sang her praises Monday.

“She’s smart, she’s accessible, she’s creative,” Rybak said in a phone interview. “There are folks in the arts who have great intellect, and others who are great with the community. She’s the rare person who has both.”

In describing Stebich, colleagues repeat the words “bright,” “effervescent” and “energetic.”

Patricia McDonnell Talk is on ** Sunday 03/13/05 2:00pm **

Hello Fellow Docents

A gentle reminder:

Day: Sunday
Date: 03/13/05
Time: 2:00pm
Place: Tacoma Art Museum Event Space

Event: A great talk on Marsden Hartley by Chief Curator Patricia McDonnell

Show up for a great talk with new slides and quotes.

>>>
Would you be willing to send the news and reminder of my lecture on
Marsden Hartley to the docents? The newsletter got the date wrong!! I
speak on Sunday, March 13th at 2:00
PM. Typically, the tour guides are good "fans" and come to the
presentations I give. I would hate for anything to be confused about
the date and disappointed. So the newsletter date is incorrect and I
will give a great talk on Hartley next weekend. I know that all of you
had
the intro I gave before, yet this time around I'll show other and more
slides and have great quotations by Hartley and others in his time
period.

Patricia McDonnell
Chief Curator
>>>

--
Regards,
Sanjeev Narang

***

email: ask (at) eConsultant dot com
www.eConsultant.com

Book Club

Hi Docents,

 

I just wanted to remind you that the optional upcoming training is the book club. This will be on Wednesday, March 9 from 6-8pm and Monday, March 14 from 10:30-12:30pm.  The featured book is The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.  See you there!

 

Shannon

 

Shannon Eakins

School Tour Instructor/Volunteer Coordinator

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3016

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

March Docent Coffee (Third Thursday) + Lunch (Fourth Friday)

Hello Fellow Docents,

A gentle reminder that this month's Docent Coffee / Third Thursday
coffee will be at the same place (UW Tacoma Starbucks), same time
(5:00pm), with the same "No Agenda" and same "No RSVP Required" policy
as the last few times !

Day: Third Thursday
Date : 3/17/05
Place : UW Tacoma Starbucks
Time: 5:00pm +

The museums will be open free and late; the galleries will be open; we
can take the train to the theater district. No agenda is good freedom.

***

Some of you can't come to the Third Thursday coffee , so we will try
Fourth Friday Lunch.

Day: Fourth Friday
Date: 3/25/05
Place: India Mahal
Time : 12:00 Noon

India Mahal is at 823 Pacific Ave Tacoma WA 98402-5209 Phone:
(253)-272-5700 - and has a very inexpensive buffet ($6.99 ?!). The
food is good.

No RSVP required ; just show up! Mark your calendars.

***

Docents in Training, if you are afraid that you won't be able to spot
us, you can easily keep track of the names and faces of the docents in
the Docent Gallery:

http://www.sanjeev.net/tam/docents.html
--
Regards,
Sanjeev Narang

***

email: ask (at) eConsultant dot com
www.eConsultant.com

FW: Sustitute

Hi Docents,

 

Here is a sub request from Margaret.

 

Shannon Eakins

School Tour Instructor/Volunteer Coordinator

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3016

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Upshaw [mailto:msupshaw@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 3:57 PM
Cc: Shannon Eakins
Subject: Sustitute

 

Shannon,

 

I need a substitute for 12:30 - 4 PM, on March 15th, but don't have the other docent's e-mail addresses.  Would  you forward this to them, please?  I will be glad to trade, if the time/date works out, but I can't make it on the 15th.

 

Thanks,

 

Margaret