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Charles M. Lovell
4116 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70115 e-mail: charleslovellart@gmail.com home (504) 309-2640
website: charleslovell.com cell (575) 770-0095
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Development Officer For Major Gifts and Institutional Advancement, Ogden Museum of
Southern Art, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.
May 2013 to June 15, 2015. Responsibilities: Raise funds through solicitation of gifts of $25,000 and
above.
Achievements: Helped the Ogden Museum secure a multi-million dollar gift from the Helis
Foundation in January 2015 to name the Museum’s largest 5th floor gallery. Assisted the Museum
with the establishing of an endowment.
Director, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. July 2008 to
February 2013. Responsibilities: Lead organization by setting long and short-term goals and
developing and administering policies for 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art university art gallery
founded in 1996. Supervise full-time staff of seven, worked with Dean of School of Liberal Arts and
23-member national advisory board. Oversee permanent art collection of 5,000 art objects. Develop
and administer budget of $800,000 per year and 1.8 million dollar endowment.
Achievements: During my tenure the Newcomb Art Gallery emerged as a leader in the arts renewal
in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. We revised our national advisory board, approved two
strategic three-year plans, approved mission and vision statements and increased our public hours.
Our private funding has increased over 200% with board giving at 100%, and we have received
grants and major gifts from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts, the Stockman Family Foundation, the National Endowment For the Arts, the Joan Mitchell
Foundation, the MetLife Foundation, the Japan Foundation-New York, and the Georges Lurcy
Charitable and Educational Trust.
Director, Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos, and adjunct professor of
art and art history for parent organization, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. August 2001 to
June 2008. Responsibilities: Provided leadership for 26,000 square foot university art museum with
seven exhibition galleries, staff of 15, governing and membership boards, support group, and annual
budget of $550,000 per year.
Achievements: In preparation for 10,000 square foot 5 million dollar expansion, museum received
gifts, grants and real estate of over 3 million dollars, including $1,835,000 from New Mexico
legislative appropriations in 2005 and 2006. During my tenure, admissions and memberships
doubled, and endowments increased to 2.5 million dollars. We received a $546,000 multiyear grant
from the Stockman Family Foundation for collections preservations and endowment. In June 2007, I
organized the most successful exhibition in the museum’s 85-year history, Diebenkorn in New Mexico,
which traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art; the Grey Art Gallery at New York University; and the
Phillips Collection Washington, D.C.
Director, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. July 1995 to July
2001. Responsibilities: Administered 12,000 square foot art gallery, supervised staff of ten, and made
executive decisions for choice of exhibitions and programs, fundraising, care of university art
collection and research and curation of six exhibitions per year. Institutional budget of $200,000 per
year doubled during my tenure.
Achievements: Organized international traveling exhibition, El Favor de los Santos: The Retablo
Collection of New Mexico State University, with a budget of over $500,000. Received $300,000
appropriation from State of New Mexico, and received major 6-figure grant funding from the
Stockman Family Foundation to build a conservation lab to preserve art collections.
Curator of Exhibitions, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
June 1994 to September 1996. Responsibilities: Organized annual exhibition programs for six
galleries with 17,000 square feet of exhibition space, and $50,000 exhibitions budget for A.A.M.
accredited museum.
Achievements: Was responsible for organizing the national traveling exhibition and resulting catalog,
“Into the Nineties: Prints from the Tamarind Institute,” from the Collection of the University of
New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Director, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina,
August 1990 to June 1994. Responsibilities: Managed 7,000 square foot art gallery serving ECU
School of Art and Eastern North Carolina with budget of $120,000 per year.
Achievements: Organized the exhibition Minnie Evans: Artist, which received a $15,000 Special
Exhibitions Grant from the Museum Program of the National Endowment of the Arts. The
exhibition toured nationally, and was reviewed by The New York Times. Secured the premiere U.S.
showing of Jopseph Beuys: Objects, Drawings and Prints toured by the Goethe Foundation.
Director, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona, November 1987 to July 1990. Responsibilities:
Managed 12,000 square foot community art gallery serving Southwest Arizona.
Achievements: Implemented management improvements including strategic planning, first audit,
annual report, collections survey, and computerization of financial records. Expanded Museum’s
operating budget from $100,000 a year to $166,000 per year through increased membership,
community support, grants, and donor base.
Acting Director, Curator, and Registrar, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington,
December 1985 to October 1987. Responsibilities: Prepared budgets, planned and booked
exhibition schedules for 1986-1988. Edited museum newsletter and annual report, assisted with
fundraising auction and solicited art gifts from private donors. Museum budget was $380,000 per
year and exhibition budget $40,000 per year.
Achievements: As curator and acting director, secured first venue of Picasso Linoleum Cuts exhibition
on national tour from Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This exhibition broke all past
attendance records for 75-year history of Tacoma Art Museum.
EDUCATION
MFA in photography with minor in art history, Central Washington University, Ellensburg,
Washington, 1984.
BS in photography with minor in journalism, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas.
Museum Management Workshop, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. One of ten participants
selected nationwide, 1989.
Public administration finance, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2006.
Graduate work, art history, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 1992.
Selected Gifts/Grants
Ogden Museum of Southern Art:
2.6 million dollar naming gift for the Ogden Museum’s largest Gallery, the Helis Foundation Gallery,
January 2015, largest Foundation gift in museum’s 13-year history, 2015.
Received $250,000 endowment and debt-reduction gift, first endowment gift ever for the Ogden
Museum, 2013.
Wisner Grant, City of New Orleans, two $25,000 grants for audience development
Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University
$100,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation and $34,000 from the National Endowment For
the Arts in 2012-2013 for the Newcomb Pottery Enterprise Exhibition.
Received a $100,000 conservation grant for collections from the Stockman Family Foundation in
2012-2013.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded a $50,000 grant for two contemporary
exhibitions in 2012-2013.
Received a $35,000 grant and $10,000 donation for the Remembering Joan Mitchell educational
symposium in 2010 from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim and Read Gallery. The Joan
Mitchell Foundation also provided over $50,000 of in-kind support for the Joan Mitchell Works on
Paper exhibition shown with collateral Joan Mitchell exhibitions at the CAC and NOMA.
Harwood Museum of Art
Diebenkorn in New Mexico exhibition grants: received $70,000 from the Thaw Charitable Trust, Santa
Fe, New Mexico for educational symposium, book and national traveling exhibition, 2007.
Raised $68,000 through additional grants or gifts for exhibition, including from the Santa Fe Art
Foundation, the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation, the Brown Foundation, the Harwood Museum
Alliance, the Harwood Museum Director’s Circle, and eight private donors, 2006 to 2007.
Received $60,000 from Mandelman-Ribak Foundation for museum expansion matched by $60,000
from UNM Provost’s Office, 2006
$546,000 multi-year grant from Stockman Family Foundation for conservation, endowment, and
improvements to museum’s collection storage, 2005.
$100,000 multi-year grant from Orin and Stephanie Bennett-Smith for museum education, 2005.
New Mexico State University Art Gallery:
$60,000 from Rockefeller Foundation Museum Program, 2000.
$240,000 from Stockman Family Foundation for conservation of permanent collection and building
new conservation lab, 2000.
Wellington B. Gray Gallery:
$15,000 Special Exhibitions Grant from National Endowment for the Arts Museum Program for
Minnie Evans: Artist, 1992.
Other Grants
Past recipient of grants from North Carolina and Arizona State Art Councils, National Institution for
Conservation of Cultural Properties, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of
Museum Services.
GIFTS
Harwood Museum of Art – Expansion
$100,000 unrestricted gift from Joyce and Sherman Scott, 2007.
$250,000 from Rosa Ellis Clark for gallery naming in museum expansion, 2006.
$100,000 from Orin and Stephanie Bennett-Smith for naming museum education space in museum
expansion, 2006.
$536,000 gift of adjacent real estate from Edward Foster, 2005.
BEQUESTS
$360,000 for endowment from Robert Ray estate, 2005.
$1,000,000 endowment gift from artist Agnes Martin, 2001.
STATE OF NEW MEXICO LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS
1.2 Million, Harwood Museum of Art expansion, 2006
$635,000, Harwood Museum of Art expansion, 2007
$300,000, New Mexico State University, El Favor de Los Santos for international traveling exhibition
traveling to major museums in United States, Spain, and Mexico.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED
Between 1980 and present, I have organized more than 90 exhibitions. From 1986 to the present, I
have organized the logistics for exhibition more than 50 traveling exhibitions from other institutions.
Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University
The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise: Women, Art and Social Change, 2013 to present. Secured funding for
definitive exhibition of the Arts and Crafts of the Newcomb Pottery from the Henry Luce
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts Artworks and private sources. The exhibition
traveled internationally through the Smithsonian Institution National Traveling Exhibition Services,
(SITES.) A companion 360-page book is being published by Skira Rizzoli. The total project budget
exceeded $500,000.00
Patricia Cronin: All Is Not Lost, funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 72-page
catalogue with essays by Alexander Nemerov and Helen Molesworth. Nominated for best show in a
University Art Gallery by the International Association of Art Critics-USA, 2012.
Pop Shots: Andy Warhol; Lee Friedlander: Jazz People; and Thomas Roma Pictures From Books, 3 concurrent
photography exhibitions with ICAVC educational Making Books Symposium with Philip Lopate,
Susan Kismaric, and Thomas Roma. Lee Friedlander attended opening and Jeff Rosenheim, Curator
of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art lectured on Lee Friedlander’s work, 2011.
Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japanese Art, organized by the International Art and
Artists, a major exhibition of 19th and 20th century Japanese textiles funded by a grant from the Japan
Foundation, New York. John Bullard emeritus Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art quoted
this as the best exhibition of the year in New Orleans for 2011.
Polaridad Complimentaria: Recent Works From Cuba, negotiated with Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
and International Arts and Artists Washington, D.C. to secure the first contemporary art exhibition
in the U.S. organized by a Cuban cultural institution as the first U.S. venue, 2010. In conjunction
with the exhibition developed the collaborative Si Cuba, a citywide celebration of Cuban art, music
and culture held in New Orleans with over 17 art and cultural sites and website. The project was
imitated by Si Cuba New York in 2011.
University of New Mexico Harwood Museum of Art
Diebenkorn in New Mexico, national traveling exhibition and 156-page hardcover book, Richard
Diebenkorn in New Mexico, published by Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe. Exhibition
shown at Harwood Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; Grey Art Gallery at New York
University; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. The exhibition broke all past attendance
records for 85-year history of the museum, 2007.
Jasper Johns Prints from the Belger Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri, an exhibition chronicling Johns’
print production from the 1960’s to the present, Harwood Museum of Art, 2003.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, national traveling exhibition organized by Belger
Foundation, toured by TREX Traveling Exhibitions Program, Office of Cultural Affairs of Museum
of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 2003.
Agnes Martin Paintings from 2001, recent paintings by nationally acclaimed painter, Harwood Museum
of Art, 2001.
Clemente in Taos, new paintings by international artist Francesco Clemente who lives in New York,
Italy, India and Carson, New Mexico, catalog, Harwood Museum of Art, 2001.
University Art Gallery at New Mexico State University
El Favor de los Santos: The Retablo Collection of New Mexico State University, international traveling
exhibition toured for four years to Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City; Museo del Amparo, Pueblo,
Mexico; Museo de Historia Mexicansa, Monterrey, Mexico; San Jose Museum of Art; Mexican Fine
Art Cultural Museum, Chicago; Lowe Art Museum, Miami; National Hispanic Cultural Center,
Albuquerque; Museum of the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe; Museo de las Americas, Madrid,
Spain; and Casa Museo de Colon in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Project director for total
budget in excess of $500,000. Co-authored Art and Faith in Mexico, 360-page book published by
University of New Mexico Press. Artes de Mexico and Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City published a
90-page, four-color Spanish-language catalog, 2000.
Weatherspoon Art Gallery
Into the Nineties: Prints from Tamarind Institute, exhibition traveled to Lehigh University Art Galleries,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of
New Hampshire, Durham; and University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 1995.
Wellington B. Gray Gallery
Minnie Evans: Artist, retrospective exhibition of 130 works by self-taught Wilmington, North Carolina
artist. Funded by $15,000 Special Exhibitions Grant from the Museum Program of the National
Endowment for the Arts, the exhibition traveled through 1995 to Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem
State University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Thompson Gallery, Furman University,
Department of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina;
High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of American Folk Art, New York; Kemper Museum of
Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, Missouri; and St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington,
North Carolina.
Jacob Lawrence: An American Master, color lithographs and paintings by Seattle artist. Six-page, four
color exhibition brochure published by East Carolina University. Exhibition traveled to Grand Vue
Gallery, Morgantown, West Virginia; Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem University; North African-
American Cultural Center, Charlotte, North Carolina; St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, North
Carolina; and Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State University, Ashland, 1992.
Yuma Art Center
Ten Years After: The Yuma Symposium, ten-year retrospective featuring 100 artists in contemporary arts
and crafts, funded in part by Arizona Commission on the Arts and Arizona Western College.
Tacoma Art Museum
Paul Horiuchi: Master of the Collage, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, retrospective featuring
33 years of collage works.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Arts & Crafts of Newcomb Pottery, 352-page book co-published by Tulane University and Skira-
Rizzoli, New York, Author of Preface and Acknowledgements, and project director for overall
supervision of publishing project, October 2013.
Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico, 176-page book published by Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa
Fe, in association with Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, 2007. Wrote foreword and
acknowledgements.
Art and Faith in Mexico: The Nineteenth Century Retablo Tradition, 360-page book published in 2002 by
University of New Mexico Press, now in second printing. Co-author and co-editor.
Exhibition Catalogs
Patricia Cronin: All Is Not Lost, published by Tulane University Newcomb Art Gallery, 72-page
exhibition catalogue funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts with foreword by
Charles Lovell and essays by Alexander Nemerov and Patricia Molesworth, 2012.
Minnie Evans: Artist, four-color, 72-page exhibition catalog, 1992. Co-editor and essayist.
Won second place for exhibition catalogs in American Association of Museum’s Annual Publication
Competition, 1993.
Paul Horiuchi, Master of the Collage catalog won American Federation of Arts Museum Design
Competition Award of Excellence, 1989.
Ten Years After: The Yuma Symposium exhibition catalog received an award of Excellence from the
American Federation of Arts, 1989.
Reviews, Articles, and Interviews
The Advocate, “Drawings Stir Exciting Possibilities,” Robin Miller, Review of William Spratling
Exhibition, Feb. 16, 2013.
Canadian Art, Prospect.2 “Mardi Gras Masterpiece”, Nancy Tousley, p.1-6, illustrations and article
covering Nick Cave and Joyce Scott’s Newcomb Art Gallery exhibition in Prospect.2, April 25, 2012.
New Orleans Times Picayune, “Warhol’s Pop Polaroid portraits on Display at Tulane”, Doug McCash,
September 2, 2011, Lagniappe p. 12.
Today, MSNBC, NBC News, September 10, 2011, Tulane University listed as #5 for 10 College
Campuses worth a visit, Elisa Richard online recognition of Newcomb Art Gallery.
New York Times, review, “An Expressionist In Albuquerque,” (for Diebenkorn in New Mexico
exhibition at Grey Art Gallery-NYU) Jan. 25, 2008. Pp. E33 and E 36.
ArtForum Critics’ Pick, “Diebenkorn in New Mexico: 1950-52,” by Ara H. Merjian, illustration,
November 27, 2007.
San Francisco Chronicle, exhibition review, “Painter Diebenkorn Found Inspiration in the New Mexico
Desert, “by Kenneth Baker, illustrations, October 18, 2007.
Albuquerque Journal, exhibition review of “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, UNM grad
delivers social, political message,” by Wesley Pulka, February 27, 2005, F5.
Santa Fe New Mexican, Jasper Johns exhibition review, About Art, “A Negation of Impulses,” by Tom
Collins, June 20, 2003, pp.5-6.
Santa Fe New Mexican, “Body of Work, Francesco Clemente,” by Kristina Melcher, May 17, 2002, pp.
20-21.
Wall Street Journal, “The Mystery of Lines and Letter,” by Hollis Walker, April 23, 2002, Leisure &
Arts, p. 7 D.
New Mexican Magazine, review, “The Saints Go Marching: Retablo Show Hits the Road,” by
Derrickson Moore, color illustrations, December 2000, pp. 82-85.
National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” six-minute story and interview on El Favor de las Santos:
The Retablo Collection of New Mexico State University, by David Browser, January 24, 2000.
Dallas Morning News, “University’s exhibition of retablos tells religious tales on tin,” by Nancy San
Martin, December 1999.
New York Times, review, “Minnie Evans’ Visions,” by Holland Cotter, illustrations, March 3, 1995,
C1, 18.
Greensboro N.C. News & Record, “The Faces of Freud,” by Leigh Pressley, November 5, 1995, D1, 4.
Raleigh News & Observer, review of Open Spain, Espana Abierta, “Tales of Two Spains; the old and
the modern cohabit ECU’s photo show,” by Chuck Twardy, illustration, March 12, 1993, Weekend,
p. 7.
Charlotte Observer, review of Jacob Lawrence: An American Master: “Riots lend poignancy to exhibit,”
by Tom Patterson, illustrations, August 9, 1992, pp. F1 10.
Arizona Republic, “Southwest Sampler: Yuma show serves up regional cross section of accomplished
art,” by Richard Nilsen, April 14, 1990, pp. E1-4.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “Collection of Horiuchi’s work capitalizes on mood,” by Regina Hackett,
November 28, 1987, pp. C3-6.
Seattle Times, Berger, David, “Picasso prints add new perspective to Tacoma Art Museum,”
September 18, 1987, p. E6.
Tacoma News Tribune, “Museum opens most prestigious show ever,” by Keith Raether, September 18,
1987, TGIF section, pp. 1-3.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
LECTURES
Visual presentation for Tulane University conference Global Gulf II, 2013, The Art of Procession, New
Orleans Second Lines and Jazz Funerals.
Cuban contemporary art lecture, featured speaker Tulane Alumni Association, Miami, Florida, 2010.
University Art Galleries and the Exhibition World, moderator for public educational panel at
Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA, 2009.
Visual Arts grant panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 2005.
Presenter, CLE International Art and Law Conference, Taos, New Mexico, 2001.
Lecture, “Minnie Evans: Artist,” Museum of American Folk Art, New York, 1995.
Lecture, “Larry Rivers,” Smorgasbord of the Recognizable,” Bank of the Arts, Craven County Arts
Council, New Bern, North Carolina, 1992.
Lecturer and panelist, “Art Controversy in Small Communities,” National Assembly of Local Arts
Agencies annual convention, San Diego, 1990.
Lecture, “Contemporary Trends in Northwest Art,” Washington State Capital Museum, Olympia,
1987.
CONSULTING AND GRANT REVIEWING
Emily Harvey Foundation, New York and Venice, Italy, 2015
Reviewer for three national foundation art and cultural panels 2007-09
SELECTED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Chair for the Tulane Faculty ICAVC, Interdisciplinary Committee For Arts and Visual Culture
Tulane University, 2010 to 2013.
Organizer of the Remembering Joan Mitchell educational symposium held April 2010, with a panel of 7
international speakers. The event attracted 255 from 12 states, France and 9 Louisiana cities. The
presenters were Guy Bloch-Chompfort; Christopher Campbell, David L. Craven, Ann Gibson,
Irving Sandler, Robert Storr, and Mahki Xenakis.
Organizer for the Collecting Cuban Art educational symposium with the Stone Center For Latin
American Studies at Tulane University, the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, and the New
Orleans Museum of Art. Held January 2010 the event attracted 197 and featured presenters Holly
Block, Dan Cameron, Sandra Levinson, Adolfo V. Nodal, Tom Reese, Tonel, and Ricardo Viera.
The January 2009 lecture by Shirin Neshat in Dixon auditorium attracted over 850 attendees, and set
an all-time record for a visual arts lecture at Tulane University.
Presented Diebenkorn in New Mexico educational symposium featuring John Elderfield, chief curator of
the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jane Livingston; Mark Lavatelli; Susan Landauer; and
Gerald Nordland. Event sold out to 270 attendees from 10 states and Canada, 2007.
Presented Agnes Martin Symposium, featuring scholars Ned Rifkin, Michael Govan, Richard Tuttle,
Anne Wilson, and Joanna Maria Weber. Attendees included 256 persons from 16 states and Canada,
2002.
Organized educational symposium for El Favor de los Santos, co-sponsored by Smithsonian Institution
Center for Latino Initiatives. Over 100 attended from throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto
Rico, 1999.
Boards, Offices, Memberships & Professional Service
Ex- officio member of Newcomb Art Gallery National Advisory Board, 2008 to 2013
International Commission of Museums
American Alliance of Museums
Vice President, New Mexico Association of Museums, 1997 to 1999.
Chair and board member, Art Section, North Carolina Museum Council, 1992 to 1995.
President, Art Enthusiasts, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 1990 to 1991.
Western Representative, Museum Association of Arizona, 1989 to 1990.
AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
French Consulate of New Orleans awarded research trip to visit six museums in Paris, Lyon, and
Nancy, France in 2012 in conjunction with The French Art of Pochoir exhibition.
Led the Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University to receive a 2010 Community Arts Award from
the Arts Council of New Orleans.
Minnie Evans: Artist, four-color, 72-page exhibition catalog received second prize for exhibition
catalogs in American Association of Museum’s Annual Publication Competition.
Award of Excellence for Paul Horiuchi, Master of the Collage catalog, American Federation of Arts
Museum Design Competition, 1989.
Ten Years After: The Yuma Symposium exhibition catalog received an award of Excellence from the
American Federation of Arts, 1989.
Charles M. Lovell References:
Susan Brennan, business owner, former chair Newcomb Art Gallery National Advisory
Board, President of Prospect New Orleans
600 Port of New Orleans #9F
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
susangbrennan@gmail.com cell 504 491-5221
David Edward Stuart, former Associate Provost, and Associate Provost Emeritus University
of New Mexico
423 Tulane Drive. SE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
dstuart@unm.edu 505 265-5459
Harold and Susan Skramstad, Professional museum consultants
8607 35th Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80238
skrams2@q.com 303 449-1571
Fran Villere
Ogden Museum of Sothern Art, Inc. board member
#9 Audubon Place
New Orleans, LA 70118
fvillere@yahoo.com cell 504 669-7297

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C Lovell Museum Director CV-3-18-2016

  • 1. Charles M. Lovell 4116 Camp Street New Orleans, LA 70115 e-mail: charleslovellart@gmail.com home (504) 309-2640 website: charleslovell.com cell (575) 770-0095 PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Development Officer For Major Gifts and Institutional Advancement, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana. May 2013 to June 15, 2015. Responsibilities: Raise funds through solicitation of gifts of $25,000 and above. Achievements: Helped the Ogden Museum secure a multi-million dollar gift from the Helis Foundation in January 2015 to name the Museum’s largest 5th floor gallery. Assisted the Museum with the establishing of an endowment. Director, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. July 2008 to February 2013. Responsibilities: Lead organization by setting long and short-term goals and developing and administering policies for 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art university art gallery founded in 1996. Supervise full-time staff of seven, worked with Dean of School of Liberal Arts and 23-member national advisory board. Oversee permanent art collection of 5,000 art objects. Develop and administer budget of $800,000 per year and 1.8 million dollar endowment. Achievements: During my tenure the Newcomb Art Gallery emerged as a leader in the arts renewal in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. We revised our national advisory board, approved two strategic three-year plans, approved mission and vision statements and increased our public hours. Our private funding has increased over 200% with board giving at 100%, and we have received grants and major gifts from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Stockman Family Foundation, the National Endowment For the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the MetLife Foundation, the Japan Foundation-New York, and the Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust. Director, Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos, and adjunct professor of art and art history for parent organization, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. August 2001 to June 2008. Responsibilities: Provided leadership for 26,000 square foot university art museum with seven exhibition galleries, staff of 15, governing and membership boards, support group, and annual budget of $550,000 per year. Achievements: In preparation for 10,000 square foot 5 million dollar expansion, museum received gifts, grants and real estate of over 3 million dollars, including $1,835,000 from New Mexico legislative appropriations in 2005 and 2006. During my tenure, admissions and memberships doubled, and endowments increased to 2.5 million dollars. We received a $546,000 multiyear grant from the Stockman Family Foundation for collections preservations and endowment. In June 2007, I organized the most successful exhibition in the museum’s 85-year history, Diebenkorn in New Mexico, which traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art; the Grey Art Gallery at New York University; and the Phillips Collection Washington, D.C. Director, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. July 1995 to July 2001. Responsibilities: Administered 12,000 square foot art gallery, supervised staff of ten, and made executive decisions for choice of exhibitions and programs, fundraising, care of university art
  • 2. collection and research and curation of six exhibitions per year. Institutional budget of $200,000 per year doubled during my tenure. Achievements: Organized international traveling exhibition, El Favor de los Santos: The Retablo Collection of New Mexico State University, with a budget of over $500,000. Received $300,000 appropriation from State of New Mexico, and received major 6-figure grant funding from the Stockman Family Foundation to build a conservation lab to preserve art collections. Curator of Exhibitions, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, June 1994 to September 1996. Responsibilities: Organized annual exhibition programs for six galleries with 17,000 square feet of exhibition space, and $50,000 exhibitions budget for A.A.M. accredited museum. Achievements: Was responsible for organizing the national traveling exhibition and resulting catalog, “Into the Nineties: Prints from the Tamarind Institute,” from the Collection of the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Director, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, August 1990 to June 1994. Responsibilities: Managed 7,000 square foot art gallery serving ECU School of Art and Eastern North Carolina with budget of $120,000 per year. Achievements: Organized the exhibition Minnie Evans: Artist, which received a $15,000 Special Exhibitions Grant from the Museum Program of the National Endowment of the Arts. The exhibition toured nationally, and was reviewed by The New York Times. Secured the premiere U.S. showing of Jopseph Beuys: Objects, Drawings and Prints toured by the Goethe Foundation. Director, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona, November 1987 to July 1990. Responsibilities: Managed 12,000 square foot community art gallery serving Southwest Arizona. Achievements: Implemented management improvements including strategic planning, first audit, annual report, collections survey, and computerization of financial records. Expanded Museum’s operating budget from $100,000 a year to $166,000 per year through increased membership, community support, grants, and donor base. Acting Director, Curator, and Registrar, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, December 1985 to October 1987. Responsibilities: Prepared budgets, planned and booked exhibition schedules for 1986-1988. Edited museum newsletter and annual report, assisted with fundraising auction and solicited art gifts from private donors. Museum budget was $380,000 per year and exhibition budget $40,000 per year. Achievements: As curator and acting director, secured first venue of Picasso Linoleum Cuts exhibition on national tour from Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This exhibition broke all past attendance records for 75-year history of Tacoma Art Museum. EDUCATION MFA in photography with minor in art history, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, 1984. BS in photography with minor in journalism, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas.
  • 3. Museum Management Workshop, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. One of ten participants selected nationwide, 1989. Public administration finance, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2006. Graduate work, art history, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 1992. Selected Gifts/Grants Ogden Museum of Southern Art: 2.6 million dollar naming gift for the Ogden Museum’s largest Gallery, the Helis Foundation Gallery, January 2015, largest Foundation gift in museum’s 13-year history, 2015. Received $250,000 endowment and debt-reduction gift, first endowment gift ever for the Ogden Museum, 2013. Wisner Grant, City of New Orleans, two $25,000 grants for audience development Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University $100,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation and $34,000 from the National Endowment For the Arts in 2012-2013 for the Newcomb Pottery Enterprise Exhibition. Received a $100,000 conservation grant for collections from the Stockman Family Foundation in 2012-2013. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded a $50,000 grant for two contemporary exhibitions in 2012-2013. Received a $35,000 grant and $10,000 donation for the Remembering Joan Mitchell educational symposium in 2010 from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim and Read Gallery. The Joan Mitchell Foundation also provided over $50,000 of in-kind support for the Joan Mitchell Works on Paper exhibition shown with collateral Joan Mitchell exhibitions at the CAC and NOMA. Harwood Museum of Art Diebenkorn in New Mexico exhibition grants: received $70,000 from the Thaw Charitable Trust, Santa Fe, New Mexico for educational symposium, book and national traveling exhibition, 2007. Raised $68,000 through additional grants or gifts for exhibition, including from the Santa Fe Art Foundation, the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation, the Brown Foundation, the Harwood Museum Alliance, the Harwood Museum Director’s Circle, and eight private donors, 2006 to 2007. Received $60,000 from Mandelman-Ribak Foundation for museum expansion matched by $60,000 from UNM Provost’s Office, 2006 $546,000 multi-year grant from Stockman Family Foundation for conservation, endowment, and improvements to museum’s collection storage, 2005. $100,000 multi-year grant from Orin and Stephanie Bennett-Smith for museum education, 2005.
  • 4. New Mexico State University Art Gallery: $60,000 from Rockefeller Foundation Museum Program, 2000. $240,000 from Stockman Family Foundation for conservation of permanent collection and building new conservation lab, 2000. Wellington B. Gray Gallery: $15,000 Special Exhibitions Grant from National Endowment for the Arts Museum Program for Minnie Evans: Artist, 1992. Other Grants Past recipient of grants from North Carolina and Arizona State Art Councils, National Institution for Conservation of Cultural Properties, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum Services. GIFTS Harwood Museum of Art – Expansion $100,000 unrestricted gift from Joyce and Sherman Scott, 2007. $250,000 from Rosa Ellis Clark for gallery naming in museum expansion, 2006. $100,000 from Orin and Stephanie Bennett-Smith for naming museum education space in museum expansion, 2006. $536,000 gift of adjacent real estate from Edward Foster, 2005. BEQUESTS $360,000 for endowment from Robert Ray estate, 2005. $1,000,000 endowment gift from artist Agnes Martin, 2001. STATE OF NEW MEXICO LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS 1.2 Million, Harwood Museum of Art expansion, 2006 $635,000, Harwood Museum of Art expansion, 2007 $300,000, New Mexico State University, El Favor de Los Santos for international traveling exhibition traveling to major museums in United States, Spain, and Mexico. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED Between 1980 and present, I have organized more than 90 exhibitions. From 1986 to the present, I have organized the logistics for exhibition more than 50 traveling exhibitions from other institutions.
  • 5. Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise: Women, Art and Social Change, 2013 to present. Secured funding for definitive exhibition of the Arts and Crafts of the Newcomb Pottery from the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts Artworks and private sources. The exhibition traveled internationally through the Smithsonian Institution National Traveling Exhibition Services, (SITES.) A companion 360-page book is being published by Skira Rizzoli. The total project budget exceeded $500,000.00 Patricia Cronin: All Is Not Lost, funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 72-page catalogue with essays by Alexander Nemerov and Helen Molesworth. Nominated for best show in a University Art Gallery by the International Association of Art Critics-USA, 2012. Pop Shots: Andy Warhol; Lee Friedlander: Jazz People; and Thomas Roma Pictures From Books, 3 concurrent photography exhibitions with ICAVC educational Making Books Symposium with Philip Lopate, Susan Kismaric, and Thomas Roma. Lee Friedlander attended opening and Jeff Rosenheim, Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art lectured on Lee Friedlander’s work, 2011. Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japanese Art, organized by the International Art and Artists, a major exhibition of 19th and 20th century Japanese textiles funded by a grant from the Japan Foundation, New York. John Bullard emeritus Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art quoted this as the best exhibition of the year in New Orleans for 2011. Polaridad Complimentaria: Recent Works From Cuba, negotiated with Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba and International Arts and Artists Washington, D.C. to secure the first contemporary art exhibition in the U.S. organized by a Cuban cultural institution as the first U.S. venue, 2010. In conjunction with the exhibition developed the collaborative Si Cuba, a citywide celebration of Cuban art, music and culture held in New Orleans with over 17 art and cultural sites and website. The project was imitated by Si Cuba New York in 2011. University of New Mexico Harwood Museum of Art Diebenkorn in New Mexico, national traveling exhibition and 156-page hardcover book, Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico, published by Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe. Exhibition shown at Harwood Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; Grey Art Gallery at New York University; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. The exhibition broke all past attendance records for 85-year history of the museum, 2007. Jasper Johns Prints from the Belger Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri, an exhibition chronicling Johns’ print production from the 1960’s to the present, Harwood Museum of Art, 2003. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, national traveling exhibition organized by Belger Foundation, toured by TREX Traveling Exhibitions Program, Office of Cultural Affairs of Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 2003. Agnes Martin Paintings from 2001, recent paintings by nationally acclaimed painter, Harwood Museum of Art, 2001. Clemente in Taos, new paintings by international artist Francesco Clemente who lives in New York, Italy, India and Carson, New Mexico, catalog, Harwood Museum of Art, 2001.
  • 6. University Art Gallery at New Mexico State University El Favor de los Santos: The Retablo Collection of New Mexico State University, international traveling exhibition toured for four years to Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City; Museo del Amparo, Pueblo, Mexico; Museo de Historia Mexicansa, Monterrey, Mexico; San Jose Museum of Art; Mexican Fine Art Cultural Museum, Chicago; Lowe Art Museum, Miami; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque; Museum of the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe; Museo de las Americas, Madrid, Spain; and Casa Museo de Colon in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Project director for total budget in excess of $500,000. Co-authored Art and Faith in Mexico, 360-page book published by University of New Mexico Press. Artes de Mexico and Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City published a 90-page, four-color Spanish-language catalog, 2000. Weatherspoon Art Gallery Into the Nineties: Prints from Tamarind Institute, exhibition traveled to Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of New Hampshire, Durham; and University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 1995. Wellington B. Gray Gallery Minnie Evans: Artist, retrospective exhibition of 130 works by self-taught Wilmington, North Carolina artist. Funded by $15,000 Special Exhibitions Grant from the Museum Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibition traveled through 1995 to Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Thompson Gallery, Furman University, Department of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of American Folk Art, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, Missouri; and St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina. Jacob Lawrence: An American Master, color lithographs and paintings by Seattle artist. Six-page, four color exhibition brochure published by East Carolina University. Exhibition traveled to Grand Vue Gallery, Morgantown, West Virginia; Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem University; North African- American Cultural Center, Charlotte, North Carolina; St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina; and Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State University, Ashland, 1992. Yuma Art Center Ten Years After: The Yuma Symposium, ten-year retrospective featuring 100 artists in contemporary arts and crafts, funded in part by Arizona Commission on the Arts and Arizona Western College. Tacoma Art Museum Paul Horiuchi: Master of the Collage, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, retrospective featuring 33 years of collage works. PUBLICATIONS Books The Arts & Crafts of Newcomb Pottery, 352-page book co-published by Tulane University and Skira- Rizzoli, New York, Author of Preface and Acknowledgements, and project director for overall supervision of publishing project, October 2013.
  • 7. Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico, 176-page book published by Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, in association with Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, 2007. Wrote foreword and acknowledgements. Art and Faith in Mexico: The Nineteenth Century Retablo Tradition, 360-page book published in 2002 by University of New Mexico Press, now in second printing. Co-author and co-editor. Exhibition Catalogs Patricia Cronin: All Is Not Lost, published by Tulane University Newcomb Art Gallery, 72-page exhibition catalogue funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts with foreword by Charles Lovell and essays by Alexander Nemerov and Patricia Molesworth, 2012. Minnie Evans: Artist, four-color, 72-page exhibition catalog, 1992. Co-editor and essayist. Won second place for exhibition catalogs in American Association of Museum’s Annual Publication Competition, 1993. Paul Horiuchi, Master of the Collage catalog won American Federation of Arts Museum Design Competition Award of Excellence, 1989. Ten Years After: The Yuma Symposium exhibition catalog received an award of Excellence from the American Federation of Arts, 1989. Reviews, Articles, and Interviews The Advocate, “Drawings Stir Exciting Possibilities,” Robin Miller, Review of William Spratling Exhibition, Feb. 16, 2013. Canadian Art, Prospect.2 “Mardi Gras Masterpiece”, Nancy Tousley, p.1-6, illustrations and article covering Nick Cave and Joyce Scott’s Newcomb Art Gallery exhibition in Prospect.2, April 25, 2012. New Orleans Times Picayune, “Warhol’s Pop Polaroid portraits on Display at Tulane”, Doug McCash, September 2, 2011, Lagniappe p. 12. Today, MSNBC, NBC News, September 10, 2011, Tulane University listed as #5 for 10 College Campuses worth a visit, Elisa Richard online recognition of Newcomb Art Gallery. New York Times, review, “An Expressionist In Albuquerque,” (for Diebenkorn in New Mexico exhibition at Grey Art Gallery-NYU) Jan. 25, 2008. Pp. E33 and E 36. ArtForum Critics’ Pick, “Diebenkorn in New Mexico: 1950-52,” by Ara H. Merjian, illustration, November 27, 2007. San Francisco Chronicle, exhibition review, “Painter Diebenkorn Found Inspiration in the New Mexico Desert, “by Kenneth Baker, illustrations, October 18, 2007. Albuquerque Journal, exhibition review of “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America, UNM grad delivers social, political message,” by Wesley Pulka, February 27, 2005, F5. Santa Fe New Mexican, Jasper Johns exhibition review, About Art, “A Negation of Impulses,” by Tom Collins, June 20, 2003, pp.5-6.
  • 8. Santa Fe New Mexican, “Body of Work, Francesco Clemente,” by Kristina Melcher, May 17, 2002, pp. 20-21. Wall Street Journal, “The Mystery of Lines and Letter,” by Hollis Walker, April 23, 2002, Leisure & Arts, p. 7 D. New Mexican Magazine, review, “The Saints Go Marching: Retablo Show Hits the Road,” by Derrickson Moore, color illustrations, December 2000, pp. 82-85. National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” six-minute story and interview on El Favor de las Santos: The Retablo Collection of New Mexico State University, by David Browser, January 24, 2000. Dallas Morning News, “University’s exhibition of retablos tells religious tales on tin,” by Nancy San Martin, December 1999. New York Times, review, “Minnie Evans’ Visions,” by Holland Cotter, illustrations, March 3, 1995, C1, 18. Greensboro N.C. News & Record, “The Faces of Freud,” by Leigh Pressley, November 5, 1995, D1, 4. Raleigh News & Observer, review of Open Spain, Espana Abierta, “Tales of Two Spains; the old and the modern cohabit ECU’s photo show,” by Chuck Twardy, illustration, March 12, 1993, Weekend, p. 7. Charlotte Observer, review of Jacob Lawrence: An American Master: “Riots lend poignancy to exhibit,” by Tom Patterson, illustrations, August 9, 1992, pp. F1 10. Arizona Republic, “Southwest Sampler: Yuma show serves up regional cross section of accomplished art,” by Richard Nilsen, April 14, 1990, pp. E1-4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “Collection of Horiuchi’s work capitalizes on mood,” by Regina Hackett, November 28, 1987, pp. C3-6. Seattle Times, Berger, David, “Picasso prints add new perspective to Tacoma Art Museum,” September 18, 1987, p. E6. Tacoma News Tribune, “Museum opens most prestigious show ever,” by Keith Raether, September 18, 1987, TGIF section, pp. 1-3. SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES LECTURES Visual presentation for Tulane University conference Global Gulf II, 2013, The Art of Procession, New Orleans Second Lines and Jazz Funerals. Cuban contemporary art lecture, featured speaker Tulane Alumni Association, Miami, Florida, 2010. University Art Galleries and the Exhibition World, moderator for public educational panel at Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA, 2009.
  • 9. Visual Arts grant panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 2005. Presenter, CLE International Art and Law Conference, Taos, New Mexico, 2001. Lecture, “Minnie Evans: Artist,” Museum of American Folk Art, New York, 1995. Lecture, “Larry Rivers,” Smorgasbord of the Recognizable,” Bank of the Arts, Craven County Arts Council, New Bern, North Carolina, 1992. Lecturer and panelist, “Art Controversy in Small Communities,” National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies annual convention, San Diego, 1990. Lecture, “Contemporary Trends in Northwest Art,” Washington State Capital Museum, Olympia, 1987. CONSULTING AND GRANT REVIEWING Emily Harvey Foundation, New York and Venice, Italy, 2015 Reviewer for three national foundation art and cultural panels 2007-09 SELECTED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Chair for the Tulane Faculty ICAVC, Interdisciplinary Committee For Arts and Visual Culture Tulane University, 2010 to 2013. Organizer of the Remembering Joan Mitchell educational symposium held April 2010, with a panel of 7 international speakers. The event attracted 255 from 12 states, France and 9 Louisiana cities. The presenters were Guy Bloch-Chompfort; Christopher Campbell, David L. Craven, Ann Gibson, Irving Sandler, Robert Storr, and Mahki Xenakis. Organizer for the Collecting Cuban Art educational symposium with the Stone Center For Latin American Studies at Tulane University, the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Held January 2010 the event attracted 197 and featured presenters Holly Block, Dan Cameron, Sandra Levinson, Adolfo V. Nodal, Tom Reese, Tonel, and Ricardo Viera. The January 2009 lecture by Shirin Neshat in Dixon auditorium attracted over 850 attendees, and set an all-time record for a visual arts lecture at Tulane University. Presented Diebenkorn in New Mexico educational symposium featuring John Elderfield, chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jane Livingston; Mark Lavatelli; Susan Landauer; and Gerald Nordland. Event sold out to 270 attendees from 10 states and Canada, 2007. Presented Agnes Martin Symposium, featuring scholars Ned Rifkin, Michael Govan, Richard Tuttle, Anne Wilson, and Joanna Maria Weber. Attendees included 256 persons from 16 states and Canada, 2002. Organized educational symposium for El Favor de los Santos, co-sponsored by Smithsonian Institution Center for Latino Initiatives. Over 100 attended from throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico, 1999.
  • 10. Boards, Offices, Memberships & Professional Service Ex- officio member of Newcomb Art Gallery National Advisory Board, 2008 to 2013 International Commission of Museums American Alliance of Museums Vice President, New Mexico Association of Museums, 1997 to 1999. Chair and board member, Art Section, North Carolina Museum Council, 1992 to 1995. President, Art Enthusiasts, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 1990 to 1991. Western Representative, Museum Association of Arizona, 1989 to 1990. AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS French Consulate of New Orleans awarded research trip to visit six museums in Paris, Lyon, and Nancy, France in 2012 in conjunction with The French Art of Pochoir exhibition. Led the Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University to receive a 2010 Community Arts Award from the Arts Council of New Orleans. Minnie Evans: Artist, four-color, 72-page exhibition catalog received second prize for exhibition catalogs in American Association of Museum’s Annual Publication Competition. Award of Excellence for Paul Horiuchi, Master of the Collage catalog, American Federation of Arts Museum Design Competition, 1989. Ten Years After: The Yuma Symposium exhibition catalog received an award of Excellence from the American Federation of Arts, 1989.
  • 11. Charles M. Lovell References: Susan Brennan, business owner, former chair Newcomb Art Gallery National Advisory Board, President of Prospect New Orleans 600 Port of New Orleans #9F New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 susangbrennan@gmail.com cell 504 491-5221 David Edward Stuart, former Associate Provost, and Associate Provost Emeritus University of New Mexico 423 Tulane Drive. SE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 dstuart@unm.edu 505 265-5459 Harold and Susan Skramstad, Professional museum consultants 8607 35th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80238 skrams2@q.com 303 449-1571 Fran Villere Ogden Museum of Sothern Art, Inc. board member #9 Audubon Place New Orleans, LA 70118 fvillere@yahoo.com cell 504 669-7297