GMOA in the News

Checking our Google Alerts this morning after a holiday weekend, we noticed two mentions of the museum. Culture Grrl mentions our director, William U. Eiland, in a post on the deaccessioning press release by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), complete with a link to the release. Bill is cochair of AAMD's Deaccessioning Task Force. Unsurprisingly (and rightly), the release reiterates AAMD's policy on deaccessioning ("works cannot be deaccessioned to provide funds for operating or capital purposes and such funds may only be used for the refinement and expansion of the collection").

Also, if you happen to be in or near Greensburg, Penn., on March 25, our friend Jason Schoen is speaking at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in connection with an exhibition of paintings from his collection, "Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection." Schoen has been a wonderful friend to GMOA, placing many of the works in his collection (both paintings and works on paper) on long-term loan with the museum, and we plan to reopen with "The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection," a fine exhibition of just such.