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Museum Advisory Board – July 2024
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It started at 431. No more do we need to do verbal appearance?
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I caught it. So
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thank you.
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Introductions. Oh, of course.
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Well, I think you’ll know me, but welcome. And delighted to have members joining us today.
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So I first met Bruce. And however you want to be
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shorter or longer, short version is good.
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Probably spot that I’m here if you’re either one of us. So I’m happy to be here happy to learn some stuff. I’m a retired neurologist, and hobbies, our music and chess and some philosophy and nothing else I can’t remember.
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I’m Tom Kurtz, this is among my second term. We had a Bruce one opportunity to interview the candidates. And he’s still show them. Vice Chair of the meeting. Hall. Retired hospital CEO
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Bruce Bruce Montgomery was the archives Research Director for 27 years director of the research archives at the University of Colorado. And I’ve served on this board a long time ago, from the 90s into the opinion, I actually moved along mine in the early 90s. And was on the board before Erricka, here for about 93 Until the early 2000s or something like that right. And back
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called you back.
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It’s the the development of the museum has been really remarkable. In that time, it started out a little garage, right across the library, the use of the what the post garage, garage, alone Museum, and the whole process of building this museum and now it’s been expanded and someone’s really grown with the city. It was really remarkable. To see the development of the museum.
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I was bedwyn I’m the current Curator of History.
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started like that. So like it’s just very temporary.
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You may be getting
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sensitive territory.
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Filling the shoes from Eric who in the role for a very long time.
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Doing it very well.
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I’m Kelly Cordova. I’m the chair. This is my second term. And then I also work as a library associate URI.
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I’m Catlin Kenan.
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My name gives Americans trouble. So I have non American name is Gaelic is the origin of my name. I am a professor at Front Range Community College I teach philosophy and Women and Gender Studies.
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I’m Katherine Hawks. This is my first time back since I fell and broke my shoulder in two places.
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This my first term
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and I’m a retired
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and I’m planning on doing COVID And now I’m an artist.
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Anything recently
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I think this is ending sometime next year around 6.5 looked at it online. So I’m a retired social worker
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I’m probably finished one year here and now up for three more. So for the long run, I spent many years on the transportation advisory board. This is way more fun to me here
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to make it right, so
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RTD street rehabilitation
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All right. I’m Joanne McCoy, the executive assistant.
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And how long have you been?
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Okay, so that’s embarrassing. I’ve been here for about 30 years.
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Did you start in the garage?
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I did
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start sweeping the garage
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and then do we have any public
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to be heard?
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Then I get a motion to approve the minutes from last time Are there any corrections or amendments we need to make?
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I move that we approve you.
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Then I think we’re ready for sessions
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we all want to vote
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we have a bunch of stuff. First off, we received eight modern photocopies of photos that we do not have in the archive as far as I can tell. They’re mostly related to this long one realty company which was housed in the Emerson and Buckingham think the 1910s or so that building is no longer there. So an alleyway but both exterior and interior of the bank. Yeah, and there’s a few others is one of YC eases now, we didn’t have that particular angle that photo and there’s some unknown ones that are probably long, long. Multiple taking
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the connection. So these are photocopies.
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Yeah, like gather modern printouts. I don’t know if she had that. Where was her deceased husband’s so she just kind of found them. And I’m pregnant around Eric, he had a connection to the owner of the realty he
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did he own Wayne Jergens on my LLC and insurance. Sounds right. He was. Yeah. So yeah, he was on the Friends of the museum board. Back in the 90s.
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Yeah, it’s crazy. Because when he was a tremendous supporter for the museum really got the fence going at one point
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to vote individually or we owe everything all at once unless the board wants to break up.
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Any questions on this one?
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So building at the top, that’s the
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realty on the building. Yeah, the banner says something the slime realty company.
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It was originally a bang. Yeah. Great. Yeah.
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Do we know why was the bottles?
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Oh, it’s I’ve never been able to figure out why they chose that building to tear down. It’s the breezeway in the middle of a 300 block. And I think it was just what this is the middle. So this is the one we’re gonna like the buildings on either side are perfectly ordinary commercial structures. Then you have this amazing bank building. For a long time. I kept hoping that it was like, Oh, it was just totally destroyed by the 60s when they were getting ready to do the breezeway, and then I found an angle and it’s like no, it was actually pretty intact even in the 60s. Sag urban renewal that mistake.
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So I was a tornado. So
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60s, this was the first part of long mock was what the organization was called precursor to the LDA and I started building the breezeways and the 300 block to connect to the Parking lots behind
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you might need to use the mouse
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I got a phone call from a woman. She lives in like Oregon Washington state, but she grew up in Longmont her father over the telephone exchange building, which is 477 Main Street. So it’s on the west southwest corner of Main Street. That’s a Fifth Avenue.
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Supporters arcade. Yes, arcade
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demolished.
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Well, anyway, so this building, I don’t have a picture of it, what it looked like before. So it’s been renovated a couple of times and in the 60s with this sheath of brick up over all of the big windows to modern eyes it hired, you have some kind of like either dentist or doctor practice. And so he did that first and then they eventually built a huge building at 720 1/5 Ave, just kind of around the corner. So that’s him standing at the lock before the building was built. It’s the barn Schwartz building is so there is good sleep farm and I think Met Life Insurance in it. It still says barn Schwartz right side of the building. So it’s the kind of construction of that building. There’s like six or seven photos of that. And then also a few photos from one of the Boulder County Fair parades. Chuck Wagon brothers in the back there. And that bank was also demolished once behind. So that’s it fourth, fourth, or fifth. So yeah, so debt like I didn’t you know, no brainer for these. I think that they show pictures of loved mountain
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this is just a one off a group photo from 2009. It was the 90th anniversary of the Rotary Club and everyone has identified. There’s kind of photos in this photo. There’s a lot of things that I’ve seen. Yeah. So yeah, there’s like a lot of kind of movers and shakers from the, from around 2009. Yeah, doesn’t seem old now. But it’s a good one for that. Okay. This was a large donation that has dwindled down and we’ve refined it over the course of maybe two months of conversation back and forth with this family. The new and family had 22 children. They were all from the same mother. The they had a farm out in need. And then when all the kids were grown, the parents moved to 619 Collier Street, one of their children grown children died tragically in a car accident in the 60s, orphaning six children who all then moved in with their grandmother a 619. And she raised them. She died, I think in the 1980s. And it was actually her daughter, Helen, who passed away and she was the last one or 619. And so it’s her children and grandchildren who approached us with all this stuff. Their mother had planned on donating in her lifetime and never did. She had some conversations with Eric like back in 2006 or something. But so yeah, this was her children kind of doing good back a mom. So we chose I took a bunch I didn’t want to it was a lot of steps. I took some scans of the family and any buildings need from their scrapbooks. And there is a few items that multiple children use. They were Catholic family. So we have this communion dress that we have photos of the two girls wearing that wearing in prayer book, I guess Helen knew in how to convert to Catholicism to get married, apparently is kind of a shotgun wedding. And so inside the prayer book is a little like Welcome to the family from her mother. Rose Ruby’s really cool 1940s ironing Yeah, so kind of a cool story about this family. Oh, apparently five out of six were four out of five whatever how many basketball players are on a basketball team me the basketball team was almost entirely made up of new bands at one point and they were like two champions I guess
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seems like most of the people on my mom would be related to them in
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one way or another. Laying at the table because they’ve just gotten dropped off. And then an older couple walked in just because they were here for the exhibits. And I said hello. And he looks down. He’s like, I know that guy. Like 10 year old kid like he’s like, I’m friends with him like oh farming I’m not sure
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the farm it was fairly small, and I’m not sure if they were sort of sharecropper kind of situation or not. And Helen knew or not Helen, the daughter can’t remember her name. But she she was a very early flight attendant for United in the 1950s. And so we have pictures in the archive already of her. And then another, another person that started up like a children’s daycare that was very prevalent in the 70s. So the children, you know, some of them stayed here and starting businesses. Questions. Um, B had a descendant of the department knock come by with some older photos, and kind of I was working with Don Lynn, it was an arbor North living and hygiene. She actually helped me figure out, we figured out some of the photos actually when other people are logged on. And she’s actually helped connect Sally with a museum in Pennsylvania. They were originally from, but this little girl was a later on, she was a early settler of lawn lawn, too. So we will be taking this it hasn’t arrived yet. But we’ve already agreed to add it to our archives.
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This is a crayon portrait.
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That’s what done called it.
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So these are what what those are. They would take a photograph, and then they would blow it up and print it very faintly on. Usually these were pretty large like this by this at least. And then an artist would go over the photograph with crayon or so it’s sort of a combination of a photograph and a hand drawn portrait.
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It’s only took me two years
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to really tell in the dress that is like a kind of quickly drawn in
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this way of CO writing.
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Yes, yeah. A little bit of color too.
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It’s also because you could print a photo that large, so if you wanted something big to hang on the wall. That’s cool. artists to do it.
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Does it? Can I answer your question? Do these families when you collect these families that have history here online? Do they provide any kind of written narrative sometimes, or do they just kind of tell you? I mean, what I’m getting at is that it would be very interesting if they wrote were able to or willing to write a kind of a narrative of their family history, as is the documentation that go along with the photograph is is very interesting. Yeah,
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this one this family is pretty well, at least personal about their settler history documented. The new ends they actually gave me a family tree on the app. They also gave me these one of the kids wrote books about their experience growing up here. So they gave me some copies of those as well. So I’ll be added into the archive. This was deposited in the friends book sale and the friends brought it here it is at 96 soothing hear of the First Colorado regiment is got listings of everyone who was involved which includes a few launchers and there’s kind of cool ads for like cores and seeing the various wines so it’s it’s kind of a interesting old book these documents those veterans
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not exactly sure why they published this or where they handed it out but soon
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let’s see another loose little one off donation. This was actually kind of cool ones and really starting to look at it the very front so this is all hand drawn this owl and move like Holly and Ivy and inside it the first page says the selected by pupils in grade seven and eight Longmont, Colorado 1906. And so it is all kind of famous quotes. Let’s have Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Greenleaf Whittier that kind of you know, what’s Benjamin Franklin quotes. And but it has the name of the student that submitted it. So it’ll say like Abigail Allen’s, and then a little quote. Okay, this one is something that has been in the archive for a long time it came from the public library, I would like to add it to the Collect formally add it to the collection and give it a number and track it. It is an 1877, kind of oversize Atlas of this big filled with colored maps of Colorado. And each one shows kind of a different thing. I think the one that I took a picture of shows sort of like where the mining is, versus versus the coal versus the goal with dying. But gold and various things that you can mine. What is agricultural. So it’s, you know, just after the founding of lawn lawn to kind of get an idea of like, if you were an east coaster, you were kind of like aware to wetlands. So a similar way to I want to test it gives you an idea of the resources here in Colorado.
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This one is not on the sheet that went out,
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maybe let’s do a vote on all the ones. And then we can discuss this one separately. Purchase. Any other questions on any of the donations?
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Any reason to not want one of these or more than to be access?
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I think what I would say is it’s always good for the board to raise questions, because I will someday show you an example of something where the board should have raised a question. Previous curator car lost its hubcap on her front lawn. She brought it in and said well, we should have this to the collection. And it’s like it’s a random up calf. You don’t even know where it’s from. I was born I was like, oh, okay, fine. Great done. And so, you know, they’re not that I think we would do that. But you know, I think I would say it’s always worth just asking, Well, what’s what’s the significance of this long? And there have been a few times when the board has provided either before we can accept it, we need more information, or in a few cases. Yeah, this doesn’t really fit and after all, I like to not take it so but if there aren’t, are questions about that.
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Now we don’t have any Diaz sessions or things to get rid of from the museum and this this meeting, but this Board also approved that. Say we’re like, oh, we identify the hub campus and seeing that maybe we don’t want to be caring for in perpetuity. You guys are the ones that would have the final say of where we actually get rid of it. So it’s a little bit of like, okay, we don’t want to take anything that we’re you know, 10 years later, we’re gonna end up doing the opposite work.
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And we did just last month or last meeting.
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Eliminate a bunch of 1960s I think we’re sending them to New York or someplace
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things to me or
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more appropriate for them.
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I’ll move to acquire the sessions as presented.
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And then a vote on paper.
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So the next thing is a little different, it would be an addition to the collection, but we would be spending New Zealand to purchase it. Jared Thompson curator of exhibits, had has a connection with Miss artists, indigenous artist who has been doing a lot of work in the Denver area he had. This particular print was shown at History Colorado a few years. And in our art exhibit that they did an indigenous art exhibit. We would like to include more contemporary indigenous artwork in our history exhibit. And this is one that’s available for sale. I did find an artist statement about it. He often combines contemporary imagery with traditional indigenous imagery. portraiture complete this picture all
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speaking alongside of an art gallery. Right.
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So this will be a signed framed print, the cost is $800.
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It was the artists from this area.
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So a great deal is with Pyramid Lake Paiute. He was the guest curator for our duality exhibition, he lives in this area. Now I don’t know if he was born here. But definitely very representative of the, you know, sort of contemporary indigenous population in Colorado, which is no longer just one or two tribes, but it comes from tribes all across the country.
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So it does have a global
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connection and a local connection to the museum’s Yes, yes.
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See, we worked with him quite extensively he TOEFL this work was not in Exhibit, and we couldn’t afford to work for this museum gallery. But he selected all of the works that were in the exhibit at the museum last prison presentation. Candidate presentations is fan to the dead pioneers played in our auditorium. So yeah, he’s He’s quite a character. He also was actually the keynote speaker at there was a national museum conference held in Denver. Last year, he was one of the keynote speakers of that. So he’s got a lot of connections
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and complimentary collections, a couple of images.
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Not necessarily, this is kind of our first indigenous art work contemporary indigenous art that we’ve collected. But it is actually something that we identified when we develop the collections plan year and a half ago that one of the ways to tell indigenous story in a way that acknowledges that indigenous people are not just part of history, but also contemporary, which is something that a lot of indigenous folks raises. This is a constant issue for them as Oh, well. You still live in a teepee. Right? You still ride a horse? No, no modern person just like you. I have a cell phone is by collecting contemporary indigenous art rather than 19th century indigenous or
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so something you would envision as part of the remake of farming grazing?
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Yeah. So originally when we first started the conversation, and we didn’t know how quickly we were going to be redoing frontline driving. It was envisioned as replacing there’s a couple of artworks in Front Range rising our court history exhibit that were done by an artist who is slated to go on trial for sexual assault. That’s the other piece and so we really, really don’t want to have this art in our in our gallery any longer. That since that exhibit is actually probably coming down next year as part of the renovation of the museum we not sure whether we will have time to get this and get scan, get the new one produced in time to get into that before that All exhibit goes away. But we still felt like having this van as a kind of resume thing that we could put into the next iteration.
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So this would be on display at some point. So
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that’s certainly our art. We don’t have anything right now. Or we can say yes, it’s definitely going to be.
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Eric has this is a new collecting area that you intend to pursue,
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I think, you know, within pretty limited resources that we have to collect. Our there was a beautiful piece that was in the agriculture exhibit that was by another Indigenous artists, Sara sense that combined maps from the museum’s collection with native images of native plants. This would be amazing. And it was $80,000.
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Potential
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fundraising. So yeah, certainly, once we get past the capital campaign, we’re able to, you know, fundraise for other other things.
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If you’re saying how we’re opening up this new initiative, to collect Native American art region, use as your platform to fundraise might be a very good book for people to think about.
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I will add that a lot of museums are doing this kind of combination of pairing contemporary art with older objects of tribes. So if you go to the Denver Art Museum, you go to their new indigenous art galleries, they’ve done that throughout the entire exhibit, I also went to the Buffalo Bill Center for the West. And they also did did it maybe a little bit on a smaller scale. So they’ll talk about the tribes but every you know, 20 feet would be a contemporary art piece interpreting what has it what is in the gallery, someone whose
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question, we are a sister city. And don’t do we have anything from the reservation, you know, any, any artists who were there, or
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we we have been trying to build those connections, there is a beautiful quilts and the civic center that’s kind of museum at least keeps an eye on it. It’s not officially in our collection, because it was donated directly to the city rather than to the but. But that’s another area where we would love to.
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I know I can speak for a little bit, but the sister cities, you know, a lot of the work that we’ve been doing is building trust. Right? So you know, there was a lot of damage done historically, and a lot of distrust. So even once we signed and it was during my term when we signed the the coalition between the Northern Arapaho and city of Longmont that was fairly new, and there was a lot of preparation and building trust and repairing just just past damage. And so that was years in the making. And then we’re here, you know, where we’re at today. And I think there is interest, I’ve gotten a couple of times for visits. And it seems in when we meet with the elders, there is interest, but I think it’s going to take time, and we’re really looking for a kind of organic flow where kind of, you know, focus on the art realm in that area will kind of lead the way and you know, what, what would you be open to as far as any kind of inner city community art opportunity? So it’s working, we’re working on it. But I think, you know, we used with the youth going over there, then next month, their use will be coming to us. And yeah, that’s something huge for a longest time, they would not share their children with us. So being able to, to do that. So that’s, you know, we’ve come a long way. So I think, you know, as we continue these, building those friendships, we’re hoping to kind of move to the next level. Not there yet, but we’re getting there. Well, it makes me wonder acquiring images like this from Digi Miss artists, your phone call, right help.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Yes. Can we can you kind of photographic or any stories or press on, you know,
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all the talk to coordinate from Sister Cities and her she’s spearheading and or ending the organization. And then I just show up when she tells him to show up.
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Because I remember years ago, we did some really good stuff on, you know, talking about various problems. Duality. Yes. Listen, I wanted more. I really think we need to keep the conversation going. Oh, yeah. And bringing in things like this would be great. Yeah, you’re having the kids talk about their experience.
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Are there any other questions on the succession? Anyone like to move to accept the succession?
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Is there a second?
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All second? Favorite is
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great. I will also give one update that you may remember a few meetings ago, we voted to accept the mural in the 1990s. And Mecca, and I did a oral history with the program director at the time and she got all kinds of scrapbooks. So that may be something that we’ll be adding later, but it will be shown at the end of the day. And we’re looking at doing getting as many of the students that worked on a nice together
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to sort of like a kind of
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winging it and be a part of our our day to day exhibit. So Anna’s really been handing that option. Really great.
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Have you heard from me? No, I
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have not been able to get that all. real connection within reach out. I haven’t seen it. They said contact me via Instagram.
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Ready to move on to
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two months worth of report since we did not meet last month. Just touch on a few things from from May June. I mentioned in the a June report that I was headed to the history Leadership Institute in Indianapolis. And that was an amazing experience. Two weeks with a cohort of 19 people and speakers from museums around the country. Talking about not not the nuts and bolts of how you do a budget. But how does your budget reflect your values? Not like how to build an exhibit. But how do you do an exhibit that expresses hard and difficult issues. It was a wonderful presentation from the director at the Lincoln’s cottage, which is a small museum in Washington, DC, where Abraham and Mary Lincoln went in the summers. And one of the things one of the Summers was when they were mourning the death of their son. And the director was saying how when she was working there, she actually lost a child. And she started thinking about we should do an exhibit talking about grief and child loss. And it’s just an incredible experience. But I’m very small space, it’s about the size of this room. But there’s this beautiful weeping willow where you can write you know the name of someone that you’ve lost and hang it on the tree and, and just you know, people have conversations about grief and how that is museum setting. So, you know, just just people taking museums kind of to a next level. So it’s it was it was a great experience. And it’s one that I’m going to continue to be working through and exploring with everyone about you know, how can we really be exploring and living our values so I was really honored to be chosen for it. And really pleased to be able to go and thankful for the staff for filling In two weeks mentioned the Lego exhibition has been hugely successful production first has been really steady pretty great
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probably talking about from the May June report a little while ago moving on to June July 1 item on there is that we are continuing to move forward with design for the next phase of the museum expansion. So, and see the courtyard is very close to being done. Every every month I feel like I’m saying it’s just a little bit closer, we’ve had a few supply chain issues that have held up getting finally done, but we shouldn’t be it shouldn’t be ready for operation hopefully by next week.
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And then who some last enhancements that’ll come in in August. But then the phase two which is our gallery expansion that
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we submitted to the city’s Design Review Committee it’s kind of been going back and forth a little more than we had hoped in terms of getting some issues resolved primarily around plans for the drainage of this campus and are now 25 years old almost and we hoped we could just update our little corner of it but planning is necessarily do a fuller update so so that’s the late things but we are continuing
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to do environmental studies
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no not luckily not in environmental impacts it’s basically just that the the original plan said Well there isn’t really going to be any development around the museum and around the campus and we know now 25 years later there will be those development to our west and will be some some sort of more park development tour and more so because we’re the first ones developing said you need to figure out how to make all that work.
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That is also somebody you have to start from scratch
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so me luckily just just on kind of some of the drainage issues and very talented civil engineer that’s already working on it so probably hopefully a month to six week delay process which is news I got today. Of
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course I’m just gonna be truthful one is has is has planned to develop along 27 year that
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is there is a developer that project has actually been in the works now for 17 years
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so it’s basically a shopping center so
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so another 17 years
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get Trader Joe’s are some could have
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been trying to get traded to us and when Lucky’s closed down, they were looking to town Sophia traded just one of the things I read was that they have won so close, I think
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there’s a boulder
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and they don’t they didn’t they felt there was too much to put in but we definitely needed a grocery store.
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Anyway, that project is it’s up to the developer, they will move forward when when they feel it’s right. So
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it’s a waste hopefully,
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but So, that is that is but it is in process. So we are we are moving forward with with design review and continue on with with construction packages well. Then I really want to talk about the sunset soiree their cards there folks and those around feel free to take as many as this is our really inaugural fundraising events and it is focused on the capital campaign. September 7, it will be also the unveiling of the new courtyard. So we’ll have a ribbon cutting. For the courtyard, we’ll have a band that will be food, drinks, there’ll be a showcase of different things that the museums doing. Tickets are now live, you should all be getting one of these in the mail. But I would hope you all will mark your calendars and buy tickets now, because this is a really key event for us. And if you know of other folks that you think are museum supporters, and would enjoy coming to this event, please add the card to them. Let us know if you’ve got someone that you know has questions or tickets are being sold through support long not museum.org $100 A ticket. But that does include the dinner drinks, entertainment, and then there will be a part of reserve funds.
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So
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we’re in the midst of planning for that you can see it’s all throughout the directors report different people working on different aspects of it. So it’s really the next big push in our capital campaign. So very excited about both of unveiling our courtyard and taking the next step forward with a couple of questions on
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I know a while back, we were about 80 or 80. But
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we’re still around awards are at 6% is where we are now. There’s there’s one grant that we should hear about in August. It’s $20,000. Grant and forget that. 1% and this this fundraisers, we’re hoping to put a big tent and I
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have to apologize. I have to go back. Was it eight or 10 million though or 8.1
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million 8.1? Is our our campaign goal about one point
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from the board alone really
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right? Right.
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But no, I think this, this event will be a great chance to see what’s what’s going on, we’ll have renderings, updated renderings of plans, will have a video with folks talking about kind of how exam has impacted their lives. And I say the different departments within the museum will kind of be showcasing what what they are doing photo opportunities.
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Kind of weird questions. So to get exhibit space, we got this nice grief. So but how do you decide as museum director whether to go with something emotional and touching like that, or like a Lego exhibit? Oh,
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that is a great question. And I will say one of the things that we have really struggled with is because we have one gallery that changes. And so we have tended to look at what is an exhibit that is really going to be resonate with the most folks in Longmont. And so we do evaluation back and talk a little bit in this about something called a card. So we have a stack of exhibit ideas and we handed out we handed it out before the summer concerts. I mean, if people sort this in order by which one you’re most likely to come and visit the museum. That approach is, I think, something that we’ve had to do because we only have the one gallery but as we do an expansion as we have the possibility of a more flexible gallery space you can do multiple places we may be able to do the larger exhibit that and kind of draw in large numbers and then a smaller exhibit that’s more of perhaps an emotional impact or that has a really strong local connection, you know, highlights a local artist or an aspect of local history. Those are pieces that we’ve been able to do only infrequently because we have, we have revenue goals that we need to meet, like that. So I’m really hopeful with this expansion, that we will be able to do a little bit more of the more emotional exhibits the more complicated topic titled exhibits while still having, you know, exhibits that are bringing in folks from across the community and across the region, because that’s certainly a big part of our mission to is to make sure we are serving a broad swath of the community. So we do evaluations to choose things we look at what is available only proudly exhibits we’re typically having to choose three years or more out, because really good exhibits that are in our price range get reserved very quickly. So we are planning multiple years out for exhibits that we can bring in space. There’s a lot of constraints around that. But a lot of it just deals with what we really feel like the communities, President, our
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national exhibits organized, who does it.
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So there are companies that so for example, the picturing the West exhibit the exhibit we have before this was organized by a company called art, art, circulating exhibits. And they work with private collectors who have collections in this case, all of that came from one private collection. New York City collectors that actually have unbelievable photography collection as a third exhibit we’ve had from those particular collectors, but others actually develop the exhibit in house, and then travel it. And then there’s also some sort of museum consortiums that we’re just starting to explore where it’s almost like more of a loan network. And we work with a number of different museums that make artwork available for loan. And then they
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happen to so this is the art though is less expensive, they actually
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tend to be more expensive, because typically, original art, just the cost of creating and shipping. Sure things that aren’t, photography is pretty straightforward to create your ship. But once you get into sculpture, work on Canvas, it’s a lot more challenging. So for example, we’re looking at potentially, an MC Escher or an Andy Warhol exhibit open the expansion we have, those are between 75 and $100,000. To rent. So significantly more than what what we are paying now, which is typically a $30,000 range. That’s for three months. Yeah, it’s definitely expansion, we’re kind of into a new level of what we’re going to need to know.
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How much is the city give you for for the traveling,
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traveling exhibits in our budget as about 25,000 a year for the rental of the exhibit. And then we have staff and so forth. So that’s why we’ve done a lot more in house developed exhibits.
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Very much Kansas City doubling.
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We’re hearing from both of the departments.
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So I’ll just highlight a few more things in our directors and directors report. We are starting planning for 2026 which is the 200 and 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the 100 and 50th anniversary of Colorado statehood. And there is a America 250 car and a 150 commission that meets periodically and they’ll be meeting here in October. So we are starting planning in the coming months. I’m going to have the City Council approve a proclamation recognizing marriage to 15 Colorado 150 Well, you
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gotta pass that’s it.
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I have a board.
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So that’s that’s one of the things that’s going to be on that on the city council agenda incoming non citizen. I haven’t scheduled it yet. But the commission is encouraging all the communities in the area to do that as kind of a show of support. Summer Camp is actually this is our last week of summer camp. So we’ve had lots of kids coming in every day for the whole ride camps. It’s really fun to see them all Kellyanne, I know. Kelly.
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Lots of smiles on the way out the door today. Lots of kids, lots of kids have a great time here.
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And then, we’ve had two summer concerts out in the parks, one Willow Farm Park that was in between rainstorms. So not not as big a crowd as we might have hoped. But then an amazing crowd for Denver, Tyco and Kalyan Park last week, I believe 450 or so folks, and we’ve got one next week in car park, and North Central. So that will be Kooten Daraa, which is an African inspired to musical performance. Check it out. And then the final thing I just on page three of the directors report you can see in June of 2023, we had 1300 people come through our exhibits in June for the agriculture exhibit in June of 2024. For Legos, we have almost quadrupled simply for life. So it’s very, very successful.
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And I guess the gift shop sales are related to the Lego
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my friends and I just wanted
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like maybe you should bring it back once a week.
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So we will so the expansion will have a dedicated children’s calendaring. So we are hoping that it will essentially the museum won’t be Oh, when there’s a special exhibit, I’ll bring my children there will be I will bring my children there regularly because there will be always lots of activities for them to do and so we’re really excited about we anticipate a pretty significant increase in attendance once we opened at
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the Denver Art Museum and one of the things I was like with the fact that they had downstairs we could go in and they had things for kids to do you know and my daughter just came today with my grandson and She sounds like she really they really love to go
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is there any discussion about keeping her up since this was like an in house, we’ve we’ve definitely I’m keeping it for the children’s gallery.
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Probably not for the children’s gallery really want that to be kind of a fresh experience that’s this is designed to last six months ideally the children’s gallery is going to be built out of super durable materials so it will last longer and be happy. The basic concept is kind of dealing with dreams right now. So some really sort of fantastical landscapes. So it’s an exciting concept still in the early phases, but we may well bring back Lego or pieces of Lego. Yes, in our flex gallery or as filler if particularly as construction schedules flex we’re going to have part of Lego again we have a gallery available from the time so we’re still trying to figure out how to roll so possibly find out either travel that exhibit or sell it to another museum, which is what we did with the last Lego exhibit traveled to one other museum and then sold it so yeah, I think at least yeah
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thank you I don’t report
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they have any unfinished business.
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Any new business
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was our public Places any developments there. Um,
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they’ve got a lot of projects going there. They’re doing projects right now in two parks that are under under development as well as all of the sort of ongoing annual projects. Shark Ark where the shark art foxes that voting for those just closed last Friday and the art on the move that’s temporary artworks around town it was just installed new ones six weeks ago so yeah, I have a lot going on. Are
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you have any other board comments or questions? Anyone like move to adjourn the meeting
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all my favorite.
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Thank you all so much.