We are proud to announce that the Georgia Museum of Art was recognized by the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) for outstanding work with eight awards at the annual SEMC meeting last weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. Museum staff are instrumental to the success and overall mission of the museum and we are delighted to celebrate this year’s 2023 SEMC awards and the people behind them.
Mallory Lind, the new assistant curator of education, was once a student intern in the museum’s education department. She’s even working in the exact same cubicle she occupied during her internship.
After an extensive national search, David Odo was named the new director of the Georgia Museum of Art earlier this year. Coming to the museum from Harvard Art Museums, where he was director of academic and public programs, division head and research curator, Odo made a name for himself by leading numerous initiatives that connected departments and schools across the university with the museums. Odo is a visual and material anthropologist, an expert on 19th-century Japanese photography, and has published and lectured widely on that subject and museum pedagogy. His research and teaching interests are in the anthropology of art, the body in art and material culture and the intersections of art and medicine. He has a wealth of experience in research, teaching and museum leadership roles.
What does he bring to the table as our new director? Odo started his new position at the museum earlier this week and we sat down with him to get to know a little bit more about him and his plans for the museum.
Our staff enjoy mentoring and getting to know student interns each semester and today we’d like to acknowledge how appreciative we are of the work that our 2022-2023 interns have done at the museum. To that end, in a show of appreciation, our staff have written about each intern and how their work has contributed to the museum this year.
Adam Clark has joined the museum staff as the Museum Shop manager. The shop, which opened in 1989, has an incredible selection art-related items that let visitors take a piece of the museum home or share their experience with a loved one. As the shop manager, Clark is a vital part of visitor experience at the museum.
A few weeks ago, the Athens CVB presented the Louis Griffith Hospitality Leadership Award, honoring an outstanding individual who displays foresight and exceptional leadership skills to impact the Athens-Clarke County hospitality industry, to William “Bill” Eiland, our director.
Our wonderful curators, Shawnya L. Harris and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, have each contributed video discussions of some of the museum’s most notable pieces to the educational website Smarthistory.
Annelies Mondi says that, in some ways, she came in the back door of the Georgia Museum of Art, but after 34+ years of service she’s made an undeniable impact. She retired at the end of May after working in many different departments at the museum and with countless people across campus.
