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2009 Cultural Leadership Summit
Advancing Our Cultural Imprint in Alabama:
A Conversation on Increasing Awareness and Building Effective Advocates for the Arts and Humanities in Our Great State
June 25, 2009 | Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art |
The program for this year's cultural summit will focus on the important role of the arts, history, and culture in generating a desirable quality of life in Alabama. The goal will be to explore how we can come together to support and showcase our crucial significance to economic development, improvement of human resources, and overall enrichment of the lives of the citizens of this state.
Lunch seats are Sold Out!
Summit price reduced to $10.
On site registration only. Checks only - no credit cards.
Hosted by:
Alabama Museums Association, Alabama Humanities Foundation, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University
Event Schedule:
| 9:00 - 9:45 am: |
Arrival (refreshments served) |
| 10:00 am: |
Welcome by Anne-Katrin Gramberg, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University
Opening Address by Charles D. McCrary, President and CEO of Alabama Power Company |
| 11:00 - 12:15 pm |
Panel Discussion |
| 12:15 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
Panel Participants:
| Gail Andrews, |
Director, Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham |
| Ed Bridges, |
Director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery |
| T.C. Coley, |
Director of the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center, Tuskegee |
| Al Head, |
Executive Director, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery |
| Bob Stewart, |
Director, Alabama Humanities Foundation, Tuscaloosa |
| Shirley Spears, |
Director of the Comer Library, Sylacauga |
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| Moderator: |
Marilyn Laufer, Director of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Auburn |
Irene Rice Pereira 1907-1971
Composition 1945
ink and gouache on paper
Collection of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn
University
Advancing American Art Collection
1948.1.28
