JCSM newsletter wins second consecutive AAM award

AUBURN, Ala.- The American Association of Museums has selected the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Newsletter as a winner in the 2009 American Association of Museums Museum Publications Design Competition.

The judges awarded the JCSM Newsletter an honorable mention in the 2009 competition. This is the second consecutive year that JCSM's newsletter has been recognized by AAM. In the 2008 competition the JCSM newsletter placed second.

According to AAM, more than 120 winners have been selected out of more than 700 entries. The AAM website says, “The competition, which acknowledges excellence in the graphic design of museum publications, is the only national, juried event involving publications produced by museums of all kinds and sizes.”

The American Association of Museums has been bringing museums together since 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and providing advocacy on issues of concern to the entire museum community. With more than 15,000 individual, 3,000 institutional and 300 corporate members, AAM is dedicated to ensuring that museums remain a vital part of the American landscape, connecting people with the greatest achievements of the human experience, past, present and future. For more information, visit www.aam-us.org.

Open since 2003, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University is Alabama’s only university art museum. Serving as the gateway into Auburn University, the museum is home to many pieces of culturally significant art. The collection includes more than 100 Audubon prints, a rare group of more than 40 Tibetan bronzes dating back from the 14th century and works by important American artists, such as Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe and Lyonel Feininger. For more information, visit www.jcsm.auburn.edu.

Contact: Colleen Bourdeau, 334-844-7075 or cbourdeau@auburn.edu