Annual report 2009 - Currier Museum of Art

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FROM TOP: Young visitors enjoy the Gear
Wall lent by the Children’s Museum for the
exhibition Building Books: The Art of David
Macaulay.
The Groove Cats perform live jazz, swing
and rock music on the museum’s front lawn
during a summer First Thursday program.
Visiting artist Richard Haynes works on a
collaborative mural during February School
Vacation Week at the Art Center.
The Currier also received one of the most important gifts
of photography in its history from Christian K. Keesee, who
gave thirty-five vintage photographs by Brett Weston, one of
the masters of the medium in the twentieth century. Varujan
Boghosian, a painter and sculptor who taught for many years
at Dartmouth College, gave the museum a major sculpture
entitled Titan’s Goblet in celebration of the life of David F.
Putnam of Keene. Mr. Putnam, who died in 2006, was a great
supporter of the New Hampshire cultural community and with
his wife, Rosamond, a lead donor to the museum’s recent capital
campaign.
Throughout the year, Board and staff shaped a Strategic Plan to
carry the museum through the next three years, by which time
we hope the economy will be on a more solid footing. The plan
greatly benefits from input from Advisory Council members, its
Guild of Volunteers, and several community groups from across
the state who gathered to share their perceptions of the Currier
and to contribute ideas to help make the museum a more visible
and widely used resource throughout the region. The plan’s eight
primary goals support the Currier’s on-going efforts to reach
more communities throughout the state, to raise the visibility of
its collections and programs across New England, to improve
the visitor experience, to build its art collections and programs
with its audiences foremost in mind, to strengthen all sources
of earned and contributed income, and to attract creative staff,
management and volunteer leadership to ensure a strong future
of community service.
Dear Members and Friends
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