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| Q&A OPEN MIND Newly installed as the Executive Director of the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, LEANN STANDISH checked in recently for a wide-ranging conversation. Here is some of what she had to say… Tell us, Leann, where are you from? Okay, sure. I’m from the Midwest. I was born in Indianapolis and grew up in that region. Most of my family still lives back there. My folks are in Michigan and I visit there several times a year. My father worked for Volkswagen of America and Audi, so we moved around that area a lot. I was a real troublemaker. My first car was a Volkswagen Beetle, stick shift. I was the first of my friends to get my license. So we’d pile into my Bug, way too many of us, much more than was appropriate. It was kind of like a clown car. We’d drive around in the winter. If I lost control and slid over the ice, we’d all pile out, pick it up, and put it back on the road. What were you like as a kid? It was a very innocent childhood. I was mostly always getting myself in trouble for talking. And I was always up for something different or a new experience. So I don’t know. I wasn’t really a troublemaker. When I reflect on it, I realize, “Oh, I wasn’t really in any kind of trouble.” But at the time I was very disruptive. I was the oldest of four kids and I required a lot of attention. I was terrible at sports. I was on a softball team for a minute, and I remember sitting on the bench and painting my teammates’ fingernails. I was active in choir and in theater, I was an exceptional shower and car singer, and occasionally I joined actual singing groups. What came next? I went to South Bend to Notre Dame. I was a terrible student, so I ran away to California before I finished. I had never traveled anywhere ever and was sure that I was going to live on the beach. I had no idea what Fresno was. Didn’t realize there was no surfing there. I got a job in a lab analyzing soil and stuff. I hated it, hated it, hated it, and was miserable. And just on a whim, I took a job as an assistant in a museum. It was the most perfect career for me. It was a tiny, little museum. Everything just clicked and I fell in love with it. I found my calling. From there, I went to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, then I moved to Portland to work at the Oregon Museum of Science & History. But I was really missing my family, so I took a job at Fredrick Meyer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is a pretty extraordinary place. It’s remarkable and noteworthy because it’s a small community that has a huge arts support system. Then, it was full circle, back to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. And then you made a stop in Miami, correct? Yes, that’s right. It was a freezing cold day in February when I got a call from Florida asking if I’d like to work at the Miami Art Museum. I was like, “Yes! Get me out of here! It’s so cold!” Anyway, as it turns out, a small group of us built a brand-new museum there. Still, to this day, it’s the thing I’m very most proud of. And, while I was there, I had this dream, a vision, of advertising on all the taxi tops—this was before Uber, gosh it sounds like I’m so old, this was not that long ago—so everyone coming out of the airport would know about the new museum. So, around this same time, I met this guy at one of our fundraising events, and I noticed he was liking everything I’d post on social media. They call that “deep liking,” by the way. So, one day, he sent me a message and said, “Are you interested in advertising on taxi tops?” And I was like, “Yes, I love you! And, by the way, who are you? And why are you on my page?” [laughter] It was cute. Turns out, he was in advertising, and he was from Fresno originally, and he made the taxicab thing actually happen. He had the goods. We’ve been together ever since. He’s my person. Okay, but why museums? I think that museums have opened my mind. And I’ve watched other people experience that same sort of thing. A work of art can change you, or speak to you deeply, or challenge you, or make you angry, but it makes you feel. And it makes your world bigger. So, when we moved here, right away I thought to myself, “One day I will run SLOMA. I really want to.” I did. I think back now to when I was a young person in the field. One of my mentors talked about how museums so often feel like a stuffy, formal existence. He compared it to when your grandmother had that living room furniture you weren’t actually allowed to sit on. And you had to take your shoes off to go into the formal living room and all of that. He said he wanted his museum to be like the rec room where you eat popcorn and crawled all over the couches and stayed there for hours and hours and were able to be yourself. I have always dreamed of each museum that I worked with as being the place where you just really relaxed into yourself and discovered a bigger world. SLO LIFE 32 | SLO LIFE MAGAZINE | OCT/NOV 2020
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