The 麦克马伦艺术博物馆 at 电子游戏软件. (吉尔伯特)
麦克马伦艺术博物馆 director and Professor of 艺术 History 南希Netzer has been named the inaugural 罗伯特·L. 朱迪斯·T. 温斯顿 Director of the 麦克马伦艺术博物馆, through the generosity of 电子游戏软件 benefactors Robert ’60 and Judith 温斯顿.
“I want to thank Bob and Judy for the gift as well as their support of 电子游戏软件 and the McMullen Museum over many, 许多年,” said Provost and Dean of Faculties David 奎格利 at an April 30 event in celebration of the directorship. “The McMullen is a true jewel of 电子游戏软件 and a resource that enriches the entire campus community and the greater Boston cultural and arts scene. Endowing its directorship at this moment in time is a profoundly powerful statement of its international prominence as well as its vibrant importance, and an investment in our collective future.”
“Nancy doesn’t settle for average. Good is not good enough. It’s superior results she wants, and achieves. She’s a leader who does things highly ethically, with a touch of grace.”
Judy and Bob 温斯顿 with inaugural 温斯顿 Director of the McMullen Museum 南希Netzer (Gretchen Ertl)
在庆典上, held in the Cadigan 校友 Center, Robert 温斯顿 spoke passionately about McMullen exhibitions that had “a major impact on him”—including the groundbreaking “Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections"和"Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement”—and about the power of art to foster understanding among people of different backgrounds and beliefs. He also cited the admiration he and his wife have for Netzer.
“Nancy doesn’t settle for average. Good is not good enough. It’s superior results she wants, and achieves. She’s a leader who does things highly ethically, with a touch of grace," he said.
温斯顿 closed his remarks by wishing Netzer a “long, very successful reign.”
“The McMullen is a true jewel of 电子游戏软件 and a resource that enriches the entire campus community and the greater Boston cultural and arts scene. Endowing its directorship at this moment in time is a profoundly powerful statement of its international prominence as well as its vibrant importance, and an investment in our collective future.”
Netzer thanked the 温斯顿s for their vision and support, and said she was “deeply honored” to be the inaugural recipient of the directorship.
温斯顿的, 她说, “have done so much to ensure the potential for realization of the ideas we generate today, for harnessing our University’s unique potential to be a leader in museum pedagogy, investigative practice, 和演示. These goals harmonize with the University’s commitment to the search for truth, generation of knowledge, and education through an open exchange of ideas.
“The McMullen Museum shares in the 温斯顿s’ hope that if we present future generations of students with the best ideas and tools, those students will go on to put them in the service of a better future for all of us,”她说。.
奎格利, who praised Netzer’s “extraordinary body of work,” said “she has been the force guiding the imagining, 发展, and the growth of the McMullen since its opening in 1993.”
Since her arrival at 电子游戏软件 in 1990, Netzer has organized more than 70 major loan exhibitions with faculty curators from a variety of disciplines, overseen publication of more than 40 scholarly catalogues, and played a major role in the renovation of the McMullen Museum’s Brighton Campus venue. 除了, she teaches courses on European medieval art and the history and philosophy of museums, and her research—on the illuminated manuscripts and metalwork of Britain, 爱尔兰, and the Continent in the early medieval period and the reception and display of medieval art from the middle ages to the present—has resulted in a book as well as many articles and scholarly catalogues.
温斯顿的 "have done so much to ensure the potential for realization of the ideas we generate today, for harnessing our University’s unique potential to be a leader in museum pedagogy, investigative practice, 和演示."
The event featured a discussion with a panel of interdisciplinary BC faculty members who have collaborated on multiple projects at the McMullen Museum.
除了 to the McMullen directorship, the 温斯顿s have been benefactors to many areas of the University over the years, including endowing the 温斯顿 Center for Leadership and Ethics in the Carroll School of Management and supporting the division of University Mission and Ministry. They also have established scholarships at Saint Columbkille Partnership School.
Rosanne Pellegrini | University Communications | May 2019