Your Gifts at Work

Leadership – Nannette V. Maciejunes – Executive Director since 2003

Lifelong Learning - Education Programming

School tour programs served nearly 14,000 students from 19 counties, including providing tours to all Columbus City Schools fifth-grade students
Outreach for families, Museum on the Move, reached nearly 4,800 people through Columbus Public Library, Columbus Arts Festival, Red, White and Boom, CSO Popcorn Pops, New Albany Classic, and the Homeless Family Foundation
Monthly student exhibitions in Nationwide Studio juried by CMA docents, encourages students to have pride in their art
Introduced emerging school programs taking the Museum into schools and vice versa, incorporating technology, photography, and creative play so that students are comfortable with the Museum
Family programs reach more than 5,300 through Family Sundays, Doodles, 1st Saturdays, WOW Art, and Summer Art Workshops
Adult lectures built around exhibitions now often include video of the artist at work

Exhibition Diversity

The Museum's permanent collection includes more than 10,500 pieces with strengths in American and European Modernism, from Monet to Hopper. Photography, folk art, and an emerging contemporary collection are other strengths
Numerous renowned works are in demand and are lent on a regular basis to museums throughout the world
Successful Great Masters Series: Renoir's Women (2005), Degas Landscapes (2006), and In Monet's Garden (2007) establishing international partnerships with the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
American social commentary works from the Schiller collection is basis for annual collaboration with OSU for major symposium and adult lecture series
Eye Spy: Adventures in Art opened in 2006 highlighting Columbus' own George Bellows
Grounds laid for an interactive Aminah Robinson Center, celebrating a local treasure

Museum Firsts and Notable Attention

First Ohio art museum to introduce cell phone tours
Integration of learning spaces in major CMA exhibitions becomes standard practice
Art Forum front-page coverage of Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s
3 mentions in the New York Times in 2006
Coverage of Kehinde Wiley and his exclusive CMA exhibition on The Today Show (NBC)

Patron and External Relations

Kicked off of public ART MATTERS campaign to improve facilities for visitor experience and increase supporting endowment
Nearly 200,000 patrons enjoy Museum annually
New brand positioning( logo, tagline, voice) connecting art and people
Membership retention above Museum standards and totals 7500
Consistently ranked in top 5 volunteer corps of nation's museums
Art Ball anticipates 700 community members involvement

Membership, Budget, Staffing, and Governance