Blanche Lazzell is one of West Virginia's most internationally renowned artists, world famous for her modernist white-line woodcuts inspired by Cubism and abstraction.The Huntington Museum of Art
HUNTINGTON â The Huntington Museum of Art is raising funds for the 2021 Open Door Membership Campaign, which is chaired by Dr. Peter Chirico. The goal of the campaign is to raise $335,000, which represents a significant portion of the funds HMA needs in Fiscal Year 2021 to support the operating budget. The campaign continues through June 30. Memberships start at $25 per year.
Amount raised through May 20, 2021: $273,602 or about 82% of the goal.
To support the Open Door Membership Campaign, call HMA Development Officer Rebecca Stephens at 304-529-2701, ext. 327, or visit www.hmoa.org. HMA is fully accessible.
Although no sector of American life was left completely unmarred by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, many museums (both large and small) found themselves in particularly difficult situations that many are just now beginning to recover from. Financial distress came from all sides for these organizations, regardless of how impressive their collections were; how much they engage with the communities they serve; or how carefully they had planned their 2020 budgets.
According to a report compiled by The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies Nonprofit Economic Data Project, the nonprofit arts, entertainment, and recreation sector that museums are classified within lost more than 36 percent of its jobs between February and December 2020 – and being that this sector has employed the third largest workforce in the nation since 2017, the toll was enormous.
The pandemic affected us all in varied ways. One 87-year-old woman spent almost all of it completely alone, whittling. "I don t know what I would have done without my carving," Minnie Adkins says.
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