Nov. 2011: The MAC recently received two grants totaling $20,000 to aid in capacity building. Outside of grant awards, the MAC receives no city, county, state or federal funding. The MAC was awarded an $18,500 grant from the Benjamin N. Phillips Memorial Fund, which is administered through The Seattle Foundation, and a $1,500 grant from the Sequim Community Foundation. In being put toward capacity building and strengthening infrastructure, the grant funding will aid in improving the ability of the MAC organization to fulfill its mission of serving the community as a steward of area cultural heritage and providing history and art exhibits, events and educational programming toward that end.
Sept. 2011: The Dungeness Schoolhouse exterior repainting project is complete! CLICK HERE to read about the completed project, as published in the Sequim Gazette. Thank you to Pam Boyd and Northwest Inside Out Painting Inc. of Port Angeles, Savage Glass Services of Sequim, Rodda Paint in Sequim, and the many donors, supporters and volunteers who helped make this restorative project possible.
June 2011: The Dungeness Schoolhouse is currently undergoing a major exterior renovation! CLICK HERE to read about the project, and CLICK HERE to follow the progress on the MAC's Facebook page!
April 27, 2011: The MAC celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2011. Take a retrospective look at the past three decades of the MAC in this two-part series published in the Sequim Gazette! CLICK HERE for part 1 (published 04/20/2011) and HERE for part 2 (published 04/27/2011).
March 2011: The MAC has hired Lynn Elliott as its new MAC Exhibit Center manager. She succeeds former manager Terri Pugsley, who resigned from the part-time position, and will oversee the volunteer docents who staff the facility as well as manage volunteer recruitment.
Elliott, who has a strong customer service background and spent 17 years in banking, is also employed part-time as the administrative assistant of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce. She will maintain that position in addition to being the MAC Exhibit Center manager.
Jan. 13, 2011: The MAC Board of Trustees has selected DJ Bassett as Executive Director. He has been serving as Interim Executive Director since September 2010, and will be publicly introduced as Executive Director at the MAC's Annual Members' Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 15 at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Rd. in Sequim. He succeeds Katherine Vollenweider, who retired from the Executive Director position in July 2010. Click the following links to read local newspaper articles about the hiring: Sequim Gazette and Peninsula Daily News.
April 2010: The Institute for Museum & Library Services awarded the Museum & Arts Center a Conservation Project Support Grant for Textile Preservation. (Update: The MAC completed the terms of the IMLS grant in February 2011. This included holding a textile workshop for museum professionals at the MAC's DeWitt Administration Center in October 2010).
June 2011: The Dungeness Schoolhouse is currently undergoing a major exterior renovation! CLICK HERE to read about the project, and CLICK HERE to follow the progress on the MAC's Facebook page!
June 2011: The Dungeness Schoolhouse is currently undergoing a major exterior renovation! CLICK HERE to read about the project, and CLICK HERE to follow the progress on the MAC's Facebook page!
June 2011: The Dungeness Schoolhouse is currently undergoing a major exterior renovation! CLICK HERE to read about the project, and CLICK HERE to follow the progress on the MAC's Facebook page!
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