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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Announces Resignation of Barbara Buhler Lynes, Longtime Curator and Emily Laundau Director of the Museum’s Research Center

Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) May 11, 2012

Barbara Buhler Lynes, widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe, resigned today after more than a decade as curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Emily Fisher Landau director of the Museum’s Research Center.

A pre-eminent O’Keeffe scholar, Dr. Lynes has been the driving force behind numerous exhibitions and helped to establish the international reputation for scholarship on O’Keeffe and on American Modernism. Dr. Lynes became the Museum’s first curator in 1999, two years after the Museum opened and shortly after the publication of the prize-winning Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, published by Yale University Press, a project of the National Gallery of Art and the now dissolved Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. The two-volume publication documents and authenticates O’Keeffe’s extensive body of work.

When the Museum opened its research center on American Modernism in 2001 – the first and only such center of its kind – she became its first director. During her 13 1/2-year tenure at the Museum, Dr. Lynes has curated or overseen more than 30 exhibitions of works by O’Keeffe and her contemporaries. These exhibitions include the first major traveling retrospective in Europe of O’Keeffe’s art, which opened last October in Rome, was on view in Munich for three months early this year, and opens in Helsinki in June.

She has also organized several symposia for the Research Center (on-line and in Santa Fe) on American Modernism that have attracted scholars from around the country. She established and has overseen the research center’s competitive scholarship program that brings up to six scholars to Santa Fe each year to spend up to three-to-twelve months as research fellows. In addition, during her tenure, she has authored numerous scholarly books and essays for exhibition catalogues, and has delivered frequent lectures on Georgia O’Keeffe and the world in which she painted.

“Barbara Lynes has made enormous contributions to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and to the art community at large during her years in Santa Fe,” said Anne Marion, founder and chairman of the board of the Museum. “The qualities of her scholarship and her innovative approach to research have enhanced the reputation of the O’Keeffe Museum throughout the country and around the world.”

“I have greatly enjoyed my affiliation with the Museum and leave with deep admiration for its director, board of directors, staff, and wonderful collections and with all best wishes for its future,” Lynes said. “Serving the museum has been an illuminating experience, and I look forward to pursuing new projects and opportunities.”

Before moving to Santa Fe, Dr. Lynes was Professor of Art History at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Montgomery College, Dartmouth College, and Vanderbilt University. Among other publications, she wrote “O’Keeffe, Stieglitz and the Critics, 1916-1929,” published by the University of Chicago Press in 1989.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM:

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is dedicated to the artistic legacy of Georgia O’Keeffe, to defining its ongoing significance, and to the study and interpretation of American Modernism, late 19th century to the present. The Museum’s collections, historic properties, exhibitions, Research Center, publications, and education programs contribute to scholarly discourse and inspire diverse audiences. Located in Santa Fe, NM, the Museum’s collections, exhibits, research center, publications and education programs contribute to scholarly discourse and serve diverse audiences. The largest single repository of the artist’s work in the world, it is the only museum in the world dedicated to an internationally known American woman artist and is the most visited art museum in New Mexico.

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ScholarshipExperts.com Launches New and Improved Scholarship Search Website

(PRWEB) August 03, 2011

ScholarshipExperts.com announced the re-launch of its website, making it even easier for students to find relevant scholarships. The new site, which continues to operate as a free service, provides students with different ways to find money for college including an improved scholarship search and matching service, student deals and student loan information. Scholarships worth over $ 14 billion are included in the ScholarshipExperts.com searchable database.

ScholarshipExperts.com was created to save students and parents time by allowing them to find scholarships that are tailored to the individual student. Students input their data into the ScholarshipExperts.com system and receive a list of scholarships for which they are qualified to apply. Students can find dozens of scholarships worth thousands of dollars that potentially match their academic backgrounds, hobbies, and interests.

Students can view customized lists of scholarships with more search options and a helpful e-organizer that gives users a location to view all potential funding options.

The ScholarshipExperts.com website now features a section exclusively for student deals and savings. The “deals” section is focused on discounted products and services students need for school, providing students with additional ways to save money on college related items. In addition to the deals, ScholarshipExperts.com also offers access to loan comparison tools and information about student loans to help students bridge the financial aid gap that many face after scholarship and grant funding is applied.

ScholarshipExperts.com was launched to help students manage the financial challenges of higher education. The site has been serving students and families since 2000.

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Meridia Audience Response to Sponsor the World Scholar’s Cup

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 31, 2010

Meridia Audience Response has partnered with the World Scholar’s Cup as a sponsor of the 2010 World Scholar’s Cup tournament season.

The World Scholar’s Cup is a global academic tournament program that brings together thousands of secondary school students (ages 12-19) from over 30 countries. Students work closely in teams of three and participate in four main events—the Scholar’s Challenge, Writing, Team Debate, and the Scholar’s Bowl. Students do more than compete: they form a community, explore a rich body of learning material, and discuss difficult issues related to each year’s central theme. The 2010 World Scholar’s Cup theme is “A World Divided”. Approximately fifteen regional rounds are held across the globe each spring and fall, leading into two global rounds hosted in the summer and winter by different countries.

Meridia, an industry leader in providing electronic polling devices and services for over 40 years, will furnish the audience response system to be used in the Scholar’s Bowl event in every World Scholar’s Cup tournament through December. The Scholar’s Bowl event features teams of three students collaborating to answer multiple choice challenges on subjects as diverse as literature, history, science, and the psychology of war. Teams enter their responses on a wireless keypad and race to score the most points. The responses are recorded and scored by computer software and results are displayed after each round of questions. Meridia is providing all equipment, including keypads and base unit receivers, in addition to the computer software that processes the results.

“Students found the Meridia clickers easy to use and completely reliable—even when one was accidentally thrown across the theater after a particularly tough question,” said Daniel Berdichevsky, founder and president of the World Scholar’s Cup, following the implementation of the Meridia system at the World Scholar’s Cup 2010 Singapore Round on Sunday, March 28.

The World Scholar’s Cup is a nonprofit organization that depends on corporate contributions and dedicated volunteers to make its program accessible to students of all backgrounds in all nations. More information about World Scholar’s Cup can be found at http://www.scholarscup.org, or by calling +1-818-716-2820, and about Meridia Audience Response at http://www.MeridiaARS.com, or by calling +1-610-260-6800.

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