“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."
Horowitz, S. (1983). Reader's Digest, (November), p. 109.
The North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM) Association® now has 945 individual institutions, each with it's own mission and community. Each NARM member institution offers a new and different world of discovery for its members and visitors alike. Each is also a part of a whole as a member of the NARM Association which makes us a wonderful mosaic of art museums and galleries, historical museums and societies, botanical gardens, children's museums, and zoos.
NARM is a community of institutions that have come together to create additional value and sense of membership for each institutions members. As a community, we also reach out to help each other when our members may need help. The devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf Coast area and Irma throughout Florida, Georgia and South Carolina has impacted many of our member institutions and NARM institutions have reached out to assist those who may be in need. In an effort to help in the Houston area we are spreading the word about an arts assistance effort set up directly affecting the arts:
Brenda Gausch, Director of Philanthropy at the University of Houston writes:
"All of us who work in this industry understand the importance of our cultural institutions, performers and artists – and everyone in Houston will experience an additional loss if this community does not recover or departs our city.
Information on the Harvey Arts Recovery Fund can be found here:
www.harveyartsrecovery.org
They are working to support the disaster recovery needs of the Greater Houston arts, culture, and creative community in the 10-county region of Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, Galveston, Liberty, Waller, Chambers, Austin and San Jacinto."
I hope you will contact me if there is any assistance the NARM community may be able to provide or if there is a message you need to get out to other institutions.
Virginia Phillippi
Executive Director
Cover: Mosaic glass window panel, lobby of the South Carolina State House (detail). Photo ©North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM) Association®
"Inset in the outside facade of the Main Lobby are three extremely rare stained glass windows. The windows were made in Baltimore by a friend of John Niernsee, first and principal architect of the South Carolina State House." Knowitall.org, ©SC ETV Commission