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5 February, 2007 1 - hit "Reply" to respond to this email, and in
the message window simply write "yes" and the correct spelling of your full
name(s), then send it back to Keep Mac Alive!
2- please forward this email with the same
instructions to your friends and colleagues -- for them to add their names to
the letter, they will need to send the "yes" message with correct spelling of
their name(s) back to this e-mail or to
by 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 6th.
An
Open Letter to Miami Art Museum
February 5, 2007
To: Board of Trustees 2005-2006, Miami Art
Museum (MAM) c/o Terence Riley, Director, Miami Art
Museum (MAM) We, the undersigned, having been made aware through recent news
reports of the merger of Miami Art Museum (MAM) and Miami Art Central (MAC),
would like to bring to the attention of MAM’s Trustees the level of appreciation
we share for the outstanding quality and scope of MAC’s achievements and
contributions to our community since its founding in 2003. At the same time, we would like to express our deep concern over
the prospect that the internationally distinguished exhibitions and programs
developed at MAC may be compromised as a result of the merger of the two
institutions. Our community has benefited enormously from the scope and quality
of MAC’s acclaimed exhibitions and educational programs, the product of the
creativity and hard work of its Executive Director and Chief Curator Rina
Carvajal and her talented staff, with the generosity of MAC’s founder, Ella
Fontanals Cisneros. Over the past three years, the program at MAC has consistently
been at the forefront of art museums in Miami and, with the end of exhibitions
and related programming at MAC’s Red Road facilities scheduled for late-April,
we foresee a serious vacuum that could undermine our city’s reputation as a
burgeoning center for the visual arts. Since it has now been made clear that “MAC is MAM,” we are
directing ourselves to you as the custodians of MAC in the hope that you will
act to ensure that MAC and its legacy are kept alive and that its world-class
exhibition program be continued and fostered under the auspices of MAM, to the
benefit of our community and the credit of your
institution. Signatures: (to be affixed here)
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