Matthew Mclendon, Phd Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

• Oversee museum operations: manage the conservation, preservation, documentation, exhibition, and accessibility of the museum• Manage museum executive staff• Plan and manage operational budgets by analyzing staffing, facility, exhibition and program needs and projected revenue and expenses• Represent museum to advisory board • Oversee acquisitions to the museum collection• Direct involvement in any and all capital campaigns and development events • Operate as chief spokesperson for museum, engaging with community, faculty, University administration, and professionals in the art world• Foster relationships with University staff and community members, and supervise the museum's professional staff• Identify and leverage opportunities to foster and enhance an environment in which the largest possible share of the museum's diverse constituencies, including members of the University community and the public, can study and learn from the direct experience of works of art• Enhance collections and create programs that will engage the entire academic enterprise, providing a compelling public arts program• Shape UVA's Strategy of the Arts in concert with the Vice Provost for the Arts • Secure funding (internal and external) for planned expansions, facilities, exhibitions, collections, conservation and programming

Sarasota, Florida Area

• Responsible for the establishment, planning, programming, and implementing of the Art of Our Time initiative: a broad initiative incorporating all contemporary visual and performing arts at The Ringling• Managing exhibition project teams of 5-10 people with budgets between $10,000 and $250,000 ensuring on-time and on-budget completion• Engaging in a wide range of donor cultivation activities working closely with the Development Department and Board of Directors• Advising on acquisitions and negotiating loans• Overseeing Curatorial Interns and Fellows• Committee Participation including hiring, budgeting, and strategic planning committees• Responsible for a collection of over 9,000 objects, of all media, ranging in date from 1850-present day• Curating scholarly exhibitions; coordinating package shows; developing rotating permanent collection galleries all within strict budgetary guidelines• Conceiving and writing interpretive material to accompany exhibitions• Conducting permanent collection research• Collaborating with Education and Programming Departments to develop ancillary programming in support of exhibitions and the museum’s mission• Teaching graduate Art History seminars for Florida State University

Sarasota

Teaching Visual Culture Theory

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Teach graduate seminars as part of the development of contemporary art exhibitions at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

• Assisted the Director with the formation of educational outreach programs and inter-disciplinary teaching• Oversaw education programming for the collegiate and adult audience; liaised between the faculty and students of Rollins College (as well as the collegiate audience of the Central Florida area) and the museum facilitating the use of the permanent collection and special exhibitions in interdisciplinary learning; faculty appointment• Curated intellectually robust exhibitions which served the interdisciplinary mission of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum • Liaised with major galleries, artists, and private collectors• Advised on acquisitions and negotiated loans• Engaged in a wide range of donor cultivation activities• Conceived and wrote interpretive material to accompany exhibitions; conducted permanent collection research• Grant writing

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the public programming surrounding the 2002 Turner Prize, awarded to Keith Tyson, including nationally advertised gallery talks, artist talks, and a panel discussion• Managed pre-existing public events working to strict budgetary guidelines and income-generating targets

Phd, History Of Art, Modern European

PhD Dissertation: L’arte di far manifesti: The Evolution of the Italian Futurist Manifesto 1909-1915

Ma, History Of Art, Modern European

MA Thesis: Man of War: The Construction of a Reverse-Discourse Masculinity within the War Works of Wyndham Lewis

Ba, Art History, Magna Cum Laude

Ba, Music, Magna Cum Laude