Assistant Registrar
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Secured loans for exhibitions and non-exhibition purposes. Involved corresponding with lenders, institutionally and privately, locally and nationally, to secure their confidence in the Museum for the safety of their art.Collaborated with acquisitions which entailed working closely with private collectors, building relationships for future donations, and ensuring their happiness and trust in the Museum to continue the on-going care of their collection.Reinstituted the Abandoned Property project to research past lenders and worked on locating heirs to return art or to secure a future gift.Developed and implemented the Object Survey project to understand what currently in the collection could be deaccessioned or to discover gaps to promote accessioning.