“Connection: Land, Water, Sky—Art & Music from Indigenous Australians,” which runs through February, also features eight eucalyptus bark paintings from the museum’s collection that have never been on display.
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The Newfields annual meeting also included highlights of the upcoming year’s events and additions, which includes new programming for the popular Lume exhibition space.
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Ernest Gause says the art museum and gardens fired him after he repeatedly told CEOs things about discriminatory business practices within the organization they didn’t want to hear.
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Le Monte Booker, CFO of Chicago’s Field Museum, will succeed Colette Pierce Burnette in the role of Newfields CEO and president, officials announced Monday.
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Ernest Gause, who was hired as Newfields’ vice president of human resources in 2022, claims he was retaliated against after he repeatedly approached CEOs about discriminatory business practices.
Le Monte Booker, former chief financial officer of Chicago’s iconic Field Museum, is now supervising 300 Newfields employees, interns and fellows.
Le Monte Booker, chief financial officer of Chicago’s Field Museum, was announced in August as successor to Colette Pierce Burnette in the role of Newfields CEO and president.
Visitors to “Future Now” will have the chance to walk a red carpet and record a short video of their own shoes.
Agha, an Indianapolis-based installation artist, won the 2014 ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and her work was featured in the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Martin University President Sean Huddleston was one of six Newfields board of trustees members to step down in the weeks before and after the organization announced Burnette’s abrupt exit.
Sean Huddleston, president of Martin University, resigned from the Newfields board of trustees on Nov. 20.
Visit Indy executive Chris Gahl said the Newfields board of trustees has a poor track record of communicating with the board of governors.
The board said “there is no change in our strategy, mission and values” but it provided no additional details about Colette Pierce Burnette’s departure.
Adrienne Sims, IU Health’s chief human resources officer since 2022, resigned from the Newfields board, The Indianapolis Recorder reported.
The unexplained resignations of two prominent board members join a list of unknowns hovering above recent changes at Newfields art museum and gardens.
Leaders of Indiana Black Expo Inc. and the Indianapolis Urban league said the community is owed more information about the circumstances surrounding the CEO’s departure.
Colette Pierce Burnette was hired in mid-2022 to help ease a race-related controversy that involved her predecessor. A press release issued Friday by Newfields gave no reason for her departure.
Newfields, which is home to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, will be presenting sponsor for the 2024 Indiana State Fair.
The announcement completes a hiring process that lasted nearly four years and sparked historic changes at Newfields art museum and gardens.
The Dali exhibition and a Van Gogh encore were announced during the annual meeting for the 140-year-old museum.
Kathryn Haigh will succeed John Vanausdall as president and CEO of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.
A $3 million gift from life science entrepreneur Kent Hawryluk is spurring the addition of the sculptures at the park known as 100 Acres.
Colette Pierce Burnette sees her hiring as the new president and CEO of Newfields as an example of the difference between equality and the more modern progress toward equity, or the practice of providing fair access and opportunities.
In 2015, Newfields ended its free admission policy by instituting an $18 fee. On July 1, that price will increase to $20 per visitor.
