The Board of Trustees of the Academy Art Museum in Easton recently honored both newly appointed and retiring trustees. The Museum thanked retiring Trustees, who contributed greatly to the Museum’s growth over the past several years. These distinguished Trustees include: Vickie Wilson, Anna Fichtner, Tom Collier, former Chairman of the Board Dick Bodorff; former Treasurer Dirck Bartlett, and former Chairman of Permanent Collections Elinor Farquhar.
From left to right are retiring members of the Academy Art Museum’s Board of Trustees: Dick Bodorff, Elinor Farquhar, and Dirck Bartlett. (Photo by Annie Raymond)
“What a great pleasure it has been working with these retiring Trustees whose immense contributions to the Academy Art Museum, over a combined 33 years, will be felt long into the future of the Museum. They leave a great void, but it will be filled by a strong and capable group of five new Trustees who bring a new and energetic perspective and leadership to the Museum during this critical time of transition.” Kay Perkins AAM Board Chairman.
The Museum welcomed the following new Trustees. Katherine Allen, a fiber artist familiar to the Museum as an exhibitor, graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA and received a MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Allen has worked as a graphic designer, as Assistant Curator and Exhibition Assistant at the Cranbrook School, as Curator at the Broward Art Guild, and as instructor at the Posnack Center in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
From left to right are members of the Academy Art Museum’s Board of Trustees: Vice Chairman Al Sikes; new Trustees Mo Herbert, Katherine Allen, Jocelyn Eysymontt, and Brendan O’Neill; Chairman Kay Perkins; and Treasurer Bob Lonergan. Missing are new Trustee Nancy Powell and Board Secretary Carolyn Williams. . (Photo by Annie Raymond)
Jocelyn Eysymontt, a graduate of Brown University, has worked overseas for the CIA, as a translator in Germany, as Director of the Visitors Service Center in Washington, DC, as Assistant to the Director of Policy Analysis at the Atomic Energy Commission, and as staff assistant to the Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel at the White House. Since moving with her family to St. Michaels in 1996, she has served on the Boards of the Talbot Hospice Foundation (including as President) as well as the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Maureen (Mo) Herbert graduated from the University of MD with a degree in History/Art History. Her work experience has included serving as Coordinator of Tours at the American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and as Curatorial Assistant in the Print Room of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. While living overseas in Bangladesh, she founded a landscape design and installation company. After moving to Whitman, MD, with her husband, she has served on the Village Center Board, and on the Board of the St. Michaels Museum at St. Mary’s Square.
Brendan O’Neill, Sr. graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in economics. Having worked in Urban Renewal planning and in mortgage banking with the Rouse Company, he founded and continues to operate, with his son and son-in-law, O’Neill Development, a building and development company. Currently, he sculpts in the bronze medium and is represented by Troika Gallery. Nancy Landry Powell graduated from UCLA with a degree in history. She then earned additional degrees as a Financial Planner and Certified Divorce Planner and began her career working in Development for the Community Counseling Services in Los Angeles before operating her own firm from 1994-2005. Nancy has established a needlecraft shop in Georgetown, and currently makes and sells custom jewelry. She is active with the National Gallery of Art (where her husband, Rusty, is Director).
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