Recognation in Book by Jeffery C. Stewart


Managed the database for the collection catalog for the Winold Reiss Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

The exhibition, To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss, curated by Dr. Jeffery C. Stewart was developed for the Smithsonian Institute's National Portrait Gallery, Institute and later became a traveling exhibition. Accompanying the exhibition was a published catalogue exploring the life of the artist and an illustrated checklist of all known Reiss works.

Carla Simon worked on both, but her emphasis was on the illustrated checklist. Her duties included developing a database of the work and a series of notebooks containing photographs of each piece of work catagorized by subject and cross referenced by ethnicity. Carla prepared or coordinated both systems to turn over to the publishers.

Database Management

  
Three rotations of reviewing General Operating Support grants for museums in the under $270,000 range. In addition to writing, receiving, and administering state, federal, and foundation grants, Carla has also served as a peer reviewer for the Institute of Museum Services General Operating Support grants for three terms. She participated in a week-long training and reviewed between eight and twelve grants for museums with an annual budget of $270,000 or less. Minimum requirements for becoming a reviewer were five years as an administrator of a museum and a working knowledge of American Association of Museum standards and its code of ethics. Each reviewer received feedback from IMS staff on the appropriateness of their comments and all three years Carla received exceptional reviews.

Grant Writing

  
   
Poster for Marketing and Social Conscience programming by Central Bethany Development at Bethany Village Centre Central Bethany Development contracted Carla Simon to coordinate their holiday marketing and social conscience event for Bethany Village Centre. This event consisted of a raffle of twenty gift baskets created by the merchants and business of Bethany Village; a merchant open house with coordinated activities in the various stores, and stage shows that included paid talent, local school choirs, and a martial arts demonstration. All proceeds went to Tualatin Valley Centers (now LifeWorks NW). Carla engaged the merchants and businesses, coordinated the raffle, produced marketing materials, enlisted talent, and arranged all media. She also served as liaison between Central Bethany Development and Tualatin Valley Centers.

Event Planning

  

 

  
Museum Collection Storage

Stonefield Historic Village and Agricultural Museum in Cassville, Wisconsin, is part of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The site had an artifact collection of some 30,000 items that had been neglected for more than twenty years. A team of four, under the leadership of the society's registrar, was created to address the storage, inventory, and records situation.

CarlaSimon was brought in as the site registrar. Her duties were to create an inventory database and to document the procedure, to address the needs of the existing artifact records and collection management organization, and to help with the physical inventory of the museum artifacts. Withina three month time, approximately 3,000 items had been inventoried and stored, records for deaccessioning more than 500 items had been reviewed, and documentation had been prepared for presentation to the society's board of regents for approval.

Museum Collection Management