Corporation Of The Fine Arts Museums

Programs: Exhibitions - cofam presented 28 exhibitions in the de young and legion of honor during fye june 30, 2017. The wide range of exhibitions reflects the encyclopedic nature of the museums, and included ed rushca and the great american west, the future of the past: mummies and medicine, and the summer of love experience: art, fashion and rock & roll. The museums welcomed over 1. 4 million visitors during the year.

education and public programs - cofam offers an extensive array of education and public programs, including free school group visits and programming, and family programs. We partner with community groups, advisors and artists to create high quality and relevant programs. We also provide educational training, classroom materials and curricula, and support to art professionals, students, researchers, and teachers. Cofam continues to innovate its education and public programs to assure everyone feels welcome and comfortable at the museums, and able to access and digest information in a variety of ways. For instance, with the exhibition revelations: art from the african american south, education staff experimented with offering community voices in the galleries, offering diverse interpretations of the works and a rich opportunity for community engagement. The museums offer free access to special exhibitions several times each year on access mondays reserved for visitors with disabilities. These programs serve over 2,000 visitors each year. During fy2017, cofam launched a new program for contemporary art and programming, transforming the de young and the legion of honor with a series of installations and performances that create artistic dialogues with the collections and activated public spaces. This programming included the transformation of the de young's wilsey court by leonardo drew, and temporary installations by urs fischer and sarah lucas in dialog with the legion's important auguste rodin collection. In january, the museums launched refreshed websites that included better compatibility with mobile devices, resulting in a 43% increase in user sessions. Starting in february, the museums launched digital stories, a series of interactive web modules enhanced with audio and video, designed to broaden the experience and impact of each special exhibition

collections research, care and conservation - cofam's staff include curators, registrars, and conservators who handle, research and care for the city's significant permanent collections housed and exhibited at the de young and legion of honor, as well as works borrowed from other institutions and private collections for special exhibitions. Care and research extends to a robust program of new acquisitions, which in fy17 included 62 works by 22 artists acquired from the souls grown deep foundation, and put on view in the exhibit revelations: art from the african american south. The works expand the representation of artists who reflect the historical diversity and complexity of american culture.