South Carolina State University News October 20, 2015 Stanback Museum’s Move to New Location Underway The I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium will soon have a new home. It will relocate to the Crawford Engineering building by Oct. 31. The decisions to relocate the museum were made after a long, intensive study and discussions, say university officials. Selected exhibits of the museum will be relocated to the building in a space suitable for displaying the collections while the Stanback facility is being renovated. Other museum collections will be maintained, preserved and stored in its current temperature and humidity- controlled storage area. The university anticipates completing the renovations in two years, at which time the museum will return to the enhanced facility for operation. “ The Stanback is one of South Carolina’s cultural jewels,” says Interim President Dr. W. Franklin Evans. “I want to emphasize the museum is not closing. While its location may change, it is temporary. The museum, in its new space, will continue to provide a quality cultural experience that will expose visitors to a wide variety of art collections and other meaningful educational experiences.” The museum’s temporary move is being done as part of the university’s decentralization plan. University administrators instituted the plan this summer to bring off line eight buildings connected to an aging underground boiler system, which heats facilities across the campus. The antiquated system is inefficient, resulting in costly energy bills. The university expects to save roughly $1.7 million in energy and facilities costs while the buildings remain off line, which could be up to three years. To better heat and cool buildings on campus and have a more efficient means to monitor energy costs, the university will install individual heating, ventilation and cooling systems, allowing each building to have its own meter The relocation is being conducted under the guidance of Interim Director Frank Martin, II, an experienced artist and educator. Martin is a graduate of Yale University and the City University of New York, Hunter College, with additional study in contemporary art at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. A former curator, level II, and associate director of the Stanback, Martin is a specialist in art theory and cultural interpretation, and has served as an academic advisor for the PBS documentary, “Shared History,” and as contributing critic in the fine arts for The Charleston Post and Courier, one of the South’s oldest newspapers. Martin is a member of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art), based in Paris. His recent projects include contributions to the “African American Biography,” a publication organized by Harvard University and the Oxford University Press, contributing research pertaining to American artists of the African diaspora. In 2014, Martin was designated Professor of the Year for the School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences at SC State. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.