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Marketing / Communications / Public Relations Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-06

Scope and Contents

This collection combines various transfers of records documnenting the marketing, communciations, and public relations functions. The department names and responsibilities included in functions has changed orver time.

The files documnent the marketing, communciations, and public relations functions for acquistions, exhibitions, programs and events spanning 1960-2007. Marketing materials include ads, design, radio, media plans, and partnerships / sponsorships; communications and public relations materials include press releases, news clippings and reference materials. Other departmental records include administration and planning, Marketing Committee, and food service. Exhibitions and events that have significant documentation in the collection include: Hamon Building / Museum of the Americas, China & Glass in America, Degas to Picasso, Century of Modern Sculpture: Nasher Collection, Black Arts-Ancestral Legacy, an Georgia O'Keeffe: Poetry of Things (1998).

Records creators include: Records creators include Pat Porter, Debra L. Shtofman, Nancy Davis, Gail Chancey, Bob Rozelle, Joan McClendon, Pam Wedland, Ginger Reeder, David Kusin, Meg Hanlon Wilson, Marguerite Steed, and Melanie Wright, Ellen Key, Sue Ferraro, Judy Connor and other department staff.

Dates

  • 1960 - 2007

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is unprocessed. Access may be permitted at the discretion of the archivist; contact the archives at archives@DMA.org.

Extent

21.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

There is no identifiable arrangement. Some boxes may have general alphabetical, chronological or numerical order of files within the box.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Mulitple departmental transfers received between 2001-2007.

Collection was heavily weeded and redescribed by Hillary Bober, Archivist, in 2016-2017. Some obvious series or groups of records were separated and accessioned or processed as a separate collections. At this time, contents of some of the remaining boxes were processed, while others were heavily weeded, possibly combined with other box contents to fill the box, and re-acccessioned. The original record was maintained and edited, resulting in a non-consecutive sequence of box numbers.

Collection was re-accessioned again in 2022 during the ArchivesSpace migration to incorporate a revised collection number and updated collection description per local usage guidelines for accession resource records. Boxes were renumbered to create a consecutive sequence.

See Index Note for a key to the box number changes; list also includes box description information transferred from Archon.

NOTE: Two asterisks ( ** ) before a box title means that the box has been fully processed. A hash mark ( # ) before a box title means that the box has been weeded and box list updated. FORMAT: [current box number] - [former box number and title]; [box description below]

1 - Box 1: # Marketing and Communications Contains records from the marketing and communications and publishing and communications departments Former Box Title: Marketing - Exhibitions and Events; This box also includes the contents of a PR Miscellaneous box, that did not seem to be entered anywhere.

2 - Box 11A: # Communications, 1996-2001 Records of Ellen Key (Communications Coordinator), Peter Foley, Ginger Reeder: press releasess, news clippings and reference material for exhibitions, programs and staff Former Box Title: Marketing - Exhibits

3 - Box 11B: # Communications, 1996-2001 Records of Ellen Key (Communications Coordinator), Peter Foley, Ginger Reeder: press releasess, news clippings and reference material for exhibitions, programs and staff Former Box Title: Marketing - Exhibits

4 - Box 12: # Communications, 1994-2000 Records of Ellen Key, Communications Coordinator; contains press releasess, news clippings and reference material for exhibitions Former Box Title: Marketing - Exhibits

5 - Box 13A: # Marketing, 1997-1998 Records were divided into two smaller boxes: 13A are records of Nancy Davis; 13B are records of Judy Conner Former Box Title: Marketing - Exhibits: Egypt, D2P [Degas to Picasso], Monet

6 - Box 13B: # Marketing, 1999-2000 Records were divided into two smaller boxes: 13A are records of Nancy Davis; 13B are records of Judy Conner Former Box Title: Marketing - Exhibits: Egypt, D2P [Degas to Picasso], Monet

7 - Box 14: # Communications, 1986, 1989-1990 Records of Melanie Wright Former Box Title: Marketing - Exhibitions and Events: Bybee

8 - Box 15: ** Communications, 2000-2003 Press Coverage

9 - Box 16: # Communications, Exhibitions Records of Ellen Key, Communications Coordinator Folders contain: press releases, media coverage, planning

10 - Box 17: # Communications, 1998-2000 Ellen Key records

11 - Box 18: # Communications Records of Bob Rozelle, Director of Public Relations and Melanie Wright, Public Relations Manager Former Box Title: Monet to Mondrian Press, New Museum / Arts District PR, New American Art Museums, Whitney Show

12 - Box 19: # Communications, 1986 Former box name: Exhibit PR - D'Orsay, San Marco, c. 1986

13 - Box 20: # Communications, 1986-1988 Former Box Title: Marketing - Nasher

14 - Box 21: ** Communications - Hamon Building, 1993 Former Box Titles: Marketing / PR / Communications (Hamon?) AND Marketing-New Building

15 - Box 23: # Communications, 1991-1993 Records of Meg Wilson, Director of Communications Former Box Title: Marketing

16 - Box 25: # Communications, 1986-1991 Records of Melanie Wright and Marguerite Steed, Public Relations staff Former Box Title: Marketing Files

17 - Box 26: # Communications, 1991-1994 Records of Communications department: Meg Hanlon Wilson, Dirctector of Communications and Peter Foley Former Box Title: Marketing General

18 - Box 29: # Marketing, 2004-2005 Records of Sue Ferarro, Marketing Manager Former Box Title: Marketing - Sue Ferarro

19 - Box 30: # Communciations, 1991-1993 Records of Meg Hanlon Wilson, Director of Communications Former Box Title: Marketing

20 - Box 31: # Marketing Copies of printed material transferred; duplictes discarded, clippings weeded June 2015 HB

21 - Box 32: # Communications Records of Meg Hanlon Wilson, Director of Communications, early 1990s

22 - Box 33: # Communications

23 - Box 34: # Communications, 1986-1991 Records of Melanie Wright, Public Relations Manager Former Box Title: PR / Marketing

24 - Box 35: # Marketing, 2001-2002 Records of Judy Conner, Director of Marketing and Communications Former Box Title: Marketing Files - General Correspondence

25 - Box 36: ** Marketing, 1996-1999 Former Box Titles: Marketing 1998; Marketing 1997; Marketing 1997-1999; Marketing 1997-1999, Ellen Key files; Marketing 1998-1999

26 - Box 39: # Marketing, 2000-2003 Records of Sue Farraro, Markeing Manager Former Box Titles: Marketing Box 2, 2003 Sue Farraro; Marketing, Ellen Keys

27 - Box 42: # Communications, 1985-1994 Records of Meg Hanlon Wilson, Director of Communications Former Box Titles: Marketing; DMA PR; Communications

28 - Box 43: # Communications, 2001-2003, 2006 Records of Communications department Former Box Title: Marketing - Sue Ferarro

29 - Box 47: # Marketing and Communciations, 1994-1996 Records of Ginger Reeder; includes both press releases and news clippings, and marketing/promotional plans

30 - Box 48: ** Comunications - Bybee, Black Art-Ancestral Legacy, 1983-1990 Most materials from Robert Rozelle, Director of Publications

31 - Box 49: # Marketing Records of Sue Farraro, Marketing Department; Transferred: September 2006; Includes mareting and media plans, printed materials, news clippings Former Box Title: Marketing

32 - Box 50: # Marketing Records of Sue Farraro, Marketing Manager, and Judy Conner, Director of Marketing and Communicaitons; Transferred: September 2006 Former Box Title: Marketing

33 - Box 51: # Marketing Subject Files, 1992-1996 Records of Ginger Reeder, Meg Hanlon and Tina Aguilar Also contains records from Former Box Title: Marketing Department Miscellaneous Subject Files

34 - Box 53: # Public Relations, 1984-1986 Records of Gail Chancey

35 - Box 54: # Communications Records of Meg Hanlon Wilson, Director of Communications Former Box Title: Marketing

36 - Box 55: # Communications, 1992-1993 Records of Meg Hanlon, Director of Communications and Communications staff Former TItle: PR - Hamon

37 - Box 56: # Museum Store, 1992-1993 Records of Ginger Reeder, Museum Store Manager Former Box Title: Marketing

38 - Box 57: # Communications, 1982-1989 Contains records from Robert Rozelle, Director of Publications; Melanie Wright, Public Relations Manager; and Gail Chancey. Former Box Titles: [PR 1980s; President's Newsletters, Reves Press / PR, Collections: A Texas Phenomenon Exhibit Press, c. 1984]; PR - Mostly Exhibits, 1988-1989

39 - Box 61: # Communications / PR, c. 1987-1993 Records of Marguerite Steed, Melanie Wright, Pam Wedland Former Box Title: Marketing - Subject Files

40 - Box 62: # Marketing, 1997-1999 Records of Nancy Davis, Director of Marketing and Melissa Brown, Marketing Projects Coordinator

41 - Box 69: # Communications, 1988-1989 Records of Communications department, Melanie Wright Former Box Title: Exhibit PR - Press Clippings, 1989

42 - Box 74: ** PR Collections and Acquisitions, 1969-1988 Box contains press releases and new coverge for art acquisitions and loans. Records of Pat Porter, Gail Chancey and Robert Rozelle.

43 - Box 79: # Communications - Bob Rozelle Files Former Box Titles: Communications - Rozelle - Annual Report, 1980-1986; PR - Bob Rozelle; Rozelle Files - Press and DMA Publications; Communications - Rozelle Files

44 - Box 81: # Communications, 1986-1991 Press releases and news clippings; records of Melanie Wright and Marguerite Steed Former Box Title: Communications, Acquisition PR '88-'89

45 - Box 82: # Communications, 1985-1990

46 - Box 84: # Communications, 1984-1990 Records of Bob Rozelle, Director of Publications and Marguerite Steed, PR

47 - Box 85: # Communications, 1984-1991 Records of Bob Rozelle and Melanie Wright of the Publications and Communications department; includes press releases, news clippings and publication files

48 - Box 88: # Communications, 1981-1982; 1987-1988

49 - Box 89: # Communications, 1989-1995

50 - Box 100: # Communications, Miscellaneous

51 - Box 101: ** Communications Material found with collection of publicity news clippings scrapbooks, processed March 2018
Status
Unprocessed
Author
Hillary Bober
Date
20202-02-18
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

  • 2022-02-18: Accession number updated per revised protocol. Previous accession number was 200X.009.

Repository Details

Part of the Dallas Museum of Art Archives Repository

Contact:
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Dallas TX 75201 US