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I am shocked that from the entire national treasure chest of candidates for a new director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History the two finalists are a woman who says she will be remembered for her really big glasses, a founder and managing director of Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas as well as the erotica/sexuality festival “12 Inches of Sin,” and another woman who brags that she “gives off big Virgo energy,” and is “equally left- and right-brained.”
Huh?
One wants to march into Santa Cruz and “hike the general admission from $10 to $25,” then adds this would be only for tourists. She thinks “we’re just as good as any other museum in the state, if not the country.” Adding, “I feel that.”
Maybe those really big bold eyeglasses cause her to make such an absurd claim. Then there is her vision of the MAH in terms of “market differentiation” … “to break through the noise of the marketplace.” What?
The second candidate’s goal is “to get an underwriter for admissions so that the museum is free and open to everyone for perpetuity.” Does she get the job before demonstrating exactly how that will be possible?
Just shaking my head,
Jean Brocklebank
Santa Cruz