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to discuss organizing an art association. In
November of that year, though it did not yet have either a collection or a physical location, the Hickory Museum of Art Association held its first exhibition, of art borrowed locally, in the vacant Bradshaw office building in downtown Hickory, attracting about 600 viewers. In February 1944 North Carolina Governor Clyde Hoey officially recognized and chartered the Association at a ceremony in the ballroom of the Old Hickory Hotel. (Charlotte's 1936 Mint Museum was the first.) Hickory Museum of Art was formally dedicated four months later, and Paul Whitener unanimously appointed Director.
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long-term folk art exhibition to which the third floor of the building is dedicated. In 2004, the museum acquired more than 150 contemporary
Southern folk art objects from the collection of Hickory residents Allen and Barry Huffman. This was the largest collection ever received by the museum, and has expanded considerably in subsequent years. The artists represented, integral to the region's social history, are typically self-taught and removed from the mainstream art world. They include James Harold Jennings, Richard Burnside, Miles Carpenter, Raymond Coins, Abraham Lincoln Criss,
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In the early 1940s, Hickory, then a city of c. 15,000 inhabitants, was a leading regional cultural center. Founding
Director Paul Whitener felt the city needed a visual arts center. With funding from local industrialist A. Alex Shuford Jr., Whitener organized a committee of citizens in September 1943
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By 1984 the museum was again in need of larger quarters, and to that end had raised $ 650,000. Buck
Shuford, of the Shuford family which has been supporters of the museum since its beginnings, led a campaign to turn the redundant Hickory High School building (formerly Claremont High School) into an
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Within a year of its founding the Museum of Art had acquired a dozen paintings and moved into the white clapboard W.W. Bryan house on
Hickory's Third Avenue, its home for the next 14 years. From 1960 the museum occupied the former office building of Shuford Mills on the corner of 3rd Street and 1st
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nation's estimated 35,000 museums, 1,033 are currently accredited. To earn accreditation a museum first must conduct a year of self-study, and is then visited by a two-person inspection team reporting to the
Accreditation Commission — a body of museum professionals appointed by the A.A.M. board.
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Whitener's stated aim was that the museum should "embrace all the arts and crafts of the upper
Piedmont region of North Carolina." and it also recognizes the folk artistic traditions (also known as "Outsider Art") of the Southern United States, North Carolina, and the Catawba Valley region in a
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October 6–8, 2014, The American Alliance of Museums announced that Hickory Museum of Art was one of nine museums which had earned re-accreditation. Accredited status from the Alliance is the highest national recognition achievable by an American museum. Of the
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arts center, spearheading a drive that raised $ 2.6m toward its acquisition and conversion. Two years later the renovated building opened as the Arts & Science Center of
Catawba Valley, providing a new permanent location for the Museum. Today, it has been incorporated into the
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