Sandoz Center receives award
The Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center at Chadron State College was awarded the 2005 Excellence in Publication Award for small museum exhibition catalog by the Mountain-Plains Museums Association at its annual meeting in mid-September in Omaha. The award was given for the Ray and Faye Graves Photographic Exhibition Catalog, published by Chadron State College, as a companion to the exhibit that was created by and displayed at the center last fall.
The catalog was developed by Polak and a Chadron State student, Philip Krepel of Chadron. They were supported by Dr. Allen Shepherd, CSC professor of history who wrote the introduction to the publication, and Martha Blegen, who provided technical and design assistance.
Sandoz Center Director Sarah Polak attended the four-day conference and accepted the award on behalf of the center and Chadron State. “It is such an honor to be a relatively new institution and to have our work recognized at this level,” she stated.
The Mountain-Plains Museums Association is a regional museum organization of more that 700 members that stretches from Montana to Texas.
The MPMA is one of six regional associations in the United States that works in conjunction with the American Association of Museums. The 2006 association’s annual conference will be in Taos, N.M. next September.
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