BONNIE PITMAN RECEIVES AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO MUSEUMS

Bonnie Pitman has been given the American Association of Museums’s Award for Distinguished Service to Museums for 2011. Pitman is currently the Eugene McDermott director of the Dallas Museum of Art and has served on the AAM board for twelve years. AAM board chairman Douglas Myers states, “Through her selfless service, her scholarship, her innovative thinking, her mentoring, and overall leadership, Bonnie has set a standard the rest of us in the museum world can only strive to achieve.”