b'6above:The SCMA100 Gala, the launch of the museums centennial, new website and brand identity, NYC, Fall 2019this opportunity to think about what it means to be aIt comes back to the transformationalmuseum in the present day. As an academic institution,power of art, and I thank you for being part of SCMAs we hold fast to our founding core values around teachingextraordinary evolution.and learning, and have consciously nurtured SCMA as a resource for the greater community. We are also thinkingWith gratitude always, about the more difficult histories of museums as p oducts of colonial enterprise, as places that are seen as elite or places that serve people with only particular knowledge, education or interests. SCMA today is committed to being a museum that acknowledges those historicallegacies and doesnt just repeat them, but creates aJessica Nicoll 83space to think critically about our past and present andDirector and Louise Ines Doyle 34 Chief Curatormove forward in fresh ways. from the director'