Vivian Maier, Untitled, n.d, photography, PMA Permanent Collection, Blue Book Fund of Brian and Susan Finger, 2014.3

Donations of Art

The Pensacola Museum of Art accepts donations of artwork, pending protocols and procedures that govern these gifts.  Please read the below details before considering the donation of artwork.

How are objects collected? 
All donations must be approved by the collections committee of the museum. This committee meets monthly to preserve the growth and stewardship of the permanent collection. The collections committee gives recommendation of approved works to the Board of Trustees. 

New acquisitions to the collections, which includes gifts and purchases, are evaluated by the Collections Committee for quality, adherence to our mission, and the museum’s ability to properly care for the works as per museum standards for preservation and storage.

Permanent Collections Mission
The Pensacola Museum of Art at the University of West Florida stewards a growing collection of modern and contemporary art of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.  The permanent collection supports the museum’s mission to collect, preserve, and interpret objects of visual, cultural, and educational value to promote the understanding and appreciation of art and ideas to audiences in the Northwest Florida region and beyond. The research and display of the collection also aims to create dialogue between university and community audiences by engendering experiences of joy, discovery, and creativity through diverse perspectives, and the transdisciplinary interactions of art, culture, the humanities, science, and technology.

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Proposing Artwork for Donation

Provide a letter of intent for your gift which contains the following:

• Your full contact information including your name and contact information 
• Digital image(s) of the work
• The artist's name, the full title of the work, medium and dimensions of the work
• Artist's resume and any additional support information available 
• Provenance information (history of ownership)
• Insurance value
• Description of artwork condition

Aubrey Beardsley, Le Morte Darthur Book XVIII Chapter I, 1893-4, line-block and letterpress, Gift of Dr. Patrick Rowe and Madison Loudon, PMA Permanent Collection, 2017.02

Proposals

By E-Mail:
Please address Curator of Collections, Anna Wall 
awall@uwf.edu.

By Mail:
Pensacola Museum of Art
Attn: Anna Wall, Curator of Collections
407 South Jefferson Street
Pensacola, FL 32502