Follow The 990

A casual study of the 990 forms of local nonprofits creates context in a field reinventing itself

My family has a long history of involvement with craft movements on both the British and the American side, This is a page of a journal of the branch of the Camden-Rockland branch of the Maine Craftsmen Association dated 1948, Dad arrived on Southport Island in 1952 and was the last person to keep this journal, thus we have it in our possession. After that, my father helped to form the Boothbay Art Foundation, which still exists today.

For some, the word museum conjures up a large building of institutional character representative of power and wealth, but in my heart, that style leaves me cold, and fearful that the purpose of the museum will all too quickly evolve toward the interests of the institution…