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The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Fla., has a new curator in the form of Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, reports the Florida Times-Union.

Cole is a native of the city, and the museum hopes that by naming its new curator in her honor, she'll help it continue its founder's mission of being a "center of beauty and culture for all," says the museum's CEO.

The $650,000 grant from the Leadership in Art Museums initiative went to the Cummer, one of only 19 museums in the country to receive such a grant.

Cole will be the museum's first curator.

"I am witnessing this institution emerge into a beacon where the stories of all of the world's people are told," says Cole. Read the Entire Article

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