Mark A Tullos Jr.

Mark A Tullos, Jr., Director at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum [1], at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette served as Director in art museums and visual arts organizations since 1986. Before returning to Louisiana in 2003, he was Director of The Art Center, Waco, Texas and The Armory Art Center Old West Palm Beach National Guard Armory, Florida. He also was executive director for other museums in the American south including the Alexandria Museum of Art located in Alexandria, Louisiana where he led a six million dollar campaign for the expansion of museum facilities and the creation of a larger operations endowment. The new museum opened in 1998. Tullos also served as the first director of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi^[1], and the Director of The Museum of East Texas [2], in Lufkin, Texas, and each underwent major capital campaigns and facility expansion under his direction.

In 1995, Tullos received the Nancy Hanks (NEA)^[2] Memorial Award for Professional Excellence given by the American Association of Museums, an award designed to recognize nationally one museum professional each year that demonstrates outstanding professional excellence in the field. In 1994, Tullos earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, and participated in graduate studies at Stephen F. Austin State University. In 1999, Tullos completed the Museum Leadership Institute MLI Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University of the Getty.^[3]

Mark Tullos has served as a member of the advisory board for the Museum Loan Network [3] at Brown University, the honors committee of the American Association of Museums, the National Museum Service Board, and a peer reviewer for A.A.M., Institute of Museum and Library Services and the state arts commissions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Florida. Tullos is an active field reviewer for the national Accreditation and Museum Assessment program.

In 2010, Mark Tullos along with Matthew Leininger, Chief Registrar for the Cincinnati Museum of Art exposed Mark Augustus Landis of Laurel, Mississippi Laurel, MS (born 1955), alleged donor of art forgeries to 43 museums over 20 years in 20 states, has also gone by alias Steven Gardiner and Father Arthur Scott; Landis has confessed to making forgeries and passing them for now over 30 years. See the articles from Financial Times[4], The Art Newspaper [5] The Guardian [6], and The New York Times [7].

Notes

1. ^ Black, Patti Carr, "Art in Mississippi: 1720-1980", p.268
2. ^ The Rotarian" October 1995, p.55
3. ^ http://www.cgu.edu/PDFFiles/gli/mlialumni.pdf

External Links

Rotarian Magazine Article

Persondata
Name	Tullos, Mark A, Jr.
Alternative names
Short description	Museum Director
Date of birth	1961
Place of birth	Baton Rouge, LA
Date of death
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