Laguna Museum Names Development Director

The Laguna Art Museum has named Marilyn (Mickey) Shaw associate director for development, a newly created position. Shaw had been corporate and foundation relations director at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.

In her new job, she has assumed the duties of former associate director Bonnie Brittain Hall, currently working on the museum’s 75th anniversary endowment campaign, and former corporate-foundation development officer Holly Wisneski, who left the museum in June to become director of development at Cal State Fullerton’s School of the Arts.

Shaw will oversee the Laguna Beach museum’s fund-raising programs, grant and corporate donation acquisitions, special events and membership campaigns. She holds a master’s degree in public health from UCLA.

The museum also named Karla Fields as membership coordinator. Before this, Fields taught elementary school for five years.

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The City of Los Angeles’ Cultural Affairs Department has awarded artist Ricardo Duffy of Laguna Beach a $19,000 commission to design a public art work at the Lincoln Heights Branch Library in East L.A.

Duffy, a Cal State Fullerton graduate, plans a ceramic relief on an archway inside the 77-year-old Italian Renaissance-style library. The relief will depict a dragon-cum-roller-coaster ridden by people of various ethnic backgrounds. He expects to complete the work within 18 months.

The department has awarded 16 such commissions since its Public Percent for Arts Program was launched about a year ago.