Art museum and Valparaiso University communities react to art sale for dorm improvements

The angst comes a day after Jose Padilla, the university’s president, announced in a campus wide email that the“Nobody thinks it’s reasonable,” said Aimee Tomasek, associate professor of communication and visual arts, adding her students are outraged about news of the sale and are emailing Padilla to tell him so. “They are also a little unnerved that they were not communicated with about whether these paintings were important to them or not.

The email went on to note that the university is still completing due diligence that precedes and is a condition of such a transaction. “That is legal but it doesn’t make it right. It is troubling for a university that values ethical leadership,” she said, adding to think the administration would sell the artwork without notice to the campus community “is shocking.”

“ still doesn’t recognize the damage this sale would have to the viability of the museum,” Buggeln said.The well-regarded museum, said Tomasek, who has spent several years helping recruit students, is one of the features that helps draw students to campus. The museum’s director, Jonathan Canning, is a member of the Association of Academic and Museum Galleries and the museum is an unaffiliated member of the American Alliance of Museums.

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