Because finances can feel like a three ring circus, the finance team poses in our circus-themed gallery in front of Gifford Beal’s 1922 painting, Center Ring. Left to right: Cherie Nichols, director of budget and reporting, Earl Richards, senior accountant, Sue Nichols, chief operating officer, and Lydia O’Connor, finance assistant. Photo: Sandy Lee
Ringing in the new fiscal year and representing one of the museum’s most valuable assets (its staff) are the members of our finance department. As at many other museums, neither the staff nor the invaluable works of art appear as assets on the museum’s balance sheet.
