Renewing the Promise

Launched in 2019, the Museum’s five-year Strategic Plan sought to ensure the relevance of the Museum for the communities we serve by making visible the resonance of our art—historic and contemporary—to the present day. In developing the Plan, we looked to Isabella for inspiration. At a time when women did not have the right to vote, she established her Museum with a civic purpose: “for the education and enjoyment of the public forever.” Renewing the Promise is a realization of her vision and a reactivation of the boundary-breaking creative radicality that she embodied.