Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment

Founding Member, Barry Lopez

Dan L. Monroe, Chair

Director Emeritus, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

Santa Fe, NM

Dan Monroe is the retired Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Founded in 1799, PEM is the oldest continuously operated museum in the United States. During his tenure, Monroe increased the operating budget from $3 million to $36 million, increased the endowment from $23 million to more than $500 million, raised more than $1 billion, increased annual on-site attendance from 70,000 to 280,000 and annual off-site attendance of PEM organized exhibitions to more than 1,000,000 in 2019. Monroe spearheaded design and construction of more than 300,000 square feet of new facilities, and achieved the highest visitor satisfaction numbers from 2003 to 2019 among more than eighty museums around the nation. He also initiated a unique initiative to apply knowledge from the Neurosciences to the design of art experiences, and PEM became the only art museum in the world to employ employed a full-time neuroscientist to help enhance the design of exhibitions, education, and public programs. 

Monroe has served as President of the Association of Art Museum Directors; Chairman of the American Alliance of Museums; President of the International Council of Museums America; and President of the Western Museums Conference. Monroe played a key role in helping write and obtain passage in Congress for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, groundbreaking federal civil rights legislation that fundamentally changed the relationship between Federally recognized Native American tribes and museums, federal agencies, and universities. Dan resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is married to Catherine Wygant. He has two sons and five grandchildren. 

Eleanor Jones Harvey

Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A specialist in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century American art, notably landscape painting, her most recent exhibition, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture (2020), considered how deeply entwined the heralded naturalist’s ideas were with America’s emerging identity, grounded in an appreciation of nature. Previously, Harvey organized the critically acclaimed The Civil War and American Art (2012). She served as chief curator from 2003 to 2012, and spearheaded the museum’s reinstallation in 2006 following its renovation. From 1992 to 2002, Harvey was curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she organized several exhibitions, including The Voyage of The Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece (2002), Thomas Moran and the Spirit of Place (2001), and The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830–1880 (1998). She began her career at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as an Assistant Curator (1989-91). Harvey holds a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Virginia (1983), and earned both a master’s degree (1985) and doctorate in the history of art (1998) from Yale University.

A. Michael Hewins, Treasurer

Washington, D.C.

Michael Hewins has over 30 years of executive management experience in international business. He has served as a Board member for three companies, including being the Chairman of AstroVision International in the U.S. He was the interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of NewSat Ltd. in Australia and was lead negotiator in securing US$390M of Export Credit Financing. He also participated in the raising of equity of US$208M in the US, Asia, UK and Europe for the project. He has held senior positions in global strategy, finance, business development and insurance in the global satellite business. He worked and lived in Paris for three years while working for Arianespace, the European launch company. Michael holds a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University, B.A. from Wake Forest University and attended the International Law program at The Hague.

Toby Jurovics, Director

Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment

Santa Fe, NM

Toby Jurovics is founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment. He was chief curator and curator of American Western art at Joslyn Art Museum from 2011 to 2020; prior to this, he was a curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Princeton University Art Museum. An expert on nineteenth and twentieth century American landscape photography, he has curated over fifty monographic and group exhibitions of photography, painting, works on paper, and new media. In 2010, he organized Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan in conjunction with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress, and has also published essays on Thomas Joshua Cooper; Steve Fitch; John Gossage; Andrew Moore; William Sutton; and the New Topographics. Most recently, he published From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez. Jurovics holds a B.A. in art history and English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in art history from the University of Delaware.

Annelies Mondi, Secretary

Athens, GA

Annelies Mondi is the former deputy director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, a position she held from 2004-22. As deputy director, Mondi oversaw the renovation of the museum’s existing building and the construction of its 30,000-square-foot addition that opened in 2011. She co-curated and co-authored the major retrospective exhibition and publication Crafting History: Textiles, Metals, and Ceramics at the University of Georgia in 2018 and organized numerous other exhibitions. Over the course of her 34 years in the museum field, Mondi has been a consultant for several private collectors and worked on special projects for the Albany (Georgia) Museum of Art, Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Wesleyan College, and Princeton University Art Museum. From 2002-04 Mondi served as the chair of the Southeastern Registrars Association, and, in 2009, she was recognized as Museum Professional of the Year by the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries.