This has been a local story for some time. So it made the NY Slimes now? I can guess they’re hoping for a rich benefactor to swoop in and save them.
It made the NY Slimes in Nov but I had heard about the troubles some months ago, and someone at the Toonseum (a cartoon museum across the street) posted a Trib-Review article (on Facebook) about poss. auctioning off of artwork...
I do know the one time I did visit (free and worth it) I saw the names of a bunch of benefactors like US Steel but maybe they gave money to help open it...but that was it, and it didn’t make money, so..
http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/5492175-74/center-art-collection#axzz2ryici5cs
>>Like Mosley, Joseph Wos, executive director of ToonSeum, had high hopes for the center.
The small cartoon museum — one of three in the United States devoted to cartoon art — opened across Liberty Avenue from the center a few weeks after the center’s grand opening.
Wos said ToonSeum put an exhibition on extended loan to the center in 2010. In a letter to Attorney General Kathleen Kane, Wos said the exhibition on loan celebrated a long-forgotten civil rights comic and “featured a timeline of the civil rights movement and the comic, along with large-scale reproductions of the entire comic.”
The center exhibited the collection in 2011 but did not return it, Wos said. Now, he is concerned that the collection, which he valued at $3,000 to $3,500, might be sold.
“There was no paperwork related to this, though that was the understanding,” Wos told Kane.
I can guess they’re hoping for a rich benefactor to swoop in and save them.
&&&
Our bill for Moochelle’s HI birthday vacation could have saved them.