Sherri Welch
- A former Detroit Public Schools art teacher has left a $1.71 million bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Elizabeth Verdow, who died in June 2014, at the age of 86, was a volunteer from 1990 to 2009 at the DIA’s museum shop. She taught art in the DPS system her entire career. In leaving the gift, she stipulated that $1.26 million be used for contemporary art acquisitions of paintings and sculptures, and $450,000 would go toward the DIA’s operating endowment. Verdow
Sherri Welch
- A former Detroit Public Schools art teacher has left a $1.71 million bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Elizabeth Verdow, who died in June 2014, at the age of 86, was a volunteer from 1990 to 2009 at the DIA’s museum shop. She taught art in the DPS system her entire career. In leaving the gift, she stipulated that $1.26 million be used for contemporary art acquisitions of paintings and sculptures, and $450,000 would go toward the DIA’s operating endowment. Verdow