These days, Russell Panczenko is a man on a mission who goes armed with both good and bad news.
The good news is that the membership of the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art has a renewal rate of about 55 percent.
“That’s very high by any standard,” says Panczenko, the museum director, citing national statistics.
The bad news, however, is that the total number of museum members — about 1,200 — has remained at a plateau for the past dozen years or so, he adds.