Donna C. Wilson, a former executive with Avon Products, has been named director of development and visitor services at the Walters Art Gallery.
In her new position, Ms. Wilson will coordinate all fund-raising and visitor-service activities and also oversee annual giving, grant applications, membership, special events and rentals, graphic design and publications, marketing and public relations and the government liaison office of the museum.
At Avon Products, she was senior director of marketplace
development and director of new business development and also directed the firm's international business planning.
During the past year, Ms. Wilson worked for the Children's Defense Fund in Washington as part of Avon's executive-on-loan program.
Ms. Wilson succeeds development director Kate Sellers, who left the Walters in December to join the staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Theatre Project projects
Three Dutch performing arts companies, sponsored by the U.S./Netherlands Touring and Exchange Project, will perform at Baltimore Theatre Project as part of its 1995 season. A list of season productions follows:
* Wednesday through Feb. 12: Rotterdam's Onafhankelijk Toneel performs "Nobody's Neighbor." Five "displaced persons" create new histories for themselves in a work of dance theater.
* Feb. 23-26 and March 2-5: Kinetics Dance Company. New works from a professional Maryland company. There will be no Wednesday performances.
* March 10-12: Claudia Stevens performs "Playing Paradis," an operatic tale of a woman's discovery of her parents' past as Holocaust survivors.
* March 15-19: Performance artist Danny Hoch presents "Some People," portraying a dozen fictionalized urban characters ranging from a Jamaican disc jockey to a Jewish mother.
* March 24-26: Baltimore Dance Collaborative performs a mix of modern dance and performance art.
* March 29-April 2 and April 5-9: Impossible Industrial Action presents Thomas E. Cole's new comedy, "I Married A Fly."
* April 12-16: Amsterdam's Stuffed Puppet Theatre presents "Macbeth!"
* April 19, April 21-22: Amsterdam dancer Truus Bronkhorst performs "Little Folk Anthem," a series of scenes to music ranging from Bach to Jimi Hendrix.
* May 31-June 4 and June 7-11: Sweden's Teater Albatross presents "Sam's Tormented Angels" based on Allen Ginsberg's 1958 requiem for his mother.
Performances are scheduled at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday. For details and prices, call (410) 752-8558.
African-American traditions
The Baltimore City Life Museums will hold a free program to celebrate the city's African-American community and traditions from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Peale Museum, 225 N. Holliday St.
Visitors are encouraged to bring an object that has significance to African-American life in Baltimore for potential inclusion in future museum exhibitions. Call (410) 396-3523.
More on Mencken
The Enoch Pratt Free Library will celebrate the publication of "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy" at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Poe Room of the Central Library, 400 Cathedral St. The book's editor, Terry Teachout, will discuss the book and sign copies. An arts columnist for the New York Daily News and associate editor of the New Dance Review, Mr. Teachout is writing a Mencken biography.
Auditions
* Auditions for F. Scott Black's Towson Dinner Theatre's production of "Pinocchio" are scheduled from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow and Tuesday at the theater, 100 E. Chesapeake Ave. in Towson. This musical, which begins its performances in May, is a Young People's Theatre Production. Auditioners should prepare a song. Call (410) 321-6595.
* Auditions for a production of "Oedipus the King" are scheduled from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Feb. 12 in the social hall of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, Maryland and Preston streets. Actors should prepare a short piece from the play. For details, call (410) 893-2278.
* Dundalk Community Theatre will hold auditions for the musical "La Cage Aux Folles" from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. today and from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 409 of the college community center at Dundalk Community College, 7200 Sollers Point Road. Actors should prepare a song and be able to show movement/dance ability. For details, call (410) 285-9667.
Art for music
Meredith Gallery will hold a fund-raising afternoon of music and art for Baltimore Composers Forum from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the gallery, 805 N. Charles St. Part of the proceeds from sales of a one-day show will benefit the forum. Call (410) 837-3575.