Marion Andrus McCollam, an expert in urban design and arts management who was acclaimed for her work as leader of the Arts Council of New Orleans, died Sept. 25 in Houston. She was 95.
She died of complications of pneumonia, said her daughter, Marion Cage McCollam.
A native New Orleanian who graduated from the Isidore Newman School and Newcomb College, McCollam earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of New Orleans (now LSU New Orleans)…