New York, New York, United States
Former Director & Chief Curator of 5 US Art & Design Museums including Curatorial Director of Smithsonian National Design Museum/Cooper-Hewitt, Managing Director of Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum, Director of Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and Hudson River Museum.Organized over 70 museum exhibitions of International Contemporary Art and Design. Published numerous books on art, design, creative thinking (Book: "Florine Stettheimer: A Biography" cited by the New Yorker as one of the "Best Books of 2022." Adjunct Professor at University level, lectures nationally and internationally on art, design, and creative thinking.
President & Facilitator, "Creative Intelligence" Seminar Board Consultant, Artists & Writers' Residency, BAU Foundation, Puglia,Italy & Cassis, France Faculty, Senior Seminar, School of Visual Arts, Fall, 2015 Advisor and Essayist, "Florine Stettheimer" Exhibition, Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2014 Author, "Element 47: Nine Contemporary Artists," Marquand Publishers, 2014 Curator, "Florine Stettheimer, Radical Modernist" Art Director and Scripwriter, "Transposition." Art Video College Art Association Panel Moderator & Speaker, Annual Conference, 2017
ANDERSON RANCH ART CENTER, Aspen, CO 2010 – 2013 – supervised staff of 30 with $4.5M annual budget • Oversight for 140 Professional Studio Art Classes: – 1200 Students – 28 Artists’ Residencies – $4M Budget • Initiated VISITING ARTISTS LECTURE & RESIDENCY SERIES bringing in $137K Annually Artists included: Bill Viola – Kara Walker – Tip Dunham – Wangechi Mutu – Tom Sachs – Sanford Biggers Ursula von Rydingsvard – Cindy Sherman – James Casebere – Mickalene Thomas - Angel Otero, Theaster Gates - Hernan Bas - Marina Abramovic - Nick Cave - and many others • Raised NEW REVENUE of $2.3M (in 3 years) • Achieved BUDGET SURPLUS $s every Year (after years of deficit) • Revised under her leadership: – Mission Statement – Strategic Plan – Board By-laws – Governance Materials • Initiated Capital Expansion • Initiated Exploration of joint MFA Program (with Denver University) • Created COLLABORATIONS with: Aspen Art Museum – Writer's Conference – The Aspen Institute • Awarded SCHOLARSHIP to attend Aspen Institute International Leadership Conference • Initiated FUNDED Children’s Outreach Program & Art Camp
KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART Guest Curator: "Dress Codes" (July – October 2009) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-bloemink/ CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNIAL, PROSPECT 1 Catalog Essayist (New Orleans, LA November 2008) INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY DESIGN MUSEUM (Holon, Israel, opened 2010) Assisted with: – Strategic & Business Plans – Development & Major Gifts Plans – Governance – Budgets – Ethics – Museum Collections – Exhibition Schedules – Reviewed Design of new 26,000 sq ft. Facility CHIEF CURATOR, originating Exhibition: "Design Now: Concepts and Trends in Contemporary Design" VLAARDINGEN MUSEUM (The Netherlands, opened 2010) Wrote: – New Vision – Strategic & Business Plans – Organized overall Budget – Assisted in Designing Installations
SMITHSONIAN'S COOPER-HEWITT, NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM, New York, NY - Responsible for All Annual Exhibitions and 250,000 Object Permanent Collections - Supervised staff of 24 with $3M annual budget • Developed ARTISTIC VISION / STRATEGIC PLAN for: Museum Exhibitions – Programming – Acquisitions Strategy . Supervised STAFF of 24: Curatorial / Exhibitions / Registrar / Conservation / Publications • Significantly Upgraded EXHIBITIONS & Exhibition Program: Quality / Diversity / Breadth / Balance • PRODUCED 9 Exhibitions per Year (highly successful) • Achieved 100% FUNDING SUPPORT (helped raise) for every Exhibition that I Curated • Increased Exhibitions ATTENDANCE by 89%, to 227,000 from 120,000 (over 4 year tenure) • Initiated National / International TRAVEL PROGRAM for Exhibitions: Netted $600K+ in NEW REVENUES for Museum • Initiated In-house Publications Department / hired Staff: Netted $80K in NEW REVENUE (per year) • 5 major PUBLICATIONS (accompanying exhibitions) Won NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS • Participated in Master Planning Process / Expanded BUDGET for Building Expansion / Renovation