Getty Leadership Institute Announces International Selection of Museum Executives and Managers for 2017 Executive Education Programs
New cohorts include 17 participants from nine countries and 19 directors and curators
CLAREMONT, Calif., April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Getty Leadership Institute (GLI) at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) has announced the selection of 62 museum leaders to participate in its 2017 Executive Education Programs for Museum Leaders.
This year's selection is an international group, which includes participants from the United States and eight other countries representing North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. These participants comprise cohorts for two programs: GLI 2017 for seasoned museum executives and NextGen 2017 for mid-level managers tapped as the next generation of museum leaders. Participants are largely from visual arts and cultural organizations.
This year's program features a diverse and impressive representation of professionals from across the museum enterprise, including 19 museum directors and curators, as well as top leadership in education, exhibitions, development, planning and administration, and technology. Competitive entry into both programs requires nominations and support from host institutions and recommendations from recognized leaders in the museum field. Selection criteria also includes candidates' detailed analysis of the challenges they face in the immediate future; commitment to the museum field; creativity; broad strategic thinking; and the ability to influence policy and affect change at their institutions.
Faculty comes from the top ranks of educational institutions including the University of Southern California, the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at CGU. Guest lecturers in the GLI programs include researchers, practitioners, and specialists in leadership development, fundraising, marketing, audience engagement and development, and organizational and team development. The curriculum fosters learning through both theory and practice and aims to enhance museum leadership at the individual, institutional, and societal levels.
GLI 2017: The Experience, Participant Backgrounds
GLI 2017 targets museum executives in their first five to seven years in a new senior-level leadership position.
The curriculum includes modules on leadership self-assessment and development, strategic alignment and planning, mergers and alliances, organizational development, diversity and inclusion, and fundraising. The intensive and rigorous curriculum aims at deepening participants' leadership skills to enhance their abilities to navigate challenges at their museums as well as advance the museum field at large. Participants are interested in challenges in the field pertaining to reach and relevance, branding, funding, digital technology, and board relations. Participants receive support in devising their strategic solutions with one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions. The 2017 program offers a blended learning environment that includes two weeks of asynchronous online learning in May and two weeks of classwork during a June residency on the CGU campus in Claremont, California, as well as practicum sessions and field trips to Southern California art and cultural institutions.
Participants in the 2017 cohort come from collecting and non-collecting visual arts and cultural institutions and specialized museums from around the world. Included in the group are executives from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Royal Academy of Arts; the Nanjing Museum, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Hermitage Amsterdam. Three participants come from institutions with operating budgets over $50 million annually, 12 with budgets over $10 million, 8 with budgets above $3 million, and 13 with budgets below $3 million.
Participants in the 36-member (29 women and seven men) cohort include 14 museum directors, CEOs, presidents, vice presidents and deputy directors, as well as those who head curatorial, education, exhibitions, development, conservation, finance, operations, and digital initiatives. Senior-level managers from cultural heritage and mixed discipline institutions fill out the class to ensure a diversity of perspectives and experiences for group discussions. Participants have worked in the museum field for 17 years on average; have been in their current positions for an average of five years and have a median age of 48.
About GLI
Now in its 38th year and generously supported by the Getty Foundation, GLI is the world's premier learning and thought leadership network for museum leaders. GLI boasts over 1,600 alumni from 40 countries around the globe. This year's programs deliver robust and intensive curricula in a blended learning format combining online and residency modules. The residency programs take place at the Claremont Graduate University campus in Claremont, California, with site visits to Southern California art and cultural institutions.
In addition, GLI produces NextGen Now, a new program for emerging professionals in their first 10 years in the field. This program first ran in October 2015. It convened 16 alumni of the Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program from primarily Southern California visual arts and cultural organizations for two weeks of blended learning that included modules on design thinking, diversity, team management, and leadership.
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| Lynne Ambrosini Director of Curatorial Affairs Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati, OH Tzo Zen Ang Director of Strategy and Operations Royal Academy of Arts London, England Anne Barrett Director of Collections and Exhibitions Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Chicago, IL Julie Bevan Executive Director Nanaimo Art Gallery Nanaimo, BC, Canada Genny Boccardo-Dubey Deputy Director Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, CA Jorrit Britschgi Director of Exhibitions, Collections and Research Rubin Museum of Art New York, NY Gylbert Coker Executive Director The Mitchell Young Anderson Thomasville, GA Elizabeth Cotton Head of Human History Auckland Museum Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand Marie-Dominique De Keersmaecker Head of Cultural partnerships & Programmes International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum Genève, Switzerland Paul Donnelly Associate Director Sydney University Museums Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dawn Salerno Deputy Director for Public Engagement Mystic Museum of Art Mystic, CT Elsa Smithgall Curator The Phillips Collection Washington, DC |
Kristina Durocher Director Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire Durham, NH Michael Edson Co-Founder / Associate Director / Head of Digital The Museum for the United Nations – UN Live Copenhagen, Denmark Jacqueline Grandjean Executive Director Oude Kerk Amsterdam, NL, Netherlands Penni Hall Head, Administration M+ Hong Kong, China Linda C. Harrison Executive Director Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco, CA Colleen Higginbotham Director of Visitor Services Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA Rock Hushka Chief Curator Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, WA Sarah Jesse Associate Vice President, Education Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA Sean Kelley Senior Vice President, Director of Interpretation Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Philadelphia, PA Meta Knol Director Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Laine Snyder Executive Director Zanesville Museum of Art Zanesville, OH Michele Urton Exhibitions Manager Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA Hunter Wright Venture Innovation Director Minneapolis Institute of Art Minneapolis, MN
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Xiaofan Li Associate Professor Kunming Museum Kunming, Yunnan, China Brian Mancuso Director of Exhibits Conner Prairie Fishers, IN Cindy Martinez Chief Financial Officer Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford, CT Sue Medway Director Chelsea Physic Garden London, United Kingdom Paul Mosterd Deputy Director Hermitage Amsterdam Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands Ellen Owens Director of Learning Programs University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia, PA Heather Pesanti Senior Curator The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria Austin, TX Jordana Pomeroy Director Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum Miami, FL Deborah Roldan Assistant Director, Exhibitions The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston, TX Carolyn Royston Director of Digital and Information Services Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA
Jing Zheng Associate Director Nanjing Museum Nanjing, Jiangsu, China |
NextGen 2017
NextGen 2017 has been designed for mid-level staff in their first three to five years as managers. Modules introduce participants to concepts and practical skill-building in the areas of leadership, audience engagement, time management, fundraising, organizational development, and design thinking and strategy. Participants are interested in issues of audience engagement, global connectivity, diversity, organizational management, and leadership development. NextGen 2017 is a blended learning course running in March 2017 with one week of asynchronous online learning followed by one week in residence on the Claremont Graduate University campus.
The NextGen cohort is 26 members strong (nineteen women and 7 men) and included museum professionals from the United States, Abu Dhabi, Australia, and New Zealand. On average, the students were 35 years old, and were in their positions for 2.75 years, with 8.5 year of experience in the field. Institutions represented by the cohort include the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Jewish Museum.
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Joud Al Marar Programme Officer Louvre Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Noura Al Mubarak Programmes Coordinator Zayed National Museum Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Chris Alexander Digital Media Manager Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Stanford, CA Desmond Bertrand-Pitts Executive Director Buffalo Soldiers National Museum Houston, TX Claire Blaylock Executive Director Museum of the Oregon Territory Oregon City, OR Megan DiRienzo Interpretive Planner Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI
Devi Noor Curatorial Assistant, American Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA Jennifer Ortiz Museum Services Manager Utah Division of Arts & Museums Salt Lake City, UT Klaudio Rodriguez Curator Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum Miami, FL |
Erin Dougherty Head of Public Programs and Community Engagement High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA Seth Feman Curator of Exhibitions and Acting Curator of Photography The Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA Heather Flaherty Curator of Education The Trout Gallery Carlisle, PA Michelle Gallagher Roberts Head of Registration & Collections New Mexico Museum of Art Santa Fe, NM Victoria Gerard Curator of Collections and Special Exhibitions Bowers Museum Santa Ana, CA Kristin Hayashi Curatorial Assistant, History Dept. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Los Angeles, CA
Samantha Sung Graphic Designer Colburn School Los Angeles Kelly Taxter Associate Curator The Jewish Museum New York, NY Molleen Theodore Associate Curator of Programs Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT |
Alexa Kim Program Associate Self Help Graphics & Art Los Angeles, CA Ryan King Digital Experience Designer Smithsonian Freer|Sackler Museum of Asian Art Washington, DC Jenny Leung Director of Communications Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco San Francisco, CA Nisa Mackie Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN Bridget Mosley Registrar Museum of Transport and Technology Auckland, New Zealand Philip Nadasdy Manager of Public Programs Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA Ryan Waggoner Collections Photographer Spencer Museum of Art Lawrence, KS Helen Walpole Curator National Sports Museum East Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
About Claremont Graduate University
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of a select few American universities devoted solely to graduate-level education with more than 2,000 students pursuing graduate degrees in more than 20 distinct areas of study. The university belongs to a consortium of schools in Southern California that includes Pomona College, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College, Scripps College, Harvey Mudd College, and Keck Graduate Institute. Students are encouraged to look beyond the traditional disciplinary divisions and define their own unique program of study—CGU's transdisciplinary trademark. CGU's other distinctions include serving as the home of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and the annual Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards.
About the Drucker School of Management and
the Arts Management and Arts Business programs
The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management offers a variety of professional degrees, including MBA, PMBA, EMBA, and the MS in Financial Engineering. Named for the father of modern business management education and world-renowned author and consultant, Peter Drucker, and accomplished global business leader and philanthropist, Masatoshi Ito, the school produces graduates who have a strong sense of social responsibility and a deep desire to make a difference. The school has expanded the traditional path in business education by offering innovative programs focused in the Creative Industries. The Arts Management and Arts Business programs bring together core values and a unique philosophy about business, leadership and management in the arts. A collaboration between Sotheby's Institute of Art, the School of Arts & Humanities, the Drucker School of Management, and the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University, the programs feature an MA degree in Art Business and in Arts Management with a concentration in non-profit management, art museum management, or the management of media, entertainment, and the performing arts.
Major funding for GLI at CGU is provided by the Getty Foundation
The Getty Foundation fulfills the philanthropic mission of the Getty Trust by supporting individuals and institutions committed to advancing the greater understanding and preservation of the visual arts in Los Angeles and throughout the world. Through strategic grant initiatives, it strengthens art history as a global discipline, promotes the interdisciplinary practice of conservation, increases access to museum and archival collections, and develops current and future leaders in the visual arts. It carries out its work in collaboration with the other Getty programs to ensure that they individually and collectively achieve maximum effect. Additional information is available at www.getty.edu/foundation.
Contact:
Melody Kanschat
Executive Director
Getty Leadership Institute
Claremont Graduate University
909-607-9477
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