![]() ![]() We hope to prepare the next generation of leaders for the ever-evolving museums of the 21st century.” The program will also provide unparalleled access to the country’s diverse museum community, including its most gifted directors, trustees and administrators. “By basing this program in New York, we can capitalize on the city’s great cultural resources. “The Center for Curatorial Leadership is the realization of my longstanding desire to empower and nurture the curatorial profession,” says Gund. Philippe de Montebello, Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many other museum directors from across the United States have pledged their time, enthusiasm and support. The initiative is to be funded by Agnes Gund for three years through December 2009. Co-founded by Agnes Gund, President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, and Elizabeth Easton, the former chair of the Department of European Painting at the Brooklyn Museum, the Center for Curatorial Leadership will train curators to assume leadership positions in museums. Is there an upcoming crisis brewing in cultural leadership at fine art museums across the country? A new organization, the Center for Curatorial Leadership, contends that the most successful new museum directors of the future should be chosen from the ranks of today’s curators. He is co-chair of the board of Independent Curators International and works as freelance art curator, writer, and consultant.Co-Founded by Agnes Gund, President Emerita, the Museum of Modern Art, and Elizabeth Easton, Former Chair, Department of European Painting, Brooklyn Museum Harris Works of Art and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Montclair Art Museum. He previously worked as the Assistant Director of O.K. He is also a member of the boards of the Woodman Family Foundation, the Fanny Sanin Trust, and the Jennifer Wynne Reeves Trust. Patterson Sims serves as President of the Leon Polk Smith Foundation, Managing Director of The Saul Steinberg Foundation, and Secretary of CALL (City as Living Lab), set up by Mary Miss. She has won a number of prestigious international awards including an Andy Warhol Foundation grant, Getty Library Research Grant, and a German Academic Exchange Scholarship (DAAD), among others. Guggenheim Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Louis the Museum of Modern Art, New York the Solomon R. During her career, she has also worked in curatorial positions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. ![]() Prior to joining SAM, she was the Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Most recently she was co-curator of A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s.Ĭatharina Manchanda is the Jon & Mary Shirley Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum. She has written extensively on Mark Dion’s work including contributing to Phaidon’s monograph on the artist. Her book Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson was given the George Wittenborn Award by the North America Libraries Association in 1994. She has published widely on contemporary art, public art, and critical museology. Her previous positions include Director, Williams College Museum of Art, Deputy Director of Art/Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum, where she was the artistic lead for its new waterfront Olympic Sculpture Park, Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London and Assistant Director/Curator of The Contemporary in Baltimore. Lisa Graziose Corrin is the Ellen Philips Katz Director of The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Get timed tickets online to visit this new exhibitions, it closes January 18. The exhibition will also include archival photographs, ephemera, and other materials that trace the transformation of SAM, the city, and Washington state. The artworks on view are a fraction of the many works that Jinny and her husband Bagley gifted to SAM over the years, many of which have not previously been displayed at SAM. City of Tomorrow features 64 works created between 1943–2003 that define bold and experimental art movements across the United States and Europe. Amidst their ongoing, distinguished careers both Sims and Corrin served as curators of modern of contemporary art at SAM in years past, and offer unique and personal perspectives on Wright’s legacy and the building of support for contemporary art in Seattle. SAM’s current Curator of Modern of Contemporary Art, Catharina Manchanda, talks with Patterson Sims and Lisa Graziose Corrin. Learn more about the new exhibition, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art that Shaped a New Seattle in this talk between SAM curators past and present who worked closely with Jinny Wright over the years in building the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art. ![]()
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