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Center for Curatorial Leadership Class of 2010
By STAN PARCHIN
October 20, 2009
New York's Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), a non-profit organization dedicated to the rigorous training of prominent art museum professionals in the United States, announced the names of 12 outstanding participants who comprise its Class of 2010. The fellows are:
| Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art, New York; |
| Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio, New York; |
| Malcolm Daniel, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; |
| Kristina van Dyck, Associate Curator for Collections and Research, Menil Collection, Houston; |
| Kathleen Forde, Curator of Time-based Visual Arts, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, New York; |
| Alison de Lima Greene, Curator, Contemporary Art & Special Projects, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; |
| Frederick Ilchman, Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; |
| Chiyo Ishikawa, Deputy Director for Art & Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture, Seattle Art Museum; |
| Alisa LaGamma, Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; |
| Lisa E. Rotondo-McCord, Assistant Director for Art & Curator of Asian Art, New Orleans Museum of Art; |
| Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum at Duke University; and |
| Stephan Wolohojian, Landon and Lavinia Clay Curator and Department Head, Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Harvard Art Museum (Fogg). |
Graduates include Gary Tinterow, Curator in Charge of Nineteenth-century, Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Kevin Salatino, Curator and Department Head, Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Center for Curatorial Leadership
The Center for Curatorial Leadership's formation was announced on June 29, 2007 by Agnes Gund, President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Elizabeth Easton, the former Chair of the Department of European Painting at the Brooklyn Museum. Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other American museum directors endorsed the CCL's program from its inception. The organization's activities are supported financially by contributions from Agnes Gund, Eugene Thaw and the Matisse Foundation.
Curatorial Curriculum
Each student is mentored for the entire six-month fellowship.
Instruction, fully funded by the CCL, is provided by the faculty of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business as well as accomplished museum directors, administrators and trustees from around the United States.
The MBA-level curriculum commences on January 4, 2010 with a two-week series of intensive mini-courses devoted to non-profit management, finance, fundraising, board development, long-range and short-term planning, cultural properties law and other pertinent subjects. The Spring curriculum entails a one-week residency in a museum other than the one that employs the fellow. A final week of study occurs in June.
Museum directors, curators and trustees conduct executive leadership seminars throughout the semester. Successful completion of the Center for Curatorial Leadership's program, designed to enhance curators' ability to compete successfully for future museum directorships, leads to a professional certificate.
Since 2008, two CCL fellows were named art museum directors, four were promoted to deputy-director or associate director rank, two were promoted to chief curator and three others attained more senior positions.