Karl E. Willers Appointed Director of Nassau County Museum of ArtBy STAN PARCHIN
March 5, 2010
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| Karl E. Willers. Photograph provided by Nassau County Museum of Art. |
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Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) announced today the appointment of Karl. E. Willers as its new Director. He succeeds Constance Schwartz, now the museum's Director Emeritus who will be engaged in fundraising for NCMA's capital campaign.
EducationKarl Emil Willers earned his B.A. from the College of Wooster and his M.B.A. in management and Ph.D. in art history from Yale University. The recipient of many awards and fellowships, Dr. Willers' academic interests lie in American and European art from the late 18th Century to the present.
ExperienceWillers was Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Downtown Branch during the 1980s. There he organized many special exhibitions of 20th-century American art. Following completion of his doctorate, he returned to the museum as its Associate Curator and Administrative Coordinator for
The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000 (1999-2000). He later worked as Chief Curator and Curator of European Art at the Norton Museum of Art, Curator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at the State University of New York-New Paltz and Executive Director of the Newport Art Museum.