Paul Johnson Appointed Deputy Director for Development at Brooklyn Museum
By STAN PARCHIN
March 11, 2010
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| Paul Johnson. Photograph provided by Brooklyn Museum. |
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Brooklyn Museum announced today the appointment of longtime fundraiser Paul Johnson as its new Deputy Director for Development, effective mid-April 2010.
Education
Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from St. Olaf College and a Master of Music degree in Choral Music from the University of Southern California.
Experience
Early in his career, Johnson held development positions at the New York University School of Medicine and Columbia University. He then ran the development and membership program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. There he organized the campaigns to build the museum's new Visitor and Information Center at its Bayou Bend campus, establish its new Department of Arts of the Islamic Worlds and provide support for many special exhibitions, among them The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800-1920 (2007). He helped to fund the International Center for the Arts of the Americas and create the institution's first planned giving society. Under his aegis, the museum saw double-digit growth of its membership and annual giving programs.
Paul Johnson was later the Senior Vice President for Business Development and Director of Sotheby's Los Angeles. He also served as Deputy Director for External Affairs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Director of Development at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Most recently, Johnson worked with the Getty Foundation and Research Institute as a consultant on fundraising for the enormously complex 2011 project Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, a first-time collaboration of more than 40 visual and performing arts institutions throughout Southern California.