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AAMC & AAMC Foundation Adds Four Trustees To Its Board

Tuesday, September 14, 2021   (0 Comments)
Posted by: Casey Collier

AAMC & AAMC FOUNDATION ADDS FOUR TRUSTEES TO ITS BOARD

NEW YORK, NY, September 14, 2021 – The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Foundation has appointed four new Trustees At Large who will begin their service on January 1, 2022.  Adding to a deeply engaged leadership, the new Board members bring a range of experiences and expertise. The new Trustees At Large are:
  • Tuliza Fleming, Interim Chief Curator of Visual Arts, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
  • Lauren Haynes, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
  • Wolfram Koeppe, Marina Kellen French Senior Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Carolyn Royston, Chief Experience Officer, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
"On behalf of the Trustees and team, I am pleased to welcome four new members to our Board,” noted Marianne Lamonaca, Independent Curator, and President, Board of Trustees, AAMC & AAMC Foundation.  “This diverse group of talented professionals brings their experience and leadership in curatorial, digital, and museum matters that will enhance our ability to advocate for and serve non-profit art curators in all disciplines. Through their work, each has shown a commitment to broadening our understanding of art history, museum audiences, and the role of the museum in public life.” 

Concluding their service on the Board of Trustees at the end of 2021 are Sharon Matt Atkins, Deputy Director of Art, Brooklyn Museum; Madhuvanti Ghose, Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan Art, Arts of Asia, Art Institute of Chicago; C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Ann Yonemura, Curator Emeritus, Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Newly Elected Trustees

Tuliza Fleming is the Interim Chief Curator of Visual Arts
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.  During her tenure, she played a critical role in building the Museum’s art collection, served as lead curator for Visual Art and the American Experience (2016), curated Clementine Hunter: Life on Melrose Plantation (2018), and co-curated Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment (2010).  Prior to her current position, she was the Associate Curator of American Art at the Dayton Art Institute where she organized exhibitions such as The Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Monet and the Age of American Impressionism.  

Fleming received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Maryland.  Her publications include, “Visual Art and the American Experience: Creating an Art Gallery in a History and Culture Museum,” “The Convergence of Aesthetics, Politics, and Culture: Jeff Donaldson’s Wives of Shango,” and Breaking Racial Barriers: African American Portraits in the Harmon Foundation Collection.
Lauren Haynes is the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Prior to joining the Nasher in June 2021, Haynes was Director of Artist Initiatives and Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas. Haynes led the curatorial team for State of the Art 2020, the second iteration of State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now (2014), which opened at both Crystal Bridges and the Momentary in February 2020. Haynes’s recent curatorial projects include Kenny Rivero: The Floor is Crooked (2021); Crystal Bridges at 10 (2021); Sarah Cain: In Nature (2021); Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today (2019) and The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art (2018). Prior to joining Crystal Bridges, Haynes spent nearly a decade at The Studio Museum in Harlem. As a specialist in African-American contemporary art, Haynes curated dozens of exhibitions at the Studio Museum and contemporary art institutions in New York. Haynes was a 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow and a recipient of a 2020 ArtTable New Leadership Award.
Carolyn Royston is Chief Experience Officer, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Across a 25-year career in UK and US museums, Carolyn has blazed digital trails across cultural organizations to transform the way they use technology to effect change. In 2018, she joined Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, USA) as Chief Experience Officer, a new role that aims to seamlessly weave the digital and the physical experience together to create an integrated visitor experience. Prior to Cooper Hewitt, she served as inaugural Director of Digital and Information Services at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, USA) where she oversaw the launch of a new award-winning website and led new initiatives to improve the visitor experience. Carolyn previously worked as an independent consultant working mainly with senior management teams in the cultural, heritage and performance arts sectors to help them to think strategically about how best to transform the way they approach the use of digital technologies to effect change. She was also Head of Digital at Imperial War Museums, UK and Project Director of the National Museums Online Learning Project, a flagship project led by the V&A and working in partnership with nine UK national museums.  Carolyn completed the Oxford Cultural Leadership Programme (OCL) in April 2021 and was a Getty Leadership Institute (GLI) Fellow in 2017. She also served as President of MCN (Museum Computer Network) in 2017 in the 50th anniversary year of the organization, leading a volunteer board of senior level museum technologists and a small Executive team representing information professionals from cultural sector institutions around the world.
Wolfram Koeppe is the Marina Kellen French Senior Curator European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wolfram  joined The Met in 1992 after working at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He lectures and teaches, is involved in The Met's media programs, and is known for his extensive development efforts. Among his exhibitions are the award-winning Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture by the Roentgens (2012; AAMC prize for Outstanding Monographic Catalogue). This catalog became a rare book and a video clip of the Berlin cabinet went viral on YouTube with almost fifteen million hits. He organized Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe (2008; voted "Exhibition of the Year" by Apollo Magazine) and Making Marvels. Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe (2019-20). Many of his acquisitions are included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (2012). He is currently working on the reinstallations of the Northern Renaissance Gallery and The Central European galleries at The Met.
About AAMC & AAMC Foundation 
Founded in 2001, the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Foundation advances the curatorial field through forward-looking leadership in development and educational opportunities for learning and connecting at every stage of a curator’s career. In partnership with more than 1,300 members, we serve as a resource for the profession’s best practices, codes of conduct and ethical standards. We provide a platform for the exchange of a broad range of information on critical issues driving the field, including diversity and inclusion, digital innovation, artistic voices and histories, and marketing and audience engagement. Our members include independent curators and staff members from 500+ art organizations and museums in eighteen countries, ranging from leading national institutions to community-based art organizations. Through our work we serve members, professional colleagues, and the public, and our outreach reflects diverse perspectives within the field, often examining strategic directions of curatorial practice and art organization management. With a network spanning the globe, we are an ambassador and advocate for all art curators and the leading champion of their significant contributions.

CONTACT
Judith Pineiro, Executive Director, judith.pineiro@artcurators.org

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