The Hood Museum of Artwork at Dartmouth Faculty has named Kim Conaty, the chief curator of the Whitney Museum in New York as its subsequent director. She’s going to start within the function on October 27.
Contay has spent practically a decade on the Whitney, becoming a member of in 2017 as curator of drawings and prints. She was promoted to chief curator in 2024. Throughout her tenure on the museum, she organized exhibitions on Edward Hopper, Mary Corse, and Ruth Asawa.
Contay turns into the eighth director to imagine the highest place and succeeds John Stomberg, who retired earlier this month after a decade within the function. He oversaw the establishment’s $50 million enlargement, which doubled its footprint and opened in 2019.
Associated Articles
“The Hood Museum stands out as a spot the place discovery is prioritized and viewers of all backgrounds and ranges of expertise can discover factors of entry,” Contay stated in an announcement. “The museum is at an thrilling juncture, with a still-new constructing, great collections, and an amazing staff on the coronary heart of Dartmouth’s Arts District. I’m thrilled for the chance to steer the museum into its subsequent chapter.”
In an announcement, Santiago Schnell, Dartmouth’s chief tutorial officer and chief price range officer, known as Contay is an “distinctive chief and visionary curator who understands that magnificence and the humanities are central to the lifetime of a college and to our mission of forming entire individuals and fostering human connections.” He added that she brings “the data and expertise wanted to steer the Hood Museum in growing its subsequent strategic plan and persevering with to form its identification as a middle for authentic scholarship and wealthy pupil and group engagement.”
Dartmouth Faculty’s affiliate dean for the humanities and humanities Colleen Boggs chaired the search committee with assist from the agency Isaacson, Miller. Boggs stated Conaty stood out in a “very aggressive search, she stood out because the extremely credentialed and forward-thinking chief we had been hoping to search out” and that she might be an “unimaginable advocate for advancing the humanities writ massive at Dartmouth.”
