April 8, 2014

Getty Leadership Institute selects 39 museum executives for the 2014 Executive Education Program

2014 cohort includes 13 international participants and 18 executive directors

The Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University (GLI) announced the selection of 39 museum leaders from the United States and eight countries around the world to participate in the 2014 Executive Education Program for Museum Leaders. Participants, chosen from a pool of 60 applicants, demonstrated an impressive record of achievement in their roles as museum leaders in their first 5-7 years of senior-level management, but face significant issues in the immediate future as they influence policy and effect change at their institutions and in the wider art museum field.

The GLI 2014 Executive Education Program features a comprehensive and intensive curriculum aimed at deepening participants’ leadership skills in order to manage change and forge success in the global museum field. For the first time, the 2014 Program offers a blended learning environment with one week of asynchronous online learning in April and two weeks of classwork in June in residence on the Claremont Graduate University campus in Claremont, California.

Now in its 35th year, the GLI Executive Education Program is the world’s foremost professional development program designed especially for senior-level museum executives. The 2014 cohort comes from collecting and non-collecting visual arts institutions from around the world. Included in the group are executives from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Phillips Collection. University museums are represented by the directors of the art museums at the University of Utah, University of Texas, University of Washington, University of Navarra, Spain, California State University, Long Beach, and Reed College. Among the international participants are leaders from the Royal Academy of Art in London, Chatsworth House and Lismore Castle, United Kingdom, the Helsinki Art Museum in Finland, and the Palace Museum and the Shaanxi History Museum in China.

Participants are primarily museum directors, but also include those who lead museum curatorial, education, exhibitions, collections, research, development and public programming initiatives. Senior level managers from leadership education programs and botanical gardens fill out the class to ensure a diversity of perspectives and experiences for group discussions.

Faculty comes from the top ranks of educational institutions including the University of Southern California, the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Guest lecturers include leaders from southern California art museums. Rigorous coursework includes modules on fundraising, strategy, marketing, and social consumerism. The curriculum blends museum site practicums at Los Angeles area institutions with classroom learning. Faculty members facilitate thoughtful analysis, exercises, and discussions using case studies based on current events and trends. The curriculum fosters learning through both theory and practice and aims to enhance museum leadership at the individual, institutional, and societal levels.

Generously supported by the Getty Foundation, over 1,100 museum professionals from the United States and over 30 additional countries have attended the Executive Education Program since 1979. GLI alumni continue to lead the field as their institutions share the world’s art, culture and history with the public.

GLI 2014 Participants

Christine Buhl Andersen Director KOS Museum of Art in Public Spaces Koge, Denmark	Julie Good Assistant Director for Administration Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA	Kathleen Quinn Director of Exhibitions University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia, PA
Ramona Austin Curator The Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA	Li Huijun Head of Museology Institute Hunan Provincial Museum Changsha, Hunan The People’s Republic of China	Lisa Sasaki Director, Audience & Civic Engagement Center Oakland Museum of California Oakland, CA
Violeta Bronstein Chief Operating Officer TyPA Foundation Cuidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina	Yang Jin, Ph.D. Research Fellow Shaanxi History Museum X’ian City, Province The People’s Republic of China	Christopher Scoates Director University Art Museum Cal State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA
William Burlington Deputy Chairman Chatsworth House and Lismore Castle Chatsworth, United Kingdom	Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg Artistic Director Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Copenhagen, Denmark	Rosanna Sharpe Executive Director Northwest African American Museum Seattle, WA
Kari Conte Director, Programs and Exhibitions International Studio & Curatorial Program Brooklyn, NY	Mary Kershaw Director New Mexico Museum of Art Santa Fe, NM	Virginia Shearer Eleanor McDonald Storza Director of Education High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA
Raymund Cronin Director and CEO Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia, Canada	Miguel Lopez-Remiro, Ph.D. Director University of Navarra Museum Navarre, Spain	Stephanie Snyder Director and Curator Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College Portland, OR
David Dadone Executive Director/Chief Curator Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Boulder, CO	Shen Maosheng Vice Researcher Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum Beijing, The People’s Republic of China	Christine Starkman Curator, Asian Art, Ancient to Contemporary, Arts of the Islamic World The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston, TX
William Dallimore Director of Communications Royal Academy of Arts London, United Kingdom	John Stuart May Chief Advancement Officer Portland Art Museum Portland, OR	Tarja Tanninen-Mattila Director Helsinki Art Museum Helsinki, Finland
Gretchen Dietrich Executive Director Utah Museum of Fine Arts Salt Lake City, UT	Guo Meixia Research Fellow, Publicity and EducatioDepartment The Palace Museum Beijing, The People’s Republic of China	Brian Lee Whisenhunt Executive Director Museum of the Southwest Midland, TX
Kerry Doyle Director Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX	Laurencia Mercado Museologist, Curator/Program Coordinator University Museum of Contemporary Art Mexico City, Mexico	Steven Windhager, Ph.D. Executive Director Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Santa Barbara, CA
Laura Flusche, Ph.D. Executive Director Museum of Design, Atlanta Atlanta, GA	Mark Mills Senior Director of External Affairs for Individual Giving & Visitor Services The Barnes Foundation Philadelphia, PA	Sylvia Wolf Director Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle, WA
Kathryn Glass V.P. of Marketing and Public Engagement Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn, NY	Klaus Ottmann, Ph.D. Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and Curator at Large The Phillips Collection Washington, D.C.	Andrew Wulf, Ph.D. Supervisory Museum Curator Ronald Reagan Presidential Libraryand Museum Simi Valley, CA
Caroline Goeser, Ph.D. W.T. and Louise J. Moran Chair of the Department of Learning and Interpretation The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston, TX	Jutta Page, Ph.D. Curator of Glass and Decorative Arts Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, OH	Katie Ziglar Director, External Affairs Freer and Sackler Galleries Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.

About Claremont Graduate University

Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is the graduate university of the Claremont Colleges. Our five academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award masters and doctoral degrees in 24 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the major problems plaguing our world. A Southern California based graduate school devoted entirely to graduate research and study, CGU boasts a low student-to-faculty ratio.

CGU’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management offers a variety of professional and doctoral degrees, including MBA, EMBA, and the MS in Financial Engineering. It has expanded the traditional path in business education, offering innovative programs, such as the MA in Arts Management, an MA in Politics, Business, and Economics, and its focus on management for creative industries.

Named for the father of modern business management education and world-renowned author and consultant, Peter Drucker, and accomplished global business leader and philanthropist, Masatoshi Ito, the school produces graduates who have a strong sense of social responsibility and a deep desire to make a difference by doing well while also doing good. Additional information is available at www.cgu.edu.

About the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University

The Getty Leadership Institute (GLI) at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) provides educational opportunities designed to enhance the leadership of experienced museum professionals and strengthen institutional capabilities. GLI’s offerings—including transformative educational programs; convening policy makers, academics, and practitioners; and collaborations with international partners—support the museum community by helping current and future museum leaders navigate the field’s most pressing challenges and opportunities. Additional information is available at www.cgu.edu/gli.

Major funding for GLI at CGU is provided by the Getty Foundation

The Getty Foundation fulfills the philanthropic mission of the Getty Trust by supporting individuals and institutions committed to advancing the greater understanding and preservation of the visual arts in Los Angeles and throughout the world. Through strategic grant initiatives, it strengthens art history as a global discipline, promotes the interdisciplinary practice of conservation, increases access to museum and archival collections, and develops current and future leaders in the visual arts. It carries out its work in collaboration with the other Getty Programs to ensure that they individually and collectively achieve maximum effect. Additional information is available at www.getty.edu/foundation.