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Blanton appoints interim director
Ann Wilson, associate director of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas since May 2004, has been appointed interim director of the museum, effective March 1, the university announced today.
Wilson steps into the temporary position just as longtime director Jessie Otto Hite retires at the end of this month after more than 30 years with the university museum.
Prior to joining the Blanton, Wilson managed marketing and visitor services at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, for seven years. Prior to that she was manager of public relations and marketing at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. Wilson was appointed Peer Reviewer for the American Association of Museums in 2007, and is an alumna of the Getty Center’s Museum Leadership Institute.
“Ann Wilson’s long professional experience with art museums and her familiarity with the Blanton Museum make her uniquely qualified to see the museum through a seamless interim period while the College of Fine Arts seeks the next great director of the Blanton,” says Douglas Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts.
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By joyce
February 7, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
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