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Art Gallery Director Interviews
May 7, 2012
MACOMB, IL -- Three candidates for the Western Illinois University University Art Gallery director position will be on WIU's campuses for interviews today (May 7), Tuesday, May 8 and Thursday-Friday, May 10-11.
Candidates include Ann Marie Hayes-Hawkinson, curator of education at the Figge Art Museum (formerly Davenport Museum of Art); Sue Scott, curator of Western Illinois Museum; and Charles Steiner, former director of Wichita Art Museum.
Hayes-Hawkinson will interview today (May 7). A classroom presentation, which is open to the campus community, will be held in Garwood Hall 10 at 11 a.m.
She has served as curator of education at the Figge since 2005. She has also served as an adjunct instructor in Western's museum studies program at the WIU-QC campus since 2008. Hayes-Hawkinson served as the curator of education at the Davenport Museum of Art from 1991-2005, and was a curatorial assistant at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS in Spring 1991. She received a master of arts degree and a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Kansas.
Scott will interview May 8. A classroom presentation will be held in Garwood Hall 10 at 11 a.m.
She has served as curator of the Western Illinois Museum since 2008. Previously she served with the iCI (Independent Curators International) in New York City from 2000-2008, and as assistant director of the Ten in One Gallery in NYC from 1997-2000. She has also served as a lecturer at Triton College, Lake Forest College and Northwestern University. She received a master of fine arts degree from Northwestern University, a bachelor of fine arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor's degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Steiner will interview May 10-11. A classroom presentation will be held in Garwood Hall 10 at 11:05 a.m. May 11.
He has served as the director of the Wichita Art Museum from January 2000 to December 2011. Previously he was the associate director (1990-1999) and assistant director (1986-1990) of The Princeton University Art Museum, and assistant museum educator (1984-1986) and assistant museum educator (1977-1984) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He received a master of fine arts degree from The George Washington University and his bachelor of fine arts degree from Cornell University.
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