|
INTRODUCTION ICOM-US Members can view the recording here.BiosElaine Heumann Gurian Tom Loughman Dr. Loughman is a scholar of Italian art and has lectured and published particularly on the art, architecture, patronage, and urbanism in early renaissance Florence. Additionally, he has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues on artists as diverse as Claude Monet, Jéan-Leon Gérôme, Jusepe de Ribera, and Nicolas Poussin. As a curator, he has spearheaded a number of projects highlighting Baroque art in Naples, printmaking in twentieth century Philadelphia, a focus on sculptors as draftsmen, ancient bronzes from China, as well as the global tour of the Clark’s core collection. Other initiatives have focused on creating a corpus of early Italian paintings and the American Southwest, a course on Giotto Di Bondone, and an exhibition and related catalogue examining Sterling Clark’s career as a military officer and explorer in late Imperial China. Dr. Loughman earned his AB from Georgetown University where he was a George F. Baker Scholar; the MA from Williams College; and PhD from Rutgers University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Kress Fellow. He lives in the Hartford area with his wife and two daughters. Rick West W. Richard West, Jr. serves as the President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, and is Director Emeritus and Founding Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and a member of the Southern Cheyenne Society of Peace Chiefs. West currently is a member of the Board of Directors of ICOM-US, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, and Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. He previously served on the Boards of the Ford Foundation, Stanford University, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. He also was Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Alliance of Museums (1998 – 2000) and Vice President of the International Council of Museums (2007 – 2010). Alejandra Peña Gutierrez Her experience in the field of museums starts in Mexico City as Head of the Museography Department of the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, later she worked as Associate Curator for the Museo de Arte Moderno, then as Deputy Director at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes where later she also held the position of Director. In 2001 she was appointed Deputy Director General of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) in Mexico. She worked on the conception and development of the Center for Design, Cinema and Television, where she was in charge at the beginning of the Academic Coordination and later of directing the Continuing Education Program. She was Executive Assistant to the General Director of INBA, then Director of Cultural Promotion for the Directorate General of Educational and Cultural Collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2009 to 2012, she held the position of Deputy Director General of Artistic Heritage for INBA. During the second half of 2012, she moved to Puerto Rico to become the Deputy Director of the Museo de Arte de Ponce; museum of which she was appointed Executive Director in September 2013. Alejandra Peña has been part of the ICOM-US Board since 2018, where she is now Co-Chair of the Programing Committee. In January 2020 she was appointed Member of the Disaster Risk Management Standing Committee (DRMC) which advises the Executive Board and the Advisory Council of ICOM. Kate Quinn |
