Who Wants to Be a Museum Director? CCL Announces Curator-Mentor Match-Ups

Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
Mentor: Madeleine Grynsztejn, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Residency: Olga Viso, Director, Walker Art Center

Gloria Groom, Curator of 19th Century European Painting, Art Institute of Chicago
Mentor: Deborah Card, President, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Residency: Mimi Gardner Gates, Director, Seattle Art Museum

Maxwell Hearn, Curator, Department of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mentor: William M. Griswold, Director, Morgan Library & Museum
Residency: James Cuno, Director, Art Institute of Chicago

Robin Held, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections, Frye Art Museum
Mentor: Thomas W. Lentz, Director, Harvard Art Museums
Residency: Joseph Helfenstein, Director, Menil Collection

Eik Kahng, Curator and Head of the Department of 18th and 19th Century Art, Walters Art Museum
Mentor: Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Residency: Kaywin Feldman, Director and President, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Mary-Kay Lombino, Chief Curator, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Mentor: Julián Zugazagoitia, Director and Chief Executive Officer, El Museo del Barrio
Residency: Adam Weinberg, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art

Kevin Salatino, Curator and Department Head, Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mentor: Glenn D. Lowry, Director, Museum of Modern Art
Residency: Sir Nicholas Serota, Tate, England

Britt Salvesen, Director and Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Mentor: Ann Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum
Residency: Neal Benezra, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Rochelle Steiner, Director, Public Art Fund
Mentor: Michael Conforti, Director, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Residency: Michael Govan, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Matthew Welch, Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs; Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Mentor: Michael E. Shapiro, Director, High Museum of Art
Residency: Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Indianapolis Museum of Art