A view of the entrance to the Adirondack Experience in Blue Mountain Lake, New York. Courtesy the Adirondack Experience.

From left to right: Corey Madden, Monterey Museum of Art.; Deborah Smith, Arts Council Collection.;  Charlotte van Leerdam, TEFAF.,  Jutta-Annette Page, Barry Art Museum.

The Adirondack Experience, formerly the Adirondack Museum, has announced a $4 million campaign for its Adirondack Creativity initiative. The Blue Mountain Lake, New York, museum will undergo renovations to its original building, in addition to a 5,800-square-foot exhibition space dedicated to the museum’s fine and decorative art collection…The Monterey Museum of Art recently named Corey Madden its interim executive director. Madden previously served as executive director for the Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem…Michael C. Hughes has been appointed vice president, head of department for Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art at Bonhams. Hughes will be based at the auction house’s New York location…Joseph C. Thompson, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art’s founding director since 1998, steps down from his post at the end of October…The Vancouver Art Gallery in British Columbia has named Tarah Hogue its new Indigenous advisor. In this position, Hogue is poised to work closely with the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Indigenous Relations Working Group to enhance the development and execution of various of Indigenous initiatives at the Gallery…The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans announced the promotion of three staff members: Dorcas Omojola is the museum’s new director of finance and administration, Claire Wilkinson is now director of development and Amanda Rose is director of programming and operations…The Arts Council Collection has appointed Deborah Smith its next director. Smith comes to the Arts Council Collection with more than two decades of experience in exhibition curation and public programs development…TEFAF has recently announced the appointment of Charlotte van Leerdam as its new managing director. Previously, Van Leerdam worked as chief financial officer for TEFAF, having begun in 2019…Jutta-Annette Page, executive director of the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, retired in the beginning of October…Charlotte Potter Kasic has been appointed interim director at the Barry Art Museum…The Peabody Essex Museum is in the process of creating a curatorial leadership team, expanding the roles of five staff members with the following appointments: Petra Slinkard, the Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion and Textiles, is now director of curatorial affairs; Karina Corrigan, the H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art, is Associate Director – Collections; Daniel Finamore, the Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History, is Associate Director – Exhibitions; Trevor Smith, Curator of the Present Tense, is Associate Director – Multisensory Experience; and Siddhartha Shah, Curator of Indian and South Asian Art, has been named Director of Education and Civic Engagement…After serving more than two decades as director of the Saint Louis Art Museum, Brent R. Benjamin has announced his intention to retire in mid 2021.—

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