Contemporary Jewish Museum names Chad Coerver Executive Director
Coerver currently serves as the Chief Education and Community Engagement Officer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.-The Contemporary Jewish Museum today announced that Chad Coerver has been named Executive Director. Coerver currently serves as the Chief Education and Community Engagement Officer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where he developed a creative and human-centered approach to expanding audiences, enhancing the visitor experience, and increasing access to the museum. Coerver will begin in his new role at The CJM on September 1, 2021.
Museums must evolve to reach audiences where they are this has become ever more clear in the last 18 months. In his role at SFMOMA, Chad Coerver has demonstrated tremendous success in engaging new audiences in new ways, said Joyce Linker, Chair of The CJMs Board of Trustees. We are thrilled that Chad will lead The CJ
Short play to premiere Friday at Willoughby Park
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Travis Lane McDiffett, Nina Gabianelli and Mike Monroney performing A Briefly Complete History of Aspen.“ An updated version will debut Friday in Willoughby Park (Courtesy Aspen Historical Society)
The Aspen Historical Society has updated its popular “A Briefly Complete History of Aspen” and will premiere the new play Friday.
The new version of this factual but funny and madcap run through local history now stretches from the days of the Utes up through the town’s mining and skiing eras to recent events like the 2018 Lake Christine Fire and the ongoing pandemic and real estate boom. It still runs under an hour.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts mourns the death of Director Emeritus Mark M. Johnson
Mark Johnson, 2016. Photograph by Darren Freeman.
MONTGOMERY, AL
.- The Board, staff, and community of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts shared the news of the death of Director Emeritus Mark M. Johnson, who died on Friday, June 25, 2021, after a long illness. Johnson, who was an esteemed scholar and museum director, led the MMFA from 1994 until his retirement in 2017 when, as the longest-serving chief executive of the institution, he was named the Museums first Director Emeritus. Over the course of his tenure, Johnson shaped the institution in many ways, including the addition of hundreds of works of art to the collection, organizing a number of exhibitions and publications, and leading two significant expansions of the Museum.
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Arana Shapiro
Arana Shapiro joined Games for Change in 2019 as the Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer where she oversees the day-to-day operations of the organization as well as providing strategic and programmatic support on all learning initiatives. Arana is the former Executive Director of Institute of Play, a NYC-based nonprofit organization that focused on transforming education through games and play. At IOP Arana led the Institute’s strategy, growth, development, and operations. She also oversaw the Institute’s major initiatives in relation to school design, leadership, and school-based partnerships. She has over twenty years of experience in education and nonprofit management, as a teacher, educational technologist, curriculum developer, and organizational leader. Arana was part of the founding team of school designers that opened the Institute of Play’s flagship project, NYC public School, Quest to Learn, and is co-author of Quest to Learn: Growing a S