UMFA - Key Persons
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- Head Photographer, Digital Assets Manager
Alana Wolf is an art historian pursuing questions about technology, perception, and place. She arrived in Salt Lake City in 2018 as the UMFA's collections research curator where she works on "Landscape, Land Art and the American West" and is particularly fond of tuxedo cats.
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- Co - Director of Learning and Engagement, K - 12 and Family Programs
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- Co - Director of Learning and Engagement, Adult and University Programs
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- Visitor Services Supervisor
David Dee, executive director from 2002 to 2009, led the now significantly expanded UMFA through a pivotal period that included the professionalization of staff and operations, key acquisitions of art across the Museum's collections, and the presentation of some of the Museum's most popular exhibitions, including Monet to Picasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2008).
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- Manager of Adult and University Programs
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- Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
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- Director of Marketing and Communications
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- Individual Giving Manager
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- Member of the Board
- the Marcia and John Price Executive Director
Gretchen Dietrich has led UMFA as executive director since 2010. Under her leadership, the Museum has flourished, with increased attendance, audience engagement and community outreach, higher revenues and new institutional support, and an elevated national profile. From 2015-2018, Dietrich served on the board of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). In fall 2019 she was selected to join the inaugural board of directors for Art Bridges, a new foundation dedicated to expanding access to American art across the country.
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- Director of External Relations
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- Communications Coordinator
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- Development Officer, Grants and Institutional Giving
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- Archives Metadata Librarian
As a librarian and archivist, most of my time is spent preserving, organizing, and sharing objects in the library's collection-rarely do I become involved in the curatorial responsibilities of interpreting and displaying the objects' content. An outsider to the professional curatorial role, I was welcomed into the Utah Museum of Fine Arts to assist with the creation of Utah Women Working for Better Days! ACME Lab exhibition, which is primarily comprised of items (and reproductions of items) from the J. Willard Marriott Library special collections.
My reflections accompany and intertwine those written in UMFA curator Alana Wolf's excellent blog about the process of researching and curating this exhibition. Our posts are inspired by the challenge of trying to-in this relatively small exhibition-represent the complexity and richness of the activism of Utah women, while managing frustrations at still being unable to locate vital parts of the historic record in the library's collections. Looking back on the research and planning process of curating this exhibition, I had several takeaways:
Organizing this exhibition by ways to take action rather than a narrative structure was a very important part of the process; there is no single "story" that we could tell of women's suffrage or civic engagement.
As in the UMFA's collection, there are gaps in the library's special collections in documenting the voices of communities of color in Utah.
Commitment to this type of collaborative, exhibition-based engagement with the library's special collections is vital to assessing those gaps and bringing the collections into the public sphere.
Jessica Breiman is the art and archives metadata librarian, jointly appointed to J. Willard Marriott Library and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Prior to this position, she was a moving image and sound archivist in J. Willard Marriott Library's special collections.
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- Manager of School and Teacher Programs
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- Manager of Studio Programs
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- Associate Curator of Collections
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- Protection Services Supervisor
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- Web and Digital Media Coordinator
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- Director of Planning and Program
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- Director of Collections, Conservator
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- Curator of Education, Family Programs, Visitor Experience, and Community Outreach
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- President, 1992, Ink on Paper, 11 in. X 8 ½ in., Purchased With Funds from the Paul L. and Phyllis C. Wattis Fund, UMFA2019.1.1
Zoe Leonard, I want a president, 1992, ink on paper, 11 in. x 8 ½ in., Purchased with funds from the Paul L. and Phyllis C. Wattis Fund, UMFA2019.1.1.