Parrish Art Museum Names Mónica Ramírez-Montagut Director – RisePEI

Simply because the season within the Hamptons opens for the summer time, the Parrish Artwork Museum in Water Mill introduced that it had discovered new director in Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, the chief of the Eli and Edythe Broad Artwork Museum of Michigan State College in East Lansing. She begins in her new publish on July 8.

Ramírez-Montagut will take the helm simply months after the Parrish Artwork Museum’s earlier director, Kelly Taxter, resigned from the place this previous December after lower than a yr on the job.

“The Parrish Artwork Museum Board of Trustees is thrilled to announce Mónica Ramírez-Montagut as its new director at this thrilling second, as we rejoice our tenth anniversary in Water Mill and method our one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary as a number one arts establishment,” stated Parrish board co-chairs Frederic M. Seegal and Alexandra Stanton in a press release.

Ramírez-Montagut, who was born in Mexico Metropolis, has a PhD in structure, and has labored with main establishments round the US. She has held curatorial positions at establishments just like the Guggenheim, the Aldrich, and the San José Museum of Artwork, the place she organized exhibitions targeted on artists like Cai Guo Qiang and Zaha Hadid.

Previous to serving as the chief director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Artwork Museum, she was the director of the Newcomb Artwork Museum of Tulane College for six years.

“I’m delighted to hitch the proficient workers and board on the Parrish,” stated Dr. Ramírez-Montagut in a press release. “Their entrepreneurial and daring spirit, their dedication to various communities, and their ardour for deepening the sector of artwork are outstanding. It’s the honor of my life to contribute to the Parrish’s imaginative and prescient and mission and to take the establishment to the following degree.”