Agency history, 1973-

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Subject

  • Bush, Teresia
  • Lawson, Edward P
  • Powell, Linda
  • Gold, Lisa
  • Hull, Kevin
  • Kalinovska, Milena
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Department of Art and Public Programs
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Department of Education
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Education Department
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Department of Public Programs

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • Guide to the Smithsonian Archives, 1996
  • http://www.si.edu/hirshhorn/start.htm, 03/08/00
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Our Ledearship and Staff, http://hirshhorn.si.edu/info, 2009
  • Smithsonian Staff Directory, 1990-2017
  • Lisa Gold Named Hirshhorn's Director of Public Engagement, press release, July 14, 2015, https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/press-release-lisa-gold-named-director-of-public-engagement/, accessed February 10, 2023
  • LinkedIn, Milena Kalinovska, https://www.linkedin.com/in/milena-kalinovska-664aa97/, accessed February 10, 2023
  • LinkedIn, Lisa Gold, https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-gold-787639/, accessed February 10, 2023
  • Kevin Hull, Zoominfo, https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Kevin-Hull/1912120799, accessed February 10, 2023
  • The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's (HMSG) Department of Education was set up to interpret the Museum's collection to a broad and varied public. It produces information on the HMSG's collections designed to appeal not only to professional artists and art scholars, but also to the general public and to children. In support of its aims, the Department uses a wide variety of media, including a corps of trained volunteer docents, as well as printed materials of all sorts, films, lectures, and concerts.
  • The Department of Education was created in 1973, and Edward P. Lawson was recruited from New York's Whitney Museum of American Art to be its Chief, a position he held from 1973 to 1994. Other staff include Teresia Bush, circa 1980- , Docent Coordinator, Education Specialist, Senior Educator, and then Adult Programs Educator; and Linda Powell, Education Program Director, circa 1997-2003. From 1997 to 1999 the Department was incorporated into a Department of Art and Public Programs but regained independent status in 2000 as the Education Department. From 2004-2015 Milena Kalinovska was Director of Public Programs and Education. At some point after 2008, the Education Department became known as the Department of Public Programs and then later in 2015 the Office of Public Engagement. Lisa Gold was appointed Director of the Office of Public Engagement in 2015 and served until 2016. In or around 2017 Kevin Hull started serving as Acting Assistant Director for the Office of Public Engagement and became the permanent Assistant Director in 2018.
  • For a history of the larger creating unit, refer to "Forms part of" above.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1973
  • 1973-

Topic

  • Art
  • Art museums
  • Education
  • Museums
  • Museums--Educational aspects
  • Art, Modern

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00177

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