Sandra Jackson-Dumont will step down as director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Artwork on April 1, founders George Lucas and Mellody Hobson introduced Friday. The management function can be cut up into two: Lucas will oversee content material course, whereas former Paramount and twentieth Century Fox CEO Jim Gianopulos will function interim CEO. A seek for a everlasting CEO is presently taking place as per Artnews.
Jackson-Dumont’s exit follows the museum’s third opening delay, now set for 2026. She joined in 2019 and expanded the museum’s assortment, together with buying Robert Colescott’s George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware River for $15.3 million USD.
The museum, in improvement for over a decade, plans to showcase visible storytelling throughout mediums drawn from Lucas’s private assortment and the Separate Cinema Archive. Lucas and Hobson haven’t revealed whether or not further management adjustments are deliberate.
