The Trendy Artwork Museum of Fort Value in Texas has named Halona Norton-Westbrook as its subsequent director, starting July 1.
She succeeds Marla Worth, who introduced final 12 months that she would retire after greater than 30 years within the position. On the Trendy Artwork Museum of Fort Value, Norton-Westbrook can be tasked with taking the museum, based in 1892, into the longer term after Worth’s storied tenure, which included a serious Tadao Ando–designed enlargement and an increase in nationwide and worldwide prominence.
“The Trendy is a museum of extraordinary ambition and affect, and I’m honored to guide it into the longer term,” Norton-Westbrook mentioned in a press release. “Museums have the facility to foster pleasure, reflection, and significant conversations. I sit up for working alongside the museum’s gifted workforce and devoted neighborhood to develop its attain, deepen its engagement, and proceed its custom of presenting artwork of the best high quality.”
Norton-Westbrook has been the director and CEO of the Honolulu Museum of Artwork in Hawaii since 2020. Throughout her tenure, she has doubled its attendance again to pre-pandemic ranges, secured the museum’s reaccreditation with the American Alliance of Museums, developed a strategic plan, and secured a number of multimillion-dollar items towards its endowment.
She additionally helped purchase 55 works on paper by 26 African American artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Assortment for the museum’s assortment. An exhibition centered on the present adopted in 2023.
Previous to becoming a member of the Honolulu Museum, Norton-Westbrook served as director of curatorial affairs on the Toledo Museum of Artwork in Ohio, the place she labored for six years, starting first as an Andrew W. Mellon Management Fellow. On the TMA, Norton-Westbrook centered on rising the museum’s assortment, including items by Alice Neel, David Hockney, Nam June Paik, Jules Olitski, Wendy Pink Star, and Titus Kaphar, in addition to a number of items from the Souls Grown Deep Basis. She cowrote the 2018 guide Toledo Museum of Artwork: Assortment Companion, in regards to the establishment’s holdings.
In a press release, Rafael G. Garza, board president of the Trendy Artwork Museum of Fort Value, mentioned, “Halona Norton-Westbrook brings a rare mixture of imaginative and prescient, management, and a deep dedication to artwork. Her impactful monitor file of strategic considering, neighborhood engagement, and curatorial excellence makes her the best dynamic chief to information the Trendy into its subsequent chapter. We’re assured that below her path, the museum will construct upon its outstanding legacy throughout the Fort Value neighborhood and proceed to evolve as a dynamic cultural hub of worldwide significance.”
