The Katonah Museum of Art”™s president and board of trustees recently appointed a new executive director. Darsie Alexander, who was formerly a chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will start her new role with the Katonah Museum of Art on March 1.
Alexander is “the ideal person to direct the KMA as it continues to build fans among seasoned collectors, artists and art enthusiasts,” said Katonah Museum of Art president Tara Coniaris in a written statement.
The soon-to-be executive director has produced multi-disciplinary exhibitions including some interactive sculpture exhibitions presented at the Baltimore Museum of Art and an interactive exhibition at the Walker Art Center where visitors sit on chaise lounges and lean back with binoculars to look at the work mounted on walls.
Alexander earned her Master of Arts in art history at Williams College and Bachelor of Arts from Bates College. She was a photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art, serving as a photography liaison for a museum-wide project called Modern Starts:MoMA2000. She was the senior curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art before she joined the Walker Art Center.
