Kate Green to begin new role in October; Peter Eleey to step down at the end of the year; Tim Griffin to move on to academic position at Ohio State University
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson has appointed Kate Green as its new Executive Director. Green, who begins her appointment this October was previously Senior Curator at the El Paso Museum of Art and takes over from Interim Director and Curator Laura Copelin. Copelin will continue to work in her curatorial capacity following Green’s arrival.
Of her appointment, Green said: “MOCA Tucson has a vibrant history with artists and local communities, and with its iconic building has long played an important role in the cultural landscape… I look forward to learning from the city’s energetic creative and social justice communities and its border context, and to allowing these and urgent questions about the responsibilities of cultural institutions to inform MOCA’s growth, and expanded impact for those near and far.”
In New York, MoMA PS1’s Chief Curator Peter Eleey has announced he will leave his post at the end of this year. ‘The many impacts of the pandemic – on the museum, on the city, and on all of us – have moved me to think about the next chapters in my work and my life, and I have decided to step down as Chief Curator at the end of the year,’ he wrote in an email to staff.
Eleey joined the institution on 2010 and has held his current position since 2016. His announcement comes at a time when MoMA PS1, which reopened to the public after a COVID-19-related closure and the furlough of 70 percent of the museum’s staff, is facing what director Kate Fowle describes as ‘the most serious financial crisis’ the museum has faced. Eleey curated over 40 exhibitions during his tenure and will continue to work on future solo exhibitions with Deana Lawson and Gregg Bordowitz.
In a further changing of the guard in New York’s artscene, former Artforum editor-in-chief Tim Griffin has announced that he is stepping down from his role as Director and Chief Curator of the city’s influential experimental art space The Kitchen. Griffin, who joined the organisation in 2011, will be taking up a role as visiting associate professor in the art history and English departments at Ohio State University.
