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Nannette Maciejunes, Columbus

Nominated By: Columbus Museum of Art

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Nannette V. Maciejunes was named executive director of the Columbus Museum of Art in November 2003, but her career with the Museum began nearly 20 years earlier. In 1984 she joined the staff as a curatorial assistant and went on to become Chief Curator with specific responsibility for the Museum’s American collections. A nationally recognized scholar of American art, Maciejunes has published and lectured extensively. She organized major exhibitions that toured nationally and an exhibition she co-curated, Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland, received the endorsement of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities and was one of only three official millennial events of the White House Millennium Council. Not only is Maciejunes a brilliant art historian and organized administrator with strong interpersonal skills but atrue collaborator and connector. The first exhibition under her directorship, Renoir’s Women, is the first in a series of major exhibitions that highlight the Museum’s own collection. But Maciejunes’ success as an executive director goes beyond her art history expertise. She is a dynamic, passionate and personable leader who believes strongly in the power of art and in the strengths of human creative capital. Maciejunes has given more than 20 years of her expertise, time and talent to the Museum and central Ohio is fortunate to have her visionary leadership and collaborative and dynamic spirit.