Welcome to the Detroit Evening Report, a daily round-up of news that city residents need to know. The president and CEO of the Heidelberg Project is stepping down. Jenenne Whitfield has worked with project founder Tyree Guyton for 28 years. Whitfield is joining the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore as its new director.
Whitfield, president and chief executive officer of Detroit’s acclaimed Heidelberg Project, will start her new job Sept. 6. She will succeed the museum’s founder, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, who is stepping down April 3.
Jenenne Whitfield, longtime head of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit and wife of founding artist Tyree Guyton, is departing the organization for a new role in Baltimore.