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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts mourns the death of Director Emeritus Mark M. Johnson Mark Johnson, 2016. Photograph by Darren Freeman. MONTGOMERY, AL .- The Board, staff, and community of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts shared the news of the death of Director Emeritus Mark M. Johnson, who died on Friday, June 25, 2021, after a long illness. Johnson, who was an esteemed scholar and museum director, led the MMFA from 1994 until his retirement in 2017 when, as the longest-serving chief executive of the institution, he was named the Museum’s first Director Emeritus. Over the course of his tenure, Johnson shaped the institution in many ways, including the addition of hundreds of works of art to the collection, organizing a number of exhibitions and publications, and leading two significant expansions of the Museum.

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