Susie Ibarra: Sculptor of Sound, Water Magician downbeat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from downbeat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
March 12, 2021 at 4:47pm
Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art has hired Lauren Haynes away from her post as curator of contemporary art and director of artist initiatives at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Haynes will step into the role of senior curator at the Durham, North Carolina museum on June 7. Her hiring follows the promotion of Nasher chief curator Trevor Schoonmaker to director of the institution.
“I am thrilled that Lauren is joining our team,” Schoonmaker said in a statement, noting that he first met Haynes in 2008 at “Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool” at the Studio Museum of Harlem, where she worked from 2006. Haynes, who holds a BA in art history with a minor in African American studies from Oberlin College, established herself as an associate curator there with exhibitions such as “Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange” (2015) and “Alma Thomas” (2016), which she co-organized with S