Can this woman revive the Art Center?
“We lost sight of who we are and what we’re supposed to be in this community.” Seventy-five years after Rochester Art Center’s founding, executive director Pamela Hugdahl has some new ideas . about how to return the city’s premier art institution to its old ideals.
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Maggie Ginsberg & Jennifer Koski | 6:30 am, Mar. 5, 2021 ×
Rochester Art Center Director, Pamela Hugdahl, February 8, 2021. (Ken Klotzbach / kklotzbach@postbulletin.com)
When Pamela Hugdahl became the executive director of Rochester Art Center last summer, she faced a pandemic, financial difficulties … and nearly 75 years of history.
The 36,000-square-foot RAC has come a long way from its beginnings in a couple of unused rooms of the Rochester Public Library, and it nearly went under in 2017. But Hugdahl, who started her new position on June 1 one month before RAC reopened after three months of COVID-19 lockdown is optimistic we ne