Rollins College Announces Luanne McKinnon as New Director of Cornell
Fine Arts Museum
WINTER PARK, FLA. (May 1, 2007) – Rollins College
announces Luanne McKinnon as the next director of the Cornell Fine Arts
Museum. The appointment will be effective June 1, 2007.
“CFAM board members,
faculty, staff, students and administrators were nearly unanimous in
their support of Luanne McKinnon to be the next director,” said Rollins
College Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Roger Casey.
“Through her work as acting director, we knew we had an incredibly
qualified, visionary museum director already in our midst. In the past
year, the Cornell has already reached new heights and I look forward to
the years ahead.”
McKinnon joined the Museum staff as curator of
exhibitions in 2005. To date, she has created 13 original exhibitions
for the Museum, expanded its curricular commitment to teaching within
the multi-disciplinary goals of Rollins, brought in several visiting
scholars and artists for lectures and public gallery talks and organized
a film series related to issues exposed in the “Revising Arcadia”
exhibition.
“It is with great personal and professional joy
that I have accepted this position,” said McKinnon. “I believe the
Cornell Fine Arts Museum is one of Rollins College's greatest assets and
I could not be more delighted with this charge of responsibility. There
is no doubt the Museum is perfectly poised to continue its trajectory of
excellence as Central Florida's most innovative fine arts museum.”
McKinnon, a native Texan, received a Master of Fine
Arts degree in painting from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
She is in the process of writing her dissertation, “Persistence and
Difference: John McCracken and the Monochrome in Art,” for her PhD in
the History of Art from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The emphasis of her work at UVA was in European and American Modernism,
and Contemporary Art and Theory.
She previously served as the director of
contemporary art at ACA Galleries in New York and was also a curatorial
fellow at Bayly Art Museum in Virginia and research assistant at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington. Her independent research at the
National Gallery of Art was for the Picasso: The Early Years
exhibition. McKinnon’s work as a research assistant for the artist
Robert Rauschenberg culminated in a large-scale exhibition at the
National Gallery. She is also listed in Who’s Who in American Women.
For more information
about the Museum, please call 407-646-2526 or visit the Web site at
www.rollins.edu/cfam.
Photo Caption:
Newly Appointed
Cornell Fine Arts Museum Director Luanne McKinnon and Rollins College
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Roger Casey
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