{"id":3448,"date":"2014-04-28T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/university-art-museum-s-director-chosen-by-getty-to-partake-in-leadership-program\/"},"modified":"2014-04-28T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:29:34","slug":"university-art-museum-s-director-chosen-by-getty-to-partake-in-leadership-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/university-art-museum-s-director-chosen-by-getty-to-partake-in-leadership-program","title":{"rendered":"University Art Museum’s Director Chosen by Getty to Partake in Leadership Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cal State Long Beach\u2019s University Art Museum (UAM) has slowly climbed the ranks of the SoCal arts scene with its solid (if not outright innovative<\/a>) exhibits that have superseded typical university museums. It can add another achievement to its many accolades: its director, Christopher Scoates, is one of 39 museum leaders selected from around the world to partake in prestigious The Getty Leadership Institute (GLI)\u2019s Executive Education Program for Museum Leaders.<\/p>\n

\"\"Centered at the Claremont Graduate University, GLI put the leadership program on hiatus last year after 34 years of operation. It was reimplemented it under the new leadership of GLI\u2019s Executive Director, Melody Kanschat and Assistant Director, Toni Guglielmo.<\/p>\n

The program\u2019s purpose is simple: to provide executive leaders to become more efficient and better at the work they do through three weeks of intensive courses and workshops.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m honored to be part of such an esteemed group of leaders from the museum world, and to be given the rare and exciting opportunity to work alongside them,\u201d said Scoates in a press release. \u201cI look forward to participating in a rigorous and engaged dialogue as we begin to address many of the pressing issues facing museums in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Included in the group are executives from the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Barnes Foundation; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution; and the Phillips Collection. Among the international participants are leaders from University of Navarra, Spain; the Royal Academy of Art in London; Chatsworth House and Lismore Castle in the United Kingdom; the Helsinki Art Museum in Finland; and the Palace Museum and the Shaanxi History Museum in China.<\/p>\n

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