Today, August 3rd, President of the Rhode Island School of Design John Maeda released a statement saying that the Director of the RISD Museum, Hope Alswang, had resigned starting immediately and her post would be taken over by the Museum’s Assistant Director of Planning, Ann Woolsey.
It’s too hot and sticky in Providence right now to really dig into why this may have happened, but I met Hope Alswang through a class with Rhode Island School of Design Museum curator Gina Borromeo in Fall 2009. She was really sharp and no-nonsense, I was very impressed by her speech about balancing the administrative and artistic/creative side of the museum world. (Perhaps this tension was aggravated in the midst of the economic recession, is what caused the happy bond to turn sour?) According to Professor Borromeo, Hope Alswang was strong and liberal in her convictions and ideas about museum exhibits, exhibited artists, and engagement of visitors: she was untraditional, but very strong in her commitment to see an idea through to the end. Declared a “surprise move” by the Providence Journal, I have to agree. Hope was hired in the middle of the new Chace Center building project in Winter 2005 and has received nothing but praise for her creative and energetic efforts to improve the museum. Only time will tell.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:31 am
By any and all measures Hope Alswang did an exceptional job as the Director of the RISD Museum. She loved her curators and her staff, her donors, the RISD students, the faculty and was totally turned on by the Museum’s collection! She was by estimation really just geting started with her plans to awaken the dusty halls of this 131 year old institution!
No plausible explanation has been offered for her surprising departure. Those of us who are close to the Musuem were looking forward to a long and fruitful collaboration with Hope as she created additional momentum to create a vital and inspiring Museum.
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