AKRON ART MUSEUM NAMES ELLEN RUDOLPH CHIEF CURATOR

The Akron Art Museum announced today that Ellen Rudolph, executive director of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Ohio, has been appointed chief curator. She will take up the post in August.

“We are excited to have Ellen Rudolph returning to the Akron Art Museum as our new chief curator,” executive director and CEO Mark Masuoka said. “Ellen’s selection builds upon the continued success of the museum’s curatorial department and her experience and passion for contemporary art is exactly what we need to continue to stay on the leading edge of contemporary culture as a forward thinking

twenty-first-century art museum.”

Rudolph rejoins the Akron Art Museum after a three-year tenure as head of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. Under her leadership, attendance doubled and the museum expanded its exhibition programs and community partnerships. Previously, she had served as Akron Art Museum’s curator of exhibitions, interim chief curator, and senior curator from 2008 through 2013.

“I am thrilled to return to the Akron Art Museum and look forward to pursuing an ambitious and innovative exhibition program,” Rudolph said. “The museum offers amazing opportunities to engage the community with art, and I am excited to work again with the fantastic collection and the museum’s great staff while raising the museum’s regional and national profile.”