BOLTON COLBURN RESIGNS AS LAGUNA ART MUSEUM DIRECTOR

Mike Boehm notes in the Los Angeles Times that director Bolton Colburn is resigning from the Laguna Art Museum. Colburn has worked at the museum for twenty-four years––including the past fourteen as its leader.
 His resignation, effective May 13, is voluntary, Colburn and Robert Hayden III, president of the museum’s board, said yesterday.

Colburn, fifty-seven, began his museum career in the early 1980s at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (now the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego). His wife, Susan M. Anderson, is a former Laguna Art Museum curator who is now a freelance curator and art historian. Hayden said the board will hire a search consultant to help it find a new director, with no deadline set to fill the job.

Hayden said that since he joined the board five years ago, Colburn “has been a mentor to me and taught me about how the museum and the art community work. To lose that is a tough thing.”