HEATHER LEMONEDES NAMED CHIEF CURATOR AT CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

The Cleveland Museum of Art has a new chief curator: Heather Lemonedes, according to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer_’s Steven Litt. Lemonedes is being promoted into the role from her previous position as curator of drawings. Meanwhile, Cyra Levenson of Yale University will be the museum’s new director of education and academic affairs. Litt notes that these are the two biggest roles that William Griswold has filled since he joined the institution as director two years ago after leaving the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

Lemonedes is filling a position that was left vacant when C. Griffith Mann left to head the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Curator of drawings since 2010, she joined the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings in 2002, she will lead a team of sixteen curators. She was responsible for organizing shows like “Imagining the Garden,” 2015, and “Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” 2012.