JENNIFER RUSSELL REJOINS MET AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR EXHIBITIONS

Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Jennifer Russell will return to the museum as associate director for exhibitions. She is currently senior deputy director of exhibitions, collections, and programs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Russell had worked at the Metropolitan Museum as associate director for administration from 1993 to 1996 and will rejoin the museum in her new role effective April 26. She was formally elected at the March 9 meeting of the board of trustees.

“I am delighted to welcome back a colleague with extensive experience in the New York museum community and in exhibition planning on a local as well as national and international scale,” commented Campbell.

Russell began her museum career in 1974 at the Whitney Museum of American Art as a curatorial assistant. She served as an assistant curator from 1976 to 1978, as special assistant to the director for curatorial affairs from 1978 to 1980, and as assistant director from 1980 to 1986. She worked as associate director and secretary from 1986 to 1990, returning to that post in 1992 after a year’s service, from 1990 to 1991, as the Whitney’s acting director. She was also deputy director for internal affairs and secretary to the board of trustees until her departure from the Whitney in 1993. Over her years there, she organized a number of exhibitions, including “American Art, 1900–1940” in 1976, “American Folk Painters of Three Centuries” in 1980,“Celebrating Calder” in 1991, and “Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1938–1946” in 1993.