NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART APPOINTS AIMEE MARCEREAU DEGALAN TO LEAD MUSEUM’S EUROPEAN ARTS DIVISION

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has appointed Aimee Marcereau DeGalan as its Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Senior Curator of European Art. Marcereau DeGalan comes to the Nelson-Atkins from the Dayton Art Institute, where she was chief curator and curator of European art.

Julián Zugazagoitia, the Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO and director of the Nelson-Atkins, said, “The timing of this important addition to our staff could not be better. Aimee’s scholarship will be immediately called upon as we prepare to open the Bloch Galleries in the spring, and she will continue the important work that has begun on our catalogue of French paintings.”

Marcereau DeGalan has held curatorial posts at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont. While at the Dayton Art Institute, she accessioned more than four hundred works for the museum, raised money to conserve seven significant European paintings, and brought in scholars on a regular basis to advise on the institution’s various collections. She also presented twenty-four exhibitions during her tenure there.