NEW CURATOR FOR RACINE ART MUSEUM

The Racine Art Museum has announced the appointment of Lena Vigna as its new curator of exhibitions. Vigna comes to the museum from the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio. Vigna will begin her position at the museum on March 1.

With previous roots in Wisconsin, Vigna served as the curator of exhibitions and department head at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, from 2001 to 2008. Her last major show at the Kohler, “Laced with History,” 2007, was a contemporary look at lace, lace making, and the concept of lace as inspiration for artworks and installation sculptures. Most recently, she has garnered recognition for her attention to contemporary art jewelry. In 2009, she coauthored an article, published in Metalsmith magazine, “Mining History: Ornamentalism Revisited,” dealing with the new sense of ornamentation practiced by some of the artists working in contemporary art jewelry today.

Vigna has her BFA and MA degrees in art history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She worked at the University of Illinois’s Krannert Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art prior to moving to Wisconsin in 2001. She moved to the Miami University Art Museum in 2008.