SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART RESTRUCTURES, LAYING OFF TWO EMPLOYEES

The San Diego Museum of Art is restructuring and laying off two staff members, according to the San Diego Union Tribune’s James Chute. Currently the museum has four deputy directors reporting to executive director Roxana Velásquez, but now several positions have been combined. Curator Anita Feldman will oversee the museum’s program and content side, which now includes educational activities. Meanwhile, the deputy director for education and outreach and the director of collections will be eliminated.

The museum is hoping that the restructuring will shave off approximately 8 percent of its operating budget, which was nearly twelve million dollars this past fiscal year. Though the museum has operated in the black, nearly half its budget has come from its seventy-four-million-dollar endowment fund, which “likely made the museum’s board of directors uncomfortable,” as Chute wrote.