STACY C. HOLLANDER TO LEAVE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM AFTER THIRTY-FOUR YEARS

The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) announced today that Stacy C. Hollander, the museum’s deputy director of curatorial affairs, chief curator, and director of exhibitions, will depart the museum in July after thirty-four years to focus on independent curatorial work and writing projects.

Hollander holds a master’s in American folk art studies from New York University and began as an intern at AFAM in 1985. She has directed the museum’s exhibition program for twenty-five years and stewarded notable acquisitions of works by Ammi Phillips, Sheldon Peck, Joseph Whiting Stock, William Matthew Prior, and John Hewson.

“Stacy Hollander is a curator with deep knowledge and boundless curiosity; her exhibitions have been critical in establishing the American Folk Art Museum as the leading institution of self-taught art,” said Jason T. Busch, AFAM director. “Stacy has built a strong foundation of scholarship and curatorial excellence that the museum will continue to develop toward its sixtieth anniversary in 2021.”

Her recent exhibitions include “War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics” (2017) and “Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock” (2018), which won the Victorian Society of New York Award. Hollander’s contributions to AFAM will be remembered with the Stacy C. Hollander Fund, which will support exhibitions and is the first fund established as part of the museum’s anniversary endowment campaign.