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SEASON OF THE ARTS
With some things familiar and some things new,
the 2016-2017 season is on course to be an exciting
one for visitors to Treasure Coast museums.
The Vero Beach Museum of Art will have two
new faces to welcome visitors. Executive director/CEO,
Lucinda Gedeon, who has guided the museum’s development
for 12 years, leaves her post in December, handing the
reins over to Brady Roberts, the former chief curator at the
Milwaukee Art Museum
“It’s been a pleasure and an honor to lead this wonderful
institution,” Gedeon says, but “change is not only good it’s
essential for an organization.”
Roberts earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from the
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and a master’s
degree, also in art history, from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. Before he moved to Milwaukee, he served as
curator of a contemporary art space in Sante Fe, N.M., was
curator of modern and contemporary art at the Phoenix Art
Museum, executive director of the Dubuque Museum of Art
and curator of collections and exhibitions for the Davenport
Museum of Art, now called
the Figge Art Museum.
“I’m delighted about my
move to Vero Beach and the
opportunities that lie ahead
for this wonderful institution,”
Roberts stated in a news
release.
The recent retirement of Jay
Williams, curator of Collections
and Exhibitions, precipitated
a national search
for a new curator. Roberts is
expected to name a successor
to Williams after he starts his
new job on Dec. 5.
Williams had been with
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World: The Art and Artists of NASA and working on exhibitions
scheduled into 2018.
BRUCE MARCH
The paintings of Bruce Marsh, including U.S. 41, Ruskin II, will be featured in the Titelman Galley at the Vero Beach Museum of Art through Jan. 2.
Backus offers Cuban art, VBMA features
American painters, Elliott highlights photos
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BY WILLI MILLER
VBMA
Brady Roberts will take over as
CEO at Vero Beach Museum of Art
in early December.