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Seattle Art Museum has named a new director.
KUOW’s Arts and Culture reporter Marcie Sillman has more.
SAM has tapped Amada Cruz for its top leadership position. Cruz currently runs the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona She was born in Cuba but educated in the United States, and has spent most of her career working to expand audiences and diversify arts programming.
She’ll take her new job in September, after SAM’s current director Kimerly Rorschach retires.
Cruz will oversee SAM’s downtown museum, the Olympic Sculpture Park on Elliott Bay, and the Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, scheduled to reopen this fall.
Marcie Sillman, KUOW News.