Nannette Maciejunes is the Executive Director of the Columbus Museum of Art, and the author of many books of art history, with a special focus on the work of

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and

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Education

Maciejunes has a B.F.A. from

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, a M.A. from

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, and is a graduate of

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's Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders and the Getty's Leadership Institute for Museum Management.

Prior Positions

Maciejunes was Director of Denison University’s Gallery in 1980, began at the Columbus Museum as a curatorial research assistant in 1984, served as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the

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in Memphis in 1989 and has occupied her current position since 2003.

Awards and honors

* 2006 Ohio Governor's Award for the Arts in the category of Arts Administration * 2006 South Side Settlement House Spirit of Volunteerism Award * 2009

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Woman of Achievement * 2015

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C-Suite Award Honoree.

Impact on Columbus Museum of Art

Maciejunes guided the museum’s acquisition of the Photo League collection and the Schiller Collection of American Social Commentary Art, and the development of the museum's Center for Creativity. Also under her leadership, the museum completed a major renovation and expansion, and was awarded the

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’ National Medal, the nation’s highest honor for museums. Maciejunes has made the work of both local and underrepresented artists a museum focus, which led to the development of a special relationship with Columbus native

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artist Aminah Robinson, who left the museum her estate. In Robinson's memory, the museum is creating a new fellowship program for African-American visual artists.

Bibliography (as author or contributor)

* ''Charles Burchfield 1920: The Architecture of Painting'' * ''Trees As Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield'' * ''Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art'' * ''Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest'' * ''Clyde Singer's America'' * ''Triumph of Color and Light: Ohio Impressionists and Post-Impressionists'' * ''Charles Burchfield Watercolors 1915-1920'' * ''Personal Mythologies: Columbus Painter Lucius Kutchin, 1901-1936'' * ''Latifa Achakhch Currents'' * ''Thirty-Eight Rare Drawings by Charles Burchfield'' * ''Charles E. Burchfield : Romantic Lands'' * ''The World of George Bellows'' * ''Paintings by John Marin'' * ''Stephanie Syjuco Pattern Migration'' * ''Illusions of Eden : Visions of the American Heartland''

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