Peggy Fogelman is the Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Fogelman has served in this role since January 2016, after Anne Hawley stepped down after 26 years as director of the museum, and she is the museum's fifth director.

Early life education

Fogelman is a Connecticut native. She received a Bachelor's degree from

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in Art History, Criticism and Conservation and earned a Master's degree from

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in Art History.

Career

She began her career at the J. Paul Getty Museum in

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as a sculpture curator and stayed at the museum for 20 years, later transitioning to the museum's Assistant Director for Education and Interpretation. In 2007, she moved to Massachusetts to serve as the Director of Education and Interpretation at the

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. Two years later, she moved to

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after being hired as the Chairman of Education at the

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where she spent four years. Next, she served for a year as the Acting Director of the

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also in New York City and then as Director of Collections. As Director of Collections at the Morgan, she oversaw the museum's curatorial department, conservation department, and exhibition program. Like the Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Morgan began as a private art collection. In late 2015, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum named Fogelman as their new director after an eight-month search.

Personal life

Fogelman's longtime partner, John D. Childs, is the Chief of Collection Services and the Director of the Phillips Library at the

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and was previously the Head of Conservation at the

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References

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