Chinati Foundation Director Jenny Moore Steps Down

Jenny Moore is departing the Chinati Basis right after 9 decades as director of the museum, which was established in the 1980s by Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. Marella Consolini, who served as Chinati’s chief operations officer from 2010 to 2014, will get over as interim director on July 31 even though the board undertakes a world wide research for a substitution for Moore’s alternative.

Moore sought to professionalize the museum for the duration of her tenure, acquiring a multiyear preservation plan to protect its artwork, architecture, and setting cataloging its institutional archive and upping its once-a-year attendance from 11,300 in 2013 to 50,000 in pre-pandemic many years. This April, the foundation finalized a $2.7 million yearlong restoration of its 23,000-sq.-foot John Chamberlain building, which was—alongside two other Chinati buildings as effectively as properties overseen by the different Judd Foundation—listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations as aspect of the newly selected Central Marfa Historic District.

Moore also made it her mission to aid the work of woman artists, students, and gurus although at Chinati beneath her management the basis presented large-scale installations and assignments by Charlotte Posenenske, Bridget Riley, and Solange. In 2020, the basis employed Ingrid Schaffner to be the museum’s curator.

“With the very first stage of the master plan finish, and soon after correctly navigating the corporation via the most important moments of the pandemic, the timing was ideal for me to changeover and for new management to get the helm of the corporation,” Moore reported in a assertion issued by the basis,” Moore explained.

Board chairman Mack Fowler expressed a credit card debt of gratitude for Moore’s in close proximity to-ten years of support. “Her legacy together with the board’s steadfast motivation to the group leaves Chinati in a robust place as we embark upon the future period of our grasp strategy.”

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