Anne Hawley

Anne Hawley is the Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. She was appointed Director in 1989 after the departure of her predecessor Rollin Van N. Hadley in 1988. With museum attendance in decline, and both the building and its collection in need of repair, under Ms. Hawley's direction the museum entered a period of major restoration. In 1992, she launched the hugely successful [http://www.gardnermuseum.org/contemp/artists.asp "Artist-in-Residence"] program with the aim to revive "the intellectual and artistic life so integral to the vitality of Fenway Court" during Mrs. Gardner's lifetime. [ [http://www.gardnermuseum.org/the_museum/timeline.asp Museum Timeline.] Retrieved 11 April 2007.] [Anne Hawley, "Preface," in Goldfarb, vii.]

Background

Anne Hawley was raised in West Liberty, Iowa and educated at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she earned a BA in English. Hawley went on to complete a master’s degree at George Washington University in Washington, DC. After graduation, Hawley worked as a research associate with the National Urban League and then with the Ford Foundation Study in Leadership in Public Education. She then moved to Massachusetts, where she founded the Cultural Education Collaborative in 1974. In 1977, Hawley became executive director of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. In 1988, she won the Lyman Ziegler Award for Outstanding Service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hawley attended the Senior Executive Program of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. [ cite web|url=http://www.iowalum.com/daa/hawley.html |title=Achievement 2004 |work=Distinguished Alumni Award |accessdate=2008-09-16 |publisher=University of Iowa Alumni Association]

See also

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Notes

References

* Cotter, Holland. "Despite Devastating Losses, the Gardner Museum Is Rebounding." "The New York Times". 31 March 1997. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E5DA113AF932A05750C0A961958260 Available online.] Retrieved 22 March 2008.
* Goldfarb, Hilliard. "The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum". Yale University Press, 1995.

External links

* [http://www.gardnermuseum.org/ Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]