Charles Venable inherited two years ago a museum with an elevated stature in the world of art but disappointing attendance figures and a penchant for over-spending its endowment to make ends meet.
Charles L. Venable, 52, the director and CEO of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville since 2007, was chosen to replace Maxwell Anderson, who left the IMA in January to become director of the Dallas Museum of Art.
Finding a replacement for Maxwell Anderson could take six months to a year.
Are we better off, as arts patrons, then we were five years or so ago when Maxwell Anderson joined the Indianapolis Museum of Art?
Maxwell Anderson is leaving his post as CEO at the Indianapolis Museum of Art just as the institution is preparing to launch a capital campaign it hopes will make up for financial pain inflicted by the recession.
IMA boss leaving for Dallas. What is he leaving behind?
A longtime senior manager at the Indianapolis Museum of Art has retired—the result of a settlement in a retaliation lawsuit she filed earlier this month.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is gearing up for a major campaign and will create a senior management position in fundraising.
CEO Maxwell Anderson said the national search for a “chief development officer” coincides with strategic planning
that will result in a capital campaign for a still-unspecified amount.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is losing endowment revenue at the same time prominent donor Wayne Zink, CEO of Endangered
Species Chocolate, has resigned from the board.
