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Current and
Upcoming
Exhibitions
The retirement of a long-time director is always a You will continue to see many familiar
moment for reflection and change, and that is programs, but we are also actively evaluating
doubly true when the director has shaped the how we do the work of the museum, what it
institution as profoundly as Russell Panczenko means to be a university art museum in the
shaped the Chazen during his thirty-three years
twenty-first century, and how can we both grow
the institution in a healthy way, and sustain that
“This collection is a
vision of the fantastic.”
here. I am grateful for his leadership in overseeing
the transformational growth of the museum.
Every day I look out my office window at people
growth into the future.
I hope you will meet me at the Chazen soon.
crossing the bridge between our two remarkable
buildings, and I am reminded of his legacy.
The Chazen Museum of Art began its
institutional life almost fifty years ago. We are
beginning to plan for an incredible birthday year
PLATO at the
Chazen
A Generous
Gift from the
Baker/Pisano
Collection
—Stephen Korshak
Amy Gilman, Director
Chazen Museum of Art
in 2020, not only for the museum, but for the
Elvehjem building, both of which were dedicated
and opened to the public on September 12, 1970.
Hubert Rogers (American, 1898-1982), Crisis in Utopia, 1938, cover for Astounding Science Fiction,
1940, oil on panel, 21 x 21 ½ in., The Korshak Collection.
Meet
Amy Gilman
November 17, 2017–February 4, 2018
friends,
Fantastic Illustration from
the Korshak Collection
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