Museo De Arte De Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
www.mapr.org
2019
Marta Mabel Perez appointed Executive Director
We are pleased to announce that the Museo de Arte (Museum of Art) de Puerto Rico has appointed Marta Mabel Perez as their new Executive Director.
The president of the Board of Trustees, Arturo García Solá announced that the curator and cultural manager Marta Mabel Pérez has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR). More than two years after her designation as Interim Director of the institution and with great achievements through her incumbency, the Board of Trustees announced the official appointment recently at the Museum.
"With a great sense of commitment, I accept the opportunity to continue serving my country as Executive Director of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, the only museum dedicated to collecting Puerto Rican art. I look forward to continuing the conservation, study and dissemination of the Museum's art collection, which is the patrimony of all Puerto Ricans, those living on the Island and abroad.
"We will work on strengthening our existing alliances and establishing new ones, to achieve greater international recognition for Puerto Rican art and artists. Likewise, we will continue to strengthen ties with the communities we serve, facilitating experiences through art, which are enriching and beneficial for their lives and for our society," she said.
Marta Mabel has been part of the MAPR's team since 2005 when she founded and managed for 12 years the innovative Artist Assistance Program (PROA), a unique project of liaison with the artistic community in Puerto Rico.
During Marta Mabel's interim tenure, the MAPR obtained important art conservation and exhibition development grants such as from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bank of America Conservation Art Project and inaugurated its new permanent exhibition entitled 'Puerto Rico Plural.'
In addition, Marta Mabel and the Museum's team were the recipients of the AAM Chair's Leadership Award 2019, an important recognition granted by the American Alliance of Museums that is not annually bestowed, and is reserved for outstanding leadership and extraordinary accomplishments in the museum field. This award recognized their cultural heritage rescue work during the emergency in the face of hurricanes Irma and María in 2017.
The appointment follows a national search led by senior consultant Daniel Keegan of Museum Search & Reference, where Marilyn Hoffman is the Principal.
Many people helped with this search as nominators, references or candidates, and Dan and Marilyn are grateful to each of them.