AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Andrew Eschelbacher appointed Director of Collections and Exhibitions
“As Director of Collections & Exhibitions, Andrew will advance the Museum’s vision for this evolution and brings both the experience and foresight to drive our exhibition program forward as we continue to tell more inclusive stories of American creativity. We look forward to Andrew joining our team and to his leadership,” said Walker.
“I am thrilled to be joining the Carter, a museum I have long admired for its deep connection to its communities and for its extraordinary collection and tradition of vanguard scholarship,” said Eschelbacher. “It is at the forefront of thinking about the role of a modern American museum, and I am eager to begin working with the Carter’s outstanding staff to explore the diversity and dynamism of American creativity.”
In his current role at AFA, Eschelbacher has led the development of a robust program of more than 30 internationally traveling exhibitions, including Whitfield Lovell: Passages and Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French. Before his work at AFA, Eschelbacher was a Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and prior to that served as an associate curator at the Portland Museum of Art (Maine) for four years, where he oversaw the museum’s collection of European art as well as American sculpture and co-managed the David E. Shaw and Family Sculpture Park. Eschelbacher has also served as the editor of numerous exhibition catalogues and contributed to many other publications. Eschelbacher holds a BA from Davidson College, an MA from Tulane University, and a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.