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28.09.2009
JO-ANNE BIRNIE DANZKER NEW DIRECTOR OF THE FRYE ART MUSEUM
The Board of Trustees of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle has announced that Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker will become director of the museum, effective Oct. 1, 2009. She will assume leadership of the Frye from Midge Bowman, who is retiring after having served as director since 2004.
Born in Brisbane, Australia, Birnie Danzker lived in the Pacific Northwest from 1977 to 1991, during which time she served as curator and then director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Birnie Danzker left Vancouver for Munich, where she directed the Museum Villa Stuck for 15 years.
No stranger to Seattle or the Frye, in 2008 Birnie Danzker undertook extensive research on the history of the Frye’s Founding Collection and went on to curate The Munich Secession and America and Transatlantic: American Artists in Germany, which opened at the Frye in January 2009. Birnie Danzker also spent time in Seattle while preparing for her landmark touring exhibition Shanghai Modern.
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