The Modern Arts Heart in Cincinnati, Ohio, introduced that its director, Christina Vassallo, will depart the museum, efficient January 2, 2026. She is going to be part of the Pew Heart for Arts & Heritage, a grant-making group in Philadelphia, on January 5.
“It has been an honor to shepherd CAC and be a part of Cincinnati’s vibrant creative legacy,” Vassallo, the museum’s director since 2023, mentioned in a press release. “I’m so pleased with the exhibitions we’ve dropped at the town, the sturdy partnerships we’ve solid with artists from around the globe, and the steps we’ve taken to embrace a mission to develop a extra empathetic world by means of the creation and expertise of all modern artwork types.”
Previous to becoming a member of the CAC, Vassallo was government director of the Material Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. There, she organized exhibitions with artists like Samara Golden, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Jayson Musson, Rose B. Simpson, and Henry Taylor. From 2014 to 2019, Vassallo was government director of Areas, an arts group in Cleveland, and earlier than that, she served as government director of Flux Manufacturing unit, an artist-in-residence program in New York.
On the CAC, Vassallo labored with visitor curator Maite Borjabad López-Pastor on the 2022 group present “A Everlasting Nostalgia for Departure,” which celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the museum’s constructing, Zaha Hadid’s first accomplished constructing within the US. Throughout her tenure, the CAC additionally introduced solo reveals by Vivian Browne, Marcus Leslie Singleton, and Sheida Soleimani.
In her new function on the Pew Heart for Arts & Heritage, Vassallo will probably be in control of doling out grants to Philadelphia-area arts and tradition organizations. (On the identical day the group introduced her appointment, they awarded $8.6 million {dollars} to 44 native organizations and artists.) “The middle embodies every little thing I worth about arts management—mental curiosity, rigorous assist for artists and humanities organizations, and a real dedication to public life,” Vassallo advised the Philadelphia Inquirer.
