Peter Shire

Julie Perlin Lee Stepping Down As Catalina Island Museum's Executive Director

Lee joined Catalina Island Museum as Executive Director in 2016, transforming the museum into a creative and social hub for the Avalon community. Under her direction, the museum board and staff worked to create an environment that is welcoming to all, enriching visitors' Catalina experience.

Labaco Joins Museum of Arts and Design Team

Decorative arts and design curator and historian Ronald T. Labaco has been appointed to the senior curatorial team at the Museum of Arts and Design, it was announced today by Holly Hotchner, the Museum's Nanette L. Laitman Director. Labaco has served as the Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the High Museum in Atlanta since 2007, and previously worked as an independent curator and as an Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He will assume his new position at MAD as the Marcia Docter Curator, established through the generosity of the Museum's Board Member Marcia Docter, on October 11, 2010. 'Ron brings an exciting new dimension and perspective to our distinguished curatorial team, which is led by our Chief Curator David R. McFadden and includes Dorothy Globus, Ursula Ilse-Neuman and Lowery Stokes Sims,' said Ms. Hotchner. 'With his background in global design and decorative arts, Ron will further enrich the postdisciplinary vision of MAD, as it explores materials and process across the realms of art, craft, and design.'