The Thinker: A CMA Blog

The Board of Trustees have voted unanimously to name Dr. William M. Griswold, a distinguished scholar, renowned curator and experienced museum leader, its next director. Griswold’s confirmation comes at a unique time in the life of this institution, which recently completed a historic and comprehensive $350 million expansion project on time and under budget. As it approaches its 2016 centennial anniversary, the Cleveland Museum of Art is increasingly known for the quality and breadth of its collection and its historic role as a leading American museum.

This season, three students from Trinity High School are interning in the curatorial department at the Cleveland Museum of Art, each focusing on a different project in which they design their own "exhibitions." We sat down to talk to them on their individual interests and experiences related to their internships and exhibition projects. Here, Morgan Psenicka tells us about her project progress related to Art Deco.

The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Solstice, Cleveland’s hottest summer music festival, on Saturday, June 21 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In its sixth year, Solstice guests will have an opportunity to enjoy dynamic and cutting-edge music from around the world. We sat down with Tom Welsh, Director of City Stages at the Cleveland Museum of Art, to talk more about the artists performing at this year's Solstice in our first series podcast on our blog.

We've reached 50,000 Facebook fans today, and we want to send a thank you gift to a lucky fan! Head to our Facebook post, and tell us in which artist, dead or alive, you would love to take on a gallery tour of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and you'll be automatically entered to win a guided tour of the museum's collection, a $50 gift certificate to Provenance restaurant, and year-long partner level membership (for two people) to the museum! We will randomly select a winner at noon on Thursday, May 8, and announce the winner thereafter on our Facebook page.