Cleveland Museum Of Art Leadership

Heather Lemonedes Brown was appointed Chief Curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art in May 2016. She joined the curatorial staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2002 and was named curator of Drawings in 2010. She also serves as adjunct professor in the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University.

Brown has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions with scholarly catalogues at the Cleveland Museum of Art, including British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2013); Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 (2009), co-organized by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam; and Monet in Normandy (2007), co-organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the North Carolina Museum of Art. In addition, Brown has curated various exhibitions for the prints and drawings galleries, including Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2016-17); Imagining the Garden (2015-16); Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints (2015); and Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris (2012).

Brown is currently co-curating the exhibition Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 1890-1900 (Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis and Félix Vallotton), to be shown at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Portland Art Museum in 2021.

Brown received a Bachelor’s degree in art history from Vassar College, a Master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Previously, she has been employed in the Prints and Drawings Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Print Department at Christie’s, New York. She has served on the Board of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and served two terms as president of the Vassar Club of Cleveland.

Digital Strategist and Technology Officer with extensive experience in innovative project development and hands on technology implementation. I believe that the most important responsibility of a leader is to attract and develop great people, and I have a deep commitment to empowering staff and get things done.

As Chief Digital Information Officer at the Cleveland Museum of Art, I am responsible for creating awe-inspiring and iterative digital projects that support a vision of digital transformation that best exemplifies the mission of the Cleveland Museum of Art. With an eye toward organizational transformation, I have spearheaded strategy through implementation and ongoing support of the museum's ground breaking interactive experiences.

In 2019, I led the CMA’s comprehensive Open Access initiative, which allows the public to share, collaborate, remix, and reuse high resolution images of 30,000 public-domain artworks as well as metadata for 61,000 artworks for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Additionally, from its inception in 2010, I have led every iteration of what was originally called Gallery One and is currently known as the ARTLENS Gallery. This world renowned multi-faceted, innovative experience inspires museum visitors to look closer and dive deeper in order to establish a connection with the museum's extensive collection. Using cutting-edge digital technology, the ARTLENS Gallery seamlessly integrates fun, curiosity and learning while endowing visitors with helpful skills to enhance their appreciation of the art throughout the museum. Both projects have won numerous national and international awards and have been featured in a wide variety of national publications.

I've worked on several high-profile technology projects, most notably as the technology director and design consultant to Frank Gehry's Peter B. Lewis Campus at Case Western Reserve University and virtual CIO to Great Lakes Science Center. Before moving to Cleveland, I directed Columbia University’s acclaimed distance education program, as well as the development of university-wide resources for instructional technology and methodology.

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Heather Lemonedes Brown was appointed Chief Curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art in May 2016. She joined the curatorial staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2002 and was named curator of Drawings in 2010. She also serves as adjunct professor in the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University.

Brown has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions with scholarly catalogues at the Cleveland Museum of Art, including British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2013); Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 (2009), co-organized by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam; and Monet in Normandy (2007), co-organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the North Carolina Museum of Art. In addition, Brown has curated various exhibitions for the prints and drawings galleries, including Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2016-17); Imagining the Garden (2015-16); Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints (2015); and Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris (2012).

Brown is currently co-curating the exhibition Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 1890-1900 (Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis and Félix Vallotton), to be shown at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Portland Art Museum in 2021.

Brown received a Bachelor’s degree in art history from Vassar College, a Master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Previously, she has been employed in the Prints and Drawings Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Print Department at Christie’s, New York. She has served on the Board of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and served two terms as president of the Vassar Club of Cleveland.