Last summer, outdoor media entrepreneur Pete Scantland, with his family, donated a collection to the museum that CMA’s curator of contemporary art, Tyler Cann, called “transformational.” And in September 2018, real estate mogul and world-class art collector Ron Pizzuti and his wife, Ann Pizzuti, donated their private museum in the Short North, The Pizzuti Collection, to the Columbus Museum of Art along with a selection of artworks. The planned James donation is the latest in a string of newsworthy gifts brokered by Maciejunes. “There’s no better way to pay tribute to her than with this gift.” The gift will be celebrated with an exhibition that will open March 6. “Nannette has had a great tenure at the museum and has done so much for the community,” Larry James said in an interview. Most recently, former museum board member Larry James, along with his wife, Donna, announced a planned gift of 42 significant works by Black artists to the museum, a gift Maciejunes said was notable in part because it will include many artists not yet represented in the museum’s collection. Known for her effervescent personality and approachability as well as her scholarship, Maciejunes has overseen an impressive array of projects, exhibitions, acquisitions and bequests, as well as an architecturally admired physical expansion of the museum.

“I have worked throughout my career to make the museum a place that serves our whole community, that co-creates with others and where visitors feel a sense of belonging.”ĭiscover more local stories: Subscribe to Columbus Monthly's weekly newsletter, Top Reads Leading the museum for nearly 20 years has been “the dream of a lifetime for me,” Maciejunes said in a statement. The museum’s chief executive since 2003, Maciejunes, 68, has worked at CMA since she joined the staff in 1984 as a curatorial research assistant. Maciejunes will retire at the end of 2022, the museum announced today. Columbus Museum of Art CEO and executive director Nannette V.

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