The Barnes Foundation Selects Senior Vice-President of External Affairs
Diana Duncan, Director of Development for the Dallas Museum of Art,
To Assume New Role
May 25, 2008, Lower Merion, PA - The Barnes Foundation today announced Diana Duncan as its Vice-President of External Affairs effective June 1, 2008. She brings over twenty-three years of broad experience to the position, having worked in a variety of institutions nation-wide, including the Dallas Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.
In this newly created position, Duncan will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing all aspects of the Barnes Foundation's fundraising efforts and for oversight of all marketing initiatives. Central to this, Duncan will be tasked with increasing public awareness of the Foundation and its educational mission and for strengthening its external partnerships.
"Ms. Duncan will be integral to the Barnes Foundation's future growth and strategic planning," said Derek Gillman, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation. "Her outstanding record of success in the development and marketing arenas, and her enthusiasm for the future of the Foundation together with her ability to communicate and engage people on the transformative power of art and education not only matches with the Foundation's needs but also its mission."
"The Barnes Foundation holds such an extraordinary collection of art, sculpture and antiquities that I am sure the work will be easily inspired," said Duncan. "It is an exciting time of change and growth and I very much look forward to the new challenges that lay ahead of me."
Duncan brings critical experience to the Barnes Foundation, having served as Director of Development of the Dallas Museum of Art from 2000 to 2008. In this role, she guided the Museum through a period of change, and raised the institution's development, membership and special events profile from a modest, regional capacity to a highly effective one respected in the broader art museum community. Duncan fostered the relationship between the Museum's Board of Trustees and senior professional staff, and achieved record levels of success, which helped to recently secure Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs for Dallas.
Having begun her development career at the Smithsonian Institution, Duncan served in multiple capacities as a member of the central office of Membership and Development.
Other important assignments included early-stage planning of a pan-institutional endowment campaign, planning and implementation of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations and 10-city tour, oversight of the Contributing Membership program, and the expansion of Corporate Membership into Asia.
Duncan served as Chair of the American Association of Museums Standing Professional Committee on Membership and Development from 2003 to 2005, and President of the Art Museum Development Association in 2006, where she will serve as a member of the Executive Committee through 2010.
Duncan holds a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Texas.
Duncan joins the Barnes Foundation as it gets underway with plans to construct a new Art Education Center in Philadelphia that will house its world-renowned art collection in a gallery replicating the scale, proportion and configuration of the existing gallery in Merion, PA. The new facility will also provide increased space for art education programs, conservation and research. Placement of the new center in proximity to other leading cultural institutions will enable the Barnes Foundation to ensure its long-term viability, while providing greater access to the Collection and the Foundation's educational programs.
About the Barnes Foundation
The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to "promote the advancement of education and the
appreciation of the fine arts." The Galleries house one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist,
Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso,
Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine and de Chirico, as well as Old Master paintings, important examples of African
sculpture and Native American ceramics, American furniture and metalwork, and antiquities from the Mediterranean
region and Asia.
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For more information, contact:
The Barnes Foundation
Andrew Stewart, 610 667 0290 x1567 or astewart@barnesfoundation.org
Ceisler Jubelirer
Larry Ceisler, 215 735 6760 or larry@cj-llc.com
EDITOR'S NOTE: Headshot available upon request.
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