RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Commonwealth University’s planned museum of contemporary art has its first director.
Lisa Freiman’s appointment was announced Wednesday. She will come to Richmond from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where she is the senior curator and chair of the contemporary art department.
VCU’s Institute of Contemporary Art is expected to open in 2015. Besides her duties as director, Freiman will also be a professor in VCU’s School of the Arts. Her official arrival at VCU is July 1.
The new VCU museum will be a combination exhibition and performance space. It will also feature spaces for visual art, theater, music, dance and film.
