Suzette McAvoy
Director, full-time in Sept. 2010
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Suzette McAvoy is the former chief curator, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, with more than twenty years of experience in the art field. She has lectured and written extensively on the art and artists of Maine, and has organized national traveling exhibitions of the work of Louise Nevelson, Alex Katz, Kenneth Noland, Lois Dodd, Karl Schrag, and Alan Magee.
Prior to coming to CMCA, she wrote "The Canvas," a monthly column on contemporary Maine art for
Maine Home+Design magazine, and she served as an independent art consultant to artists, organizations, and collectors.
Ms. McAvoy also served as associate professor in museum studies for the University of Maine at Orono, and prior to moving to Maine in 1988, she was the director of the University of Rhode Island Art Galleries. She has also worked at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, and the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Ms. McAvoy received a B.A. in art history from William Smith College and an M.A. in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. She lives in Belfast, Maine, with her husband and daughter.
