Chinati Foundation Director Jenny Moore Steps Down

Jenny Moore is departing the Chinati Basis immediately after nine yrs as director of the museum, which was founded in the 1980s by Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. Marella Consolini, who served as Chinati’s main operations officer from 2010 to 2014, will take above as interim director on July 31 even though the board undertakes a world-wide look for for a substitute for Moore’s alternative.

Moore sought to professionalize the museum through her tenure, establishing a multiyear preservation system to defend its art, architecture, and environment cataloging its institutional archive and upping its annual attendance from 11,300 in 2013 to 50,000 in pre-pandemic yrs. This April, the foundation finalized a $2.7 million yearlong restoration of its 23,000-sq.-foot John Chamberlain building, which was—alongside two other Chinati buildings as well as structures overseen by the independent Judd Foundation—listed on the Nationwide Sign-up of Historic Places as component of the freshly designated Central Marfa Historic District.

Moore also created it her mission to guidance the get the job done of feminine artists, students, and experts even though at Chinati below her leadership the basis offered significant-scale installations and jobs by Charlotte Posenenske, Bridget Riley, and Solange. In 2020, the foundation hired Ingrid Schaffner to be the museum’s curator.

“With the initial period of the master prepare entire, and after properly navigating the group via the most critical moments of the pandemic, the timing was suitable for me to changeover and for new management to take the helm of the corporation,” Moore stated in a statement issued by the basis,” Moore claimed.

Board chairman Mack Fowler expressed a debt of gratitude for Moore’s close to-decade of service. “Her legacy alongside the board’s steadfast commitment to the firm leaves Chinati in a potent placement as we embark upon the upcoming section of our grasp approach.”

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