The Boca Raton Museum of Art has announced its successor to Executive Director Irvin Lippman, who is set to retire on Jan. 31 after 10 years at the helm of Boca’s premier visual-arts institution.
Ena Heller will assume the mantel on Feb. 3, in an announcement this week from the museum’s Board of Trustees. Heller brings decades of credentials and museum leadership experience to the role, most recently as director of the Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park, Florida, since 2012. Previous appointments include executive director of the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, a post she held for more than seven years. She also maintained a lecturer position in the education department of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she holds a Ph.D. in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Heller’s LinkedIn page describes her as an “Experienced Art Museum Director with a demonstrated history of shepherding organizations through significant growth, and implementing strategies that change institutional history.”
Heller’s appointment came after a lengthy national search from PBR Executive Search, a New York employment agency hired by the museum’s board. “Ena impressed us all with her strategic insight and proven ability to inspire and offer clear direction. She has mastered the complex position of being a museum director at two institutions and will find a willingness on the part of her new colleagues here in Boca Raton to take our Museum to even greater achievements,” said Board Chair John DesPrez III in a press release.
Look forward to coverage of Ena Heller in the pages of Boca magazine in the coming year.
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