Colby College names Smithsonian Curator to lead Lunder Institute for American Art
(Artdaily.org)

Colby College has named Lee Glazer the founding director of the Lunder Institute for American Art. Currently curator of American art for the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Freer|Sackler), Glazer is a leading scholar of American art with expertise in a range of areas, including the work of artists Romare Bearden, Thomas Dewing, and James McNeill Whistler. As founding director, Glazer will establish the institute’s scholarly and creative direction and build programs and collaborations in support of that direction. This will include developing artist residencies and recruiting and selecting artists to participate, organizing symposia and conferences, leading the institute’s engagement with museum and College audiences, and forging relationships that strengthen the museum’s and Colby’s connections with Waterville and Maine. “The appointment of Lee Glazer as instit