Mario R. Rossero, the brand new director of the Andy Warhol Museum (picture courtesy the Nationwide Artwork Training Affiliation)
Artwork educator and administrator Mario R. Rossero has been appointed the brand new director of the Andy Warhol Museum and vice chairman of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh community, per a January 8 announcement from the group.
At the moment serving as the manager director of the Nationwide Artwork Training Affiliation (NAEA), Rossero is about to hitch the museum on March 31 — a little bit over a 12 months since former Warhol Museum Director Patrick Moore introduced his resignation. He shall be taking up from interim director Rachel Baron-Horn.
Hailing from rural southwest Pennsylvania, Rossero earned his Bachelor’s diploma in Artwork and Training at Washington and Jefferson School in 1997 earlier than debuting as a instructing artist on the Warhol Museum. He concurrently taught elementary artwork within the Shaler Space Faculty District encompassing a part of north Pittsburgh earlier than shifting to New York Metropolis in 2001 for a graduate diploma in Academic Administration and Supervision on the Financial institution Road School of Training.
Pursuing management roles within the artwork schooling sector, Rossero moved to Chicago after graduating, making his approach up within the Chicago Public Faculties community from instructing to administrative and director roles overseeing town’s advantageous and performing arts magnet colleges and applications. He maintained senior roles structuring the humanities curriculum in each Pittsburgh’s and Chicago’s public colleges earlier than his 2015 appointment because the senior vice chairman of schooling on the John F. Kennedy Heart for Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
Rossero turned the manager director of NAEA in 2020, the place he helped safe an $8.5 million grant from america Division of Training in 2021 to bolster artwork schooling across the nation with an emphasis on variety, fairness, inclusion, and accessibility in addition to skilled growth.
“For me this is a homecoming, returning to an institution that played a pivotal role in my early career, shaping my approach and trajectory as an artist, educator and organizational leader,” Rossero mentioned in a press release relating to his new appointment, noting his pleasure in sustaining Warhol’s legacy and additional growing the museum’s tourism and schooling initiative referred to as the Pop District.
Rossero enters the museum amid competition surrounding the Pop District, which has reportedly pushed a number of high-level workers away on account of issues concerning the challenge’s ambitions misaligning with the museum’s mission and sources.
