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Denise joined the museums board in 2006 and has been a member of the governing board of the School of the Art Institute since 2011. A leader with her credentials is exactly what we need right now to take us into the future, James Rondeau, the museums director, said in a phone interview on Monday. She and her husband, Gary, are avid art collectors with a strong interest in African American art and works by Chicago artists. Denise Gardner | The Art Institute of Chicago Scottish Environmental Activists Smash Glass Case of Sword inProtest, Thomas H. Lee, Collector of Photography and Contemporary Art, Is Dead at 78, Alice Waltons Art Bridges Foundation Is Buyer of $4.5 M. Robert Colescott Painting Auctioned by Bonhams Last Week, Ronald Lauder Reaches Agreement on Klimt Painting with Descendants of Original Jewish Owner. an interesting story to share that you would like to see featured, please email In this role, I can help the museum accelerate their progress, she said. Sculpture: Hero Construction, 1958, Richard Hunt (BA 1957, HON 1979). Denise joined the museum's board in 2006 and has been a member of the governing board of the School of the Art Institute since 2011. Today in the Culture, April 14, 2021 - Newcity It has been my honor to partner with Denise for many years, said James Rondeau, President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the museum. Gary had the idea to gut the lower level of their house and build a gallery-like, white cube space for contemporary art, which required several weeks of earth excavation to lower the floor by 20 inches. Gardner said she was brought to the Art Institute as a volunteer almost 27 years ago by Jetta Jones, the museums first Black female trustee, who died last weekend at 95. Its hard to avoid the historical significance, Gardner said in a telephone interview on Monday. Gaby Sulzberger, a Metropolitan Museum of Art board member and one of Gardners fellow founding members of the Black Trustee Alliance, said in an email she did not know of any Black women who have chaired major art museum boards. As a board member of The Chicago Community Trust, she served on its Strategic Planning Working Group and CEO Search Committee and chaired its Donor Relations and Civic Engagement Committee and African American Legacy Fund. Gardner, 66, will be the first Black person and first woman chairperson of the governing body for the museum and the School of the Art Institute. But not his teammates. SAICs new faculty members represent a diverse range of practices, media, and methodologies and exemplify SAICs focus on interdisciplinary studies. She has exactly the right resume, which is business experience, involvement with the school, substantial involvement with the museum and art. Purdue women fall to Iowa, Caitlin Clark in Big Ten tournament. Await The longtime art collector and marketing executive Denise Gardner will become the chairwoman of the Art Institute of Chicago in November, perhaps the country's first Black woman to hold that.