The President, Director and CEO will build upon the Toledo Museum of Art’s reputation for excellence in collection, exhibition and programming to enhance TMA’s prominence as one of the great 21st century museums.  

Founded in 1901 and ranked among the nation's top art museums, the Toledo Museum of Art is located on a 36 acre arts campus.  TMA's collection includes masterworks by El Greco, Rubens, Rembrandt, Gainsborough and Turner; a strong medieval collection housed in a cloister built into the Museum, works by the modern masters Matisse, Picasso, Hopper, Kiefer and Nevelson; and a broad range of historically significant works from ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt.  The Museum’s 30,000 works of art also represent a broad history of American and European painting; a unique encyclopedic collection of the history of art in glass; an Asian art collection; the art of African cultures; various decorative art works and sculpture; works on paper; and works by contemporary artists.

The main neoclassical revival building houses 45 galleries, 15 classroom studios, the 1,750-seat Peristyle concert hall, the 176-seat Little Theater lecture hall, the Resource Center for Educators, the Family Center, the Visual Resources Collection, the Museum Café, and the Museum Store featuring works for sale by area artists.  The separate Glass Pavilion was designed by noted architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa and has five galleries, a glass study room, a conservation laboratory, classrooms, two hotshops, a multipurpose GlasSalon, public and private courtyard space, and a coffee bar.  In a neighboring Frank Gehry-designed building owned by the University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts is the jointly administered art library shared by the TMA and the University.

The Toledo Museum of Art opens its collection to the public—free of charge—six days a week, 309 days a year.  The Museum currently has a $13 million annual operating budget, 86 full time staff, including 14 curatorial and 14 education professionals, 197 part time staff and over 550 volunteers serving in various capacities throughout the year.  Annual attendance is between 300,000 and 400,000, with about 32,000 students taking part in the organization’s various education programs.  The endowment amounts to about $220 million, roughly half of which is restricted to acquisition of new works and half to fund TMA operations, exhibitions, and programming.

The Board’s vision is to capitalize on the excellence of the TMA collection to engage, delight, and inspire every visitor, build and broaden visitor engagement in the Museum, and bring people of all ages and backgrounds into an intimate and transformative relationship with the worlds of art and culture.  To do this, the Toledo Museum of Art requires a Director who:

• Cares deeply and knowledgeably about art and is actively engaged in promoting TMA to diverse business, community, nonprofit, and government constituencies in and beyond Greater Toledo;
• Has the imagination and ambition to innovate and take calculated risks to build funding and audience within and outside Greater Toledo and among museum, collecting, academic and other art constituencies worldwide; and
• Is an astute, hands-on professional excited by the challenge of managing a nonprofit institution of vital importance to this community.

For a full position description or more information, please contact Lisa Grossman, Nancy Painter or Mark Oppenheim at . Additional information can be found at http://www.toledomuseum.org/.