Atlanta Contemporary Art Center appoints new executive director
Arts administrator and educator Julie Delliquanti has been an Atlanta resident for seven years
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- Julie Delliquanti
After a search that attracted numerous applicants across the country, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center announced today that its newly revived executive director position will be filled by local arts administrator Julie Delliquanti.
Delliquanti, who has been in Atlanta for seven years, is an arts educator and administrator who has held positions at the Orange County Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, Emory University Libraries and, most recently, as curator of art|DBF at the Decatur Book Festival, and head of Public Programs & Community Engagement at the High Museum of Art.
Despite its national regard as one of the southeast’s strongest contemporary art nonprofits, ACAC has also struggled amid budget constraints, past leadership changes, and an evolution that has alternately earned praise and criticism.
ACAC, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, has operated without an executive director since Kay Kallos departed for Dallas in 2008. Since then, it’s dual leadership team consisted of former artistic director Stuart Horodner and managing director Stacie Lindner. Horodner, who announced his departure in February, left last week to to begin his new position as museum director at the Art Museum of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Lindner departed in March.
“We couldn’t be happier to have Julie on board,” ACAC Board President Tim Schrager states in the press release. “ACAC, having achieved incredible goals in the past couple of years, is now poised to reach new heights and I am very confident that we will be successful in doing so with Julie in this leadership position.”
Delliquanti will begin her new role on July 14.