Executive Director

The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation

Suffern, New York

THE SEARCH

The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation (the Foundation) seeks a visionary, entrepreneurial, and collaborative leader to serve as its next Executive Director. Today, the Foundation stands at an inflection point. Growing scholarly recognition, evolving financial resources, changing dynamics within the art market, and increasing institutional opportunities require a leader who can think beyond traditional collections management and scholarship. The next Executive Director will be charged with developing strategies that preserve the Foundation's resources, expand its influence, responsibly steward its assets, and position Richard Pousette-Dart's work for sustained cultural relevance in a rapidly changing artistic landscape. They will recognize that preserving a pivotal historical legacy requires not only safeguarding the past but actively shaping the conditions that allow that legacy to thrive in the future.

Since 2014, the Foundation has become an active research and grantmaking organization while preserving the historical Richard Pousette-Dart House and Studio in Suffern, New York. This year, the family of Richard Pousette-Dart has announced it will gift all of the artist’s work from the estate of Evelyn Pousette-Dart to the Foundation. The substantial bequest will dramatically increase the Foundation’s collection of important paintings, works on paper, sculpture, photography, and notebooks that represent Richard Pousette-Dart’s life’s work. The next Executive Director will have the opportunity to strengthen its organizational infrastructure, deepen scholarly engagement, expand visibility, cultivate philanthropic support, and position the Foundation as a leading resource for artists, researchers, educators, institutions, collectors, and the broader public.

The successful candidate will be a leader with strong communication skills who will be a forceful advocate for the contributions of Richard Pousette-Dart, who appreciates the power of artistic inquiry, and who is energized by the chance to shape the future of a mission-driven institution at an important moment of growth. This is not a business-as-usual leadership role. It is an opportunity to guide a distinctive artist-endowed foundation as it defines how an artistic legacy can have a meaningful impact in the twenty-first century.

The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation has retained Isaacson, Miller, an international executive search firm, to assist with this search. Inquiries, nominations, referrals, CVs with cover letters, and any requests for accommodations should be sent via the Isaacson, Miller website: https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/richard-pousette-dart-foundation/executive-director to the attention of Sarah James, Berlinda Mojica, and Christina Errico at Isaacson, Miller.

The Foundation encourages applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences.