Dec

On the Move at the Portrait Gallery, FSG and the Inspector General’s Office

December 6, 2013

Coming? Going? Let your colleagues know! Submit items to torch@si.edu and put “On the Move” in the subject line. Be sure to include contact information and a picture as an attachment. We love pictures!

David Ward

National Portrait Gallery

David Ward has been appointed Senior Historian of the National Portrait Gallery. He will oversee the museum’s historians and create exhibitions and programming. Ward was one of the co-curators of the acclaimed Hide/Seek exhibition of gay portraiture in 2011 and is an accomplished poet. One of his most recent exhibitions for NPG, “Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets,” made its esoteric subject engaging and comprehensible, without skimping on the poetry.

Office of the Inspector General

Former counsel to the Inspector General Epin Christensen has been named Acting Inspector General of the Smithsonian. She replaces Scott Dahl, who is now the Inspector General for the Department of Labor.

Amanda Williams-Vasquez

Freer and Sackler Galleries

Public Affairs Specialist Amanda Williams has accepted a new position as communications manager for Design Miami, an Art Basel corollary focused on modern collectible design.