{"id":794876,"date":"2026-05-14T02:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:58:14","slug":"birmingham-museum-of-art-director-to-step-down-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794876\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Museum of Art director to step down after 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGraham Boettcher, director and CEO of the Birmingham Museum of Art, is stepping down after two decades with the institution.  The museum announced Wednesday that Boettcher will leave his position to become the director and CEO of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  Boettcher began his time at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2006 as a curatorial fellow. He was the museum&#8217;s first curator of American art and was named director and CEO in 2017.  &#8220;Graham&#8217;s passion for art and dedication to community engagement has served the people of Birmingham well,&#8221; Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin commented. &#8220;The Birmingham Museum of Art is a treasured resource, not just for Birmingham but (for) the Southeast. Through Graham&#8217;s leadership, the BMA has truly lived up to its mission of connecting the people of our city to the experience and joy of art. &#8220;Chantal Drake is set to be the interim director as the museum&#8217;s board searches for the next CEO.  Boettcher&#8217;s last day is July 31. Around the country: National coverage from WVTM 13\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Graham Boettcher, director and CEO of the Birmingham Museum of Art, is stepping down after two decades with the institution.  <\/p>\n<p>The museum announced Wednesday that Boettcher will leave his position to become the director and CEO of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  <\/p>\n<p>Boettcher began his time at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2006 as a curatorial fellow. <\/p>\n<p>He was the museum&#8217;s first curator of American art and was named director and CEO in 2017.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Graham&#8217;s passion for art and dedication to community engagement has served the people of Birmingham well,&#8221; Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin commented. &#8220;The Birmingham Museum of Art is a treasured resource, not just for Birmingham but (for) the Southeast. Through Graham&#8217;s leadership, the BMA has truly lived up to its mission of connecting the people of our city to the experience and joy of art. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Chantal Drake is set to be the interim director as the museum&#8217;s board searches for the next CEO.  <\/p>\n<p>Boettcher&#8217;s last day is July 31. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Around the country: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/national-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>National coverage from WVTM 13<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham Boettcher, director and CEO of the Birmingham Museum of Art, is stepping down after two decades with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":794877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1037,324382,648,1032,29032,324380,324379,14336,316749,1033,19728,171,324381,25472,3457,9433,2739,11365,324384,40750,3546,324383,67,132,68,15613,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-794876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-art-director","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-birmingham","13":"tag-birmingham-museum","14":"tag-boettcher","15":"tag-ceo","16":"tag-dedication","17":"tag-design","18":"tag-director","19":"tag-entertainment","20":"tag-graham-boettcher","21":"tag-joy","22":"tag-leadership","23":"tag-leaving","24":"tag-massachusetts","25":"tag-museum","26":"tag-norman-rockwell-museum","27":"tag-passion","28":"tag-people","29":"tag-stockbridge","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-wednesday","34":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116570692399043670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}