Jenenne Whitfield, an arts innovator who previously headed up the esteemed Heidelberg Project in Detroit, assumes her new role this month as director of the American Visionary Art Museum. (credit Larry Canner Photography)
The facade of the American Visionary Art Museum's main building in Baltimore, MD. (photo credit Dan Meyers/AVAM)
She comes to Baltimore from Detroit, where she headed the Heidelberg Project. She succeeds AVAM’s founding director, Rebecca Hoffberger,who led the museum for three decades.
If you’re not familiar with AVAM, it’s worth the trip to Key Highway here in Baltimore to check it out.
It’s dedicated to intuitive, self-taught artistry, and it has garnered kudos from all sorts of national news outlets since it opened 30 years ago.
