The Elmhurst Art Museum on Tuesday announced that Allison Peters Quinn has been hired as its new executive director and chief curator, taking over the position Dec. 2.
Peters Quinn succeeds former executive director John McKinnon, who departed earlier this year to lead the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee, as well as interim executive director Ann Quinn Kelly. She comes to the west suburban art museum from the Hyde Park Art Center, where she had worked for two decades and was the director of exhibitions and residency programs.
The nonprofit Elmhurst Art Museum, established in 1997, is a 15,000-square-foot museum campus of galleries, event spaces and the McCormick House, a single-family home designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1952. Its most recent big exhibition was “A Love Supreme,” designer Norman Teague’s tribute to jazz musician John Coltrane in its galleries and McCormick House last spring. In 2023, it hosted “Picasso: Fifty Years Later.”
“Sharing the museum’s belief that ‘art is for everyone’, I see exciting opportunities for the institution to expand its impact through this commitment to radical accessibility,” Peters Quinn said in part in a statement. “My work over the past 20 years has been dedicated to bringing diverse audiences into civic dialog through looking at, experiencing, and making art. … I look forward to building on the deep relationships with artists and institutional partnerships I have established in Chicago and around the world.”
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