Mario R. Rossero, the brand new director of the Andy Warhol Museum (photograph courtesy the Nationwide Artwork Schooling Affiliation)
Artwork educator and administrator Mario R. Rossero has been appointed the brand new director of the Andy Warhol Museum and vp of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh community, per a January 8 announcement from the group.
At present serving as the chief director of the Nationwide Artwork Schooling Affiliation (NAEA), Rossero is about to affix the museum on March 31 — slightly over a yr since former Warhol Museum Director Patrick Moore introduced his resignation. He shall be taking up from interim director Rachel Baron-Horn.
Hailing from rural southwest Pennsylvania, Rossero earned his Bachelor’s diploma in Artwork and Schooling at Washington and Jefferson Faculty in 1997 earlier than debuting as a instructing artist on the Warhol Museum. He concurrently taught elementary artwork within the Shaler Space College District encompassing a part of north Pittsburgh earlier than shifting to New York Metropolis in 2001 for a graduate diploma in Academic Administration and Supervision on the Financial institution Road Faculty of Schooling.
Pursuing management roles within the artwork training sector, Rossero moved to Chicago after graduating, making his approach up within the Chicago Public Colleges community from instructing to administrative and director roles overseeing town’s nice and performing arts magnet colleges and applications. He maintained senior roles structuring the humanities curriculum in each Pittsburgh’s and Chicago’s public colleges earlier than his 2015 appointment because the senior vp of training on the John F. Kennedy Heart for Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
Rossero grew to become the chief director of NAEA in 2020, the place he helped safe an $8.5 million grant from the USA Division of Schooling in 2021 to bolster artwork training across the nation with an emphasis on variety, fairness, inclusion, and accessibility in addition to skilled improvement.
“For me this is a homecoming, returning to an institution that played a pivotal role in my early career, shaping my approach and trajectory as an artist, educator and organizational leader,” Rossero mentioned in an announcement relating to his new appointment, noting his pleasure in sustaining Warhol’s legacy and additional creating the museum’s tourism and training initiative often known as the Pop District.
Rossero enters the museum amid rivalry surrounding the Pop District, which has reportedly pushed a number of high-level workers away because of issues in regards to the undertaking’s ambitions misaligning with the museum’s mission and assets.