Richard Koshalek began his tenure as President of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in September of 1999
Born in Wausau, Wisconsin, Koshalek attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where
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Richard Koshalek began his tenure as President of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in September of 1999.
Born in Wausau, Wisconsin, Koshalek attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he received a B.A. in architecture (1965) and an M.A. in architecture and art history (1967). Koshalek was director of The Museum of Contemporary Art from 1982 to 1999, and joined MOCA in 1980 as deputy director and chief curator. He served as director of the Fort Worth Art Museum from 1974 to 1976 and worked at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis from 1967 to 1973 as curator, assistant curator and exhibitions coordinator. Koshalek is a former member of the International Board of the Wexner Center for the Arts, Board Member of the American Federation of Arts, was a speaker and moderator at the World Economic Forum in 2002 and 2003, and was named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government (1999). He was chairman of the Architectural Subcommittee for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In 2007, he served as a jury member on the Architectural Selection Committee for the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.
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