OMAHA, NE.- Joslyn Art Museum announces the appointment of Toby Jurovics as the Museums new chief curator and Richard and Mary Holland Curator of American Western Art, Joslyns first ever endowed position established by Richard and the late Mary Holland. Jurovics comes to Joslyn from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. He will begin work at the Museum in mid December. Jurovics has been curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum since 2006. Prior to that, he was a curator for over a decade at the Princeton University Art Museum. He earned his Masters degree in art history from the University of Delaware and his Bachelors degree in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a curator, Jurovics focus has been and remains art of the American