LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced today that Melody Kanschat will be leaving her position as President and Chief Operating Officer, effective May 2011. Ms. Kanschat has held this position since July 2005, having worked at LACMA in a variety of capacities since 1989. As President and Chief Operating Officer, Ms. Kanschat has been responsible for the day-to-day operations of the museum, overseeing its annual budget of $60 million and, most recently, the completion of LACMA‟s recent Transformation building initiative designed by Renzo Piano. The Piano-designed master plan, which added more than 100,000 square feet of new exhibition space, includes the Broad Contemporary Art Museum and BP Grand Entrance opened in 2008, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion opened last October, and the new Ray‟s restaurant and Stark Bar in the grand entrance, slated to open in March of this year