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Northwestern’s Block Museum announces Lisa Graziose Corrin as new Director

EVANSTON, IL.- Lisa Graziose Corrin, a former director of the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), has been named the next Ellen Philips Katz Director of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, effective Feb. 1, 2012. Currently a Clark Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and visiting scholar in museum studies at New York University, Corrin served from 2005 to June 2011 as Class of 1956 Director of the Williams College Museum of Art. “Lisa will bring extensive curatorial experience, deep knowledge of contemporary art, visionary programming and intellectual leadership to the Block,” said Northwestern President Morton Schapiro. “We are thrilled that, following our national search, she has agreed to head up the Block.” During her six years as WCMA director, Corrin raised the museum’s campus profile and deepened the museum’s commitment to its teaching mission. S