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Ogden Museum of Southern Art announces new Director William Pittman Andrews

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- William Pittman Andrews has been named director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans, in New Orleans, La. Andrews will start on Jan. 2, 2012. The 41-year-old native of Starkville, Miss., has been the director of the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses since 2009, where he was also an adjunct assistant professor of art at the university. While he was director, Andrews worked to establish a vital museum community in the town of Oxford, Miss., well known for its vibrant culture of literary and visual arts. “We are thrilled to have found someone with William’s enormous energy and vision, as well as his deep knowledge of Southern art,” says Julia Reed, chair of the Ogden Museum’s board of trustees. “We are looking forward to his leading the Museum into the next phase by expanding the museum’s already excellent programming, as well as i