""Allison has had great success overseeing large-scale capital projects in New York City while demonstrating her ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders at an institution of national relevance. We look forward to her partnership with museum director Matthew Hargraves, and a bright future here at the Wadsworth.""
""Growing up outside Hartford, I came to know the Wadsworth as a place where timeless masterpieces live alongside timely discoveries. Under Jeff Brown's leadership and the board's guidance, the museum is embracing a renewed sense of identity and purpose, and museum director Matthew Hargraves is advancing a compelling vision that both honors its history and energizes it in powerful ways.""
""Its baroque, surrealist and Hudson River School holdings are tremendous. It boasts the Serge Lifar collection of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes, the Samuel Colt firearms collection, a terrific "Wunderkammer" display, great costumes and textiles, and destination paintings by, among others, William Holman Hunt, Caravaggio, Joseph Wright of Derby and Norman Rockwell.""
Allison Blais will become president and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in January 2026, succeeding Jeffrey N. Brown. She is executive vice president and chief strategy and operations officer at New York's 9/11 Memorial & Museum and contributed to both institutions from early planning stages, including work with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Wadsworth board chair Duffield Ashmead praised her oversight of large-scale capital projects and stakeholder engagement. Blais said the museum combines timeless masterpieces with timely discoveries and praised its renewed identity. Founded in 1842, the Wadsworth is the nation's oldest continuously operating public art museum and holds notable baroque, surrealist, and Hudson River School works.
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