MoMA’s New Comm. Director

Kim Mitchell has been appointed to the position of Director of Communications at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Mitchell, who succeeds Mary Lou Strahlendorff, will lead a staff of five to promote the Museum’s exhibitions, programs, activities, and events to the national and international media, including the opening of MoMA QNS on June 29, 2002, and the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art in 2005.

Mitchell joined the museum in 1997 as a publicist and was promoted to Senior Publicist in 1998, then to Assistant Director of Communications in 1999. Exhibitions for which she managed publicity include Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama (1998); Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor (1998); Aleksandr Rodchenko (1998); Fame After Photography (1999); and Different Roads: Automobiles for the Next Century (1999), as well as all of the MoMA2000 exhibitions. For Different Roads, Mitchell initiated and co-produced an award-winning video news release that garnered a national television audience of eight million viewers.#

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