Wednesday, September 01, 1999
Art museum director plans outreach
New leader comes from college scene
BY OWEN FINDSEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Art Museum will become “a very dynamic center for the visual arts in the next few years,” museum board President John Beatty predicted Tuesday afternoon.
He had just talked to Timothy Rub on the telephone and offered him the job of museum director. Mr. Rub said yes.
Mr. Rub, director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., will become the eighth director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. He will begin his new job within a few months.
“He's adroit. He's personable. He's knowledgeble, and I think from his standpoint, he sees the opportunity to take this museum to a brand-new wonderful plateau,” said board President-elect Otto Budig.
The museum board has been searching for a director since May, following Barbara Gibbs' resignation in February. Mr. Beatty said Mr. Rub was the unanimous choice of the search committee because he best fit the plan to “make this museum a much more contributing part of our community.”
Mr. Rub has “superb artistic credentials,” Mr. Beatty said. “He has superb curatorial credentials. He has excellent artistic, scholastic and academic credentials.” But it was his vision and leadership qualities that impressed the museum board and staff.
“He took the Hood Museum, which was a purely academic college museum nine years ago, and turned it into a very important regional resource, reaching out to communities within 80 miles of Hanover, bringing in busloads of schoolchildren and making it a regional museum.
“And that's what we want,” Mr. Beatty said.
The Cincinnati Art Museum revised its mission statement this year, changing from an “inwardly focused” institution to one that is “focused on serv ing our community,” Mr. Beatty said.
Mr. Rub, 47, has been director of the Hood Museum of Art since 1991. He also serves as chief curator, responsible for programming and collections in modern and contemporary art.
Mr. Rub graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont, and has a master's in art history from New York University and a master's in business administration from Yale University.
He completed the Harvard University Program for Art Museum Directors in 1998. His wife, Sally, is a graphic designer. They have two children.
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