Hammer Museum appoints Connie Butler as chief curator,
Aram Moshayedi as curator
Connie Butler has been named the new chief curator at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Since 2006 Butler has been The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Prior to her tenure there, Butler served as the curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles from 1996-2006, where she organized WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution among many other exhibitions.Butler, whose new appointment is effective in July, will oversee the Hammer’s curatorial department — developing and organizing exhibitions, building the Hammer Contemporary Collection and overseeing the Hammer’s artist residency program and artist council. As previously announced in April, Butler will co-curate the Hammer’s biennial exhibition, Made in L.A. 2014, with Michael Ned Holte.
Aram Moshayedi has been appointed as curator in a newly created position also effective in July. Since 2010 he has served as the associate curator of the Gallery at The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT). Prior to that he was a curator at LA ART in Los Angeles. Moshayedi has written extensively on art and film/video in numerous publications including Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and Bidoun, for which he is also a contributing editor. Carey McCarthy named director of volunteer services for UCLA Health
Carey McCarthy will serve as director of volunteer services for UCLA Health, which enlists 3,000-plus volunteers in the service of patients and families. McCarthy joined UCLA in 1989, and has served as the coordinator of volunteer special services and manager of the auxiliary’s medical plaza gift shops. McCarthy received an M.P.H. from California State University Northridge. Erin Rice named director of UCLA's People Animal Connection program
Erin Rice has assumed the role of director of UCLA’s People Animal Connection (PAC), the animal-assisted therapy program that serves patients in UCLA's medical centers. Rice has been serving as PAC’s interim director since October. She and her dog, Finn, volunteered with the program for more than four years. Rice comes to UCLA from a career in the electronic trading industry. She received her B.A. in communications from East Carolina University.
