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AMADA CRUZ The New Face of Phoenix Art Museum By Jenna Duncan • Photos Carrie Evans 8 JAVA MAGAZINE
“As a director, you have to multitask. The fundamental thing is to have a strong vision of what you think your institution should be doing.” Amada Cruz has lived in many different large cities and worn many hats, career-wise. But the main artery that runs through her entire curriculum vitae is simple—it’s art. About a year ago, she was named Sybil Harrington Director of the Phoenix Art Museum (PAM). Cruz was recruited to PAM from her previous position at Artpace in San Antonio, a large artist residency program (not to be confused with Artspace, a different program based in North Carolina). Artpace, founded by Texas philanthropist Linda Pace (lindapacefoundation.org), is 21 years old. The program supports three artists per year: one local, one national and one from abroad, for specified periods of time. Cruz served at Artpace for two years, first as a guest curator in 1996 and again after she was asked to return a couple of years later to work full-time. Prior to working at Artpace, Cruz served as program director at United States Artists in Los Angeles, a nonprofit organization—supported by the Ford, Rockefeller, Rasmuson and Prudential foundations—that awards unrestricted grants of $50,000 each to dozens of working artists in the United States each year. “It was fascinating. I did that for seven years, and I feel like I got this very privileged view of art across many disciplines,” she says. She served on many panels for these grants and reviewed countless applications. This helped inform her of what was really going on in the trenches of contemporary visual art. She worked to balance the list of nominators with experts from many different disciplines. “People who run regional grant JAVA 9 MAGAZINE
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