The new director and CEO of the Newark Museum of Art is a trained scientist and career arts administrator whom the board hopes will “integrate both science and art into the museum experience.”
Lisa Funderburke, 55, a Long Island native who earned a bachelor’s in botany and a master’s in biology from Howard University, began her $400,000 job as director and CEO of the state’s largest arts museum on Sunday, the NMOA board announced.
“Lisa brings to the museum a unique breadth and depth of experience as a museum and arts leader,” the board’s chair, Peter Englot, said in a Jan. 23 announcement…