Anne Hawley was born on November 3,1943 and was the Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston from 1989 until 2015.
17 Facts About Anne Hawley
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Anne Hawley has been named a Resident Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, beginning in spring 2016.
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Anne Hawley was born on November 3,1943, in Iowa City and raised on a family farm near West Liberty, Iowa.
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Anne Hawley holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa Iowa and a Master of Arts from George Washington University.
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Anne Hawley attended the Senior Executive Program at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Early in her career, Anne Hawley worked as a research associate with the National Urban League and then with the Ford Foundation Study in Leadership in Public Education.
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Anne Hawley then moved to Massachusetts, where she became the founding executive director of the Cultural Education Collaborative in 1974.
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In 1977, Anne Hawley became executive director of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities where she served until her appointment to the Gardner in 1989.
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Anne Hawley holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from Williams College, Babson College, Emmanuel College, Emerson College, Lesley University, and Montserrat College of Art.
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In 1989, Anne Hawley became the fourth museum director of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Anne Hawley made it her mission to ensure that the institution would not only preserve Isabella Stewart Gardner's extraordinary collection, but serve as a dynamic cultural resource for artists, musicians, scholars, visitors, and the Greater Boston community, just as it did in Mrs Gardner's day.
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On March 18,1990, within 6 months of Anne Hawley taking the director position, two thieves, dressed as Boston police officers, talked their way into the Museum and stole 13 masterpieces valued at $500 million, including works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas.
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In 1994 at Anne Hawley's urging, Senator Ted Kennedy helped pass legislation that made art theft a federal crime and increased the statute of limitations from five to fifteen years.
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In December 2015, Anne Hawley stepped down as the museum director.
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Anne Hawley serves as a trustee on the boards of Save Venice Inc.
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Anne Hawley was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Emmanuel College, Boston, at their Commencement on May 12,2012, where Ms.
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Anne Hawley was awarded Honorary Doctorates by Williams College, Babson College, Leslie College, and the Montserrat College of Art.