Mr. Ray Williams assumed the new role of Director of Education at the Harvard University Art Museums on January 14, 2008.
The Harvard University Art Museums announced on December 13, 2007 that Ray Williams became their first Director of Education effective January 14, 2008. Mr. Williams will manage the expansion of the museums' educational programs for both the university and public outreach.
A graduate of Western Carolina University, Williams possesses a master's degree in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an individualized master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Ray Williams was Director of Education at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. He taught courses in museum education at RISD as well as Brown University and Rhode Island College. He ran the Education Departments at the Peabody Essex Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.Sackler Gallery and the University of North Carolina's Ackland Art Museum.
The Harvard University Art Museums are comprised of the:
- Fogg Art Museum, with Western European art from the Middle Ages to the present;
- Busch-Reisinger Museum, focusing on the art of Central and Northern Europe from the Late Middle Ages to modern times;
- Arthur M. Sackler Museum, with its treasures of ancient, Islamic, Asian and later Indian art;
- Straus Center for Conservation;
- Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art;
- Art Museums Archives; and
- U.S. headquarters of the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis.
Under a planned renovation, expansion and transformation, the three collections will eventually be united in one facility, each with its own state-of-the-art study center.
