A New CFO for Carnegie Museums
“I’ve been visiting the museums all my life, and I still feel the awe that the four Carnegie Museums inspire on every visit,” says Beth Wright, the new Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer for Carnegie Museums. “I can now look forward to being a part of bringing the joy of the museums to future generations.” Wright joined Carnegie Museums in April after most recently serving as director of finance and operations for Chartiers Valley School District. She has also served in senior leadership roles at Propel Schools—a regional network of eight public charter schools—and the accounting firm R.D. Hoag & Associates.
One of the Nation’s Best Art Museums
Readers of USA Today have chosen The Andy Warhol Museum as one of their favorite art museums in America. The Warhol came in at No. 10 on USA Today’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards for 2025, with the newspaper noting the museum’s expansiveness—“the world’s largest collection of Warhol art and archives” spread across eight floors.
“Making some of these small changes in what we call a particular plant can change how people think about that plant and how people think about the problem.”
– Mason Heberling, associate curator in the Section of Botany at the Museum of Natural History, speaking about invasive species and the museum’s current Uprooted exhibition to The New York Times
CMU Student Artists Show Their Work at The Warhol
The Andy Warhol Museum for the first time hosted an exhibition of art by students from Carnegie Mellon University, its namesake’s alma mater. This spring, the museum co-presented Holding Still, Holding On with the university’s School of Art MFA program, which featured new works by the Class of 2025—Frankmarlin, Izsys Archer, Tingting Cheng, Chantal Feitosa-Desouza, and Max Tristan Watkins. “This is an amazing collaboration with The Warhol Museum for the third-year thesis exhibition. I’m incredibly proud of everybody,” said Kattie Hubbard, director of the MFA program, in a TribLive story.
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