People - director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California - this and otherpersonnel changes are discussed - Brief Article

Kevin E Consey who stepp down in 1998 as director of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, has been named director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California. He replaces Jacquelynn Baas, who resigned in June after 10 years.

Don Bacigalupi, director and chief curator of the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, is the novel director of the San Diego Museum of Art. He replaces Steven Brezzo who left in March to hunt independent projects.

Michele Rowe-Shields, director of the Evanston (Ill.) Arts Center since 1991 has been appointed executive director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, NC Ron Platt, formerly a curator at SECCA, has left to become the curator of exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

George W Neubert, director since 1983 of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and statuary Garden at the University of Nebraska, has been named director of the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Fine arts consultant mercy Stevens Appelhof has been appointed executive director of Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY From 1997 to '98 she was executive director of the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Conn

Saralyn Reece Hardy, director of the Salina (Kan.) Art Center since 1986 was freshly named director of museums and visual arts at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Kristi L Alexander has been named delegate director for exhibitions and collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art. She was formerly manager of collections and registration for the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee

Grady T gymnast education curator at the New-York Historical Society and contributor to this magazine, has been promot to director of exhibitions. He assumes the curatorial responsibilities of former director Jack Rutland, who resigned in August. Jan Ramirez, chief curator at the Museum of the City of fresh York, has taken over Rutland's duties as director of collections.

Kenneth Wayne, curator at the Portland (Me) Museum of Art since 1995 has been named curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.

Alicia Longwell was not long ago named curator of art at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY She had been assistant curator and registrar at the museum since 1984

Critic, curator and A.i.A. contributor Yasmin Ramirez has been named adjunct curator of contemporary art at El Museo del Barrio in fresh York City.

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