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Katharine Lee Reid became director of The Cleveland Museum of Art in March 2000. Prior to that she was director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a position she had held since August 1991. Before going to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, she was Deputy Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, a position she had held since 1986, having been Assistant Director from 1982 to 1986. Reid also held curatorial staff positions at the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, and the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. Areas of special interest have been the expansion of art museum audiences, which was an idea that was implemented at the Art Institute of Chicago through the Getty focus group project and through initiation of diverse programs and hiring at the Virginia Museum.

A native of Cleveland, Reid graduated from Laurel School in 1959. A magna cum laude graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Reid was awarded a master of fine arts degree from Harvard University in 1966. In 1963, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at The Sorbonne and the Institut d'Art et Archaeologie in Paris, and in 1966 she studied museum curatorship at the Toledo Museum of Art on a Ford Foundation grant.

Rafael Viñoly, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, spent his early years there and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father was the artistic director of the Sodre Opera Theatre and a noted filmmaker. A serious student of the piano, Viñoly considered a professional career in music before turning his attention to architecture. While completing his studies at the University of Buenos Aires, he brought together five older colleagues to form the Estudio de Arquitectura, a firm that became one of the largest practices in South America. In 1979, he immigrated to the United States, where he founded the firm of Rafael Viñoly Architects in New York City in 1982. While serving as principal of the firm, personally overseeing all design work, he has also taught at institutions including Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Japan Institute of Architects, and a member of the Sociedad Central Arquitectos, Argentina.

Rafael Viñoly Architects is an internationally recognized architectural firm with offices in New York, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires. Founded in 1982, the New York office provides comprehensive services in building design, urban planning and interior design for new facilities, renovations and restorations. Viñoly has created elegant, innovative, and critically acclaimed designs for a series of important civic projects, performing arts centers, educational facilities, and museums. Among Viñoly's many distinguished designs are: Tokyo International Forum (1996); Palmer Memorial Stadium, Princeton University (1998); Samsung Cultural and Education Center, Seoul (1999); The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia (opened December 2001); David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh (1st Phase, January 2002); Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (2003); and Frederick P. Rose Hall, the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York (2004).

Museum projects include the Queens Museum in New York (1994), the Fortabat Museum in Buenos Aires (2001), and Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art (opening 2002). Among his numerous designs for educational institutions is the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, being built opposite Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House.

Lillian Kuri is the Executive Director of Cleveland Public Art, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to creating unique public spaces in Cleveland's urban landscape and to promoting public involvement in the civic design process. Previously, she was the Project Manager of the Civic Vision 2010: Citywide Plan project for the Cleveland Planning Commission.

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