New director at the Frye

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker takes over at the Frye Oct. 1, replacing Midge Bowman, who served as director since 2004. 

From the press release:

Born in Brisbane, Australia, Birnie Danzker lived in the Pacific
Northwest from 1977 to 1991, during which time she served as curator
and then director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Birnie Danzker left
Vancouver for Munich, where she directed the Museum Villa Stuck for 15
years…Birnie Danzker has curated
exhibitions …at the International Center of
Photography in New York (1980), Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art
and P.S. 1 — MOMA (2002), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2005).
No stranger to Seattle or the Frye, in 2008 Birnie Danzker undertook
extensive research on the history of the Frye’s Founding Collection curated The Munich Secession and America and Transatlantic:
American Artists in Germany, which opened at the Frye in January 2009.