Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Guides a Human-Centered Vision at the Peabody Essex Museum

When Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum, was applying for graduate school, she told her professors at Bucknell University that she wanted to study “the art of the fantastic.” “I have gravitated, as a result, to art that is more emotional and psychological in its orientation, as well as the unusual and the excentric and the unexpected,” she says. She has brought that sensibility, and much more, to her role as PEM’s first female director in the museum’s more than 220-year history. Now, she’s leading the way toward a new vision for the institution with PEM Forward, a strategic plan t

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