Seattle Art Museum Names New Chief Curator

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Frank Feltens as its next chief curator. He succeeds José Carlos Diaz, who departed the institution last October to be the chief curator of the Peréz Art Museum Miami. Feltens will start in his role on August 17.Feltens is currently associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C. He joined the museum as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016 and worked