John Wetenhall has directed museums for 30 years, overseeing capital campaigns, new buildings and expansions, historical restorations, financial turnarounds, and two museum mergers with major universities. He has built collections and curated exhibitions, also overseeing design of a sculpture garden and creation of a woodland sculpture trail. His longest tenures were directing the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida and, since 2013, as founding director of The George Washington University Museum, where he also teaches in GW’s well-regarded graduate program in museum studies. After undergraduate studies at Dartmouth, John Wetenhall trained as an art historian at Williams (MA), followed by Stanford for his Ph.D. where he specialized in European and American public sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Years later, as a museum director at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, he earned an MBA at Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Business. Thus balanced between the humanities and management, many of his published essays and scholarly lectures have come to critique the “business of museums.” He also brings perspective through longstanding board service for museum associations, serving 10-years on the board of AAM (vice president, treasurer, national program chair), 10-years with ICOM-US, and since 2017 on the board of AAMG (co-chair of the Task Force for the Protection of University Collections and chairperson of AAMG’s Professional Practices Committee, authoring the forthcoming revision of its Professional Practices document).