New Interim Leadership for AMoCA

As of December, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art is under new interim leadership. Tonee Harbert (RAiR 2019-20, and Digital Media Manager of RAiR since 2021), has taken over as Interim Museum Director for a one-year term.

In addition, Miranda Howe (RAiR 2012-13) is increasing her responsibilities and hours at AMoCA in order to help with the transition.

Tonee Harbert (RAiR 2019-20)

Miranda Howe (RAiR 2012-13)

Both Tonee and Miranda have already been playing significant roles at AMoCA. Tonee, a photographer, is responsible for the wonderful artist videos on the website (examples here); for most of our social media posts; and for the redesign of the website itself. He and his partner, the artist Shoshannah White, live and work at the Historic Studios at Berrendo Road, and have become an important part of the artists’ community in Roswell. They previously lived in Maine, where Tonee’s professional experience, in addition to his own photographic work, included stints as a teaching artist and photography instructor; commercial photography work; and a stint as executive director of the Bakery Photographic Collective. Tonee’s work focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment, in evocative, dream-like, black-and-white images.

You can learn more about Tonee, and see images of his work, here.

Miranda, a ceramicist, has been a stalwart at RAiR for the last ten years, working closely with our beloved previous museum director, Nancy Fleming, on every aspect of the museum’s operations. A native of Roswell, she is also the founder of the Bone Springs Art Space, which holds rotating exhibitions, many of them featuring RAiR alumni, and art classes at all levels for children and adults, along with a gift shop carrying the work of local and RAiR artists. Her work focuses on the contrast between surfaces and interiors, combining elaborate surface patterns with geode-like cutaways in objects that memorably contrast the organic and the manmade.

You can learn more about Miranda, and see images of her work, here.

We are thrilled to welcome Tonee and Miranda to these new roles and are very excited about the museum’s future.

RAiR has also announced the start of a formal search process for AMoCA’s permanent museum director (to which those currently serving are welcome to apply).