Long Beach : Curator Appointed for University Art Museum

Diana du Pont, an art curator with a strong interest in photography and early 20th-Century and Latin American art, has become the curator of exhibitions at the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach.

“She is a scholar with an extraordinarily gracious and winning personality who has a record of organizing fabulous exhibitions,” said Constance Glenn, the museum’s director.

Du Pont, who was appointed after a national search, replaces Lucinda Barnes, who left Oct. 1 after five years in the position to become the curator of Newport Harbor Art Museum.

Before reporting to Long Beach earlier this month, Du Pont had, since 1987, been assistant curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior to that, she had been a public affairs assistant at the University Art Museum in Berkeley and assistant to the director of Cameraworks/Soho Photo Galleries in Los Angeles.

Among other things, Du Pont is fluent in Spanish, French, German and Italian.