Andrea Grover Named New Director of Guild Hall

After months of silence and speculation, Guild Hall announced today that Andrea Grover has been named executive director to replace Ruth Appelhof, who is retiring.

Ms. Grover will begin her appointment on Sept. 1. She has been a curator of special projects at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill since 2011. Her most recent curatorial project, "Radical Seafaring," has been well received by critics and audiences and has fostered a new category of contemporary art, "offshore art."

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Known for her successful efforts to build communities within East End art circles, as well as in Houston, where she was founder and director of the Aurora Picture Show, she has also served as an adviser for arts foundations such as Creative Capital, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.

She has been a Warhol curatorial fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Ms. Appelhof announced her retirement last year. She will stay in the area to work on several book projects.