Honoring and Extending the Legacy of Charles and Emma Frye
Robin Held, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections
As the Frye’s chief curator and director of its exhibitions and collections, I think a lot about what it means to honor and extend the legacy of Charles and Emma Frye. This means of course going beyond consideration of the question, “What would the Fryes do?”
Frye Future: The Collection Management Plan
The Frye Art Museum is undertaking the important task of rewriting its Collections Management Plan (CMP). A CMP is a statement of the Museum’s professional standards and practices according to the American Association of Museums’ guidelines, regarding proper management of its Permanent Collections.
Seattle Channel Gallery Hop: Frye Museum
In this episode of Gallery Hop, host Nancy Guppy visits the Frye Art Museum for a talk with Robin Held, chief curator and director of collections and exhibitions.
David Andersen, former Frye exhibition designer, faced the difficult task of turning curatorial vision into reality. Spectatorship and Desire, for which chief curator Robin Held envisioned a salon-style hang of the collection similar to the way Charles and Emma Frye lived with their art, presented an installation challenge unlike any Andersen had undertaken in his nine years at the Frye.
Ida Kay Greathouse’s Centenary Birthday
On December 27, 2005, Kay Greathouse, director of the Frye Art Museum from 1966 to 1994, celebrated her one-hundredth birthday. The Frye would not exist as the cultural center it is today without her commitment and leadership.
by photographer Robert Lyons
Fly On the Wall is a series of interpretive wall labels for selected works in the Permanent Collection. Rediscover your favorite paintings through the eyes of artists, writers, film critics, and others, whose insightful comments accompany their selections.
