Laguna Art Museum Names a Curator of Education

LAGUNA BEACH — Margaret Ann Maynard has been named curator of education at the Laguna Art Museum, replacing M.A. Greenstein, who resigned in August. She will oversee museum outreach and education programs for children and adults.

Maynard, who will join the staff Feb. 15, has been doing museum education research for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the past year.

From 1986 to 1991, she served as assistant curator of education at the Phoenix (Ariz.) Art Museum, where she established and directed programs for school-age children, organized the education programs for several major exhibitions and served as creative director and copywriter for the museum’s youth-oriented written materials.

Among her innovations in Phoenix were the ArtAttack Gallery, an interactive exhibition space for children and families, based on the museum’s permanent collection; Studio A, a studio art program in which the state’s leading artists, architects and art educators served as instructors, and the Teen Arts Council for Enriching Education, a support organization founded to increase teen participation in the city’s arts programs.

An art history graduate of the University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, Maynard has completed postgraduate courses in fine arts and graphic design at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.