Deana Haggag
United States Artists (USA) has named Deana Haggag as its new president and CEO, effective April 3. Founded in 2006, USA offers unrestricted grants to artists working in the following fields: architecture and design, crafts, dance, literature, media, music, theater and performance, traditional arts, and visual arts.
Haggag has been the executive director of the Contemporary, Baltimore’s nomadic, non-collecting art museum, since the summer of 2013. Among the site-specific projects commissioned during her tenure was “Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You See the Stars,” which saw Abigail DeVille take over the former Peale Museum, the first museum built in the Western Hemisphere, with an immersive art installation.
