After 6 months without a CEO of the nonprofit that serves as the city’s official arts council, Mayor Catherine Pugh today announced Donna Drew Sawyer as the new head of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.
Sawyer has served as the nonprofit’s chief of external affairs since last year. Before that, she was communications and marketing director for the the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. She took a couple years off between both jobs to write a novel, “Provenance,” which won the 2017 Maryland Writers’ Association Award for Historical Fiction and was picked as a finalist for the Harlem Book Fair’s “First Fiction” category.
She has also worked for the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk and the Sesame Workshop in New York, among other roles.
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