Marlene Chambers

Marlene Chambers was director of publications at the Denver Art Museum for thirty years. In that role, she edited (and often wrote) everything from exhibition catalogs to lure brochures and gallery labels. With undergraduate majors in education and English and M.A. degrees in English and art history, it is not surprising that she has taken more than a passing interest in the “writing on the (museum) wall” and that she looks on the John Cotton Dana Award for Leadership that she received from the Education Committee of the American Association of Museums in 1996 as the capstone of her career. Her occasional essays on exhibition criticism and issues of communication and learning in the museum setting have appeared in Museum News, The Exhibitionist, and Curator: The Museum Journal. Her latest publication, “A History of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum,” served as the introductory essay for the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum’s tenth year anniversary volume of Western Passages: Elevating Western American Art (2012).

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Chambers, Marlene

Overview

Works: 34 works in 55 publications in 2 languages and 1,874 library holdings

Genres: Exhibition catalogs Art Catalogs History Local history

Roles: Author, Editor

Classifications: ND1441.5, 758.9978007478883