Diane Frankel Steps Down As Executive Director of Artists’ Legacy Foundation
Diane Frankel announced she will step down as Executive Director of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation (ALF) at the end of August 2011.
Before coming to ALF, Frankel had twenty-five years of experience in the non-profit cultural arena, serving as the director of graduate programs in museum studies at John F. Kennedy University (1980-85) and the founding director of the Bay Area Discovery Museum (1986-93). As an appointee of President Clinton, she headed the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington
, DC (1993-99). Upon her return to San Francisco, Frankel directed the Children, Youth, and Families Program at the James Irvine Foundation (1999-2003). She has served as president of ArtTable (2003) and president of the di Rosa art preserve (2005). Currently Frankel serves on the board of the Alliance of Artists Communities and is chair of the board of the San Francisco Art Institute.