Administration

About the Director

Dr. Dorothy Kosinski has been the Vradenburg Director & CEO of The Phillips Collection since April 2008. Previously, Dr. Kosinski was Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Dallas Museum of Art. She was also the museum’s Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art. Over the course of 30 years in museum work, Kosinski has earned a reputation internationally as an accomplished curator and scholar of 19th and 20th century art. For over 12 years, Dr. Kosinski was based in Basel, Switzerland, where she was a curator, scholar, and university instructor, including curator and administrator of the Douglas Cooper Collection. In August 2013, Dr. Kosinski was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on the Humanities. She currently serves on the Board of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Dr. Kosinski received a BA from Yale University and an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
Staff Leadership
Dorothy Kosinski, Vradenburg Director & CEO
Nehemiah Dixon III, Director of Community Engagement
Angela Gillespie, Director of Human Resources
Renée Littleton, Chief Communications Officer and Director of Marketing
Cherie Nichols, Chief Financial Officer
Klaus Ottmann, Deputy Director for Academic Affairs and Special Initiatives
Wendy Ponvert, Director of Development
Elsa Smithgall, Chief Curator
Anne Taylor Brittingham, Deputy Director for Education and Responsive Learning Spaces
Yuma I. Tomes, Horning Chair for Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion
Micha Winkler Thomas, Director of Strategy and Operations
Board of Trustees
George Vradenburg, Honorary Chair, Trustee Emeritus
Dani Levinas, Chair
Todd Galaida, Vice Chair
Sala Patterson, Vice Chair
Amy Meadows, Secretary
Kathleen Petitt, Treasurer
Patty Alper-Cohn
Barbara Berish Brown
Susan L. Butler
Jane Chu
John Despres
Robert Drumheller
Nina Chung Dwyer
Lindsay Ellenbogen
Julie Garcia
Pamela Gwaltney
Barbara Hall
Bonnie Burke Himmelman
Lynne N. Horning
Paul Killian
Micheline Klagsbrun
Dorothy Kosinski, ex-officio as Director
Howard Krass
B. Thomas Mansbach
A. Fenner Milton
Juanita Moore
Ronald A. Paul
Judy Pomeranz
Harvey Ross
Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr
Alice Phillips Swistel
Elizabeth Williams
Leo E. Zickler
James B. Adler, Trustee Emeritus
C. Richard Belger, Trustee Emeritus
Jonathan Fineberg, Trustee Emeritus
Gerald W. Fischer, Trustee Emeritus
Jay Gates, Director Emeritus
J. Roderick Heller III, Trustee Emeritus
Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan, Trustee Emerita
Toni H. Paul, Trustee Emerita
Richard Thompson, Trustee Emeritus
Alan L. Wurtzel, Trustee Emeritus