Boca Raton Museum Of Art Names Ena Heller As New Executive Director

The Board of Trustees of the Boca Raton Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Dr. Ena Heller as the museum’s next executive director, effective February 2025.

Heller will join the museum following a successful tenure as the director of the Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park, Fla. Her distinguished career includes esteemed positions at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City, the Medieval and Education Departments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as a professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts and Manhattanville College in New York.

“Ena impressed us all with her strategic insight and proven ability to inspire and offer clear direction. She has mastered the complex position of being a museum director at two institutions and will find a willingness on the part of her new colleagues here in Boca Raton to take our Museum to even greater achievements,” says Board Chair John DesPrez III.

Heller holds a doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and is a graduate of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute. During her time at the Rollins Museum, more than 1,300 new acquisitions were added to the collection, museum’s numbers quadrupled, the operating budget doubled and the first endowment for exhibitions was created.

“I am honored and happy to have been chosen as the next Executive Director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art,” expresses Heller. “Due to an energetic and engaged board, and to Irvin [Lippman]’s steady leadership over the last decade, the Museum is at an inflection point in its institutional history. I believe in its potential to become a greater resource for Boca Raton and the region, to expand its educational mission and serve the community in a unique way, and I am ready for the challenge.”

For more information, visit the bocamuseum.org.

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Dr. Ena Heller