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Linda Downs is executive director of the College Art Association. She was curator of education at the Detroit Institute of Arts; head of education at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and director of the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, where she oversaw the design and construction of a new 100,000-square-foot art museum designed by British architect David Chipperfield.
Linda has published articles on art museum education and has been an educational consultant to public school projects in Detroit, the District of Columbia and Davenport, Iowa.
She also served on the Getty Education Center’s Discipline-Based Art Education Project. Linda is the author of a monograph on Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals and many catalogue essays, articles and research papers on modern Mexican art, and has organized exhibitions including a major retrospective of Rivera’s work.
Linda has served on many national nonprofit boards and acted as a consultant to art museums throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Australia, Lithuania, Estonia and St. Petersburg. She is a doctorate candidate in cultural history at American University (Washington, D.C.); received her master’s degree in the history of art at the University of Michigan; and a bachelor of philosophy degree at Monteith College, Wayne State University (Detroit).
Clips from Linda Downs 
Assessing the Teaching of Teachers
