Chair’s Leadership Award
2022 AAM Awards Update: To maximize reach, engagement, impact, and learning for the museum field—as well as the celebration of our inspiring award winners—AAM awards programs are currently under review and temporarily on hold. This will likely result in a shift of award submission deadlines, previously set to align around the AAM Annual Meeting & Museum Expo. We look forward to sharing more information later in 2022 through our website and member communications.
The AAM Chair’s Leadership Award is reserved for rare occasions “to honor” outstanding leadership and extraordinary accomplishments in the museum field. It was first presented in 2015. Recipients are not nominated but instead are chosen by the AAM Board Chair.
Past Recipients
2019
2017
National Museum of African American History and Culture
2015
Graham Beal, Director, President and CEO, and the Detroit Institute of Arts Board of Directors