VLADIMIR A. von TSURIKOV, Ph.D.

Innovative, Experienced, Result-Driven Professional

Work Experience – 20 years of administrative, research, linguistic and curatorial experience

Non-Profit and Art Consultant, June 2021 – present

·   Collection building – research, proposals, negotiations, and acquisitions of Art for private clients

·   Development – development planning, bylaws, and organizational review for Aslice Foundation

·   Strategic and business planning

·   Non-profit creation and planning

Interim Director, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, August 2019 – May 2021

·   Led the museum concurrently with directorial appointment at the Museum of History

·   $1.75 million annual budget, creation and oversight of annual budgets, monthly reports to city departments, oversight bodies, Foundation board

·   Major grants, including Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ($100,000), The Daura Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, Art Bridges, other public and private funders

·   Acquisitions – facilitated donation of a unique privately held collection of Mata Ortiz pottery, cementing the El Paso Museum of Art as the largest repository of Mata Ortiz in the region

·   Supervision of 40 staff and volunteers, recruited and hired staff

·   Annual attendance of 130,000+ visitors

·   Facilities – oversaw major capital improvement projects in galleries and facility

·   Created new partnerships, including with the Georgia Museum of Art, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Mexican Consulate General in El Paso, Ministry of Culture of Mexico, El Paso Symphony Orchestra, Alzheimer’s Foundation, community groups, regional artists, musicians from both sides of the border, and others

·   Successfully led museum through COVID related closures, including significant budget cuts, up to reopening of full museum operations while maintaining exhibitions and programming

·   Implemented programmatic changes, bi-lingual representation, increased presence of BIPOC artists, outreach to immigrant and minority communities

·   Created multi-institutional Museum Think Tank to navigate and discuss DEIA initiatives + projects

Director, El Paso Museum of History, El Paso, TX, August 2018 – May 2021

·   Led the museum concurrently with directorial appointment at the Museum of Art

·   $1 million annual budget, creation and oversight of annual budgets, monthly reports to city departments, oversight bodies, Foundation board

·   Supervision of 22 staff and volunteers, recruited and hired staff

·   Increased annual number of exhibitions from 2 to 13 within the first 12 months

·   Increased annual attendance by 44 % within 12 months to 93,000 visitors

·   Major rebranding, new website, social media presence, fully bi-lingual, inclusive exhibitions, and programming with incorporation of DEIA ideals

·   Built diverse, bi-lingual professional staff within 12 months

·   Major donations and grants, such as NEH ($106,000), JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Union Pacific Foundation, TX Women for the Arts, El Paso Chamber of Commerce, El Paso Community College, One Gas/Texas Gas, Private naming rights donation ($100,000), and more

·   Acquisitions – important collection of Steve Esteban etchings and other historical artifacts

·   Led the preservation, cataloging and installation of the community’s memorial from the August 3 shooting attack at Walmart in El Paso, TX, creating a permanent memorial exhibition at the museum

·   Created new partnerships, including with the Georgia Museum of Art, Tom Lea Institute, Government of Chihuahua, Mexican American Cultural Center, University of Texas, University of Minnesota, Committee on Foreign Relations (MN), Mexican Consulate General in El Paso, Ministry of Culture of Mexico, El Paso School District, El Paso Community College, community groups, regional artists, musicians from both sides of the border, and others

·   Facilities – oversaw major capital improvement projects in galleries and facility

·   Oversaw strategic review of the City of El Paso’s libraries’ and archival resources

·   Founded the Forum on Global Affairs, with national and international participation

·   Successfully led museum through COVID related closures, including significant budget cuts, up to reopening of full museum operations while maintaining exhibitions and programming

Director & President, The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN, 10/2014 – 07/2018

·   $1.3-$1.5 million annual budget, creation and oversight of annual budgets

·   Supervision of 10 staff and 60+ volunteers, recruited and hired staff

·   Increased annual attendance by 24 % within 24 months to 41,000 visitors

·   Major rebranding, new website, social media presence, international reputation building

·   Board building, strategic planning, development planning

·   Facilitated major donations, totaling more than $1.5 million, as well as new grants

·   Acquisitions of donated art valued at more than $6.0 million

·   International partnerships through rebranded exhibition planning, blockbuster exhibitions included Unknown Faberge: New Finds and Rediscoveries

Director & Curator, Foundation of Russian History, Jordanville, N.Y., 08/2011 – 09/2014

·   $400,000 annual budget

·   Supervision of 7 staff and 10+ volunteers, recruited and hired staff and volunteers

·   Major rebranding, new website, international reputation building

·   Board building, development planning

·   Facilitated major donations, including more than $1 million cumulative donations from single donor, as well as various grants to fund museum operation

·   Attracted numerous donations of important collections of Art, icons and liturgical objects, archives and print materials

·   Received donation of the Russian Nobility Association in America’s library and archives, creation of permanent RNA Reading Room

·   Created professional museum storage and facilitated cataloging of collection

·   Built national and international partnerships with universities, libraries, archives, and museums

·   Upgrades to museum, archives and rare print facilities following best museum practices, expanded rare print and manuscript storage

·   Opened museum to the public in 2014 with new gallery and installation, received positive reviews by New York Times, Antiques Magazine

Dean, Director of Archives & Library Services, Holy Trinity Seminary, Jordanville, N.Y., 05/2008 – 08/2011

·   Supervision of 25 faculty, staff and volunteers, recruited and hired faculty, staff and volunteers

·   Chief Academic Officer, responsible for successful institutional re-accreditation

·   Taught Old Church Slavonic to seminary students

·   Board building, development planning, led annual fund drive (up to $200,000 annual revenue)

·   Responsible for library’s collection development initiatives

·   Created finding aids for archival collections, opened archives to researchers, raised grants and donations for archives and library, oversaw microfilming and digitization projects

Project Archivist, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, CA, 06/2007 –12/2008

·   $250,000 NEH Preservation grant with matching funds provided by The Hoover Institution

·   Full processing and preservation of 294 manuscript boxes of archival papers, photographs, and print materials from Holy Trinity Seminary’s archives. Worked with a team of conservation specialists, microfilmers, catalogers and researchers

·   Project allowed for the archives to become accessible nationally and internationally, microfilm copies placed in Hoover Institution Archives (Stanford, CA)

Assistant Dean, Director of Archives & Library, Holy Trinity Seminary, 09/2001 – 05/2008

·   Supervision of 25 faculty, staff and volunteers, recruited and hired faculty, staff and volunteers

·   Responsible for successful institutional re-accreditation

·   Taught Old Church Slavonic to seminary students

·   Board building, development planning, led annual fund drive (up to $200,000 annual revenue)

·   Led library’s retrospective conversion and automation, making it accessible to the public

·   Responsible for library’s collection development initiatives

·   Created and fundraised for the HTS Colloquia (2002 – 2006), with international participation

·   Created academic series Readings in Russian Religious Culture, publishing six volumes with contributions by scholars from the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Scotland

Publications, Papers, and Presentations – More than 70 publications and presentations, complete CV available upon request

Education

Ph.D., History, Moscow Theological Academy, Sergiev Posad, Russia, 2011

Post-Graduate Studies in History, University at Albany, Albany, N.Y., 2000-2004

M. A., Russian Language and Literature, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 2000

B. Th., Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, NY, 1993

Linguistic Proficiency

English (fluent), German (fluent), Russian (native), Old Church Slavonic (reading/writing)