CENTRAL MAINE • June 11, 2024
The Maine Arts Commission named its new executive director, selecting a veteran arts administrator from New York. Amy Hausmann, who oversees a historic site in Hudson, New York, that was owned by artist Frederic Edwin Church, will take over in August from interim executive director Julie Horn, who will return to her prior position of assistant director. “Besides Olana, the only property that Frederic Church owned in his lifetime was a rustic camp on the shores of Lake Millinocket, and from that cherished spot, he sketched and painted Katahdin hundreds of times,” Hausmann said. “Church, like me and the millions who visit Maine each year, returned to this place because of an ardent and abiding appreciation of the landscape and the vibrant culture.”