Angela Cassie to be National Gallery's Interim Director
Angela Cassie
Angela Cassie, the chief strategy and inclusion officer at the National Gallery of Canada, will take over as interim director and chief executive on July 10, the institution's board of trustees announced Monday.
She replaces Sasha Suda, whose resignation was announced earlier this month. Suda has been named as the new director at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Cassie, who helped the gallery create its first-ever strategic plan, joined the Ottawa gallery in early 2021.
The board said Cassie won their confidence during development of the strategic plan.
"As one of the key architects of the new vision of the gallery, she is the ideal candidate to build on her predecessor’s successes," said the board's chair, Françoise Lyon. "Angela is a bold and inclusive leader who will continue to strengthen the gallery’s connections with communities across the country.”
Cassie said she looks forward to "working towards a future in which art has the power to build bridges, deepen relations, and advance a more equitable society.”
Cassie, who is bilingual, served for 10 years in progressively senior roles at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg before stepping down as a senior vice-president of program, exhibitions and public affairs in 2019 to pursue a mini-MBA at the McGill Executive Institute in Montreal.
She began her career at Canadian Heritage in 1998 and served as a regional director of communications.
She is the president of the Board of the Société de la Francophonie manitobaine.
Source: National Gallery of Canada
