CLEVELAND, OH—Timothy Rub, director and CEO of the Cleveland Museum of Art, will speak on the topic “Tomorrow’s Art Museum” at noon on Friday, January 19, 2007, at The City Club of Cleveland.  Rub is the seventh director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He began his tenure in April 2006 after serving for six years as the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and for nine years as director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Rub graduated from Middlebury College in 1974 with a B.A. and highest honors in Art History and then enrolled in the doctoral program at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts where he earned an M.A. and a Certificate in Curatorial Studies. Later, he received an M.B.A. from the Yale University School of Management and participated in the Harvard University program for Art Museum Directors.

Rub, who is specialist in architectural history and modern and contemporary art, began his curatorial career as a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York.

This Forum is sponsored by National City.

Tickets for this City Club Friday Forum are $18 for members and $30 for non-members. Lunch is included. Reservations are required at least 24 hours in advance of the event. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org.

Established in 1912 to encourage new ideas and a free exchange of thought, The City Club of Cleveland is the oldest continuous free speech forum in the country, renowned for its tradition of debate and discussion. The City Club’s mission is to inform, educate and inspire citizens by presenting significant ideas and providing opportunities for dialogue in a collegial setting.

  Missy S. Toms Director of Membership & Marketing The City Club of Cleveland 850 Euclid Ave., 2nd Fl. Cleveland, OH 44114 216.621.0082 888.223.6786 F: 216.621.0129 mtoms [at] cityclub [dot] org To become a member or make a reservation, visit us at www.cityclub.org.

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