Article: New curator of American crafts and decorative arts.

Byline: Peter Dobrin

Jun. 6--The Philadelphia Museum of Art has hired an associate curator of American crafts and decorative arts -- a new position funded by a previously announced $5 million endowment gift from Robert L. McNeil Jr. Elisabeth R. Agro, 39, currently associate curator in the decorative-arts department of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art, will begin Oct. 1 in the new job, the Nancy M. McNeil associate curator of American modern and contemporary crafts and decorative arts. Agro will help curate the museum's collections and will cultivate relationships with area craft artists and also patrons who have purchased works in the museum's craft ...

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