From Art Historian to President & CEO of The Mint Museum
Dr. Todd Herman, President & CEO of The Mint Museum, joins Terry Hudson for a deep conversation about art history, museum leadership, and the evolving role of cultural institutions. An expert in Italian Renaissance art and curator of the nationally traveling exhibition “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950,” Dr. Herman shares how scholarship informs leadership, how museums balance tradition with innovation, and why art institutions matter now more than ever. This episode of OTR explores art, stewardship, and the responsibility of guiding one of the Southeast’s most respected museums.
Inside “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade” and Its National Impact
Todd Herman
Todd Herman, PhD, is the president and CEO of The Mint Museum. Before taking that position in 2018, Herman was the director and CEO of the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, for seven years.
Prior to Arkansas, Herman was the chief curator at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina for six years. He also spent seven years at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has held two Samuel H. Kress Fellowships and has taught art history at universities in Italy, South Carolina, Virginia, and the Midwest. He received undergraduate degrees in art history and microbiology from James Madison University and his doctorate in art history from Case Western Reserve University with a focus on Italian Renaissance painting.
He has written extensively on the art of Venice and for exhibitions and catalogues on Italian Renaissance Art, and organized the nationally traveling exhibition “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940-1950.”
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