Western Illinois University: Macomb Campus

About the Art Gallery Director

Ann Marie Hayes-Hawkinson is the director of the University Art Gallery. Prior to this appointment, she served as curator of education at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa.

Hayes-Hawkinson also served as the curator of education at the Davenport Museum of Art from 1991-2005, and was a curatorial assistant in the education department at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas.

Hayes-Hawkinson received a master of arts degree (art history) and a bachelor of fine arts degree (painting) from the University of Kansas.

She also serves as an adjunct instructor in WIU's graduate Museum Studies Program at the WIU-QC campus.