$62

Sponsored by Blue Rhino Design

This luncheon is open to Directors, Deputy Directors, CEOs, CFOs, Leadership Team Members, and Trustees. The Luncheon will feature guest speaker Rebekah Beaulieu, Ph.D, Louise Taft Semple President & CEO, Taft Museum of Art. Discussion will follow. 

Rebekah “Becky” Beaulieu, Ph.D., is the Louise Taft Semple President & CEO of the Taft Museum of Art, where she has served since September 2022. A museum leader and scholar with nearly three decades of experience, she is widely recognized for her expertise in museum management, finance, fundraising, strategic planning, and board relations. Before joining the Taft, she served as director of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and associate director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine.

Beaulieu is the author of Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and Endowment Essentials for Museums (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), co-editor of The State of Museums: Voices from the Field (MuseumsEtc., 2018), and a contributor to Financial Management in Museums: Theory, Practice, and Context (Routledge, 2024). Her forthcoming books include The 75 Most Frequently Asked Questions about Museum Finance (Bloomsbury, 2027) and Transforming Museum Workplace Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2027).

In addition to her museum leadership, Beaulieu has taught art history, museum studies, and museum administration at Connecticut College and guest lectured at Carnegie Mellon University, the George Washington University, and Harvard University. She recently completed a five-year term on the American Alliance of Museums’ Accreditation Commission and now serves as Treasurer of the American Alliance of Museums Board of Directors. She is the past treasurer of the American Association for State and Local History and serves as editor of the AASLH book series for Bloomsbury. Beaulieu holds master’s degrees in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and in Arts Administration from Columbia University, and earned her Ph.D. in American and New England Studies from Boston University. She is also a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors.

She lives in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, with her husband, Patrick Ford, and their three cats.