Jean Evans
Deputy Director at The Ringling
Sarasota, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJean Evans is a museum leader and curator with nine years of senior management experience and a two-decade career rooted in major cultural institutions. As Deputy Director of The Ringling, she oversees a sprawling 66-acre art and performance campus that serves hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, bringing scholarly rigor from prior leadership roles at the University of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Trained as a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, she blends deep expertise in ancient collections and archival practice with contemporary exhibition strategy and public engagement. Known for shepherding complex collections and interdisciplinary programs—from circus archives to historic landscape stewardship—she pairs academic credentials with pragmatic museum administration. Based in Sarasota, Jean is equally comfortable directing blockbuster exhibitions and navigating the operational demands of a multi-venue cultural ecosystem.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Art History and Archaeology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Art History and Archaeology at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYUBachelor's degree, BA/BS, English Literature and Journalism, Bachelor's degree, BA/BS, English Literature and Journalism at Boston University
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jamesallenevans/AreWeDoomed
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
GitHub Repo for the UChicago, Spring 2021 course *Are We Doomed? Confronting the End of the World*
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
uchicago-computation-workshop/Winter2024
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
Winter Computational Social Science Workshop
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 1 month
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