LAM names deputy head
Ed Fosmire will step into his new role as deputy director of the Laguna Art Museum on May 29, officials announced.
Fosmire will leave his job as executive director of the Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA), a title he held for two years, to fill LAM's No. 2 slot, where he will mainly be in charge of development. It will also entail raising money for the museum through corporate and individual gifts, grants and memberships.
Before going to Oceanside he held number jobs at museums in Los Angeles and Orange counties: director of development at Cal State Long Beach; director of development and marketing at the Long Beach Museum of Art; and grants director for Long Beach's Art Council.
He also has worked in the education program at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, and he teaches an art history course at Chapman University in Orange.