Denver Art Museum’s Deputy Director and Chief Strategy Officer Andrea Kalivas Fulton to depart following 23 years of leadership

DENVER – May 10, 2024 – The Denver Art Museum (DAM) today announced that Andrea Kalivas Fulton, Deputy Director and Chief Strategy Officer, will leave the museum in June 2024.

Since joining the museum in 2001, Fulton has been instrumental in imagining, leading and communicating the DAM’s overall strategy for growth and expansion.

As the museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building opened in 2006, Fulton fronted the DAM’s media and communications team as Communications Director, leading the organization’s outreach to press and community partners to celebrate the museum’s growth.

In 2011, Fulton became Deputy Director and Chief Marketing Officer and spearheaded the museum’s membership and marketing teams. In that role, she was part of the team that crafted Vision 2021 and lead the charge to renovate the now Lanny & Sharon Martin Building, formerly known as the North Building, a defining milestone for the DAM and for Fulton’s career.

She pivoted to Chief Strategy Officer the same year, playing key roles in managing the museum through the covid-19 pandemic, as well as creating and implementing the museum’s racial equity roadmap. Most recently, Fulton has led the museum’s 2025 strategic masterplan and designed the merger that brought the Kirkland and Denver Art museums together in 2024.

“A common thread in every chapter of Andrea’s brilliant career has been of building and connecting,” said Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the DAM. “Not just of actual structures, but of plans, teams, connections, partnerships and ideas. Andrea has been in the heart and soul of our museum for more than two decades and she has been critical to its evolution, ensuring that it will serve Denver for many more years to come. Andrea will always be a part of the DAM and we will continue to rely on her support and feedback in the future.”

“The Denver Art Museum is a special and unique asset in our community and I’m incredibly fortunate to have been part of it during this time of rapid evolution,” said Fulton. “I am excited to stay engaged as a supporter of DAM and as part of the cultural community while I decide what my next chapter might be.”