Stan Trecker, President, Part 2, 2013

Stan Trecker, President, Part 2, 2013

Description

Stan Trecker served as President of the Art Institute of Boston (AIB) from 1991 to 1998 and played a key role in the AIB/Lesley merger. Following the merger, he became Dean and Director of AIB, a position he held until 2002. From 2002 to 2007, he served as President of Montserrat College of Art before returning to AIB as Dean in 2007, a role he continued to hold until his retirement in 2014.

In this second interview, Trecker reflects on the construction of the new art school building in Cambridge, the fundraising efforts that supported it, the institution’s name change, his tenure at Montserrat College of Art, and his return to AIB in 2007.

This interview is part of a series conducted in honor of AIB’s centennial in 2012, marking 100 years since its founding.

Note: The terms “School of Practical Art” (SPA) and “Art Institute of Boston” (AIB) are used interchangeably. The institution was founded as the School of Practical Art in 1912 and renamed the Art Institute of Boston in 1967.

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Interview Date

4-3-2013

Interview Location

Boston, MA

Publisher

Lesley University

Keywords

Lesley, Oral History, faculties, presidents, buildings, School of Practical Art, Art Institute of Boston (AIB), Joseph Moore, William (Tuck) Willis, Photographic Resource Center

Disciplines

Oral History

Stan Trecker, President, Part 2, 2013

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