There are big changes at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.
Jacqueline Stewart, an academic and TCM host who has led the museum since July 2022, guiding it through the ups and downs of its first few years (it opened in late 2021), is stepping down–under various pressures–returning to her faculty position at the University of Chicago.
The museum’s founding director and president Bill Kramer, who became the CEO of the entire Academy, announced that she will be replaced by Amy Homma, who has been with the museum for 5 years, most recently as chief audience officer.
Heretofore, she led the museum’s teams dealing with film programs, education and public engagement; community and impact; and digital content. She helped to grow relationships between the Academy Museum, Academy members and the broader film community.
The Academy also announced “strategic executive promotions as part of an organization-wide effort to unite teams.”
Haberkamp was responsible for the Academy’s film programming, and for launching the Academy Gold program. Severson, who began at the Academy in 1997 in the Photograph Archive, which he came to head in 2009 before his appointment to lead the Herrick in 2018, will, in his new role, oversee all collections, archival, preservation, registration, conservation and cataloging work of the Herrick, Academy Film Archive and Academy Museum.
The Academy emphasized: “This role centers, for the first time, all collections and preservation efforts for the entire 23 million-item Academy Collection.”
