University Museums Staff

 

 

Lynette Pohlman

Director and Chief Curator

lpohlman@iastate.edu

515.294.3342

 

 

 

Lynette Pohlman has been the director of the University Museums at Iowa State University since 1980.  She administers and is chief curator of the Brunnier Art Museum, the Farm House Museum, and the Art on Campus Collection and Program at ISU.  Along with a personal and professional commitment to museums and their responsibility to acquire, preserve, educate and interpret the visual and cultural arts, Lynette is also an authority in the areas of public art, 20th century sculpture, museum management, the decorative arts, and 19th century architecture.

 

Originally from western Iowa, Lynette is an ISU alumni who received her BA (1972) in Interior Design and her MA (1978) in Art and Architecture.  She has curated and installed over 600 art exhibitions.  She has spearheaded a major conservation program to repair and restore the public art on ISU’s campus, as well as continued commissioning of major public works of art (over 600) at Iowa State University.  In addition, she has been instrumental in the establishment of a public art program in the city of Ames and several other Iowa communities.