{"id":10555,"date":"2019-02-05T15:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2019-02-05T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:39:40","slug":"hipolito-chacon-85-director-of-montana-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2019\/02\/05\/hipolito-chacon-85-director-of-montana-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip\u00f3lito Chac\u00f3n \u201985 Director of Montana Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Chacon_Hipolito.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10556 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Chacon_Hipolito-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Chacon_Hipolito-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Chacon_Hipolito-768x545.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Chacon_Hipolito-1024x727.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Chacon_Hipolito.png 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hip\u00f3lito Chac\u00f3n has been named director of the Montana Museum of Art &amp; Culture at the University of Montana, where he has assumed responsibility for the 124-year-old institution\u2019s collection of more than 11,000 pieces of art and cultural artifacts and its two exhibition galleries. A faculty member since 1994, Hip\u00f3lito said he wants the museum to be a classroom, a laboratory, a space to see art and spark conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Between his junior and senior years at Wabash, he interned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, an experience he says \u201creally sold me on the museum as a forum to learn and to explore and to play.\u201d In graduate school, he weighed a choice between museums or academia. He chose the latter, and was hired at UM not long after graduating with his Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>Following his 1985 graduation from Wabash, Hip\u00f3lito earned his graduate degree in art history and then his doctorate at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Hip\u00f3lito in the <a href=\"https:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/local\/new-director-montana-museum-can-be-classroom-and-playground-for\/article_8f0f7a40-5fcc-5c1a-831b-ec874ce033f3.html\">Missoulian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hip\u00f3lito Chac\u00f3n has been named director of the Montana Museum of Art &amp; Culture at the University of Montana, where he has assumed responsibility for the 124-year-old institution\u2019s collection of more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/Chacon_Hipolito-1024x727.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10559,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions\/10559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}