Curator Quits Laguna Job for KOCE

Susan M. Anderson, chief curator at the Laguna Art Museum, has resigned to become an associate producer at Orange County public television station KOCE Channel 50. Her duties at KOCE, where she starts June 19, include researching the station’s ongoing documentary programming on the history of California art.

Anderson served as acting director at Laguna for a year before the arrival of current director Naomi Vine. She also is an associate faculty member at Irvine Valley College.

A fine-arts graduate of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Anderson subsequently moved to Brazil and worked on film and TV projects dealing with indigenous culture. In 1985 she completed a National Endowment for the Arts internship at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, and in 1988 she earned a master’s degree in art history and museum studies from USC.

Since joining the museum in 1989 as curator of exhibitions, Anderson organized numerous exhibitions on the art of California and Brazil for the Laguna Art Museum, the Fisher Gallery at USC and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. She was a consultant on the first installment of KOCE’s art series, “Visions of California,” completed last fall.