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Rick Kinsel
BornDecember 14, 1966 (age 57)
Dayton, Ohio
OccupationNonprofit Executive

Rick Alan Kinsel is an American nonprofit executive based in New York and Honolulu. He leads with the Vilcek Foundation and has developed multi-sector partnerships for Coty Inc. and with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1] He has been involved in historic preservation and philanthropic communities in New York and Hawaii.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Kinsel was born in Dayton, Ohio on December 14, 1966.[citation needed] He grew up in Brookville, Ohio. Kinsel credited seeing the King Tut exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1977 with sparking a lifelong interest in the arts, history, and culture.[3]

Kinsel graduated from Brookville High School in Brookville, Ohio. He first attended Sinclair Community College, where he earned his associate degree, and then attended The Ohio State University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in art history.[3]

Kinsel completed his Master of Arts in the History of the Decorative Arts & Design and Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in 1999.[citation needed]

Career[edit]

Kinsel began his career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1989, working with the museum through 1996. As cataloguer in charge of acquisitions at the museum, he was responsible for the accessioning of all objects acquired by the museum.[4][better source needed]

Kinsel was director of cultural affairs for Coty Inc. in New York from 1997 to 2003. He managed cultural and educational programs for the corporation and its global subsidiaries from 1997 to 2003. He oversaw the creation of an annual design award; the development of a scholarship fund to support students at Parsons School of Design in New York; and the development of an institutional partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[4][better source needed]

Kinsel's master's thesis for the Bard Graduate Center, The Designs of the House of Coty highlights the cultural, social, and production history of designs for Coty; published in 1999[5] His contributions as a member of the International Perfume Bottles Association were acknowledged by authors Roulhac Toledano and Elizabeth Coty in their book, Francois Coty: Fragrance, Power, Money.[6] [failed verification]During his tenure as director of cultural affairs for Coty, he presented the inaugural lecture with the Art Glass Forum, New York: A Unique Collaboration Between Business and the Arts: Coty, Lalique and Baccarat.[7]

When Marica and Jan Vilcek established the Vilcek Foundation in 2000, Kinsel was appointed a member of the board of trustees and in 2003 became executive director. In 2016 he was appointed president of the foundation.[citation needed]

Curatorial work[edit]

Kinsel's first historic preservation project was the Vilcek Foundation's headquarters at 167 East 73rd Street, a Beaux Arts–style carriage house designed by George L. Amoroux and built-in 1903–1904, Under Kinsel's leadership, architects, contractors, and utilities teams worked to preserve the facade and character of the original building while transforming it into a functional office and cultural center for the Vilcek Foundation and guests. Friends of the Upper East Side Historic District honored the Vilcek Foundation with an award in a ceremony on March 18, 2008.[8]

Kinsel oversaw the renovation of the Vilcek Foundation's headquarters at 21 East 70th Street with the Architecture Research Office, working to unite the 1919 building and its characteristic features with updates made by the previous owners in the 1960s.[9] In 2021, the building was honored by the American Institute of Architects at the AIA Interior Architecture Awards.[10]

In December 2020, he purchased the Detweiler House, designed by architect Walter Booser "Chip" Detweiler, on Round Top Drive in the Makiki Heights neighborhood of Honolulu.[11][failed verification] He worked to restore the house's architectural structure and interiors to Detweiler's original designs.[12] The Detweiler House was added to Hawaii's historic register in 2023.[13] Kinsel's restoration of the Detweiler House was honored as an "Editor's Pick" of The Architect's Newspaper's "2023 Best of Design Awards",[14] and profiled in HILuxury Magazine.[12]

Kinsel curated the inaugural exhibition, Domesticity Revisited, for Pen + Brush in 2015.[15][better source needed] In a profile about the exhibition for the Huffington Post, Kinsel spoke about his commitment to equity in the arts, "I think it's a question of basic human justice that women should achieve gender parity in our society at all levels... If the arts are a mirror of our society, it seems to me imperative that women be recognized as artistic equals."[16]

Kinsel is a member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors[17] and a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, having first been appointed to the NYU IFA board in April 2019.[18] He is a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Negroli Society.[19]

Awards[edit]

  • In 2013, Kinsel was awarded a MAD Visionaries! Award by the Museum of Arts and Design; the awards recognize creativity and leadership in the fields of arts and design.[20]
  • Kinsel was honored at the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) gala in November 2016, where he accepted an award commemorating his and the Vilcek Foundation's initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in theater.[21]
  • In December 2019, Kinsel and co-editor Gabrielle Langholtz were honored with the 2020 Gourmand Award for Best Cookbook, USA, for A Place at the Table: New American Recipes from the Nation's Top Foreign-Born Chefs.[22]
  • Centennial Medal by the School for Advanced Research on behalf of his and the Vilcek Foundation's philanthropic leadership and cultural stewardship in the development of the exhibition, "Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery", October 2023[23]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Nari Ward: Home of the Brave. Published by the Vilcek Foundation. (2023)[24]
  • Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. Merrell Publishers. (2022) ISBN 9781858946924
  • The Coloring Book of the Art of Marsden Hartley. Merrell Publishers. (2022) ISBN 9781858947082
  • Ralston Crawford: Air + Space + War. Merrell Publishers. (2021) ISBN 9781858946917
  • The Coloring Book of American Modernist Artists. Merrell Publishers. (2020) ISBN 9781858946931
  • Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts. Merrell Publishers. (2020) ISBN 9781858946672
  • A Place at the Table: New American Recipes from the Nation's Top Foreign-Born Chefs. Prestel Publishing. (2019) ISBN 9783791385181
  • Ralston Crawford: Torn Signs. Merrell Publishers. (2019) ISBN 9781858946733
  • Domesticity Revisited. Published by Pen + Brush. (2015)
  • Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection. Merrell Publishers. (2013) ISBN 9781858945958

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rick Kinsel". Vilcek Foundation. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  2. ^ "Curator Spotlight: Rick Kinsel, Executive Director of the Vilcek Foundation – Pen and Brush". Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  3. ^ a b "Brookville graduate finds his way in the arts". dayton-daily-news. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  4. ^ a b "About". Rick Kinsel. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  5. ^ "Master's Theses and Qualifying Papers Completed". www.bgc.bard.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  6. ^ "Francois Coty: Fragrance, Power, Money". International Perfume Bottle Association. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  7. ^ "Our history". Art Glass Forum I New York. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  8. ^ "Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts honors the Vilcek Foundation". Vilcek Foundation. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  9. ^ Estevez, Angela (2019-01-07). "Vilcek Foundation". ARO Architecture Research Office. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  10. ^ "Vilcek Foundation, by Architecture Research Office | Architect Magazine".
  11. ^ "2244 Round Top Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822 | Compass". www.compass.com. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  12. ^ a b "Round Top Modern". HILUXURY. February 1, 2023.
  13. ^ "Sixteen Properties Added to the Hawai'i Register of Historic Places".
  14. ^ "Unveiling the editors' picks of AN's 2023 Best of Design Awards". December 11, 2023.
  15. ^ "Opening Exhibition: Domesticity Revisited Opening Reception Oct 8th, 5:30-8:30 pm – Pen and Brush".
  16. ^ "From One Non-Profit to Another: A Talk With Rick Kinsel, Executive Director of the Vilcek Foundation". HuffPost. November 25, 2014.
  17. ^ "Rick Kinsel". Association of Professional Art Advisors.
  18. ^ Communications, NYU Web. "Rick Kinsel Joins Institute of Fine Arts Board of Trustees". www.nyu.edu.
  19. ^ "Friends of Arms and Armor and the Negroli Society". The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  20. ^ "Museum Of Arts And Design To Present Annual Visionaries! Awards November 20, 2013". madmuseum.org.
  21. ^ "TCG 2016 Gala to Honor Danai Gurira, 'Eclipsed' Producers". American Theatre. August 2, 2016.
  22. ^ "BEST IN THE WORLD FOOD & DRINK CULTURE - Gourmand Awards 2020". www.cookbookfair.com.
  23. ^ https://sarweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SAR-AR-FY22-23.pdf
  24. ^ "Nari Ward: Home of the Brave". Vilcek Foundation.


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