LUX Center for the Arts Announces Leadership Change

The LUX Center for the Arts (www.luxcenter.org) is pleased to announce that Joe Shaw has been hired as executive director, which was made effective May 1. Shaw served as associate director of the LUX for the last three years leading the LUX’s grant writing and fundraising. He is excited to lead the team at the LUX to continue growing its education, exhibitions, and outreach programs.

Shaw replaces Susan McIntosh Kriz, who left to take the position of associate director at the Sheldon Museum of Art. “We are so pleased Joe will be leading the LUX,” says LUX Board Chair Sherri Daubert. “At the same time all of us at the LUX are grateful to Susan, who energized and elevated the LUX while she was here.”

Originally from Tulsa, OK, Shaw has lived in Lincoln since 2015. He has a degree in Journalism from California State University, Los Angeles. Joe spent 27 years in Southern California, winning awards as a nonprofit communicator at the Braille Institute, the AIDS Service Center in Pasadena, and Adventist Health Southern California. He also owned and operated a retail store and served as a city councilman in Huntington Beach, CA from 2010 to 2014. His volunteerism includes serving as president of NeighborWorks Lincoln’s board of directors.

The LUX Center for the Arts is Lincoln’s Community Arts Center. The LUX offers quality art classes to children and adults, free monthly exhibitions in its five galleries, an artists-in-residence program, and an outreach program to the underserved. For more information, call (402) 466-8692 or visit www.luxcenter.org.