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Joy P. Heyrman

Director of Development, The Walters Art Museum

Joy P. Heyrman has been with the Walters Art Museum since 1991. She manages the Development Division which oversees public and private grants, sponsorships, Annual Giving circles, special events, planned giving, museum rentals and numerous volunteer committees.  During the 1990s, she also managed the museum’s $36 million Walters 2000 Campaign for the renovation of the Centre Street Building–enlarging the endowment and the enhancement of the visitor experience. A career art museum professional, Heyrman was selected in 1998 for the Getty Museum Management Institute (MMI) and has served as an arts advocate and development consultant. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, where her dissertation, inspired by William Walters album of American drawings, investigated the collecting, reception and developing market for drawings in early 19th-century America.