<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/spring-2025/first-museum-director-attracted-major-exhibitions-and-acquisitions.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>First Museum Director Attracted Major Exhibitions and Acquisitions</title><excerpt>Judy L. Larson arrived at Westmont in 2008, four months before the college broke ground for the Adams Center for the Visual Arts and the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. As the inaugural R. Anthony Askew professor of art and the director of the museum, she taught an art history course while organizing her first exhibition featuring 35 Rembrandt etchings in Reynolds Gallery.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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        </image><caption/><description>FACULTY Judy L. Larson arrived at Westmont in 2008, four months before the college broke ground for the Adams Center for the...</description></item>