Grammy Museum Foundation Promotes Michael Sticka to Executive Director

Former government director Scott Goldman shifts to inventive director.

Michael Sticka been promoted to government director of the Grammy Museum Foundation, which oversees the Los Angeles-based Grammy Museum and the philanthropic Grammy Foundation. 

In his new capability, he’ll oversee all features of operations, together with curatorial, improvement, advertising and marketing, grants and awards, and public and teaching programs. He was previously controller and senior director of finance and administration.

Sticka replaces Scott Goldman, who had assumed the title of government director when the Grammy Museum and Grammy Foundation merged in April 2017. Goldman is now transitioning to an inventive director position. 

When Goldman grew to become government director 19 months in the past, he changed the Museum’s authentic and former government director Robert Santelli, who shifted to the Grammy Museum’s founding government director, with obligations for rising the group by packages, together with touring displays. He stays in that capability, as does Rita George, who was promoted to COO final April. Wayne Zahner stays CFO of the Grammy Museum and the Recording Academy.

“In simply 10 years, the Grammy Museum has exceeded our expectations largely because of the highly effective imaginative and prescient of our extraordinary executives and the hard-working and passionate staff on the Museum, which has resulted in our changing into one of many trade’s foremost philanthropic organizations devoted to music training and development,” stated Neil Portnow, president/CEO of the Recording Academy and chair of the Grammy Museum Board, in a press release. “Last 12 months’s integration with the Grammy Foundation mirrored the Museum’s large progress, and Michael’s strategic imaginative and prescient, robust operational skills, and deep expertise in enterprise and finance make him the precise government to steer the Grammy Museum towards continued success.”

The Museum was developed as a joint partnership between the Recording Academy and promoter AEG in 2008. 

“It’s not lost on me that I’ve been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead a team of extraordinary people as we seek to be a greater and more active part of our community through our vital curatorial and educational work,” stated Sticka, concerning his new position as government director. “It is an understatement to say that I am proud of what our team has accomplished to date, just as it can’t be overstated how excited we all are for what lies ahead.”

Since its integration with the Foundation final 12 months, the Grammy Museum has produced greater than 80 public packages, hosted practically 30,00zero college students for excursions and academic workshops, and opened a number of displays, together with X: 40 Yars of Punk in Los Angeles and Cheech & Chong: Still Rollin’. In that very same interval, the museum’s grants program awarded $200,00zero to 14 recipients.

Upcoming packages and displays on the Grammy Museum embrace 25 Years of Jermaine Dupri and So So Def in collaboration with Jermaine Dupri and Friends (Sept. 20), and Lean on Me: A Tribute to Bill Withers (Sept. 24), An Evening with Shawn Mendes (Sept. 25) and Spotlight: Dua Lipa (Sept. 28). 

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