Stuart Ashman will become an expert adviser to the Peace Corps when he steps down as secretary of the Cultural Affairs Department



Ashman has served as secretary since 2003, making him the agency's longest-serving director. He has overseen the elevation of the department to cabinet-level status and the opening of new facilities, including the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, the El Camino Real International Heritage Center south of Socorro, the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner State Monument and the Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

Stuart Ashman will become an expert adviser to the Peace Corps when he steps down as secretary of the Cultural Affairs Department

Cultural Affairs' Ashman takes Peace Corps job

New Mexico Business Weekly
Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:32pm MST - Last Modified: Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:46pm MST

Stuart Ashman will become an expert adviser to the Peace Corps when he steps down as secretary of the Cultural Affairs Department at the end of December.

Ashman has served as secretary since 2003, making him the agency's longest-serving director. He has overseen the elevation of the department to cabinet-level status and the opening of new facilities, including the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, the El Camino Real International Heritage Center south of Socorro, the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner State Monument and the Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

Ashman also supervised the acquisition of the historic Los Luceros ranch property in Alcalde and the designation of Fort Stanton as a state monument.

In his new role, Ashman will serve as a consultant to the Peace Corps, analyzing the work Corps volunteers do on small business development activities supporting artisans in three Latin American countries.

Before becoming Cultural Affairs secretary, Ashman directed the New Mexico Museum of Art, and founded and directed the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. He served as director and curator of the Governor's Gallery on the fourth floor of the State Capitol under Governors Bruce King and Gary Johnson.

Whether anyone will succeed him is unclear, since a government reorganization plan has been proposed that would roll Cultural Affairs into a larger Department of Commerce.

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