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President Donald Trump fired the National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet for being a “strong supporter” of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Kim Sajet, president and chief executive of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, has been selected as the new director of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution announced ...
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has named Kim Sajet its new director. Ms. Sajet is currently the president and chief executive of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philde… ...
News; Nation; National Portrait Gallery head steps down following Trump attempt to fire her June 13, 2025 Updated Sat., June 14, 2025 at 9:01 p.m. Kim Sajet resigned as director of the National ...
Sajet's departure was announced to her colleagues in an email from Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch, who credited the director with reshaping the Portrait Gallery during her 12-year tenure, with ...
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is firing Kim Sajet, the longtime director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, for being "a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter ...
Sajet said the Portrait Gallery has potential to grow online. In Pennsylvania, she launched an effort to digitize more than 65,000 images to present online and built a social media program.
Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will depart her post following a social media post by President Donald Trump in which he said he had fired her.
> National Portrait Gallery’s Kim Sajet says COVID-19 era rewiring people’s relationship with culture and art, adds that new art will focus on frontline heroes Trump’s brewing war with ...
Curry, voice-over: Kim Sajet became the director of the National Portrait Gallery in 2013, and I was intrigued by what she had to say about this art form and the evolution of the museum. Welcome ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Kim Sajet is a Director for National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2015 Forum ...
Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, stepped down from her role Friday, two weeks after President Donald Trump said on social media that he had fired her. The ...