Executive Director: Tibbie Dunbar

Tibbie Dunbar became the first Director/Curator of A+D Architecture and Design Museum > Los  Angeles in December 2004.  In the ensuing 5 years Tibbie has developed the A+D into an active center of Architecture and Design launching cutting edge programming in education, symposia, musical arts performances, cultural urbanism, interactive platforms, and the creation of an installation space where architects, designers, and artists are invited in to conceive on site projects.

As Curator, Tibbie has expanded the breadth of the Museum to include exhibits of Design as originally intended by it founders and remains at the core of A+D Museum’s mission.  To further fulfill the Museum’s mission Tibbie attracts national and international exhibits of both Architecture and Design and pursues grant support and underwriting for these initiatives.

Under Tibbie Dunbar’s stewardship outstanding exhibits have traveled to A+D from Canada, Finland and from around the United States.

In her role as Director Tibbie has guided the Board in their fundraising efforts.  To date more than $1 million of support has been raised.  In addition she helped assemble an unprecedented Foundation group for A+D comprising forty of the top Los Angeles Architects and Designers.

Tibbie Dunbar has a Masters Degree of Fine Arts, a Bachelors Degree of Arts in French and English Literature and is bilingual in French and English.  She is a practicing Fine Artist, whose work has been exhibited locally and nationally.  As an artist, Tibbie enhances her contribution to A+D with a broad and encompassing vision of arts and design.