Museum Architectural Projects

Throughout his museum career Ketner has been a builder of art museums. In his first position as the curator of the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Museum of Art, he participated in the construction of a new $7m, 45,000sf museum by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill that opened in 1984. As the director of the Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, from 1982 to 1998 Ketner lead the museum through an architectural expansion program with Japanese Architect Fumihiko Maki as part of the $60m Visual Arts and Design Center that reopened as the Mildred Kemper Museum in 2006. At The Rose Art Museum, directed the two-phase expansion and renovation of The Rose, conducting the capital campaign and conceiving the architectural program to double the size of the museum: Phase I ($5.2m, 8,000sf), designed by Graham Gund, architect, opened 2001; Phase II ($12m, 26,000sf) designed by Shigeru Ban, architect, scheduled to open fall 2010, has been postponed.