Elizabeth Laitman Hughes

Project Manager

I am a project management professional with more than 25 years of museum experience with a focus on exhibition development and multimedia production.

Currently I am a project manager at the Smithsonian’s initiative, Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past, managing pan-institutional projects. Previously I was a Museum Project Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. I was a project manager at the interdisciplinary design studio, Gallagher & Associates. I managed the development of multiple exhibitions, museum projects, exhibition feasibility studies and master plans. I served as project manager and liaison for museums and outside contractors, leading multi-discipline teams on projects, directing meetings, setting project goals, planning strategy, and managing all communication and directions from project clients.

I have contributed to more than 35 exhibitions in my career including producing more than 25 films for the National Gallery of Art as an Associate Producer in the Department of Exhibition Programs. All films were delivered on time and on budget, and have won dozens of awards – a list of which is available on my website.

My work as an associate producer involves creating budgets, coordinating project schedules, securing rights and reproductions and managing contracts with an array of outside vendors. My reviews have been consistently positive, with frequent compliments on my organizational skills and talent working with multidisciplinary teams. I particularly enjoy developing formal and informal relationships that can keep projects moving and support delivery with excellence.

Link to watch my films: Elizabeth Laitman Hughes Vimeo

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-laitman-hughes