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Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: NEIL, ERIK H.
MACON AND JOAN BROCK DIRECTOR AND CEO, CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART, NORFOLK
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: NEIL, ERIK H.
MACON AND JOAN BROCK DIRECTOR AND CEO, CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART, NORFOLK
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Since joining the Chrysler Museum in 2014, Neil has guided the museum’s growth. In 2022, his position was endowed through a $34 million donation from Virginia Beach philanthropist Joan Brock that included donated artwork.
He’s been focused on the $30 million Perry Glass Studio expansion project. The culmination of a $55 million fundraising campaign, the expanded studio tripled in size to 33,200 square feet and had its grand opening in March.
Neil received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton and a master’s degree and doctorate in art and architecture history from Harvard. He serves on the boards of the Military Aviation Museum and VisitNorfolk.
INTERESTING PLACE I’VE TRAVELED: Mt. Etna in Sicily
WHAT PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT ME: I love new wave music of the 1970s and ’80s.
FIRST JOB: In high school, I worked in the clubhouse and was a caddy and a busboy at Washington Golf and Country Club in Arlington.
