Sarah Ganz Blythe, deputy director, exhibitions, education, and programs at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (RISD), has been appointed Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums effective August 12, interim provost John Manning announced today. She also held curatorial and educational positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art (where she was director of interpretation and research). in art history, she was a conservation intern at the Harvard museums. She earned her doctorate in modern art from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has twice been a member of the Harvard museums’ visiting committee. “As a student, my experiences with the Harvard Art Museums revealed the profound rewards of engaging deeply with and thinking expansively about art,” she said in a statement in the news announcement.