Jaime Roark, Leaving MFA

MFA senior designer Jaime Roark is leaving the museum to take a job at the Guggenheim. Roark, who turns 32 on Sunday, worked on, among other exhibitions, "Fashion Show" and the upcoming "El Greco to Velazquez".

"I am mainly curious to learn about how different institutions approach exhibition design, and to explore a long-time curiosity I have had about living in New York City," Roark wrote when I asked why she was leaving. "The availability of resources is unique and I am interested to see how it affects my own design process."

It's also worth noting that her boyfriend, Ben Krone, is an architect who lives in Brooklyn.

I asked Roark for a few MFA highlights...

She said:

"Fashion Show" was a pretty spectacular show to have worked on as a designer, and having that small, direct view into the fashion design world was quite phenomenal. I also loved working on the "Sets, Series, and Suites" show because I thought it was very well curated and I liked the work a lot. And any chance I had to work with Tracey Albainy because she always made me smile.