Kristin Chambers, 41, died August 5, 2011 at her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by friends and family, after a long battle with cancer.
At her request, there will be no memorial service but a celebration of her life will be held at her home in September.
Kristin had strong passions for art, music, cooking, scuba diving, and sailing, and traveled extensively throughout her life.
She graduated from Turpin High School in Cincinnati and attended Miami University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied art history, theory, and criticism.
Her art career started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and, after being part of the team that developed the inaugural exhibits for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, she became a curator at MOCA, Cleveland.
During her career at MOCA and later as a freelance curator, Kristin organized numerous exhibitions featuring internationally recognized artists and wrote and published several notable exhibition catalogues and books. Recently she was helping to produce a documentary called Of Two Minds.
She is survived by her husband of fourteen years Jeffrey Dollinger; her nine-year old son Simon Dollinger; parents Robert and Jan Ward Chambers; brother Richard (Rick) Chambers and wife Emma and their children, Nina and Stella; sister Jen Chambers; grandmother Virginia G. Ward; aunt and uncle Shelley and Sam Beck; in-laws Susan Dollinger and Wayne Bonekemper; sisters-in-law Sara and Karen Dollinger; and grandmother-in-law Shirley English.
Published in the Los Angeles Times on August 12, 2011.
At her request, there will be no memorial service but a celebration of her life will be held at her home in September.
Kristin had strong passions for art, music, cooking, scuba diving, and sailing, and traveled extensively throughout her life.
She graduated from Turpin High School in Cincinnati and attended Miami University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied art history, theory, and criticism.
Her art career started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and, after being part of the team that developed the inaugural exhibits for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, she became a curator at MOCA, Cleveland.
During her career at MOCA and later as a freelance curator, Kristin organized numerous exhibitions featuring internationally recognized artists and wrote and published several notable exhibition catalogues and books. Recently she was helping to produce a documentary called Of Two Minds.
She is survived by her husband of fourteen years Jeffrey Dollinger; her nine-year old son Simon Dollinger; parents Robert and Jan Ward Chambers; brother Richard (Rick) Chambers and wife Emma and their children, Nina and Stella; sister Jen Chambers; grandmother Virginia G. Ward; aunt and uncle Shelley and Sam Beck; in-laws Susan Dollinger and Wayne Bonekemper; sisters-in-law Sara and Karen Dollinger; and grandmother-in-law Shirley English.
Published in the Los Angeles Times on August 12, 2011.
Kristin Chambers, 41, died August 5, 2011 at her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by friends and family, after a long battle with cancer.
At her request, there will be no memorial service but a celebration of her life will be held at her home in September.
Kristin had strong passions for art, music, cooking, scuba diving, and sailing, and traveled extensively throughout her life.
She graduated from Turpin High School in Cincinnati and attended Miami University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied art history, theory, and criticism.
Her art career started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and, after being part of the team that developed the inaugural exhibits for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, she became a curator at MOCA, Cleveland.
During her career at MOCA and later as a freelance curator, Kristin organized numerous exhibitions featuring internationally recognized artists and wrote and published several notable exhibition catalogues and books. Recently she was helping to produce a documentary called Of Two Minds.
She is survived by her husband of fourteen years Jeffrey Dollinger; her nine-year old son Simon Dollinger; parents Robert and Jan Ward Chambers; brother Richard (Rick) Chambers and wife Emma and their children, Nina and Stella; sister Jen Chambers; grandmother Virginia G. Ward; aunt and uncle Shelley and Sam Beck; in-laws Susan Dollinger and Wayne Bonekemper; sisters-in-law Sara and Karen Dollinger; and grandmother-in-law Shirley English.
Published in the Los Angeles Times on August 12, 2011.
At her request, there will be no memorial service but a celebration of her life will be held at her home in September.
Kristin had strong passions for art, music, cooking, scuba diving, and sailing, and traveled extensively throughout her life.
She graduated from Turpin High School in Cincinnati and attended Miami University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied art history, theory, and criticism.
Her art career started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and, after being part of the team that developed the inaugural exhibits for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, she became a curator at MOCA, Cleveland.
During her career at MOCA and later as a freelance curator, Kristin organized numerous exhibitions featuring internationally recognized artists and wrote and published several notable exhibition catalogues and books. Recently she was helping to produce a documentary called Of Two Minds.
She is survived by her husband of fourteen years Jeffrey Dollinger; her nine-year old son Simon Dollinger; parents Robert and Jan Ward Chambers; brother Richard (Rick) Chambers and wife Emma and their children, Nina and Stella; sister Jen Chambers; grandmother Virginia G. Ward; aunt and uncle Shelley and Sam Beck; in-laws Susan Dollinger and Wayne Bonekemper; sisters-in-law Sara and Karen Dollinger; and grandmother-in-law Shirley English.
Published in the Los Angeles Times on August 12, 2011.
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