Charles L. Venable, Date of Birth
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American museum director
Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1960
Profession: museum director
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Charles L. Venable
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- Venable (born 1 March 1960) is the Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of Newfields in Indianapolis, Indiana. Venable was born and raised in Houston, Texas.
- He received a B.A., cum laude, in Art History and History from Rice University in 1982 and a master's degree from the University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in Early American Culture in 1986 and a PhD from Boston University in American Studies in 1993. From 1986 to 2002, he was at the Dallas Museum of Art, rising from rank of Assistant Curator of Decorative Art to Chief Curator to Deputy Director and built the museum's holdings of American decorative art and its exhibitions program.
- Venable also served five years (2002–2007) as Deputy Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and then five years (2007-2012) as the Director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY.
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