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The Kimball Art Center is looking for a new executive director.
Robin Marrouche, who has held the job at the Park City arts nonprofit for nine years, is moving into a new post — as executive director of the center's board of directors — starting in February.
Marrouche made the announcement Tuesday in an email to the center's supporters.
The move, she said, will allow her "to focus 100 percent of my efforts" on building the Kimball's new permanent home. A nationwide search for a new executive director will start this month.
The Kimball Art Center moved out of its longtime headquarters, in the former Firestone Tire store on Park City's Main Street and Heber Avenue, in 2015, after years of battling the city of Park City over constructing an expansion to the building. The center moved into space in Bonanza Park, with the intention of staying there three years while a permanent location was built.
"Our transition has been an opportunity for growth and learning and one that will better inform the future programming of KAC, version 3.0," Marrouche said in her email.
This year, she said, the Kimball aims to finalize a site for the new center, start long-range planning and launch a capital campaign to raise money for construction.
The Kimball Art Center houses exhibitions and offers arts education for the Park City community and beyond. It's best known for running the Park City Kimball Arts Festival every August, drawing some 55,000 people to Old Main Street.