Six months after election, MIUR finally appoints Luciano Massari director of Carrara Academy

The pressures of the last few weeks have finally led to the hoped-for result: theAcademy of Fine Arts in Carrara finally has its director, after six months of waiting. It is Luciano Massari, a sculptor, who thus assumes his second term. The situation at the historic Carrara institute, founded in 1769 by Duchess Maria Teresa Cybo Malaspina, had become untenable, as we have also reported on these pages.Massari, who was re-elected in June by the faculty, worked under an extension until December, because the ratification of the Ministry of the University never arrived.

The dicastery therefore decided to resolve the situation, and today, May 25, 2020, eleven months after the election and six months after the end of the term extension, the decree appointing Luciano Massari arrived. This is a conditional appointment, given the legal affairs in which the director is involved (a local politician has in fact denounced him for conflict of interest and an investigation is underway), but it will allow Massari to work in the fullness of his duties.

Massari has already reassured the students, faculty, and staff (who have gone to great and commendable lengths in recent weeks to lobby the ministry to have the the situation of an institution that has been without a directorate and consequently without governing and advisory bodies for months, alternating between petitions, solicitations and formal requests, be resolved) that he “is ready for the immediate and full reassumption of his functions, in order to ferry the institution out of the period of exceptional difficulty in which it has found itself” (so in a note). Massari let it be known that he will immediately work “for the rapid and correct organization and communication of the exam and thesis sessions, for the application of the anti-concussion protocol already drafted by the head of security in order to restore some activities in attendance, and to prepare the conditions that will allow the gradual restoration of the institutional bodies.”

Massari will also be tasked with dragging the Academy out of the Covid-19 emergency, and he has already let it be known that he will address the problem “in such a way that it can be resolved without any harm either economic or educational for those involved,” knowing that “the return to normalcy will not be immediate, but every effort will be made so that it can be as smooth as possible.”

Finally, the director thanked the president of the Academy, Antonio Passa, and the administrative director, Maria Ferraro, “for their extraordinary efforts to ensure the Academy’s activities during this long and difficult period,” as well as the principals of the schools and the teaching and non-teaching staff “for having worked to ensure, despite the exceptional nature of the situation, the protection of our students’ right to study.”

Pictured: Luciano Massari

Six months after election, MIUR finally appoints Luciano Massari director of Carrara Academy

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