Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Pilar Tompkins Rivas currently serves as the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial and Collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a position held since July 2020. Prior to this role, Pilar was the Director and Chief Curator at the Vincent Price Art Museum from April 2016 to July 2020, and has experience as the Coordinator of Curatorial Initiatives in Art Administration & Collections with Los Angeles County from 2013 to 2016. Pilar holds a PhD and a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University, obtained between 2018 and 2023 and 2014 and 2018, respectively. Additionally, Pilar earned a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Texas at Austin, completed between 1992 and 1997.
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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
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As the first museum to focus exclusively on storytelling through images, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art™ believes that visual storytelling can connect us and help shape a more just society. With a growing collection that encompasses artworks from across cultures, places, times, and mediums, including paintings, sculptures, murals, photography, comic art, book and magazine illustrations, and the arts of filmmaking, the Lucas Museum will explore narrative art’s potential to prompt questions, invite opinions, inspire community, and move people to think about the impact of images on our world. Co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson and led by director and CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the Lucas Museum was designed by renowned architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects with Stantec as executive architect and will open in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park in 2025. An 11-acre campus with extensive new green space designed by Studio-MLA will embrace the museum’s 300,000-square-foot building, which will feature expansive galleries, two state-of-the-art theaters, and dedicated spaces for learning and engagement, dining, retail, and events.