Donna Davies
Executive Director
Donna Davies became Executive Director of Pilchuck in 2024, after serving as Deputy Director for four years. Prior to Pilchuck, Davies was the Director of the SOFA art fairs including SOFA CHICAGO, SOFA New York, and SOFA WEST: Santa Fe. The SOFA art fairs were established to create and foster a larger audience for the applied arts, which Davies further developed with national and international art galleries exhibiting art and design, greater outreach to non-profit organizations whose missions supported the applied arts and expanded corporate sponsorship of the fairs. Prior to that, Davies was the Director of Marx-Saunders Gallery in Chicago, and the Assistant Director of Contemporary Art at Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe. Davies holds a BA in Art History from the University of Kansas and an MA in Art History from the University of Oklahoma, where she wrote her Master’s Thesis on contemporary Indigenous glass, focusing on the work of Preston Singletary (Tlingit), Tony Jojola (Isleta), and Marvin Oliver (Quinault/Isleta).
