Joanna Sikes is the Museum of Northwest Arts Interim Executive Director. Michelle Hurteau, board president, wrote in an email that the board was excited to have Sikes start. Her emphasis will be on “fundraising, financial management, marketing and community relations,” Hurteau wrote.

Sikes was called one of Dale Chihuly’s “chief aides” in a 1996 Seattle Times article. In 2012 the Museum of Glass in Tacoma named Sikes its director of external affairs. The Museum’s website stated that Sikes had “worked for more than 20 years at Chihuly Studio in the roles of studio manager, mark...