Holly Hotchner
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Arriving on her first day as director of the Museum of Arts and Design 10 years ago, Holly Hotchner was greeted by an eviction notice, a bookkeeper who said the museum could not make payroll and a rat scurrying across the floor of her sub-basement office. She had inherited an institution, then called the American Craft Museum, that was struggling with an operating deficit, virtually no endowment and stagnant attendance and membership. Hotchner says she hopes it will become known for what it does, not where it is.