Andrew Blauvelt director of the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He is a trained graphic designer and previously served as Senior Curator, Design, Research, and Publishing at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Blauvelt's earlier positions at the Walker are Curator of Architecture and Design and Chief of Communications and Audience Engagement, Design Director from 1998 to 2010, and Design Director and Curator since 2005. Blauvelt received an MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1988, and a BFA from the Herron School of Art, Indiana University in 1986.