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 is under construction in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park. 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.
Ralph McQuarrie, production painting for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Artoo and Threepio leave the pod in the desert), January 31, 1975, © and TM Lucasfilm Ltd. 2020 All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
George Lucas
Founder, Lucasfilm
Co-chair of the Board
Mellody Hobson
Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments
Co-chair of the Board
For filmmaker George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, co-CEO and president of Ariel Investments, experiencing and collecting art is a shared passion. With decades of collecting between them, they have together assembled a collection that includes everything from American art to popular illustrative, comic, cinematic, and animation art, to contemporary African American works. Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, also founded the George Lucas Educational Foundation in 1991 to transform K–12 education.
In addition to managing Ariel Investments, Hobson is the former chairman of Starbucks Corporation and also serves as a director of JPMorgan Chase. In 2010, Lucas and Hobson signed the Giving Pledge, committing to dedicate the majority of their wealth to improving education, particularly through the arts. Together, they co-founded the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. “The stories that art tells are often key to understanding a society and its aspirations—whether our own or others,” Lucas has said. “We hope the Lucas Museum will help audiences better understand the world and build toward a more just and empathetic society.”
George Lucas
Founder, Lucasfilm
Co-chair of the Board
Mellody Hobson
Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments
Co-chair of the Board
Andrea Wishom
President, Skywalker Holdings, LLC
Vice-chair of the Board
Henry Bienen
President Emeritus, Northwestern University
Cesar Conde
Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group
Guillermo del Toro
Filmmaker
Arne Duncan
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Michael Govan
CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Director and CEO, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
John McCarter, Jr.
President Emeritus, The Field Museum of Natural History
Steven Spielberg
Filmmaker
Ernie Barnes, The Drum Major, 2003, © Ernie Barnes Family Trust, photographed by Jeff McLane. Courtesy of UTA Artist Space and the Estate of Ernie Barnes
Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Director and CEO, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Curator, author, educator, administrator, and public advocate for reimagining the role of art museums in society, Sandra Jackson-Dumont has served as director and chief executive officer of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art since January 2020. She oversees all aspects of the fast-developing institution, including operational affairs and the realization of robust curatorial, learning, and engagement experiences and content.
Throughout her roles with some of the country’s most renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and now the Lucas Museum, she has collaborated extensively with living artists, communities, creatives, and historical materials. Her work catalyzes the presence of increasingly dynamic and diverse audiences in cultural spaces while exploring issues of relevance.
The location of the Lucas Museum within Los Angeles’s Exposition Park provides remarkable opportunities to collaborate and partner with other Los Angeles cultural institutions.
Located southwest of Downtown Los Angeles, the 160-acre Exposition Park is home to cultural, educational, and recreational institutions including the National History Museum of Los Angeles County, the California African American Museum, the California Science Center and Theodore J. Alexander Science Center School, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, BMO Stadium, the Exposition Park Rose Garden, and EXPO Center.