Robin Dowden was director of the Walker's New Media Initiatives from 2003 to 2015. She was first hired in 1997 to manage the Integrated Arts Information Access program, a multiyear effort to digitize and integrate the collections and archives of the Walker and Minneapolis Institute of Arts which later became known as ArtsConnectEd. She served as special projects manager for artsconnected.org and mnartists.org. Prior to coming to the Walker, Dowden was manager of the collection information system and website at the National Gallery of Art.
