Heidi Zuckerman

In an interview with Cultured magazine, she recalled that her grandmother would send extra artwork she collected to her parents, who were not interested in art, so she "grew up making up my own stories about the objects that we lived with.

[2] She recalls she "fell in love" with art during her sophomore year, at a gallery show in Philadelphia, when she "became so immersed in what I was looking at that I forgot my current romantic challenges".

After university, she studied for one year at the auction house Christie's, in London, and then lived in New York and worked at an art gallery in SoHo, Manhattan.

[9] A 1996 exhibition by Zuckerman at the museum examined Louis Kahn's four designs for synagogues, of which only the Temple Beth-El in Chappaqua, New York, has been built.

The New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger found the exhibition "full of heartbreak, for there is no way to walk through these galleries and not be filled with a sense of lost opportunity.

[14] Under Zuckerman's tenure, the museum experienced "unprecedented" growth in funding and attendance, as noted by The Aspen Times,[15] and a shift of museum programming from local art to international contemporary art by artists such as Yto Barrada, Vik Muniz, Ernesto Neto, Amy Sillman, and Danh Võ.

[16][19] Ray Mark Rinaldi of The Denver Post wrote upon the opening that the museum's recent changes reflected "the identity crisis Aspen has suffered for years" as it had turned into "a ski getaway for movie stars and a vacation destination for outsiders".

[1][8][13] Jacobson and Zuckerman opened an exhibition and performance space in New York City's Lower East Side named Correct CE.