Lloyd Eldred Herman (1936-2023) was an American arts administrator, curator, writer, museum planner and acknowledged expert on contemporary craft.
Lloyd Herman joined the staff of the Smithsonian Institution in 1966 as Administrative Officer to the Director of the National Museum, and began to develop a changing exhibition program for the galleries of the Arts and Industries Building.
That experience led him to propose a similar temporary exhibition program for the former Federal Court of Claims building, designed in 1859 by architect James Renwick as the Corcoran Gallery of Art that had been transferred to the Smithsonian.
At the same time, he curated traveling shows for the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Bellingham, WA.
Though advanced architectural planning and land acquisition at Agate Beach in Newport, OR, proceeded, the facility was never built.
Recent writing projects include books on glass artists Narcissus Quagliata and Josh Simpson.