Editing Drawing Center (section)

==Management and funding==
The Drawing Center named Laura Hoptman, a former curator at [[The Museum of Modern Art]], Executive Director in 2018.<ref name=Smith2018/>

In August 2005, the Drawing Center was considered one of the groups to occupy the [[World Trade Center (2001–present)|World Trade Center]]. The plan was scrapped, and then the center's leadership spent a couple of years exploring a move to the [[South Street Seaport]], where it planned to build a $60 million museum.<ref name="Carol Vogel 2011"/> By 2010 the museum decided to stay put and expand its Wooster Street home.<ref name="Same Museum, but a Brand-New Look"/>

Also in 2005, it was among 406 [[New York City]] arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the [[Carnegie Corporation]], which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/nyregion/city-groups-get-bloomberg-gift-of-20-million.html |title=City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $20 Million |first=Sam |last=Roberts |author-link=Sam Roberts (newspaper journalist) |date=Jul 6, 2005 |access-date=Aug 30, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://carnegie.org/sub/news/anon2005.html |title=Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces Twenty Million Dollars in New York City Grants |date=July 5, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310235744/http://carnegie.org/sub/news/anon2005.html |archive-date=March 10, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> For the 2012 renovation, the [[Lower Manhattan Development Corporation]] gave a $3 million grant, one of its largest contributions toward a single construction project.<ref name="Same Museum, but a Brand-New Look"/>

As of 2011, attendance was at 35,000 visitors a year.<ref name="Carol Vogel 2011"/> As of 2018, the center attracted 55,000 visitors a year.<ref name=Smith2018/>