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- ↑ "Maria Nicanor Named Director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". Cooper Hewitt. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ↑ West, Allyn (November 19, 2017). "Gray Matters: 'We all have an opinion about the city' A conversation with the new chief of the Rice Design Alliance, Maria Nicanor". Houston Chronicle. p. G002.
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- 1 2 "Rice Architecture appoints Maria Nicanor as executive director of the Rice Design Alliance". US Official News. November 9, 2017.
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