Meet the Museum 13ers
The following individuals have been recognized by their colleagues as Museum13ers. If you’re wanting to find someone by city, by last name, by institution, or perhaps by job function, use the search feature: it’s the schoolbus-yellow box in the upper right corner of the screen.
Mike E. Agis
Visitor Services Representative
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Dallas, Tex.
Rehema C. Barber
Curatorial Assistant
Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Hartford, Conn.
Heather L. Berry
International Programs Associate
American Association of Museums
Washington, D.C.
Betsy Bowers
Associate
Qm2: Quality Management to a Higher Power
Washington, D.C.
Matthew Braun
Executive Director
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
Philadelphia, Penn.
Caroline Brooks
Assistant Director
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Roswell, N.M.
Michael D. Cherney
Exhibit Preparator
Exhibit Museum of Natural History
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Jennifer Correa
Manager of Explainers
New York Hall of Science
Corona, N.Y.
Brenda Cowan
Director of Education
Exhibit A Design Group
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Andrea Bailey Cox
Executive Director
Maitland Historical Society
Maitland, Fla.
Jill Dixon
Manager, Education and Public Programs
Chester County Historical Society
West Chester, Penn.
Will Eastman
Project Historian
Smithsonian
Washington, D.C.
Sean Fearns
Museum Director
Drug Enforcement Administration
Arlington, Va.
Kathy Fleming
Executive Director
St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum
St. Augustine, Fla.
Rachel Friedmann
Gallery Manager
Katzen Arts Center Museum
Washington, D.C.
Laura Gardner
Senior Curatorial Assistant
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, Conn.
Paul Garver
Director
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, DC
Preeti Gupta
VP for Education
New York Hall of Science
Corona, N.Y.
Rachel Hellenga
Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago, Ill.
Amy Lewis Hofland
Director
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Dallas, Tex.
George Jacobs
Director Projects
Design Craftsmen, Inc.
Midland, Mich.
Penny Jennings
Exhibit Developer
West Office Exhibition Design
Oakland, Calif.
Wayne LaBar
VP, Exhibitions and Theaters
Liberty Science Center
Jersey City, N.J.
Rebecca Lawrence
Associate Director & Director of Education
San Diego Historical Society
San Diego, Calif.
Rena Lawrence
Museum Educator
Log Cabin Historic Complex
Fort Worth, Tex.
Amy Lent
Executive Director
Maine Maritime Museum
Bath, Me.
Darren Macfee
Executive Director
Lincoln Children’s Museum
Lincoln, Neb.
Tommy A. McPherson
Director
Mobile Museum of Art
Mobile, Ala.
Jill Nash
Education and Public Programs Manager
Maitland Historical Society
Maitland, Fla.
Steve Nowak
Director Exhibitions and Interpretive Programs
Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, Ohio
Claudia Ocello
Associate Director of Education and Public Programs
Save Ellis Island, Inc.
Mt. Olive, N.J.
Paul Orselli
Principal
Paul Orselli Workshop
Baldwin, N.Y.
Eric O’Toole
Design Director
Exhibit A Design Group
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Kelli Pickard
Director
Log Cabin Historic Complex
Fort Worth, Tex.
Ivette Ray
Museum Curator
Log Cabin Historic Complex
Fort Worth, TX
Christine Reich
Manager of Informal Education
Museum of Science
Boston, Mass.
Patrick Reynolds
Manager, Experience Design
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Dearborn, Mich.
Monica M. Scott
Curator of Education
Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Hartford, Conn.
Anna Siedzik
Assistant Registrar
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, Mass.
Dimitris Skliris
Director of Exhibits
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Dallas, Tex.
Jacine Smallwood
Development Manager
Maitland Historical Society
Maitland, Fla.
Sandra Smith
Director
Villa Finale
San Antonio, Tex.
Shirl Spicer
Curator for Community History
North Carolina Museum of History
Raleigh, N.C.
Greg Stevens
Principal
Connect the Dots Consulting
Washington, D.C.
Heather Marie Wells
Collections Assistant
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Springdale, Ark.
David Young
Executive Director
Cliveden
Philadelphia, Penn.
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Kathy Fleming | May 18, 2007 at 4:45 pm
What great buzz you are getting from the AAM Conference.
Way to go!
Kathy
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Paul Orselli | June 8, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I’d like to encourage all 13ers to join and contribute to a great project that I’m involved with called ExhibitFiles.
ExhibitFiles is a website meant to gather and document the museum profession’s experiences and opinions about individual exhibits and exhibition projects.
A great to show the role of 13ers in the museum biz!
Paul Orselli
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Bruce | June 13, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Greg notes that “a few folks who fall in the ‘13er’ category” seem not to “like the title so much, and in fact don’t like being categorized at all”. The thing, of course, is that projects like this, once started, never look back or critically inward because, clueless as they are, someone’s ego might be hurt.
Across the country from the Museum for Contemporary Art in Chicago to the Studio Museum in Harlem, people born between 1961 and 1981 are already chief curators and directors of major museums. In the contemporary art area, they have served consistently as artistic directors of the most prestigious national and international biennials. Yet, someone at AAM believes that they ought to be singled out and bunched into some little sister/little brother lot. And you’re surprised that they’re not amused?
There must be other, more relevant platforms on which museum professionals can network than some gerontocratic bs based on some boring book. People get a life, please!
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Jessie N | August 17, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Bruce,
It’s a generational marker of 13ers / GenXers — throughout history, known as “Nomads” or a “reactive generation” — that they tend to dislike being considered a generation. (That’s from that “boring book.”) Just as elongated leadership positions, way past retirement years, is a generational marker of Boomers (aka Prophets, Idealists).
I agree with you, it’d be fabulous, wouldn’t it, if there were some “more relevant platform on which museum professionals can network.” What do you suggest? Facebook? (Land of the Millennials?) Linkedin? (Who uses it?) A web-based app written by AAM? (Oh, by the way, this is not an AAM program, as you surmise, but, clearly, you didn’t read about this concept before making your judgments.)
This concept wasn’t meant to be a cure-all or an end-all: just an acknowledgment of generational diversity in the workplace, and the museum industry in particular. It was meant to be the beginning of a conversation about an inevitable change in the museum industry.
Better to see the generational trends and work with them rather than be slammed by them and not understand what hit you. Such trends affect everything: leadership, visitors, fund-raising, marketing, volunteers, you name it: it’s affected by generational lifecourses.