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Marianne Bez -- Chair Sally Treanor -- Vice Chair Sally Treanor is Senior Director, Administration & Operations and Grants Coordinator of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo, New York. She is responsible for supervising institution-wide daily operations, including Museum Shop, maintenance, technology, statistics collection, performance in annual visitation and earned revenues, and stewardship of all government grants. Since 2003, she has been interim head of Research and Interpretation, directly supervising museum education, exhibits, and program planning and implementation. She has been at the Historical Society since 1996. Prior to that, she was a grant writer and director of foundation relations at a private college. In addition, for the last thirty years she has been a working artist, both teaching and exhibiting transparent watercolor. She has bachelor’s (D’Youville College) and master’s (Canisius College) degrees in English literature. She is currently a NYSCA Exhibit Auditor, a MANY Peer Charter Reviewer, and Upstate History Get Ready/Get Set Facilitator. She joined the Board of Upstate History, of which she is Vice Chair, in January 2007. She has also served as NYSCA/UHA Get Set panelist, NYCH Grants Review Consultant, and Buffalo and Erie County Arts Council CAST regrant panelist. Boards on which she has served include Buffalo Arts Studio, Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County, American Psychiatric Association Alliance, the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier, and D’Youville College Alumni Association. Andy Kitzmann -- Treasurer Andy Kitzman, Assistant Director and Curator of the Erie Canal Museum, brings his passion for both art and history to the UHA Board. "My work as a historian has dovetailed nicely with my earlier experiences in the fine arts" says Andy. "I love to create exhibitions and work fine art into the visual aspects of the show to help illustrate an historical point." Starlyn D'Angelo--Executive Committee Member at Large Starlyn D'Angelo is currently the Executive Director of the Shaker Heritage Society. She previously held positions as Curator at the Shaker Museum & Library and the Old Stone Fort Museum and has worked as a curatorial consultant for several small museums. Ms. D'Angelo received a MA in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and a BA in Art History with a minor in Business from Colorado State University. Ruth Ellen Berninger Ruth Ellen Berninger is currently the Educator at the Columbia County Historical Society in Kinderhook, where she has been since 1996. Her work at CCHS includes a Museums in the Classroom program where students create their own museum, complete with artifacts & exhibits, some of which are eventually displayed at the Historical Society. Ruth Ellen was originally a classroom teacher, with her NYS certification in social studies. In addition to her hectic museum & family lives, she has also recently started work on a Masters degree in Literacy. Erin Crissman Dana Krueger Dana L. Krueger is the Registrar for the Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. She has completed her MA in Museum Studies at Syracuse University, where she also received her MS in Art Education in May 2006. She has a BA in Studio Art – Painting and Drawing from St. Lawrence University. Previous to her current position, Dana was the Collections Manager at Madison County Historical Society in Oneida, NY. She has also worked in numerous galleries and art centers, including Old Forge Arts Center, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, and the Earlville Opera House. Dana now volunteers at the Earlville Opera House as a member of the Gallery Committee. She resides in Hamilton, NY where she continues to produce art in her home studio. Bradley McCreary Bradley McCreary is presently Museum Director of the Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum (SBLHM) situated on Lake Ontario alongside Great Sodus Bay. His lighthouse tenure began April 1, 2005. His responsibilities cover every aspect of museum operations. The museum has seen a 100% increase in visitor numbers since May 2005. Costs have been reduced resulting in financial stability. From February 2000 to September 20, 2004, I was Museum Deputy Director/ Retail and Admissions Manager of the Cotswold Motoring Museum (CMM) and Toy Collection in the United Kingdom. During his years at the CMM we saw visitor numbers grow from less than 40,000 to nearly 100,000. Mr. McCreary was integral with every aspect of museum development and operations including, educational program, retail and admission programs, front of house, facilities design and physical construction of gift shop and exhibition spaces, curatorial concerns and restoration and preservation of archives and objects. Mr. McCreary has also worked with numerous British and European heritage organizations. Deanna Pace Deanna L. Pace received her BA in Secondary Social Studies Education from Keuka College. During college she completed two collections management internships at Lorenzo State Historic Site. Upon completing her degree in the fall of 1996 she was hired as the Education and Private Events Coordinator at the site. The position entailed multiple responsibilities including overseeing weddings, and other private events. She worked to carefully expand group tours and implemented the highly successful immersion program at the ca. 1814 Rippleton schoolhouse. The program recreates a historically accurate school day through the use of role-play. In July of 2004 she was hired as the Director of the 1890 House museum where she oversees all aspects of museum operations. Since then she has worked with the Board of Trustees to improve marketing through a new ad campaign, website, and makeover of the museums newsletter. Existing interpretation and educational programs have been improved, new programs have been added and three new rooms have been opened for interpretation. These efforts have resulted in doubling attendance at the museum, realizing a 300% increase in funding from the County legislature in 2005, and tripling net income from the facilities largest fundraiser, its annual auction. Kimberly Richards Kenneth Shefsiek Mari Shopsis Mari Shopsis is the Director of Education for the Rensselaer County Historical Society. She has previously served as the Interim Director of Education at The History Center in Tompkins County and the Manager of School and Public Programs at the Everson Museum of Art. Mari has a MS.Ed from the Leadership in Museum Education Program at Bank Street College of Education and is committed to making museums meaningful and accessible to new audiences. Denise Waterman Peter Wisbey Peter has been Executive Director of Seward House since October 2000. Prior to that, he held curatorial positions at Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY, the Monmouth County Historical Association in Freehold, NJ, and the Worcester Historical Museum in Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from St. Lawrence University, an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program, and an M.A. in Early American Culture from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Program. He is a frequent consultant to small museums on collections documentation and storage. |
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