HCM Announces Nationwide Search for New Executive Director
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Hart Cluett Museum Announces Nationwide Search for New Executive Director
TROY, N.Y. May 27 -- The Hart Cluett Museum announced today that it will begin a nationwide search for a new executive director. Starlyn D’Angelo, the museum’s current executive director, announced her plans to move on this month.
Mark Shipley, president of the museum's Board of Directors, says that the Board is looking forward to embarking on a new chapter of the organization’s growth.
"We thank Star for stepping in during a difficult time for the museum during the pandemic, and for her many contributions leading the museum through reopening to the public,” said Shipley.
Museum staff and board members will temporarily assume D’Angelo’s responsibilities while the search for a new executive director is underway.
The museum recently celebrated the opening of its newest exhibition, Cultivating Community: Agriculture in Rensselaer County, which explores agricultural innovation, the relationship between people and the land, and how farming has continuously helped to cultivate community throughout Rensselaer County for generations.
It is also hosting the Troy Foundry Theatre’s Echo Chambers: Beckett 3 from Friday, June 3 through Saturday June 18. For more information, visit troyfoundrytheatre.com/programming.
The museum offers a variety of programs and tours, including a Gilded Age-themed walking tour that highlights the many locations in Troy that HBO used when shooting season one here last summer.
"We look forward to welcoming HBO back when they return this summer to shoot season two," said Shipley.
About the Hart Cluett Museum
The Hart Cluett Museum at Historic Rensselaer County strives to enrich the present and advocate for the future by bringing the region’s past to life, recognizing every face and every story. In pursuit of this mission the museum collects, preserves, studies, interprets, and makes accessible a broad variety of objects and documents, and conducts educational programs to inspire public enthusiasm for the past helping to build today’s strong community.