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Nasher Museum of Art Promotes Two to New Positions

Anne Schroder is the new curator of academic programs; Dorothy Clark is the new deputy director for operations

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University has created two new staff positions related to its educational mission and everyday operations, and has promoted two staff members to fill those positions, museum director Kimerly Rorschach has announced.

Anne Schroder is the new curator of academic programs. Formerly an associate curator, she will serve as primary liaison between the museum and Duke professors.

Dorothy N. Clark is the new deputy director for operations. Formerly the business manager, she will oversee the museum's financial operations, security, human resources and physical plant functions.

The appointments became effective July 1.

"I'm pleased that these seasoned professionals are taking on new roles to help shape the Nasher Museum as a leading-edge university art museum," Rorschach said. "Anne Schroder will promote the museum's mission as a laboratory of the arts. And by handling the museum's finances and operational functions, Dorothy Clark will enable me to focus more on collection and exhibition development, resource development, programming and strengthening the museum's relationships with key constituencies."

Schroder will lead efforts in collaborating with Duke faculty and classes, using the museum's permanent collection displays, special exhibitions and new study-storage facilities. This fall, she will be working with professors of art history, classics and biology, as well as with professors in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and in the medical school, among others.

"The museum offers a wonderful opportunity for faculty and students to experience works of art in an intimate research setting," Schroder said. "I am pleased to be able to help integrate the museum's mission with the university's academic mission and its commitment to interdisciplinary learning."

Schroder joined the museum in 1999 as an assistant curator and curator for research and exhibitions. A specialist in 18th- and early 19th-century art, she also has a strong general background in art and an interest in interdisciplinary studies.

Schroder earned a bachelor's degree in art history from Smith College and a master's degree and doctoral degree in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She came to Duke from the University of Florida, where she taught European art and had been a curator at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Before that she was assistant curator for European art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Mass. She is president of the Historians of Eighteenth Century Art and Architecture, an international association.

Clark joined the museum in 1998 as business manager, and she had been in charge of the budget and, later, human resources. Before coming to Duke, she lived in New York, where she was a financial analyst for IBM and a tax consultant.

"I look forward to the creative problem-solving required in the day-to-day operations of a growing art museum," Clark said.

Clark earned a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University and a master's degree in business administration from Cornell University. She is a board member of the Duke University Federal Credit Union, and she founded and continues to serve as artistic director of Front Porch Entertainment, a community theater in Durham.

With Clark's promotion, the museum has begun a search for a new business manager.