Bruce Museum to Expand its Education, Science, Arts Staff

The Bruce Museum will be adding three new faces to its staff next month, filling one permanent position in its Audience Engagement and Interpretive Services Department (formerly the Education Department), and adding two year-long fellows, one each in art and science.

Laura Stricker will assume the role of Manager of Youth & Family Programs. Stricker comes to the Bruce from the Museum of London, where she was the institution’s Early Years Coordinator. Previously, she worked as Manager of Early Childhood Programs at the National Children’s Museum in National Harbor, MD. Sticker holds an M.A. in Museum and Galleries in Education from the University of London’s Institute of Education.

In September, Kate Dzikiewicz will become the museum’s science department as the department’s first Paul Griswold Howes Fellow. She recently earned a Master’s Degree in Zoology at North Carolina State University where she studied growth patterns in the bones of crocodilians, and is currently serving as an Educational Experience Developer at the Smithsonian Institution. Her position is named in honor of Paul Griswold Howes, a renowned naturalist, artist, and explorer who served at the Bruce Museum from 1918 to 1965, first as assistant curator and later as curator-director.

Mia G. Laufer will join the museum in September as the 2015-2016 Zvi Grunberg Resident Fellow. Laufer will be working with both curatorial and education departments, working on various curatorial projects and implementing public programs to complement the Museum’s art exhibitions. Laufer, a doctoral candidate in Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, has worked as a curatorial assistant on exhibitions for both the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, and she taught art history at Washington University this summer. A native New Yorker, she has also worked as a curatorial intern at the Guggenheim.

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