MAAM Leadership

Executive Director, Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms

Before coming to the Stickley Museum, Stivison served as Deputy Director for Institutional Advancement at the Montclair Art Museum. Elected by her peers in the field, Stivison is President Emeritus of the New Jersey Association of Museums. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Advocates for New Jersey History. She has earned the high level of recognition and professional accreditation in the field of institutional advancement as a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE). Also an accomplished artist, while attending the Parsons School of Design she specialized in book illustration and textile design and worked as a professional artist in one of her professor’s design studio for four a number of years afterwards. Her artworks have been exhibited in juried shows.

Chief Curator, Babe Ruth Birthplace, Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards

Prior to joining the Babe Ruth museums, Mr. Herne served as Director of Collections & Interpretation as well as Curator of the B&O Railroad Museum. He has taught railroad history for the University of Baltimore and published The Railroad Timekeepers, a book on railroad clocks and watches. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Sports Heritage Association, a consortium of sports museums and halls of fame from around the world.

Chief of the Collections Care Section of the Bureau of Historic Sites and Museums, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission

Brenda is currently the Chief of the Collections Care Section of the Bureau of Historic Sites and Museums of the PA Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). She is also Acting Western Division Chief, with a number of PHMC museums reporting to her. Her background is in curatorial duties and site administration. She also manages contracts for conservation and exhibition services for the agency. Brenda holds an M.A. from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in museum studies.

Director, Lorenzo State Historic Site

Effective May, 2002, Barbara Giambastiani Bartlett was appointed the director at Lorenzo State Historic Site, Cazenovia, NY. Ms. Bartlett previously worked as the Restoration Coordinator for Central Region and her primary responsibilities were directing the capital program for cultural and historic resources throughout the Region, at both historic sites and parks, and conducting environmental reviews and coordinating cooperative agreements with the College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Cornell University. Before working for New York State, she was the executive director of the Preservation Association of CNY and the Madison County Historical Society. She has also served as an adjunct professor with the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University for fourteen years. Ms. Giambastiani Bartlett holds a B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University, a M.S. degree from Columbia University and a certificate for Not-for-Profit Executive Management from Museums Collaborative.

Director and Curator, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center

Jack Rasmussen is the Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC. Jack earned his bachelor’s degree in art from Whitman College before launching a long association with American University and notable arts career in the DC region. His several AU connections include master’s degrees in painting, arts management and anthropology, and a PhD in anthropological linguistics. In addition he has also taught painting, curatorial practice, and arts programming, and worked as the university’s associate director of development. Jack’s career has included work for the National Gallery of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Jack Rasmussen Gallery, Rockville Arts Place, Maryland Art Place, and di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature.

Vice President and Treasurer, Hauck & Associates, Inc.

This position is vacant.  Please contact us if you are interested in serving on the MAAM Board and are from Delaware.

Museum Curator, Museum Management Program, National Park Service

Joan Bacharach serves as a curator with the NPS Museum Management Program developing policies and procedures for documentation, preservation and protection, and access to NPS collections. These archeology, ethnography, history, archives, geology, biology and paleontology collections number over 40 million objects and 50,000 linear feet of archives that are located at over 360 NPS parks, centers, and historic house museums nationwide. Joan develops virtual museum exhibits and Teaching with Museum Collections
lesson plans in collaboration with parks that are available on-line at www.nps.gov/history/museum, together with the NPS Museum Handbook and Conserve O Gram [COG] series. Joan is the COG series editor and does training for the Department of the Interior {DOI] museum program. As NPS Museum Registrar, she managed the Servicewide implementation the Automated National Catalog System and led the task force in the development of DOI documentation policies and procedures. Before joining NPS, Joan was the collections manager in the Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Tim Hart, Director of Tuckerton Seaport

Director, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian

John Haworth is Director of the National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. Prior to join the Museum’s staff in 1995, he served as Assistant Commissioner for Cultural Institutions at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. At NYU, he taught arts management & cultural policy courses for fourteen academic years, and has also lectured extensively at regional, national and international conferences (including UNESCO’s conference in Paris in April 2010). He has written several articles for national magazines and museum & exhibition publications. Mr. Haworth has an MBA from Columbia University, where he also was designated as a Revson Fellow on the Future of New York City in 1979. He chairs the Museum Association of New York, and serves on the boards for Americans for the Arts, Mid Atlantic Museum Association, Public Art Network Council, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Mr. Haworth is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Director of Museum Exhibition Design, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA

Director – Graduate Program in Museum Studies, Syracuse University

Edward Aiken is director of the graduate program in museum studies, Department of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, and senior curator of the Syracuse University Art Galleries. For 20 years he served as director of the Lowe Art Gallery at Syracuse. In 2001, VPA presented Aiken with the Outstanding Faculty Award, and in 2006 the University Graduate School presented him with the Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award. Aiken has served as a panelist for the New York State Council for the Humanities and IMLS, and has also served as an evaluator for NASAD. Aiken has curated and organized dozens of exhibitions. His writings have been published in anthologies, scholarly and professional periodicals, as well as exhibition catalogues and brochures. He has organized panels and presented papers at a broad range of scholarly and professional meetings in the United States and abroad. In 2001 Aiken completed a term as president of the board of directors of the Exhibition Alliance in New York State. Aiken received a Ph.D. in art history from Northwestern University, an M.A. in art history from the Ohio State University, and bachelor’s degrees from the California College of Arts and Crafts and Claremont McKenna College. He has also earned a certificate in non-profit management from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

CFO and VP Resource Administration, Liberty Science Center

Connie Claman is responsible for all building operations, technology, human resources, and finance at the Liberty Science Center. Connie co-led the $110M physical expansion and renewal of the new Liberty Science Center with responsibility for all non exhibit areas of the building. Connie has been with Liberty Science Center for 20 years. She worked at General Electric for 10 years before switching into the non profit field. She has a BA in math from Mt. Holyoke College, and an MBA in Finance from New York University.

Position is Vacant