The Bruce Museum has recently hired three new staff members, filling two permanent positions in its Curatorial and Communications Departments, and adding a year-long fellow.
“A diverse nonprofit organization like the Bruce Museum is only as strong as the people who serve for it,” says Peter C. Sutton, Executive Director of the Bruce Museum. “We are delighted to welcome these three individuals and the professionalism, energy, and creativity they bring with them.”
Kirsten J. Reinhardt joins the Bruce Museum as Registrar. A former guest curator at the Bruce, Reinhardt is now responsible for managing the Bruce Museum’s permanent collection and organizing the arrival and return of loaned works of art to and from the museum. She has degrees in Anthropology and Museum Studies from Beloit College and Brown University and is also a Registered Professional Archaeologist, having worked as a field archaeologist at IVI International in White Plains, N.Y. Reinhardt comes to the Bruce from the Stamford Museum & Nature Center, where she served as the Curator of Collections & Exhibitions since 2012.
Scott Smith is the Bruce Museum’s new Director of Marketing and Communications. Over the past decade, he has served as a communications director for nonprofit organizations at both the national and regional level, including the United States Golf Association, the Westport Weston Family YMCA, and the Stamford Museum & Nature Center. Before entering the nonprofit world, he enjoyed a 30-year career as a staff writer and editor for a variety of magazines, including Business Week, People, Bon Appetit, and Golf Digest. Smith studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Warwick in England en route to earning a B.A. degree in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
Elizabeth D. Smith arrives at the Bruce Museum as the 2017-2018 Zvi Grunberg Resident Fellow. Smith will be working with both curatorial and education departments to organize exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and to develop public programming. She is a graduate of the Hite Art Institute in Louisville, Ky., where she earned an M.A. in art history. Smith has worked at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville as the research assistant for the exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, and as a curatorial intern at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
