Press Releases 2007
New Director of Development
CONTACT: Janet Peterson, Marketing and Public Relations
Director
TEL: (856) 825-6800, Ext. 108
FAX: (856) 825-2410
E-MAIL: jpeterson@wheatonarts.org
WHEATONARTS ANNOUNCES
NEW DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Millville, NJ - Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center has announced that Trudy Hansen recently joined the organization as Director of Development. In her new position, Hansen will oversee fundraising activities for WheatonArts and work to generate contributed support for the operation and its programs in the form of gifts, grants, bequests and other individual, corporate, foundation, and public funding sources.
Hansen brings over thirty years of experience an arts administrator, development officer, museum curator and nonprofit consultant to the Center. Prior to her arrival at WheatonArts, Hansen led development efforts at Appel Farm Arts and Music Center in Elmer, NJ. Before moving to South Jersey, she was Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Zimmerli Art Museum/Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She has also held positions at the National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Historical Society and was the founding curator and Associate Director of Tandem Press, an experimental printmaking workshop at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Susan Gogan, WheatonArts president said, “All of us at WheatonArts are delighted that Trudy is joining our organizational community. Her years of experience and leadership in the museum and development fields will enrich our work and we believe Trudy will provide important contributions to the future institutional development of WheatonArts.”
“WheatonArts is a tremendous resource, with exhibitions, educational programs, special events and nonstop creative activity that spans history, culture and art,” says Hansen, who has lived in Greenwich in Cumberland County for the past nine years. “It is a unique institution dedicated to Millville’s importance as the birthplace of America’s glass industry and to the celebration of glassmaking, other traditional and contemporary art forms, and to the amazing diversity of the South Jersey’s people and culture heritage.”
WheatonArts is home to the Museum of American Glass (one of nine accredited museums in New Jersey), the Creative Glass Center of America International Fellowship Program, the Down Jersey Folklife Center, a hot glass studio, several traditional crafts studios, Gallery of Fine Craft, and museum stores. In addition to daily glassblowing and craft demonstrations, WheatonArts features special exhibitions, programs, workshops, performances and several weekend festivals throughout the year.
WheatonArts strives to ensure the accessibility of its exhibitions, events and programs to all persons with disabilities. Individuals needing special assistance or accommodations should provide notice at least two weeks in advance. Patrons with hearing and speech disabilities may contact WheatonArts through the New Jersey Relay Service (TRS) 800-852-7899 or by dialing 711.
WheatonArts received a general operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State. Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Additional funds provided by the New Jersey Cultural Trust. Funds provided in part through the Cooperative Marketing Grant Program of the Economic Growth and Tourism Commission, Office of Travel and Tourism.
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