Museum Names Two Curators

Fri., Aug. 4, 1995

From Staff And Wire Reports

The Cheney Cowles Museum has named two new curators: one of history and one of art.

Barbara Racker, presently curator of art at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls, Mont., will take over the art curatorship vacated by Beth Sellars last year. Racker has a master of fine arts degree from Louisiana Tech University.

Before coming to Great Falls, she was the curator of visual arts at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in Pueblo, Colo.

She will begin at Cheney Cowles on Sept. 1.

Marsha Rooney, formerly the curator of the Campbell House, was promoted on Tuesday to the position of curator of history for the Cheney Cowles Museum. She has a master of arts degree in history management from the Cooperstown graduate program at the State University of New York. She also has worked as a costumed living history interpreter at the Plimoth Plantation outdoor museum in Plymouth, Mass.

She had been the Campbell House curator since 1988.

She replaces Larry Schoonover, who was promoted to deputy director of the Cheney Cowles Museum earlier this year.

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