Susan Strickler will retire as director and CEO of the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester in January 2016. Strickler’s tenure as Director will be the longest in the Currier’s 86-year history.
“Susan has had a remarkable two-decade tenure at the helm of the Currier—which was a time of wonderful artistic growth and institutional expansion, raising the profile of the Currier as one of the nation’s finest mid-sized museums,” said M. Christine Dwyer, Currier Museum of Art Board president. “Susan brought to the role a strong curatorial and management background and she developed a team of senior staff leaders who have worked hard to make the Currier experience welcoming to all. The Trustees are grateful that she has given us the time to select a worthy successor.”
Under Strickler’s guidance, the Currier Museum collection and building have undergone tremendous growth. Most publically notable was the Museum’s physical expansion, which added more than 33,000 square feet of space. In 1996, the Museum purchased the former Pearl Manor building and two years later converted it to a new home for the Art Center, now serving more than 1,200 people annually, including hundreds of traditionally underserved inner-city youth.
In 2002, the Currier started a multi-year program to provide information about the entire permanent collection on the Museum’s website. Today more than 14,000 works of art are illustrated online with text entries, provenance, exhibition histories for over 350 objects.
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