LAURA SIMS PECK
  • Exhibitions
    • Bound and Beyond
    • Carve, Cast, and Coil
    • Concentrations
    • Reflections on a Collection
    • Sneak Peek
    • Visualizing Sovereignty
  • Publications
  • Résumé
  • Press Clips
  • Contact

Professional Experience


Operations Manager, Center for Design & Material Culture in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison | December 2019 - Present
  • Manage day-to-day operations of the Center
  • Act as Chief-of-Staff for the Director
  • Develop policies, procedures, and program goals with the Director of the Center
  • Assist with the management of the budget in coordination with the SoHE Business Office
  • Work with collection and gallery staff to help meet their needs
  • Collaborate with the Communications team on marketing and press in regards to the Center
  • Assist students and Center fellows in their employment and research needs 

Curator, The Warehouse & Guardian Fine Art Services | May 2015 – December 2019
  • Plan, organize, and actualize the creation of a private art museum
  • Manage a collection of 3,500+ objects
  • Set up and design protocols in catalogue system Past Perfect
  • Curate exhibitions: select artists and works, install, deinstall, and complementary programming
  • Install, deinstall, pack, transport, and store Guardian client work
  • Collaborate on and help implement marketing initiatives
  • Build and maintain website and social presence

Copy Editor, Plumb Press | May 2015 - December 2019 (part-time)
  • Edit exhibition catalogues for Roy Staab: Suspended in Time, and Beyond Baskets
  • Create, edit, and administer the Plumb Press website

Gallery Manager, Union Art Gallery | September 2013 – May 2015
  • Curate exhibitions featuring regional and national artists 
  • Plan and lead marketing initiatives, artist talks, and other related programming
  • Manage loans, contracts, insurance forms, and shipping
  • Maintain annual budget
  • Manage, schedule, and mentor student employees

Public Relations and Marketing Intern, Walker Art Center | June 2012 – July 2013
  • Facilitate the Performing Arts Department’s the 2013—2014 Performing Arts Season
  • Research and contribute to the Upper Midwest Emmy Award winning documentary, The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
  • Maintain press archive, assemble press packets, draft press releases, and update website

Hall Director, UMM Office of Residential Life | August 2009 – May 2012
  • Hire and supervise a staff of Community Advisors
  • Oversee programming and day-to-day operations of a residence hall, lead civic engagement opportunities for college students

Intern, Stevens County Historical Society Museum | January – December 2009
  • Catalogue, photograph, and research collection objects and photographs
  • Research, design, and prepare the traveling exhibition Hearts of the Home: A History of Stevens County Homemakers Clubs

Intern, Walker Art Center | Summer 2007
  • Assist the Walker Art Center’s Visual Arts Department with the 2007 catalogue Frida Kahlo
  • Assist Curator Doryun Chong with cataloguing and organization for the 2008 exhibition Tetsumi Kudo: Gardens in Metamorphosis

Education


M.A. Art History and Certificate in Museum Studies | 2013-2015
     University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  • Thesis: Reflections on a Collection: Revisiting the UWM Icons Fifty Years Later
  • Focus in exhibition design and theory, object provenance, historiography, material culture, and museology.

B.A. Anthropology and Art History | 2008-2012
     University of Minnesota, Morris
  • Courses in Italian, French, African American art, women and art, American Indians and museums, ancient Greek and Roman art, Byzantine art, and portraiture.
Laura Sims Peck
laurasimspeck@gmail.com
Copyright © 2022
  • Exhibitions
    • Bound and Beyond
    • Carve, Cast, and Coil
    • Concentrations
    • Reflections on a Collection
    • Sneak Peek
    • Visualizing Sovereignty
  • Publications
  • Résumé
  • Press Clips
  • Contact