Staff:
Richard Rinehart, Director
r.rinehart@bucknell.edu
Richard Rinehart is Director of the Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University. He has served as Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and as curator at New Langton Arts and for the San Jose Arts Commission. He juried for the Rockefeller Foundation, Rhizome.org, and others. Richard has taught courses on art and new media at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Art Institute, Bucknell, and elsewhere. He served on the boards of the Berkeley Center for New Media, New Langton Arts, and the Museum Computer Network. He lead the NEA-funded project, “Archiving the Avant-Garde”, to preserve digital art and has co-authored a book with Jon Ippolito for MIT Press on collecting and preserving media culture, “Re-Collection: Art, New Media, & Social Memory” https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/re-collection
Theresa Engelbrecht, Registrar & Exhibition Manager
theresa.engelbrecht@bucknell.edu
570.577.3282
Theresa Engelbrecht is an exhibition and collection management professional with expertise in 20th century prints and drawings. She has been the Registrar and Exhibition Manager at Bucknell University’s Samek Art Museum since 2018 and was previously a Collections Assistant at Syracuse University Art Museum while earning her Masters in both Art History and Museum Studies. She believes strong collection and exhibition management practices increase access to and engagement with works of art. Outside of work, she researches art to add to her own collection of works on paper and spends time with her husband and two Beagles.
Tiffany Demmon, Public Programs & Outreach Manager
tiffany.demmon@bucknell.edu
570.577.3981
Tiffany Demmon is a museum educator with her Masters in Museum Studies from Texas Tech University. She was previously the Education Program Coordinator at the Museum of Texas Tech University for over five years before becoming the Public Programs & Outreach Manager at the Samek Art Museum in 2019. She currently sits on the board for the Lewisburg Arts Council.
Tilton Widro, Preparator & Operations Coordinator
mtw011@bucknell.edu
570.577.3214
Tilton Widro is the Samek Art Museum’s Preparator and Operations Coordinator. Tilton has worked for various museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Gallery, the National Academy Museum, and the Museum of Biblical Arts. Tilton holds a BFA from SUNY Buffalo, and a MFA from Pratt Institute.
Olive McKnight, Samek Art Museum Fellow
o.mcknight@bucknell.edu
Olive McKnight is the current Samek Art Museum Fellow. She recently graduated from Syracuse University with her Masters in Art History and Museum Studies. She is interested in photography, works on paper, and queer-made art. She also believes that museums are sites of activism. When she’s not at work, she enjoys hiking and birdwatching with her partner and having conversations with her chatty cat, Annabel Lee
Mailing Address:
Samek Art Museum
1 Dent Drive
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Telephone:
570.577.3792