New Curator, James Peck, Named for Rockwell Museum of Western Art
CORNING, NY - The board of directors and staff members of the Rockwell Museum of Western Art are pleased to announce that James Peck has joined the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, NY, as Curator of Collections.
"James brings a deep knowledge of art and art history to his new role of Curator of Collections, says Kristin A. Swain, Executive Director of the Rockwell Museum of Western Art. "His interest and work related to American western and Native American art will help bring national recognition to the importance of the Rockwell's collection of art. The unique collection offers opportunity for rich exhibits and dynamic programming and we look forward to James's scholarship. While building on our strong foundation of research, collection stewardship and education, James will add a great dimension to the Museum's imaginative programming."
Most recently a Robert S. and Grace B. Kerr Fellow at the University of Oklahoma's distinguished Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art and the American West, Mr. Peck has taught at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Tulsa, and Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC. From 2002 through 2008 he was the Ruth G. Hardman Curator of European and American Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work at the Charles M. Russell Study Center involved cataloguing the Eugene B. Adkins Archive, part of the seminal Adkins collection of over 3,500 western and Native American objects. In his new role at the Rockwell Museum, Mr. Peck brings his unique focus on the Taos Society of Artists and Native American art to one of the nation's finest museums of American art. Mr. Peck is also currently a doctoral candidate in the University of Oklahoma's unique and first of its kind, PhD program focusing on Art of the American West and Native American Art.
