Robert Skiff named interim director of Shelburne Museum

Shelburne Museum has named an interim director, Board Chairman James Pizzagalli announced. Robert Skiff, Sr., member of the museum’s board of trustees and former president of Champlain College, will assume interim director duties on March 15 and will serve until a permanent replacement for director Stephan Jost is hired. Jost is stepping down after five years as director at Shelburne to become director of Honolulu Academy of Arts in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Museum trustee Bruce Lisman of Shelburne is heading up the national search for a new director, which is under way.
Skiff, of South Burlington, joined the Shelburne Museum board in 2002. He serves as a director of the Merchants Bank and Merchants Bancshares.
Skiff was as president of Champlain College from 1977 to 1992 and during that time also served as president of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. From 1993-1996 Skiff was a Presidential Fellow at the University of Vermont. He was a founder of the Vermont Commons School in South Burlington.
About Shelburne Museum: Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt. is one of North America’s finest, most diverse and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the grounds. The museum’s collection includes works by the great Impressionists Monet, Manet and Degas as well as a prized collection of folk art including trade signs, weathervanes and quilts.
SHELBURNE, Vt. (February 16, 2011) Shelburne Museum
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