Shelburne Museum Director Thomas Denenberg announced the appointment of Bonnie Ferro as assistant director.
Ferro will oversee income generating operations at the museum including licensing, facility rentals, the Museum Store and cafeteria. She also serves as a liaison to the museum’s board of trustees. Ferro joined Shelburne Museum in 2007 when she was hired as the director’s office coordinator.
“Bonnie’s background in business, retail sales and non-profit management made her a perfect fit for this new position at the museum,” said Denenberg. “We are delighted to have her at the helm of what is a vital part of museum operations.”
Ferro is a former owner and manager of two successful retail clothing stores in Burlington. Her extensive background in the non-profit sector includes serving as director of the Vermont Women’s Business Center, a non-profit dedicated to assisting start ups as well as established women-owned businesses. She has also served as development director for King Street Youth Center and executive director of Art’s Alive and served on the boards of King Street Youth Center, Cancer Patient Support Program and Art’s Alive.
A Burlington resident, Ferro is a graduate of the University of Vermont.
Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont 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 museum grounds. The museum’s collection includes works by the great Impressionists Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas as well as a prized collection of folk art including trade signs, weathervanes and quilts.