Founding Museum & Collections Committee
Angela Smith
Chair of the NDSU Museum and Collections Founding Committee | Professor of History
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
As the chair of the founding committee and a public historian, I am excited to collaborate across campus with students, faculty, and staff to preserve, protect, display, and interpret the items that make NDSU unique.
Wyatt Atchley
Museum Curator, Programming | Special Collections Archivist |NDSU Libraries
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
I'm eager to build on the important work we have done so far. Sharing collections and stories across campus and beyond offers us a meaningful way to engage with our community and colleagues. This is just the beginning of an exciting journey ahead!
Susan Curtis
Museum Curator, Policy | Emily Reynolds Historic Costume Collection
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
I am excited about the possibilities for research collaborations and the opportunity to preserve and share the amazing diversity of collections that are held across the NDSU campus. The launch of the NDSU Museum and Collections has brought visibility to many previously unknown collections and provides us with an opportunity to share these collections with the campus community and beyond.
James Anthony Faris
Museum Curator + Programming and Education
Curator of Collections at Memorial Union Gallery
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
Learning stories and then retelling them!
Steve Jacobs
Head of the Museum Discovery Phase
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
Coming Soon!
Suzanne Kelly
Policy and Planning | Editor in Chief, NDSU Press | Associate Professor of Practice
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
I'm thrilled to know that the hidden treasures on campus are about to be discovered and utilized.
Jeff Knight
Lead Designer | Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
To see the result of so much cross-disciplinary work finally be available to public interaction. There have been a lot of people involved in this project and it has been an enormous undertaking. Seeing the museum, and the portals that they make up, will be wonderful to not just show off NDSU's immense collection, but to also provide a result which students, faculty, and staff can be proud. It will show an accumulation that proudly reflects their months of service to this project, this goes for myself as well.
Alexandra Rowe
Museum Writer/Editor – Student Fellow Committee Representative | Ph.D Rhetoric and Composition
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
I'm excited to see students, staff, and faculty interacting with the portals that we spent so long conceptualizing, curating, and designing.
Michael Strand
PI of NDSU Impact grant – NDSU Museum Project Director
Director and Professor of School of Design, Architecture & Arts
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
In the spirit of NDSU Transform, this project is a once in a career opportunity to work with an incredible team to bring a new Museum into existence. I am most excited thinking about visiting the MAC 20 or 30 years from now when the MAC has a long history of celebrating the rich tradition of accomplishments, collections, and history of our terrific Land Grant University. Go Bison!
Nate Wood
Mission and Evaluation | Associate Professor
What are you excited about as we launch this new museum?
The collections that MAC brings together are the result of decades of fascinating work that has been done at NDSU. I am excited that this work can be shared with a wide audience – and that so many people will get to share in the excitement of the students, staff, and faculty who maintain those collections.