Berkshire Museum Appoints New Staff Members
PITTSFIELD - Berkshire Museum has appointed Scott LaGreca as natural science coordinator, Craig Langlois as public program coordinator, and Kimberly Rawson as director of communications.Scott LaGreca is an active research scientist who specializes in the study of lichens. As natural science coordinator, LaGreca will assist with the long-term care and conservation of Berkshire Museum’s natural science collections, the daily care of living collections, and the development and implementation of natural science programming and exhibitions. For the past four years he has served as curator of lichens at The Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom. LaGreca was also the manager of the Cryptogamic Herbarium at The Natural History Museum from 2006 to 2007, and was a curatorial/research associate for six years at the Farlow Herbarium at Harvard University. LaGreca has held a number of academic internships, including one in the Botany Department at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In addition to his Berkshire Museum appointment, LaGreca is an honorary scientific associate at Harvard University and the New York State Museum, Albany. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in botany from Duke University.
As coordinator of Berkshire Museum’s public programs, Craig Langlois will develop, implement, and lead exhibition-related programs for children and adults, and will oversee programming for performances in the museum’s theater and the Little Cinema film series. Langlois was formerly coordinator of public programs and a museum educator for The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, and a professor of visual arts at Long Island University.
Langlois has lectured and instructed in the ceramics and fine arts fields since 2004. His artwork is included in numerous collections and has been shown in a variety of group exhibitions in museums and galleries in New York. Langlois holds a B.A. and an M.F.A. from Long Island University.
As head of communications, Rawson will direct Berkshire Museum’s identity, public relations, design, marketing, Web site, and visitor services. Prior to her appointment at Berkshire Museum, Rawson served as associate director for marketing and communications at Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, where she was employed for nine years. At Norman Rockwell Museum, Rawson was integral in the critical reappraisal of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and oversaw the implementation of the museum’s new visual identity and branding campaign. As project manager and creative director of numerous museum publications, including its Web site, she garnered 29 national and regional awards, including six first-place awards earlier this year.
Rawson’s previous positions include director of marketing and public relations for Academy-Award winning visual effects company Mass Illusions; director of film development and producer for Imax Ridefilm; and public relations director for The Trumbull Company, headed by Academy Award-winning visual effects innovator Douglas Trumbull. Rawson serves on the marketing committee for Berkshire Visitors Bureau and on the Pittsfield Contemporary arts collaborative. She is a native of Berkshire County and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College.
