Mid-America Arts Alliance Appoints Nicole Dupre as Assistant Registrar

Mid-America Arts Alliance Appoints Assistant Registrar

Kansas City, MO – Mid-America Arts Alliance announces the appointment of Nicole Dupré as ExhibitsUSA Assistant Registrar. Dupré will assist in a pilot program involving the reformatting of four large National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) exhibitions into smaller versions for a national tour, a new program called “NEH on the Road”. She will support Humanities Project Manager Art McSweeney.

Dupré will also assist Angelette Hart, Director of Registration, with general ExhibitsUSA duties such as maintaining exhibition records, insuring artwork, preparing installation instructions for exhibitions, creating condition report books, and making shipping arrangements for exhibitions. In addition, she will manage loan agreements and track the condition of objects while they are touring in exhibitions.

“I am excited to have the opportunity to work for ExhibitsUSA,” said Dupré, a native of Cecilia, La. “I am looking forward to using my museum experience in new ways to help bring art to communities throughout the country.”

Dupré formerly worked as a curator and assistant administrator for the Leavenworth County Historical Society in Leavenworth, Kans.

“Nicole’s experience at natural history museums, history museums, and historic houses over the last seven years are a testament to her devotion to the field,” said Lin Nelson-Mayson, Director of ExhibitsUSA. “She brings an ideal education background and humanities experience to this position. I am very pleased that she’s joined ExhibitsUSA.”

Dupré graduated with a BA in anthropology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. While earning an MA in museum studies from the University of Kansas, Dupré worked as a collections intern at the Old Depot Museum in Ottawa, Kans.

Mid-America Arts Alliance, founded in 1972, is a nonprofit regional arts organization based in Kansas City, Mo. It is governed by a board of directors drawn from its partner states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Major support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, participant state arts agencies, and leading foundations and corporations.