KMXT 100.1 FM Public Radio in Kodiak, Alaska
Dana Haynes. Via the Alutiiq Museum
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The Alutiiq Museum team is a small, but productive one, and it just welcomed another staffer into the fold.
Dana Haynes will be the museum’s new gallery manager. Among her duties will be to oversee the store and reception desk, serve as a liaison between the museum and artists, and lead tour groups.
Haynes grew up in Massachusetts and says, after graduating from New York University and then working at museums nearer to home, Kodiak seemed like a good fit personally and professionally.
“In a larger city, you tend to have kinda universal museums, you’re attracting a huge amount of visitors, and there’s not really such a connection to what the local community is,” Haynes says. “You have some museums that are drawing in all these people who aren’t even shopping in the local businesses. So I think the idea of the small-town museum is something I was looking for.”
Haynes says museum positions can be competitive. She’s happy to have found a job in a small community, especially one in an area she’s never visited before.
