Samuel Dorsky Museum’s latest installation: Director Sara Pasti
Sara Pasti is the new Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art on campus. It is the college’s first endowed position. Photo submitted
Sara Pasti has been appointed the Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Pasti, who has served as interim deputy director of the museum since January 2008, succeeds founding director, Neil Trager, who retired in August 2008 after 14 years with the college.
Pasti said working in an interim capacity allowed her to become familiar with both the museum and the campus. “I am both thrilled and privileged to be appointed director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art,” she said. “I very much liked what I saw here, as well as the potential for making things happen in the future.”
As a former arts administrator and a community development consultant, Pasti has worked on start-up projects, institutional and capital project management, and capital and annual fund development. She has worked with such organizations as the Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas; LandAir Project Resources; the Dutchess County Arts Council; the Bearsville Theater; and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.
Pasti earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and a Master of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick.
For more information, visit www.newpaltz.edu/museum.
