Dr. Dana Carlisle Kletchka has officially accepted the offer to join our faculty in August, 2017 as Assistant Professor of Art Museum Education. Since 2000, Dr. Kletchka has worked as curator of education for the Palmer Museum of Art at The Pennsylvania State University, where she is responsible for the educational and interpretive programming. Her research interests include teaching, learning, and pedagogy within the context of art museums; the history and gendering of art museum education; social media and other tools for curating experiences; Postmodern art and artists; and the intersections of queer theory and museum studies. Her essays have appeared in such books as Judy Chicago at Penn State (2014) and From Periphery to Center: Art Museum Education in the 21st Century (2007), and she has published articles in the National Art Education Association journal Art Education and served on its Editorial Review Panel from 2003-2007. She is the past chair of Penn State’s Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equity, a presidential advisory commission, and frequently delivers professional presentations on art museum education at national and international art education and design conferences. For more information, please see: www.sites.psu.edu/danack. Please welcome Dr. Kletchka when she arrives in August!