This Week’s Speaker
Kate Casprowiak Scher, Executive Director, Bellevue Arts Museum (May 21st) – Bellevue Arts Museum: Reinvention and Sustainability
Kate moved to Bellevue in 2010 to accept a full-time, tenure track professorship in Art History at Bellevue College, whereupon she taught for eleven years. During her time at Bellevue College she developed the online Art History curriculum, organized exhibits for the Gallery Space and acted as Department Chair, among other things. In 2020, she gained membership at the Appraiser Association of America and became a qualified art appraiser. She has also served at the Director for a private art collection in Bellevue, Washington. It was around this time that Kate was invited to join the Board of Trustees at the Bellevue Arts Museum. In September 2023, Kate was asked to take leave of the BAM Board and step in at Interim Executive Director of the museum. By February 2024 she was offered the permanent position, which she accepted. Kate still appraises art but her primary mission is to guide the Bellevue Arts Museum into a sustainable model that can provide arts and culture for our community for decades to come.
About Bellevue Rotary
Founded in 1961, the Bellevue Rotary Club is an organization of local community and business leaders who make a difference by serving the citizens of our city and the world. Our primary avenues of service are Community Service, International Service, Vocational Service, and Youth Service.
Bellevue Rotary’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Bellevue Rotary Club unequivocally embraces Rotary’s intolerance for racism. We believe in promoting respect, celebrating diversity, demanding ethical leadership, and working tirelessly to advance peace as central tenets of our work. We recognize we have more work to do to create a more just, open and welcoming club for all people. We acknowledge and support Black humanity and its value. We acknowledge the sadness, anger, mental and emotional exhaustion, and trauma that our African American members and other people of color continue to experience. The Bellevue Rotary Club understands its responsibility towards truth, equity, and social justice, and will work with our members to dismantle any and all forms of systemic racism within our Club. To do this, we will carefully look at our Club’s culture, policies, partners, and the work we do in our community as we work to improve ourselves first. The Bellevue Rotary Club will also work towards being an anti-racist club in alignment with our long history and value of serving humanity.
Bellevue Rotary Officers and Directors, July 2023–June 2024
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