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Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick, a white woman with brown hair wearing a black dress standing in a gallery with colorful artwork Who NEU? For more than five years (and hundreds of posts), Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick's blog has been keeping members and friends informed of the ‘backstory' behind all that is happening at the NEU.

From the Director.

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  • A purple circle with the number three hundred fifty centered in white digits

    backstory: We made it to 350!

    It’s a long one …

    So… this is the 350thbackstory I’ve written. With breaks along the way, that’s somewhere between seven and eight years of backstories. It’s a lot!

  • artistic print of a woman's face on a colorful patterned background

    backstory: Tenacious mama bears

    I’ve had a lot of mentors in my life. Average ones, less than average ones, and really above average ones. I hope you’ve also had some really above average ones. Those really above average ones, for me, have come mostly in the form of what I would describe as “tenacious mama bears”— the TMBs. One of my TMBs, who I’d like to talk about today is Joan Marter.

  • Two smiling women pose with a cake.

    backstory: Let’s just call it fifty

    After an incredible forty-nine years—I told Lois we could just round up to fifty—so FIFTY YEARS of service to the Museum, Volunteer Museum Educator Lois Bregstein has decided to retire from the VME program.

  • A group of students and older people mingle at a gallery reception

    backstory: Everything is back!

    There is an ebb and flow to life on a college campus. Summer is quiet, and then suddenly at the end of August everyone and everything is back — faculty, students, classes, programs. 

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