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New members of the Chazen Team
The Chazen welcomed two new members of staff degree in art history and an interest in drawing and upon graduation helped open the Wisconsin Union
over the summer, and is looking forward to adding painting, Ale considers the museum to be an oasis. Hotel as front office manager.
additional team members during the fall term. She enjoys noticing something new during each walk Hiring is underway for the assistant director for through the galleries— her most recent discovery is collections and exhibitions, an education curator, Hans Arp’s bronze sculpture, Small Torso (Petit and a museum shop manager. Torso), located in the niche display between galleries
Alexandrea Nicolet
X and XI.
Business, first as a program coordinator and most
recently as the department administrator for the
academic Risk and Insurance department where he
worked with faculty, students, staff, guest speakers
Ale Nicolet joined the Chazen Tyler Dovenbarger
in spring 2018 as the first Tyler Dovenbarger is the
director of development focused Chazen’s new administrative
exclusively on fundraising for coordinator. With his
the museum. In her role she experience in hospitality,
works with many of the museum’s supporters, whose
For the past six years, Tyler worked at the School of
customer service, student life,
philanthropy is integral to the museum’s programs and administration at UW–Madison, Tyler is a great
and permanent collection. She also serves as a fit for this new position that is responsible for
resource for the Chazen within the University of administrative and accounting procedures. He helps
Wisconsin Foundation. make the museum offices run more efficiently.
Originally from Milwaukee, Ale came back to Tyler is from Neenah, Wis., and came to
Wisconsin to serve as director of development for UW–Madison to earn a B.S. degree with majors in
UW–Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life political science and consumer affairs in business.
Sciences after a stint on the East Coast. With a As a student he worked at the Memorial Union, and
and faculty candidates.
“I enjoy the Chazen staff, and learning new things.
There are many options to grow professionally,”
says Tyler of his position at the Chazen. “And that
view from the Bridge Gallery is hard to beat.”