New director of development appointed for Hyde Collection

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. >> The Hyde Collection recently announced that Laura Bradigan has been named director of development.

Bradigan, a Saratoga Springs resident, will advance the mission of the museum through development, donor relations, and fundraising.

“Laura has decades of experience that will help us continue to carry on The Hyde Collection’s amazing legacy,” museum CEO Norman E. Dascher Jr. said in a press release “Her connections throughout the region will help expand The Hyde’s footprint throughout the Northeast.”

Before joining The Hyde, Bradigan held a similar position at Bethel Homes and Services in Ossining and Croton-On-Hudson for more than a decade. She has also worked for many years in government, politics, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations in the Capital District and upstate New York.

Bradigan is a member of the Saratoga Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a board member of Bethesda Episcopal Church’s Mercy House in Saratoga Springs, and a former board member of Sculpture Space, a Utica-based residency program for sculptors.

“I am honored to be part of the team of professionals working at The Hyde Collection to protect and promote the legacy that Mr. and Mrs. Hyde left our community,” Bradigan said in the release.

Located at 161 Warren St. in Glens Falls, The Hyde Collection is a small art museum with a collection of European, American, Modern, and Contemporary art. Its permanent collection of more than 5,000 works spans centuries and consists of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts. The core collection was amassed by Museum founders Louis and Charlotte Hyde.

The Hyde Collection presents changing exhibitions in its five galleries, as well as lectures, cultural events, family activities, and school programming in its modern museum complex and historic house.