A grant helped to make the appointment possible

BRIDGEPORT - Art historian Maura Brennan has been appointed Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Housatonic Museum of Art at Housatonic Community College, according to a statement.

"The one year appointment has been made possible by grant funding from the Werth Family Foundation and the Fairfield County Community Foundation totaling $30,000," the statement said

Brennan has interned at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, held an NEA fellowship position at the RISD Museum in Providence, R. I.  and was the assistant curator of prints and drawings at the Worcester Art Museum, the statement said. She taught art history for more than four years at Becker College. She earned a bachelor's degree art history from Barnard College, Columbia University and a master's art history from Williams College in Massachusetts, the statment said.

Brennan said, also in the statement, "I love running an active print room and am most comfortable in this kind of a setting."

She lives in Sturbridge, Mass. and is currently doing research on her 18th-century home, the statement said.

The Housatonic Museum is open when the college is open.

For more information call 203-332-5052.
(HCC is located at 900 Lafayette Blvd. in downtown Bridgeport, less than 150 yards off I-95 (Exit 27) and Rte. 8 (Exit 1), a block from the Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard. Free parking is available in the Housatonic garage.)

Editor's note: All information in this post was contributed.