April Vasher-Dean will be the new Executive Director of the Valdez Museum & Historical Archive. Vasher-Dean has spent her last 16 years in Potsdam, New York where she was the Director of the Art Museum at SUNY Potsdam and co-founder of the North Country Children’s Museum. Prior to her latest position, she served as Director of the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art in New Harmony Indiana and was an adjunct professor of Art History and Museum Studies.