Sarah E. Boehme, Ph.D

Managing Director

Sarah Boehme joined the Stark Museum of Art staff as director in 2006, having previously worked at the Museum in curatorial positions from 1978-1982. She provides leadership for the Museum and is responsible for professional practices and advancing the Museum’s mission. She plans, organizes and directs Museum activities through the staff. She also oversees the care and curation of the Museum’s permanent holdings. 

Sarah Boehme served as the John S. Bugas Curator, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, from 1986 until September of 2006. She was curator for the Historical Center’s exhibition Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney, which toured nationally, and wrote an essay for the accompanying publication. For the exhibition John James Audubon in the West, which opened at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and traveled on a national tour, she worked as curator and co-author of the exhibition catalogue. In 1998, she co-curated the Museums West exhibition Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America and contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue. She also wrote the exhibition catalogues Whitney Gallery of Western Art; Absakoree Hut: The Joseph Henry Sharp Cabin; Buckeye Blake: Art on the Western Front; and Rendezvous to Roundup: The First 100 Years of Art in Wyoming. She was co-author of Seth Eastman: A Portfolio of North American Indians and Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

Sarah Boehme holds a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s and doctorate in history of art from Bryn Mawr College. She received the Fort Union Fellowship for research in 1998 and was the recipient of the 1997 Friend of Arts Education award from the Wyoming Arts Education Alliance. She previously worked as instructor and curator at St. Lawrence University.