Stacey H Savatsky
Archivist & Director of Collections & Exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA)

About

Most of my youth was spent in the Boston suburbs, with a five-year stint in Spokane Washington. College years were spent in Worcester, Massachusetts, England, and Syracuse New York, where I earned my first two degrees (BA Art History, MA Museum Studies). For the past 30 years Atlanta, GA has been my home, and source of a second Masters degree (Library and Information Services).  I originally moved to Atlanta, for my first job, which was in the Registrar’s Office of the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, followed by a stint as Public Art Coordinator for the City of Atlanta, Bureau of Cultural Affairs. 

Over the past 30 years I have been fortunate to work with marine artifacts, polymer preserved human specimens, Greek, Roman, Indian, Pre Columbian and Egyptian antiquities, sub-Saharan, African ethnographic objects, 2D and 3D fine art, outdoor murals, and even stop motion animation art, props and puppets. 

A love for travel was fueled between 2002 and 2016, while working for traveling exhibitions companies and on free-lance projects abroad. Some memorable experiences include acting as registrar onboard a three-week salvage expedition to the Titanic wreck site in 2004, and cataloguing thousands of Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder stop motion assets for HIT Entertainment Inc. during two, month-long contract projects in England.

In 2008, after a very fulfilling seven years as Executive Director of Collections for Premier Exhibitions, I decided to become a freelance museum consultant/contractor, and kept very busy traveling and working with many different types of museum and private collections.

In 2016 as a result of a cataloguing project with an Atlanta artist, in preparation for a major retrospective exhibition in New York, I began an 8-month archives project at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA). I fell in love with the Museum, and was subsequently offered a full time position as Collections and Exhibitions Manager. I look forward to the continued growth of this fantastic Museum as well as my own within its walls.