By Anne W. Semmes

Mary-Kate O’Hare is the 54-years young and enthusiastic new executive director and CEO of the Bruce Museum. Her aspirations would resonate with Bruce’s founders for “a natural history, historical, and art museum.” With both science and art featured under her roof she sees the Bruce as “distinctive to be able to find ways to truly integrate the arts and the sciences.” With our “complicated” world, she says, we “humans are trying to understand it as well as scientists and artists. The artists might use imagination and analysis as part of their tool, but scientists also use those tools, and they experiment.”

So, one of O’Hare’s initiatives is to launch a program to bring together contemporary art, science, and technology featuring artists “who are really working at that i

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