CLINTON, MA—December 17, 2025—The Icon Museum and Study Center is pleased to announce the election of six new members to its Board of Trustees.

Catherine Mannick, a long-time supporter and friend of the Icon Museum and resident of Cambridge, MA, will serve as the new Board President. Dr. Wendy Salmond, Martha Weidlein Masters Professor in Art at Chapman University and a current trustee, will serve as the new Vice President.

Amy Adams, Professor of Russian Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester; Mary Dean, Chief Executive Officer at Clinton Savings Bank; and Annie Labatt, Executive Vice President at Labatt Food Service in San Antonio, TX, have also joined the board. After a brief hiatus, Ann Molloy, Partner at Mountain Dearborn and Whiting, LLP in Worcester, MA, returns as a trustee.

Mannick, who currently serves on the Icon Museum’s Governance and Collections Committees, succeeds John McCabe, a friend and colleague of museum founder and former Nypro CEO Gordon Lankton. McCabe has dedicated nine years of service to the Icon Museum and Study Center. This marks the first time since the Museum’s founding in 2006 that women hold both the positions of board chair and vice president.

“These remarkable individuals bring a broad range of expertise and experience, along with a strong dedication to the study of icons and Eastern Christian art,” says Simon Morsink, Executive Director of the Icon Museum and Study Center. “This new group of Trustees will be invaluable in ensuring the long-term success of the Icon Museum’s ambitious goal of serving as a leading center for dialogue on icons in the United States.”

Additional biographical information about the new trustees is as follows:

Mary Dean is Chief Executive Officer at Clinton Savings Bank. She majored in the Classics at Harvard and spent a semester abroad in Italy and Greece, which fostered a lifelong interest in history, art, and religion. She has served on the boards of the following local organizations: Abby’s House (past president), Leominster Rotary Club (past president and treasurer), YWCA of Central MA (past treasurer), Catholic Charites Worcester County (board member), Boys and Girls Club of Worcester (board member), Worcester Art Museum (corporator), and Our Lady of the Lake (finance committee member).

Amy Adams is Professor of Russian Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. She received her B.A. in Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On the topic of Russian icons, she co-edited and contributed to the volume Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russia. She has also published widely on icons in Russian literature and contemporary life.

Annie Labatt previously served as Associate Professor and the Director of Galleries and Museums at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She received her doctorate in Byzantine Art History from Yale University, was the recipient of a two-year Rome Prize at the American Academy of Rome, and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She now serves as Vice Chair of the Board of OPERA San Antonio and is the author of three books: Art History 101… Without the Exams; Byzantine Rome; and Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome: A Laboratory of Images in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries.

Icon Museum and Study Center Board of Trustees:

Catherine Mannick, President and Chair

Dr. Wendy Salmond, Vice President

Eric Brose, Treasurer

William O’Neil, Clerk

Amy Adams

Mary Dean

Ruah Donnelly

Ellen S. Dunlap

Lynette Hull

Annie Labatt

John McCarthy

Kent Russell

Andre van Hese

ABOUT THE ICON MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER

The Icon Museum and Study Center holds the most comprehensive collection of icons and Eastern Christian art in the U.S. with special galleries and collections dedicated to Russian, Greek, Veneto-Cretan and Ethiopian icons, spanning nearly two thousand years of art. The Museum’s exhibitions and programs offer a compelling blend of history, spirituality, and culture, all within a serene, contemplative space.

Housed in a beautifully restored historic building in a picturesque New England mill town, the Icon Museum features five galleries, a research library, and an auditorium. The Study Center connects scholars, academic institutions, and museums around the globe through its lecture series, conferences, workshops, and internships.

VISIT THE MUSEUM:
Thursday – Sunday, 10 AM – 4 PM. The Museum is closed Monday – Wednesday.
Admission: Adults $15, seniors (65+) $12, Students (with ID) FREE, Children and Youth (0-17) FREE.

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