Bruce Pepich

Bruce W. Pepich is Executive Director and Curator of Collections for the Racine Art Museum as well as the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. He has served on the staff at Wustum since 1974, becoming its Director in 1981. In the 1990s he assembled one of the most significant contemporary craft collections in the nation. He opened RAM in 2003 in downtown Racine as home to this collection. In addition, he maintains the museum’s original focus in works on paper. Pepich curates exhibitions of contemporary art, is a published writer on art and artists and has served as a juror for over 50 national and international art competitions. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee.

The award-winning RAM is his current major project, featuring art exhibitions that combine craft media and works on paper with painting and sculpture. He continues to build the museum’s crafts and works on paper collections and writes on contemporary crafts. In recent years, this has included essays in exhibition catalogues for Jane Sauer and Toshiko Takaezu and an article on Boris Bally for Metalsmith magazine. Pepich has also composed shorter essays for exhibitions of recent works by Sidney Hutter, Jay Musler, Joel Philip Myers and Paul Stankard.