RPM Director to be Rotary Speaker

Karla Rider, executive director of the Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity, will speak to the Rotary Club of BridgtonLake Region on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 a.m. at Stella’s on the Square, 6 North Main Street, Bridgton.

This will be an in-person meeting only. All are welcome. No charge. Coffee only. If school is cancelled due to weather, the meeting will be postponed.

Executive Director of the Rufus Porter Museum since November 2018, Karla Rider is originally from Connecticut. She moved to Maine after attending college in Boston to continue her education and gain more experience in the museum field. Karla has had the privilege of working for a variety of grassroots non-profit organizations in Maine including the Old York Historical Society, Victoria Mansion, the Maine People’s Alliance, Maine Preservation, Museum L-A, and the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society.

Karla will share information about the latest projects at the Rufus Porter Museum, especially focusing on the expansion of its cultural complex with construction of a classic post and beam barn that will complement Main Street and the two other historic museum buildings on the site. The new structure will feature the Museum’s collection of over 30 wall murals, reconstructed and displayed in the design of the original rooms. The largest collection of wall murals of any kind in the United States, these beautiful murals have never been gathered together in one