Martin Duus is VP Institutional Advancement for the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) since October 2009. He is responsible for all private fundraising for the institution, which is currently in a $50 million campaign. He was Director of Strategy and Development at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center from February 2006 to October 2009. He is a planning, development, and capital campaign specialist, who has spent the past 30 years in cultural affairs, working with, among others, The Frick Collection, where he created the external affairs department and helped lead a successful $34 million endowment campaign; the New York Public Library, in corporate major gifts on a $350 million campaign; the New-York Historical Society; the Staten Island Children’s Museum; the Paper Mill Playhouse, the Bear Mountain Festival of Music and Dance; and the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has organized conferences, presented, and consulted for various organizations, including AMDA, New York University, National Alliance of Musical Theater Producers, and Marymount College. He has a BA in Behavioral Sciences from Drew University and a MA in Nonprofit Management from New School University.

In addition to his activities at the museum, Sandy consulted and lectured widely for the AAM, the Smithsonian Museums Program, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. He is a former Board member of AAM, AFP, Western Museums Conference, Non-Profits in Travel, Arizona Gives; and is past president of AMDA and AAM’s DAM Committee.

He received a BA is History and a MA is Psychology from Arizona State University – a long time ago.

From secondary education to higher education to a medical center to the Memorial Art Gallery, Joe has been building relationships and raising gifts for more than 22 years.

He leads an Advancement team of 13, directing annual giving, communications, public relations and marketing, events, government and foundation relations, major gifts, membership and visitor services. He also serves as the onsite director for the Gallery’s “Gateways to Art,” 100th anniversary comprehensive campaign. Joe and his team raise approximately $3,000,000 annually, which accounts for 25-40% of the Gallery’s operating budget. Joe has been at the University for over 11 years, and is in his 8th year at the Gallery.

Along with the museum director, chief curator, director of exhibitions, director of education, finance director and marketing manager, Joe is also a member of the Gallery’s senior management.

Unlike most University art museums, the Memorial Art Gallery functions as the Rochester-area’s community art museum, raising approximately 90% of its operating support through advancement, endowment and earned revenue including the Gallery’s store and restaurant.

Joe earned a Bachelor of Science in Management from St. John Fisher College in Rochester and a Master of Arts in English from the State University of New York College at Brockport. When he’s not raising friends and funds for the Gallery, he and his wife are raising three children, ages 22, 19 and 16. For fun, Joe teaches college composition and professional communication as an adjunct for Monroe Community College, part of the State University of New York system. Joe is also serves on the Mercy Bridges board, a non-profit dedicated to improving community literacy, and the Nativity Preparatory Academy board, a non-profit inner-city school serving at-risk students in grades 5, 6 and 7.