Our Staff
Coco Moseley, Executive Director
Coco joined the Sheldon Museum in November of 2023. She holds a Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies/History of Science from UW-Madison, where her research interests focused on the history of health education and material depictions of illness and well-being. She is passionate about community driven organizations that offer their visitors opportunities for reflection, learning and fun. Most recently, she was the Library Director for Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol, VT. She lives in Lincoln with her husband, daughter and pup. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, open lake swimming and horseback riding in the woods and fields around her home.
Eva Garcelon-Hart, Archivist
Eva has overseen the Sheldon Museum Stewart-Swift Research Center archival collections since 2011. She earned her Master’s Degree in History of Art and MLIS from the University of California at Berkeley. Since the mid-1980s, she has worked for institutional and private archives, including that of Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz and The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. In 1999 she moved to Vermont in 1999, where she worked as a consultant for the Vermont State Archives, Vermont Folklife Center, and artists’ estates. In her work at the Research Center, she is particularly interested in bringing to public attention its overlooked stories and collections through exhibits and public programing. While at the Sheldon she has curated several exhibits including: “Charity & Sylvia: A Weybridge Couple,” “Conjuring the Dead: Spirit Art in the Age of Radical Reform,” and “Elephant in the Archives: Silences, Erasure & Relevance.” During 2021/22 she and her colleagues invited national scholars, curators and artists to participate in a popular virtual talk series, the “Elephant in the Room: Exploring the Future of Museums.”
Allison LaCroix, Collections Manager
Allison is a proud 8th generation Vermonter and earned her B.A. from Middlebury College and a M.A. in History and Museum Studies from Tufts University. Allison lived in the Washington, D.C. area for the past 10 years, working with a wide variety of museum collections as a preventive conservation consultant, and most recently as Collections Manager at the Heurich House Museum, one of the most intact Victorian houses in the country. She is very excited to be returning to her home state along with her husband and cat.
Barbara Rathburn, Visitor Services Coordinator
Barbara is originally from Niskayuna, NY and received a B.S. in Fashion Merchandising from Marywood College in Scranton, PA. She went on to earn an M.A. in Museum Studies: Decorative Arts/Conservation from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and has over 30 years of museum experience. Barbara started at Shelburne Museum as Conservation Technician and later moved to the Collections department as Associate Registrar. In 2006 she moved to Glens Falls, NY, where she was Registrar and Collections Manager at The Hyde Collection. Barbara returned to Shelburne Museum in 2012 as the head of the Registration department and was later promoted to Director of Collections. Barbara lives in Ferrisburgh with her husband David, she has three stepchildren and seven grandchildren ranging in age from 3 to 21. She is thrilled to begin working at the Sheldon and looks forward to meeting visitors and friends of the Museum
Cara Mosier, Bookkeeper
Cara grew up in New Haven, Connecticut where she studied at the University of New Haven. She finished her studies in Accounting at Community College of Vermont after raising her three kids. Cara moved to Addison, Vermont from Connecticut in 2000, with her husband Brad and her two sons Scott and Matthew. They welcomed their daughter, Ava, in 2007. After Brad’s passing, Cara found the second love of her life with her current husband, Paul Mosier. They have been happily married since 2021 and enjoy spending time with their combined families of six children and 7 grandchildren, with twins on the way! Cara is also the Business Manager of our county’s beloved agricultural fair, Addison County Fair & Field Days for the last 18 years.