Brett Sturm is a skilled Restoration Specialist at the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, with a focus on providing technical assistance for historic building owners and promoting adaptive reuse through tax credit programs since October 2017. Previous experience includes co-owning I Street Studio as a ceramic artist, managing preservation-oriented projects at Hanson Fine Building & Preservation, and serving as a Sardegna Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where Brett organized a field course in brick conservation. An early career included internships in historic preservation and teaching English in Germany. Brett earned a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR) is the state agency with a vision to be the leader in using the state's cultural resources to build the social, cultural and economic future of North Carolina. Led by Secretary Susan W. Kluttz, NCDCR's mission is to enrich lives and communities creates opportunities to experienceexcellence in the arts, history and libraries in North Carolina that will spark creativity, stimulate learning, preserve the state's history and promote the creative economy. NCDCR was the first state organization in the nation to include all agencies for arts and culture under one umbrella.Through arts efforts led by the N.C. Arts Council, the N.C. Symphony and the N.C. Museum of Art; NCDCR offers the opportunity for enriching arts education for young and old alike and economic stimulus engines for their state's communities. NCDCR's Divisions of State Archives, Historical Resources, State Historic Sites and State History Museums preserve, document and interpret North Carolina's rich cultural heritage. NCDCR's State Library of North Carolina is the principal library of state government and builds the capacity of all libraries in their state; developing and supporting access to traditional and online collections such as genealogy and resources for the blind and physically handicapped.NCDCR annually serves more than 19 million people through its 27 historic sites, seven history museums, two art museums, the nation's first state-supported Symphony Orchestra, the State Library, the N.C. Arts Council and the State Archives. NCDCR champions their state's creative industry that accounts for more than 300,000 jobs and generates nearly $18.5 billion in revenues. For more information, please call (919) 807-7300.