Executive Director
Chrystal Robinson director@iwasm.org
Chrystal Robinson is a certified grant and technical writer, event coordinator and fundraising specialist with experience in a variety of organizations. She has a passion for fundraising, managing and creating impactful projects, proposals and events.
Chrystal is a past teaching artist at Canton Museum of Art, Director of Development with EN-RICH-MENT and the former Executive Museum Director of Salem Historical Society. Chrystal has experience in many areas of the nonprofit sector, with a specialization in arts and historic nonprofit organizations. She has served on the Board of Trustees with Alliance Area Preservation Society/Haines House Museum for six years and worked in the past with The Burchfield Homestead Society Museum. She continues to curate in the arts and culture sector to advocate and create opportunities for underrepresented creatives across Ohio.
Chrystal’s award-winning, Avant Garde, Multidisciplinary art is nationally exhibited in museums, galleries and retail. Chrystal will be serving again in 2025, as a grant panelist with Ohio Arts Council. Chrystal started the art gallery LemonChrystal Artist Sanctuary, in May of 2024 and formed the mural artist team, LemonChrystal. In 2025, she relocated to Greater Cleveland to become Executive Director of The International Women’s Air and Space Museum.
Collections Manager
Alexandra Lausin collections@iwasm.org
Alexandra joined the IWASM team in December 2024. Prior to IWASM, Alexandra taught as an adjunct faculty member at Lake Erie College, and has assisted in the collections departments at James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, OH and Fort Ligonier in Ligonier, PA. Outside of collections, she has researched and written material focusing on the Women’s Suffrage Movement, which was published by the Trumbull County Historical Society in celebration of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial in 2020. Alexandra has also used her research to recreate historical clothing and textiles for the Lake County Historical Society as well as her own use when she travels to participate in various living history events and lectures.
Through her
work, Alexandra strives to utilize museum collections to paint an accessible and inspiring picture of the past that impacts and enlivens the public’s view of history.
Alexandra holds a BA in History from Lake Erie College and an ALM in Museum Studies from Harvard Extension School. Her favorite topic of research is women’s fashion in the 18th century. When she’s not at IWASM, she enjoys teaching advanced ballet and modern dance to her students in Chardon, OH.
