About

I have always loved art. The beautiful and the sublime captured my interest at a young age and still motivate me. Over the past two decades, I have been immersed in art both as an artist and as a museum educator. I struggle to balance these two interests but am grateful to have that challenge.

As an independent museum educator, I have developed and led a wide-range of programs working with fine art in museum galleries and classrooms. I have especially enjoyed the opportunity to interact with underserved museum audiences.

In the studio, I have focused primarily on the human figure. I have enjoyed learning to draw and paint in classical realist tradition in programs in Florence and New York. Since returning to New England from Utah, I have enjoyed joining a plein air group and painting the beautiful coastline and verdant scenery.

Working in university museums, I have also had the opportunity to incorporate art history into my museum education and studio art work. My interest in art history and my travels to many of the finest museums, churches and cities in the history of Western art have also led me to study how Christian art reflects the theology and traditions of the Catholic Church. I have enjoyed developing and presenting a series of lectures on Encountering Mary in Art and more recently on Saint Anne in Art.

Education

M.Phil., Educational Psychology, University of Cambridge , United Kingdom

Thesis - The Psychological Investigation of Intellectual Development: Language Awareness and Cognition in Early Literacy

B.A., Political Science, College of New Rochelle (Certification in Elementary Education)

Publications and Presentations

“Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Increasing Nurse Practitioner Students’ Observational and Mindfulness Skills,” Creative Nursing, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2014.

Co-author with Sheila Grossman and Jill Deupi

Association of Academic Museums and Galleries

Presenter, 2013 Annual Meeting – Breakout session on Upward Bound Program 

American Alliance of Museums

Exhibitor, 2013 Annual Meeting – Marketplace of Ideas on Upward Bound Program