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Anna DiPiazza ’25
Anna DiPiazza ’25 started her second year as a Visual Resources Assistant in Art History's Visual Resources Library. DiPiazza is updating the American painting image records in their online database. She also continued her internship at at the Dorsky Museum, where she catalogs various types of material,= and learns about the art world in and out of the museum. Additionally, DiPiazza serves as secretary on the Art History Association E-Board.
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Alessandra Papaleo ’25
Alessandra Papaleo ’25 began her third year as a cataloging assistant in Art History's Visual Resources Library, transferring information from the slide collection into a database and conducting research to update the catalog records. Papaleo enjoys getting to read about a variety of art that she hasn’t learned about (yet) in class. They have grown particularly fond of learning about medieval manuscripts and early Chinese Buddhist sculptures.
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Katy Peace ’06
Katy Peace ’06 returned to campus in September 2024 to participate in the Fine & Performing Arts career panel at the Women's Leadership Summit. Peace has been working with nonprofits for over a decade at arts organizations, a park conservancy, and now in historic preservation. After graduating magna cum laude from New Paltz, she earned a Master of Arts Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She currently serves as the director of communications for the Preservation League of NYS, engaging a statewide audience through strategic storytelling and public programming. She lives in Schenectady, NY, with her husband and daughter.
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Emily Harr ’18
Emily Harr ’18 returned to campus in September 2024 to participate in the Fine & Performing Arts career panel at the Women's Leadership Summit. Harr is a museum worker and disability justice advocate with eight years of experience in art museums. She currently works as a program associate, accessibility as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s education department. She develops programming for people with disabilities, acts as an accessibility consultant and trainer across Museum departments, and fosters the inclusion and representation of people with disabilities in all aspects of the Museum.
Harr graduated from New Paltz with a double major in art history and public relations. During her time in New Paltz, she worked as a gallery assistant at the Dorsky Museum of Art. She served as president of student organization React to Film, while being an active member of both the Art History Association and Museum Ambassadors. She now lives in Brooklyn, where she spends her free time crafting, reading, and spending time with her dog.
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Ben Kuhn ’24
Ben Kuhn ’24 curated a display in the Sojourner Truth Library as part of the "Art x Books POP-UP SWAP: Bodies in Nature," with collection objects from the Dorsky Museum on temporary loan to the library. Kuhn's selections were in a case on the main floor of Sojourner Truth Library, opposite the circulation desk.
"What does it mean to conceptualize the human body in our natural environments?" wrote Kuhn. "How do we picture the rudimentary and complex, imaginary and real relationships people create with the environment? Across cultures, geographies, and epochs, nature appears to surround us with a constant yet ephemeral presence. Art and literature similarly surrounds us with a constant yet ephemeral presence. These relationships are the subject of this year's 'Art x Books exhibition: Bodies in Nature.'"
