Laura Vookles is Chair of the Curatorial Department at the Hudson River Museum, where she has curated numerous exhibitions and written for its publications, among them Wyeth Wonderland: Josephine Douet Envisions Andrew Wyeth’s World.
Bartholomew F. Bland (Edited By)
Bartholomew F. Bland is Executive Director of Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, and was previously Deputy Director of the Hudson River Museum.
Laura L. Vookles (Edited By)
Laura Vookles is Chair of the Curatorial Department at the Hudson River Museum, where she has curated numerous exhibitions and written for its publications, among them Wyeth Wonderland: Josephine Douet Envisions Andrew Wyeth’s World.
Stella Paul, art historian, was formerly the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Educator-in-Charge of Exhibitions and Communications, where she fostered interpretation for visitors through lectures, writings, tours, and audio messaging. Prior to her work at the Met, Paul conducted the Southern California Center’s efforts to build oral history resources for the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. Modern art is central to much of her writing.
Ted Barrow is Assistant Curator at the Hudson River Museum, and a specialist in Gilded Age art in a tropical context, with a focus on Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in that region. Barrow has published essays in The New York Times on contemporary photography, contributed to exhibition catalogs, including Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, and most recently California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930, published by the Laguna Art Museum, in conjunction with their recent exhibition.
Melissa Martens Yaverbaum is Executive Director of the Council of American Jewish Museums. She has worked with museums for 25 years, and formerly was the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, where she curated the exhibitions Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles and Project Mah Jongg. For 10 years prior, she was Curator of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, where she created exhibitions on Jewish department stores, synagogue architecture, Jewish fashion and beauty, and Jewish vacation culture.