Contacts

Staff

amyAmy McKenna
Visual Resources Curator
(413) 597-4786 · [email protected]

As the Visual Resources Curator, Amy designs and implements digital teaching projects in collaboration with art faculty, providing expertise and support for developing effective teaching and learning practices using technology.  She develops and enables access to digital and analog collections of art and visual culture images that support the teaching and research of Williams faculty and students. Prior to her appointment as Visual Resources Curator, she served for 11 years as Assistant Visual Resources Curator and Image Cataloguer/Specialist.  

Before arriving at Williams, Amy was the Visual Resources Manager at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens in Washington, D.C. She was responsible for the digitization, classification, preservation, and licensing of over 50,000 transparencies, slides, negatives, and prints of objects in the Museum’s collection of Russian and French decorative arts.

Amy received her Master’s degree in Art History from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she studied eighteenth-century French painting and American modernism, and worked as a Graduate Assistant at the Lady Tennyson d’Eyncourt Slide Library. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History with a minor in Fine Arts from the University of Dayton in Ohio.

As an active member of the Visual Resources Association (VRA), Amy has most recently served on the Professional Status Task Force in 2014-2016, collaborating to design and analyze a survey of the visual resources profession.  In 2012, she was a member of the VRA Constitution and Bylaws Review Task Force and in 2006-2008, she was a member of the ARLIS/NA-VRA Joint Task Force on Collaboration.  Amy served as the VRA Web Site Editor from 2005-2010.  She attended the inaugural session of the Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management at Duke University in 2004 and received a Luraine Tansey Travel Award in 2003.

 

Joe Favini
Digital Projects and Imaging Specialist
(413) 597-2395 · [email protected]

As the Digital Projects and Imaging Specialist, Joe designs and implements digital humanities teaching projects in collaboration with art faculty and manages digital imaging services, creating images, videos, and 3D models. He also provides technical support for image-intensive teaching and manages shared equipment in the VRC.

Joe has an MA in Art History with a concentration in Art Museum Studies from the City College of New York and a BFA in Art History and Film/Video Production from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He has recently focused on digital media production for the Worcester Art Museum and Fitchburg Art Museum.    

 

Emily Leon
Digital Projects and Metadata Specialist · [email protected]

As the Digital Projects and Metadata Specialist, Emily designs and implements digital humanities teaching projects in collaboration with art faculty. She also develops and enables access to digital and historic collections of art and visual culture images, specializing in the creation and management of descriptive metadata.

Before arriving at Williams, Emily was the Curatorial Research Associate at The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She worked with a dynamic cross-disciplinary group of scholars to update the Georgia O’Keeffe catalogue raisonné and translate it to a digital format as a generative and collaborative form of humanities-based scholarship.

Emily’s research interests are modernism and the esoteric interests of late-19th and early-20th century Western artists, with a particular concentration on abstraction and the links between art, science, and religion. Emily received her MA in Digital Art History from Duke University, where her thesis utilized analog and digital methods to explore the social, spiritual, and theoretical implications of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s work. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Emily is an active member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), the Digital Art History Society (DAHS), and the Visual Resources Association (VRA).

 

 

 


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