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During the Fall semester of 2019, I was a Museum Studies intern under Rebecca Giordano, the Mellon Fellow of Curation and Education here in Pitt’s Department of History of Art and Architecture. Rebecca is developing an exhibition examining the works and pedagogy of Selma Burke, a prominent Black artist and educator of the 20^th century. My job was to aide Rebecca with preliminary research about Burke and the art school that she founded in Pittsburgh.

Author: Sylvia Rhor Samaniego

Director, University Art Gallery

Author: Jon Engel, Milton Fine Museum Profession Fellow at Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area – Summer 2019