Nancy L Pressly

Unlocking

A Memoir of Family and Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this meditation on the meaning of family, Nancy Pressly reconstitutes a path back to her childhood, explores her struggles as a wife and mother-traversing barriers of expectations and evolving societal norms in the 1980s to embrace a remarkable life as a nationally recognized art museum leader-and Beautifully illustrated, she leaves the reader with a deep appreciation of the power of art and empathy and the value of trying to understand one's life journey.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: She Writes Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781631528620
• ISBN-10: 1631528629
• Artikelnr.: 57347920

Autorenporträt

Nancy L. Pressly, a graduate of Goucher College, received her master's degree in Art History from Columbia University. She began her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and subsequently held curatorial positions at the Yale Center for British Art and the San Antonio Museum of Art, where she organized several important exhibitions, most notably the acclaimed Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s. In 1984 she became Assistant Director of the Museum Program at the National Endowment for the Artsin 1992 was a visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts; and in 1993 she founded Nancy L. Pressly & Associates, a nationally recognized consulting firm specializing in strategic planning for art museums. She has authored numerous publications, most recently a a book titled Settling the South Carolina Backcountry. She and her husband live in Atlanta, Georgia, close to their son and two grandchildren.