Amy A. McKenna
Image Cataloguer/Specialist
Tel: 413-597-4786
amckenna@williams.edu

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.

Before arriving at Williams College in 2006, Amy was the Visual Resources Manager at Hillwood Museum & Gardens in Washington, D.C.  She was responsible for the digitization, classification, and preservation of over 50,000 transparencies, slides, negatives, and prints of objects in the Museum’s collection of Russian and French decorative arts.

As an active member of the Visual Resources Association (VRA), Amy is presently serving as the VRA Web Site Editor.  In 2006-08, she was a member of the ARLIS/NA-VRA Joint Task Force on Collaboration. 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.