Amy A. McKenna
Image Cataloguer/Specialist
(413) 597-4786
amckenna@williams.edu
Before arriving at Williams College in 2006, Amy was the Visual Resources Manager at
Hillwood Estate, 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.
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 served as the VRA Web Site Editor for the past four years. 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.