GALLERY PERSONNEL
Director and Curator--Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.
Preparator/Installer--Barry Zawacki, MFA
Gallery Assistants (Fall 2010)
Dominique Collucci
Anny Hierro
Satako Mitsui
Sister Mary
Trang Tran
Yasmin de Jesus
VIRGINIA FABBRI BUTERA, PH.D.
Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D. is the Director of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, Chairperson of the Art and the Music Departments and an Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Saint Elizabeth. She has been curating art exhibitions for more than thirty years for museums and galleries such as the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She has curated sixteen major exhibitions for the Maloney Art Gallery since it opened in September 2007. Her areas of expertise are in 19th, 20th and 21st century American and European art.
Dr. Butera received her B.A. in Renaissance Studies from Trinity College, Hartford, CT, her M.A. in the History of Art from Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. She has authored and co-authored exhibition catalogues and magazine articles including: "The Fan as Form and Image in Contemporary Art" (Arts Magazine, May, 1981); The Folding Image: Screens by Western Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984); Contemporary Screens (San Francisco: The American Art Museum Association, 1986); The Annunciation in Contemporary Art (Morristown, NJ: College of Saint Elizabeth, 2007) and Inside & Out: Selections from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Artist/Educator Fellows (Morristown, NJ: College of Saint Elizabeth, 2008). She also serves as the Chairperson of the Exhibition Review Panel at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit and