Rebecca McNamara

Rebecca McNamara is associate curator at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, where she creates exhibitions and publications; collaborates with faculty, visiting scholars, artists, and students to facilitate innovative projects and classroom lessons; and researches, catalogs, and digitizes the museum’s collection. Her scholarship focuses on 19th-century through contemporary American art, craft, and material culture, with exhibitions including Crazy Quilts: Stitching Memories (Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2017), Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science (Tang, 2022; catalog forthcoming 2023), and Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door (Tang, forthcoming 2023); her books include Widows Unveiled: Fashionable Mourning in Late Victorian New York (Cooper Hewitt/Parsons, 2016).