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Social Media @ American Art: Meet the Team

Jennifer Bauman

Jennifer assists the museum’s curators with a variety of tasks related to exhibitions, including artist research, catalogue preparation, and overseeing artwork checklists. She also answers public queries about the permanent collection. Jennifer is also pursuing a Masters in Library Science and Special Collections from the University of Illinois. When not working or studying, she loves horseback riding, wine tasting, and playing with her two rescue dogs.

Bridget Callahan

Bridget works in the Luce Foundation Center where she coordinates artwork replacement and writes content for the Center's in-gallery kiosks and website. She also contributes to the museum's blog, Eye Level, writing mainly about her love of folk art. In her free time, Bridget visits the pandas at the Zoo, reads fashion blogs, and attempts to bake the most perfect loaf of bread ever.

Tiarna Doherty

Tiarna is the Chief of Conservation in the Lunder Conservation Center. She specializes in the conservation and restoration of paintings, and her job at the museum includes working on America's old master, modern, and contemporary paintings. Along with her colleagues, Tiarna helps to care for the wide variety of artworks in the museum's collection. She loves how objects retain clues to how they were made and used, and how it is only through close examination and technical imaging (such as x--radiography) that we can understand an artwork's construction.

Georgina Goodlander

Georgina coordinates online outreach for the museum. She thinks people should have fun when they interact with museums, whether online or in the real world, and is always looking for ways to create new and unusual visitor experiences. She was born in England, not too far from the birthplace of artist Thomas Moran, and she's pretty sure they would have been friends had they been born in the same century given their shared love of the U.S. National Parks.

Megan Krefting

Megan has always had a special interest in American art and grew up frequenting museums around Maryland and DC. She assists with the publication process for the museum's catalogues and will keep you informed about all upcoming online catalogue promotions. She enjoys a good jaunt around the city and tempting her palate with new cuisines.

Suzannah Niepold

Suzannah works in the Education Office coordinating teacher programs and developing resources that bring the Museum's collection into the classroom. She believes that museums have an important role to play in teaching students how to think and loves watching a gallery experience transform a struggling student into a confident contributor. Suzannah demonstrated an interest in American art from an early age, transforming corks, foil and wire left over from family celebrations into a collection of cork characters inspired by fellow Philadelphian, Alexander Calder.

Courtney Rothbard

Courtney Rothbard is part of the museum’s Office of Public Affairs. She works on media relations, public engagement, and strategic communications. Basically, she tries to get everyone else as excited about the museum’s collections and initiatives as she is. She writes for the museum’s blog and enjoys highlighting the work of the museum’s conservation team. Despite her embarrassing lack of artistic talent she has always been really into art history, and thinks that you should be too!

Tierney Sneeringer

Tierney loves how she gets to do so many things while working in the Luce Foundation Center, from researching and writing about pieces in the museum's collection (she especially loves modern art) to coordinating the Luce Center's local artist talks and its acoustic music series, Luce Unplugged. Tierney often writes about these programs for the museum's blog Eye Level. She recently learned how to sew, enjoys cooking, traveling, and spending time with her growing number of nieces and nephews.

Mary Tait

Mary works in the Luce Foundation Center and gets to create scavenger hunts, give tours, and research artwork for the museum. She puts her studio art background to good use when she shares the latest conservation treatments with videos and close-up images during the weekly Lunder Behind the Scenes tours. In her free time she enjoys experimenting with new recipes and playing video games.

Mandy Young

Mandy works in the Public Affairs Office in media relations and public outreach. Her social media duties include managing the museum's Facebook and Twitter outreach, occasionally writing for the blog, Eye Level, and ensuring the museum's e-mail subscribers are in the know about upcoming public programs. She is excited by abstract expressionism and post-modern design, and also enjoys frequent visits to her childhood home of Lancaster, PA for rousing games of Scrabble with her dad.