Summer 2023 SURE Grant Recipients
Summer 2023 SURE Grant Award Winners and their Mentors.
Digging this summer: Brooke Cammann ’23 travels to Italy for excavation project
Brooke Cammann (Art History; Chemistry) fell in love with Italian art history as a first-year student in the SUNY New Paltz Honors Program, but it took until 2022 for her to fully capitalize on that interest with an international research experience.
“I saw a flyer on studying art history in Italy, and I was immediately intrigued,” said Cammann, who hails from Croton-on-Hudson, New York. “After doing my own research, I learned that you could pursue a career in conservation with an art history degree. For three years, I waited to study abroad because I knew Italy would be the place to pursue art conservation.”
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Brooke Cammann ’23 travels to Italy for excavation project
Celebrating Undergraduate Research at the Dorsky Museum
Chloe DeRocker, Art History ’16, conducted original research and curated an exhibition of the paintings of Newburgh Hudson River School painter, Thomas Benjamin Pope from the collection of Richard and Marguerite Lease, which opened at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art on September 12, 2015. Here she is with well-wishers, including Interim Provost Stella Deen, President Don Christian and Chloe’s faculty mentor, Kerry Dean Carso, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History.
