Meet me!

Hi, I am Julia Morini, a massive art history nerd and meme enthusiast! I currently have three majors in History, Art History, and English with a minor in Women Gender and Sexuality Studies. I will be graduating in the Spring of 2019 and would like to be a Feminist Art Historian when I eventually finish my education. In the past year and a half, I have been working on learning more about the practice of local history with an emphasis on specifically Artwork of the Hudson Valley. This accumulated in the writing of my thesis last spring on nineteenth-century Kingston artists Julia Dillon and Jervis McEntee as well as the gendered construction of the art world at the time, (if you are interested in reading my paper you can check out, as well as other great papers from the Spring of last year, with  this link on the history website page https://www.newpaltz.edu/history/bestseminarpapers). This semester I will be working with the Hurley Heritage Society on curating an exhibit about the American painter Winslow Homer’s time in Hurley, New York and the influence of the area on his paintings. While I might not be currently working on a project that concerns women of Art History, I think that it is essential to connect the local history of this area with the larger art history world. So few people from the Hudson Valley, including myself before I started college, have no idea about the influence that this area has had on the American Art Scene, and I am hoping to help change that with this exhibit. Come to check out the display when it opens in May of 2019 at Colonel Jonathan Elmendorf House on Main Street in Hurley!