15 SB: As an emerging museum professional of color, I value the way SCMA has prioritized diversity and inclusion efforts. It’s exciting to see this work carried out with conviction and to witness the efforts being made internally. It’s slow-moving at times, but the progress we’re making is visible and it’s really affirming. HKdV: I love working with the students and faculty to come up with new exhibition ideas. Working with others to implement these ideas and seeing them come to fruition is always exciting. And that physical proximity to the art in our collection, and researching works, will always be something I really enjoy. YW: Students, faculty and other staff are all amazing. But I will also point out that Smith alumnae are truly impressive. Their passion for art, their loyalty to the college, and above all, their aim-high vision and down-to-earth methodology have continued to leave me in awe. Constantly being supported and inspired by these wonderful women is, without doubt, a favorite part of the job. INTRODUCING DANIELLE CARRABINO, CURATOR OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE We are delighted to welcome Danielle Carrabino, Italian art scholar and expert in Renaissance and Baroque art, as the museum’s new curator of painting and sculpture. She joins SCMA from the Harvard Art Museums, Division of European and American Art, where she was associate research curator. While at Harvard, Danielle organized exhibitions and gallery installations, helped train docents and Harvard undergraduate tour guides, presented lectures and gallery talks for museum donors as well as the general public, and taught several undergraduate and graduate classes. She organized the 2016 exhibition Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print and Celebrating the Calderwood Courtyard, a digital resource as well as forthcoming publication (2018). Danielle has also taught at RISD, Brandeis University, Tufts University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, and worked previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. At SCMA, Danielle will oversee the installation, interpretation and growth of the museum’s collection of paintings and sculpture made before 1950. She will also research and develop new exhibitions, field public inquiries and work closely with students and faculty. When she arrived last summer, Danielle hit the ground running by collaborating with staff on the opening of fall 2018’s featured exhibition, Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from the Horvitz Collection. “We are so fortunate to have Danielle join us. She brings deep academic training as well as valuable specialization in early modern European art history,” says SCMA Director Jessica Nicoll. “She has the breadth to move across time periods and cultures, and also the depth that will help us rediscover the collection’s hidden resources. She’s a dynamic addition to our curatorial team and the museum as a whole.”