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Marissa Acey

Associate for Administration

Marissa Acey (she/they) assists with scheduling visitor appointments in the Study Room for Drawings and Prints, manages the Friends of Drawings and Prints as well as the Visiting Committee, and performs general administrative duties for the department. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Florida State University in Art History, Marissa studied for a year in Florence, Italy with Marist College’s MA in Museum Studies program where she focused on women artists of the Italian Baroque and theatrical exhibition design. Before starting as a temp at the Museum in February 2022 and officially joining the staff later that year, she spent 4 years managing an independent bookstore in Manhattan and is always happy to recommend a good book.

Carmen C. Bambach

Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator

Carmen C. Bambach (BA, MA, and PhD, Yale University; fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences) is Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints. She is a specialist in Italian art and has authored eighty scholarly articles and ten exhibition catalogues, including the award-winning Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer (2017), The Drawings of Bronzino (2010), An Italian Journey (2010), Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman (2003), Correggio and Parmigianino (2000), and The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle (1997). Other books include her award-winning Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (4 vols., Yale University Press, 2019); Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300–1600 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Una eredità difficile: i disegni ed i manoscritti di Leonardo tra mito e documento (Florence, 2009).

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Casey Davignon

Collections Manager, Collections Cataloging

Casey Davignon joined the department in 2022 to oversee the Collections Management team and all cataloging initiatives. She is responsible for the integrity and clarity of collections information in The Museum System, and acts as the project manager for the department’s special exhibitions. Previously she held the title of Collections Specialist for the department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. Before joining The Met in 2016, Casey worked as an assistant curator at a Washington D.C-based gallery specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European art. She received her BA from The George Washington University, where her areas of study were art history and conservation, with a focus on Northern European works on paper.

Ashley E. Dunn

Associate Curator

Ashley E. Dunn joined the department in 2016 and is responsible for nineteenth-century French drawings, prints, and illustrated books. Her exhibition projects at The Met include Manet/Degas (2023), Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix (2018), and Rodin at The Met (2017). She previously held positions at The Block Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago and has contributed to publications at those institutions as well as RISD Museum. She received a BA in French from Emory University, a MSt. in the history of art and visual culture from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from Northwestern University (2019) with a dissertation on “Urban Etching: The Printmaking of Modern Paris, 1850–80.”

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Jennifer Farrell

Jordan Schnitzer Curator

Jennifer Farrell is responsible for modern and contemporary prints and artists' books. At The Met, she has curated World War I and the Visual Arts (2017), Ragnar Kjartansson: Death is Elsewhere (2019), and Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939 (2021), and co-curated Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi (2016) and Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson (2025). Her publications include Get There and Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art (2012), which received The Frick Collection's 2013 Book Prize, Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939 and John Wilson: Witnessing Humanity. She earned a BA from Smith College and a PhD from the Graduate Center, CUNY and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.

Selected Publications:

  • Farrell, Jennifer. "World War I and the Visual Arts." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 75, no. 2 (Fall 2017).
  • Farrell, Jennifer, ed. The History and Legacy of Samuel M. Kootz and the Kootz Gallery. Charlottesville, VA: Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, 2017.
  • Farrell, Jennifer. Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

David del Gaizo

Senior Departmental Technician

David del Gaizo has worked in the Department of Drawings and Prints since 1985, where he is responsible for the preparation of the department's objects for exhibition and loan, the installation of special exhibitions, as well as maintaining and upgrading the permanent collection. Since joining the department, he has worked on numerous exhibitions including Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer (2017), Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings (2005), Leonardo Da Vinci: Master Draftsman (2003), and Goya in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1995). He received a BA in literature from West Virginia University.

Clara Goldman

Collections Specialist

Clara Goldman joined the Department of Drawings and Prints in 2018. She is responsible for collections management related to acquisitions and loans, and oversees the development and production of exhibitions in The Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Gallery. She also assists with managing the Study Room for Drawings and Prints. Clara previously held positions in the American Art and Estates, Appraisals & Valuations departments at Christie’s and in the Publications department at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She received a BA from Ithaca College, where her areas of study were Art History and Journalism.

Jasmine Kuylenstierna

Collections Management Associate

Jasmine Kuylenstierna joined the department in February 2022 to catalogue and research the permanent collection. Prior to this, she worked with administration and collections management for both the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and the Modern and Contemporary Art departments at The Met. Before joining the museum, she digitized plant specimens in the herbarium imaging lab at the New York Botanical Garden. She also worked with cataloguing at a natural history art gallery and auction house. She received her BA in photographic arts from the University of Westminster. Her MA in museum studies and cultural heritage from Uppsala University focused on diversity and minority representation in museum collections, with a thesis on heteronormativity in London art museums.

Ricky Luna

Collections Specialist

Ricky Luna is the technician in charge of Old Master drawings, including matting, framing, and installation. He is also responsible for the design and fabrication of specialty display mounts for drawings, books, and ephemera. Ricky studied architecture and industrial design at the Mapúa Institute of Technology, and interior design at the Philippine School of Interior Design. He has an extensive background in the field of architecture and design focused on perspective drawing, rendering, and model making. He has been with the Museum since 2000.

Mark McDonald

Curator

Mark McDonald is responsible for Italian, Spanish, Mexican, and early French prints and illustrated books. He joined the Museum in 2014 after working at the British Museum as curator of Old Master prints and Spanish drawings. His interests embrace Renaissance European graphic art and Latin American printmaking. His The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus: 1488–1539 won the Mitchell Prize for Art History, and recent work includes a study of Goya's Disasters of War and a six-volume publication of the print collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Mark has curated exhibitions at the British Museum and the Museo del Prado, among others. He supervises doctoral students, teaches regularly, and holds a BA (Hons), MA, and PhD.

Constance C. McPhee

Curator

Constance C. McPhee is responsible for British drawings, and British and American prints and illustrated books before 1900. After joining the department in 2000, she organized the New York venue of Samuel Palmer (1805–1881): Vision and Landscape (2005) and co-curated Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine (2011), The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design (2014), and William Morris: Textiles and Wallpapers (2014). Recently she has explored Shakespeare-related works in the collection, is cataloguing an important body of Thomas Rowlandson material, and is building the Museum's British drawings holdings towards an exhibition. Constance received her BA from Princeton University and her MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Nadine M. Orenstein

Drue Heinz Curator in Charge

Nadine M. Orenstein received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University for her dissertation, Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Holland (published 1996). She has written and lectured extensively on seventeenth-century Northern European prints and drawings, and her publications include several volumes for the New Hollstein Dutch series. Her exhibitions at The Met include Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints (2001), Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch Master (1558–1617): Prints, Drawings, and Paintings (2003), Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine (2011), The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers (2017), and a 2019 exhibition on Renaissance etching. She also co-authored A Centennial Album: Drawings, Prints, and Photographs (2017).

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Tiffany Racco

Senior Research Associate

Tiffany Racco is a specialist of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She joined the department in 2024, having previously worked in European Paintings as part of the curatorial team for the Look Again permanent collection reinstallation (2023). Before joining The Met in 2021, she was a Research Associate at the National Gallery, DC (2017–2021), where she co-authored Carlo Cesare Malvasia…The Lives of Francesco Francia and Lorenzo Costa (2021). She has contributed to exhibitions including Caravaggio’s Heirs: Baroque in Naples, Museum Wiesbaden (2017), and The Devil of the Brush: Speed as Artistic Virtue, Palazzo Falson, Mdina, Malta (2017–2018). She received her PhD from UDel in 2017 with the support of fellowships at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (2014–2017), and The Met (2013–2014).

Allison Rudnick

Associate Curator

Allison Rudnick is responsible for the visual culture and ephemera collections in the Department of Drawings and Prints. She has organized numerous exhibitions at The Met including, most recently, The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection (2024) and Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s (2023), each of which was accompanied by an exhibition catalogue. Prior to joining the department in 2012, she worked at the New York-based printshop and publisher Harlan & Weaver, and she has published and presented widely on visual culture and printmaking practices since the late-nineteenth century. She holds a BA from Connecticut College and an MPhil from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is a PhD candidate.

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein

Assistant Curator

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein is responsible for Northern European drawings and prints. Until recently, she was the Stanley H. Durwood Curatorial Fellow in the Division of European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, in which role she co-organized the 2021 public program Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures and co-curated the 2022 exhibition Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape. Prior to this, she held an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship here in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Met and an Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellowship at The Frick Collection. She was the curator of the 2017 Frick exhibition Divine Encounter: Rembrandt’s Abraham and the Angels. She holds a BA from Vassar College and a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.

Femke Speelberg

Curator

Femke Speelberg is responsible for drawings, prints, and illustrated books related to historic ornament, design, and architecture. Femke focuses on the history of design and the transmission of ideas, connecting works on paper with artworks, objects, and architecture from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. She has curated the Met exhibitions Living in Style: Five Centuries of Interior Design from the Collection of Drawings and Prints (2013), Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620 (2015), and Chippendale's Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker (2018).

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Perrin Stein

Curator

Perrin Stein (BA Amherst College; PhD institute of Fine Arts, NYU) oversees the collection of French works on paper before 1800. She came to The Met in 1995 following three years as assistant curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She has organized and contributed to numerous exhibition and collection catalogues, including Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections (1999), The Wrightsman Pictures (2005), French Drawings from the British Museum: Clouet to Seurat (2005), Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724–1780 (2007), Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France (2013), Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant (2016), Une des provinces du rococo: La Chine rêvée de François Boucher (2019), Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman (2022), and Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin (2024).

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Liz Zanis

Collections Manager

Liz Zanis joined the Department of Drawings and Prints in 2003 and holds a BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. She manages the Study Room for Drawings and Prints and maintains the departmental storeroom. She also manages the department's Instagram account, @metdrawingsandprints, and leverages her knowledge as a printmaker to assist in cataloguing the collection.