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Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick, a white woman with brown hair wearing a black dress standing in a gallery with colorful artwork Who NEU? For more than five years (and hundreds of posts), Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick's blog has been keeping members and friends informed of the ‘backstory' behind all that is happening at the NEU.

From the Director.

Blog posts:

  • Two smiling women pose with a cake.

    backstory: Let’s just call it fifty

    After an incredible forty-nine years—I told Lois we could just round up to fifty—so FIFTY YEARS of service to the Museum, Volunteer Museum Educator Lois Bregstein has decided to retire from the VME program.

  • A group of students and older people mingle at a gallery reception

    backstory: Everything is back!

    There is an ebb and flow to life on a college campus. Summer is quiet, and then suddenly at the end of August everyone and everything is back — faculty, students, classes, programs. 

  • a hand holding a blue hummingbird that appears to be dead or asleep

    backstory: With gratitude

    It is with tremendous gratitude that I share the news that we’ve been awarded an ArtsWestchester Arts Access grant to support our upcoming exhibition Donna Conlon: Birds, Ants, Trees, and Trash, opening spring of 2027 and curated by our own Patrice Giasson, Alex Gordon Curator of the Art of the Americas.

  • Visitors viewing The Declaration Distributed: Westchester County's Holt Broadside of 1776. Photo (c) Mara Rupners.

    backstory: A backstory takeover, and a save the date

    We did it again. Despite our claim that backstory will be on hiatus while Tracy is on vacation, here we are. But this time it’s not Tracy you are hearing from, it’s the person who works behind the scenes each week to help make these posts happen.

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