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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:

  • 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.

  • A group of museum visitors sits facing a wall with artwork, listening to a guided tour

    backstory: Putting on my fundraising hat for a minute

    Okay. I know I said I wasn’t going to write to you while I was on vacation, AND I try hard not to ask you for money using backstory, but this just came up…

  • Two members of the artist collective The Guerrilla Girls in black clothing and gorilla masks pose in front of a wall covered in graffitti

    backstory: backstory to the Guerrilla Girls backstory, and some good news

    Anonymity has always been a signature of the Guerrilla Girls’ practice. That said, many, many years ago, I was sitting in my office here at the Neuberger with one of the Guerrilla Girls: she had come to speak to a class of mine and was taking a break prior. I left the room, and, when I returned, she was sitting there with her mask off.

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