Claudia began working with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in 2017 as the on-site point person for the AK Public Art Initiative’s Freedom Wall, where community engagement became a priority. Since then, she has had the opportunity to work in four different departments at the museum, enabling her to speak to many of the facets that make up the institution and how they interact. This includes being the face of the AKG in an interpretive role in the galleries, as a Guest Services Associate, as an educator in the Learning and Creativity department, and as a steward of the collection on the Art Preparation team.
Claudia is a 2011 graduate of Claremont Graduate University, where she earned her MFA, focusing on critical conversations about art, the art world, and the art market. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she received accolades in art history and studio practice. Prior to graduate school, Claudia had a vibrant, short, and successful career in graphic design and advertising, pitching and executing major national and international ad campaigns.
Before moving to Buffalo in 2016, Claudia lived in Los Angeles, where she was involved in arts programming and education at the collegiate level, visitor experience and interpretive roles at The Broad, and managing the studio production and practices of prominent artists.
Claudia finds joy in bringing people together to experience something new. She believes that art is transportive and has the power to create conversations that go beyond art and connect to life.
Lindsy R. Parrott is the Executive Director and Curator at The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass based in Queens, New York. Since beginning her tenure at The Neustadt in 2003, her research has focused on Tiffany’s lamps, windows, and mosaics. In addition, through her work with The Neustadt’s one-of-a-kind Tiffany Glass Archive, which includes more than a half a million examples of glass, she has conducted extensive research on the history, production, and use of Tiffany’s opalescent sheet glass. Lindsy has co-curated significant exhibitions, including Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, organized in partnership with the Corning Museum of Glass, in 2017, and Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion at the Museum of Biblical Art, NYC, in 2012. Both accompanying publications received excellence awards from the Victorian Society.
Among her current projects, Lindsy is a team member of the Stained-Glass Survey at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, which includes the largest and finest collection of funerary art in America. Working with leading stained-glass conservators and Tiffany experts, the team visits, documents, and researches the approximately 1,200 mausoleums with stained glass. Their findings will shed new light on the history of stained glass in America and ensure that these treasures are preserved for future generations.
Lindsy previously worked at the Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida, an institution renowned for their comprehensive Tiffany collection. She has lectured and published widely on Louis C. Tiffany.
Lillian Sizemore is a researcher, maker, and educator working in the field of mosaic for 30 years, specializing in twentieth-century mosaic for the modern built environment. An invited visiting artist to international mosaic symposia, she was educated at Indiana University-Bloomington in Fine Arts and Italian, the University of Bologna in Italy, and The Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London. She has studied techniques with maestri from around the world and her mosaics are characterized by an affinity for geometry, the natural world, and a keen eye for detail. Sizemore has a strong technical understanding of mosaic materials and techniques and has taught and mentored dozens of aspiring mosaic artists over the years, sharing her expertise and passion for the medium. She is published in Mosaïque, Andamento, Raw Vision, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, and Society for Commercial Archaeology. A selection of her research projects include uncovering the 3-D geometrics of the Roman Lod Mosaic in Israel, restoring the 16mm feature film, The World of Mosaic (1956), and tracing the origins of Picasso’s little known midcentury mosaics. Currently, Lillian is developing a Catalogue Raisonné for Marjorie Kreilick, American sculptor and mosaicist who trained in Rome in the 1950s. Lillian is based in Madison, Wisconsin.
