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Current Student
Andrew Wallace Andrew Wallace is registrar of the Figge Art Museum and has worked in the museum field since 1986. Andrew is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a focus in art history and art studio. Andrew received his training in museum work through the Smithsonian Institution's office of museum programs. In addition to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Andrew has worked at a number of national and regional institutions including the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Andrew served as the Director of Collections at Union Station in Kansas City, MO where he was responsible for vintage rail cars, carriages, and costumes and most recently worked in the private sector for a museum services company designing and installing exhibitions for clients on the East Coast. Andrew collects 19th Century albumen prints of sacred architecture, specifically English cathedrals as well as 19 th and early 20 th Century coastal marine paintings. As a native of Washington, DC and a frequent visitor to the Smithsonian Institution while growing up, Andrew was determined to work in the museum field- especially after his introduction to Art History as a discipline during an Art 101 lecture at boarding school. A subsequent discussion over the merits of photo-realist painting with a school friend added to Andrew's interest in the study of art. While at Maryland, several of Andrew's professors inspired him pursue museum work in earnest. These included June Hargrove, an expert on 19 th Century French sculpture and painting, as well as Arthur K. Wheelock, a specialist in 17 th Century Dutch and Flemish art. Committed to the museum field, Andrew enjoys contributing to the process of informal and transformational learning that only museums can provide. Andrew teaches the Museum Collections course for Western Illinois University, Quad Cities-Museum Studies program.