Using Objects as Evidence to Tell a Woman's Story: An Interview with Amelia Peck, Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A few semesters ago, a group on my job organized a guided tour of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was then generating a lot of interest, "Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800." That exhibition was coordinated and curated by the Marica F. Vilcek curator of American Decorative Arts at the Met, Amelia Peck. As I walked around in those dazzling rooms at the Metropolitan Museum, I remember wondering about the woman who could pull together an exhibition that ...