Paul D'Ambrosio

Paul S. D’Ambrosio has been the President of the New York State Historical Association and The Farmers’ Museum since 2011. Previously he served as Vice President and Chief Curator since 2005 and Chief Curator since 1997. Prior to holding these positions, he worked as the Director of Exhibitions and Folk Art from 1993–1997, and as Associate Curator from 1987–1993. Dr. D’Ambrosio has been an Adjunct Professor of American Art and American Folk Art at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, at State University College at Oneonta, NY, since 1984. He has written and co-authored numerous articles and several acclaimed books on American folk art, including Ralph Fasanella’s America and Folk Art's Many Faces. Dr. D’Ambrosio has also produced a series of important exhibitions and catalogues on American art, including Ralph Fasanella’s America (2001); Winslow Homer: Masterworks from the Adirondacks (2004); A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr. (2005); Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation (2006); America’s Rome: Artists in the Eternal City, 1800-1900 (2009); John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women (winner of the Victorian Society in America’s William Fischelis Award, 2010); and, A Window into Edward Hopper (2011). Dr. D’Ambrosio is also a member of the American Folk Art Society and has been a Panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts. He has recently been appointed to the New York State Regent’s Advisory Council on Museums. Dr. D’Ambrosio received a bachelor’s degree in English from the State University College at Cortland, NY, in 1981 (where he was awarded the College’s Award for Excellence in Art History), a master’s degree in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in 1983, and a doctorate in American and New England Studies at Boston University, MA, in 2001.