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Rachael Arauz

M. Rachael Arauz is an art historian and independent curator, with a PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked on topics across the field of 20th century American art. Her most recent exhibition was In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 for the Portland Museum of Art in Maine.

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My Experience as a “Minority Intern” at a Museum in the 1990s

by Rachael Arauz April 25, 2021April 23, 2021

There were three “minority interns” at the National Gallery of Art in 1991. I was the “Hispanic” in the group.

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