Lauren B. Hewes

Lauren is the vice president for collections. She manages and oversees the Society’s acquisition, cataloging, conservation, curatorial and readers' services departments. Previously, she was also the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts where she cared for Society's extensive collections of prints, broadsides, ephemera, and photographs, working with the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC), AAS fellows, and outside scholars to make connections between American history and the visual resources of the Society. Lauren has previously held positions at the Print Council of America, the National Park Service, and Shelburne Museum, and she has published widely on American printmaking and portraiture. She has a BS from Ithaca College and an MA in art history from Williams College.