Alumna Tanya Pattison-Arraiza recently accepted the position of Brian P. Kennedy Leadership Fellow at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio.
Tanya received her MA in Art History from FSU in 2024, where she completed and defended her graduate thesis “Skeletal Devotion: Reading Death in Polychrome Sculpture of the Colonial Andes” under the advisement of Dr. Paul Niell. Her thesis focused on the sculptural series Fates of Man (1775) by Quiteño artist Manuel Chili, otherwise known as Caspicara. Under the direct supervision of CEO and Director Adam Levine and Chief of Curatorial Affairs Anna Marley, Tanya will be actively assisting in the complete reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection. As the first Leadership Fellow to specialize in Latin American art, she will be using her expertise in the viceregal Andes to inform a comprehensive strategy to expand the museum’s definition of American art, aiming to incorporate Latin American objects and themes into the final unveiling of the reinstallation in 2027.
In addition to her graduate degree, Tanya holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and Anthropology from the University of Florida.
