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Name: Brigitte Mulholland
Graduation Year: 2007
Hometown: Westchester, N.Y.
Major: Art History
Weekend Activity: Painting, Visiting museums
Brigitte Mulholland, a graduating senior and Westchester County native, recently learned that she has been accepted into the Art History PhD program at the University of Maryland. She completed her undergraduate work in Art History at Manhattanville in just three years, and spent a semester as an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of Photographs.
“I was always interested in art, even as a child,” Brigitte said. “When I was in elementary school I always looked forward to class field trips to museums, even though the Egyptian stuff scared me,” she laughed.
Her favorite period in art history is the Italian Renaissance, so most of her coursework at Manhattanville focused on that. She greatly admires Michelangelo’s sculptures. “Whenever I look at them, it always blows my mind that he was able to create something so amazing from one piece of marble,” she said.
In response to a question about her own creative endeavors, she responded: “Sometimes I’ll get a random bit of creative energy and paint things, and I made the earrings I’m wearing,” she said. “However I get greater enjoyment from the study of art, deconstructing it, and figuring out what was motivating the artist.”
She will be working as a graduate assistant at the University of Maryland while she is going to school, either as a T.A. or researcher. Eventually she would like to either teach art at the college level or work in a gallery.