About Us

Carey Mack Weber
Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director

Carey Mack Weber has over 25 years of experience working in museums and galleries. Carey spent over a decade working in fine art galleries in New York City, notably serving as Director of Susan Sheehan Gallery and Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art. She was integral to the creation of the university’s art museum in 2010, assisting Dr. Jill Deupi, the founding director, in developing exhibitions, programming, setting up the Collections Management systems, and creating policies. She was appointed Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director of the Fairfield University Art Museum in January, 2019.

Carey also currently serves as the President of the Connecticut Art Trail, a nationally recognized partnership between twenty-two world-class museums and historic sites. She serves as the CT State Representative for the Association of Academic Art Museums and Galleries, and is on the Advisory Board of the Maguire Museum at St. Joseph’s University . She is an active member of the American Alliance of Museums, the Association of Academic Art Museums and Galleries, the New England Museum Association, and the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County.
cweber@fairfield.edu

Michelle DiMarzo
Curator of Education and Academic Engagement 

Dr. Michelle DiMarzo is an alumna of Fairfield University, graduating with a B.A. in Art History and English. She went on to pursue graduate degrees in Art History, specializing in Italian Renaissance visual art, and received her PhD from Temple University. Before returning to Fairfield, she held the Phyllis G. Gordan/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Two-Year Pre-doctoral Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome. She is also Assistant Professor in Art History & Visual Culture in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts, where she teaches courses in Renaissance art and the museum exhibition seminar. Dr. DiMarzo has curated several exhibitions at the museum, most recently Out of the Kress Vaults: Women in Sacred Renaissance Painting (2023).
mdimarzo@fairfield.edu
 

Katherine Schwab
Curator, Plaster Cast Collection

Dr. Katherine Schwab received her B.A. from Scripps College, her M.A. from Southern Methodist University, and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is Professor of Art History & Visual Culture in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Director of the Classical Studies program, Curator of the Plaster Cast Collection at the Fairfield University Art Museum, and Director of the School of Communication, Arts and Media in the College of Arts and Sciences. A specialist in ancient Greek art and archaeology, her research focuses on the Parthenon sculptural program, especially the metopes. Scans of her metope drawings are on permanent display in the Acropolis Museum. The original drawings formed a traveling exhibition in the U.S. from 2014 to 2018 organized by the Fairfield University Art Museum. Her research extends to the Caryatid Hairstyling Project and the history of plaster casts. She has been recognized for her contributions to Greek culture with the Hellene of the Year award by AHEPA District 7 (Connecticut and Rhode Island) in 2011, followed by the Paideia Award, for the state of Connecticut given by the University of Connecticut in 2012. As a member of the A.G.A.P.W. Board of Advisors she has continued to participate in a vibrant Greek American community in the greater NYC area. Her drawings and photographs have formed three separate exhibitions at the Greek Consulate General in New York City. Read Dr. Schwab’s Profile.

Rosalinda Rodriguez
Museum Assistant

Rosalinda Rodriguez graduated cum laude in 2021 from Fairfield University with a B.A. in Art History and a minor in Anthropology. As an undergraduate, Rosalinda interned at the Fairfield University Art Museum. In addition to her degree from Fairfield, Rosalinda received a Baking and Pastry Arts degree from the Institute of Culinary Education in 2011.
rosalinda.rodriguez@fairfield.edu

Megan Paqua
Registrar

Megan Paqua has been the full time Registrar since 2022, prior to that she was the part-time registrar from 2019-2022. She is responsible for registration and collections management, and supports the museum’s in-house and traveling exhibitions as well as other museums exhibition programs. She oversees all exhibition installations and deinstallations. She received her B.A. in Archaeology from Dickinson College in 2011 and went on to complete an M.A. in Egyptology from the American University in Cairo in 2015 and an M.S. in Museums & Digital Culture from the Pratt Institute School of Information. While living in Egypt, she participated in archaeological fieldwork at the site of Tell el-Amarna with the Amarna Project. After returning to the US, she was the Permanent Collection Documentation Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2018-2019) and the project registrar for the Westport Public Art Collection (2019-2021). She is also an adjunct in the Art History & Visual Culture in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts, teaching ancient Egyptian archaeology & art history. She is currently the Chair for the Membership Engagement Committee for the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS).
mpaqua@fairfield.edu

Kate Wellen
Museum Educator

Kate Wellen received a B.A. in Art and Art History with a Studio Concentration from Colgate University and a M.A. in Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Kate taught art in the New York City public school system working primarily with middle school students. In addition to teaching, Kate has done arts related volunteer work with children of all ages and creates her own artwork.
kwellen@fairfield.edu