Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Scholar Works Theses 4-2019 The Role of Programming in Interpreting LGBTQ Identities in Contemporary Art Museums Anna Vernacchio
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses Recommended Citation Vernacchio, Anna, "The Role of Programming in Interpreting LGBTQ Identities in Contemporary Art Museums" (2019). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by RIT Scholar Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses by an authorized administrator of RIT Scholar Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS THE ROLE OF PROGRAMMING IN INTERPRETING LGBTQ IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUMS A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN MUSEUM STUDIES DEPARMENTS OF PERFORMING ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE AND HISTORY BY ANNA VERNACCHIO APRIL 2019 Acknowledgements A huge thanks to Dr. Rebecca DeRoo for her continued encouragement, guidance, support, and positive criticism. To Dr. Petrina Foti, for her guidance in developing this topic and Smithsonian expertise. To my mom, dad, and older brother, Vincent, for all of their love and support. To my uncle and godfather, Dale Anderson, for the love, advice, and encouragement given before it could be fully appreciated. And finally to all of my colleagues in the Museum Studies department at RIT, I could not have gotten through all of this without your support, critique, and the countless jokes. The members of the Committee approve the thesis of Anna Vernacchio submitted on April 25, 2019.