Our Educators
Emily Potter-Ndiaye (she/hers)
Dwight and Kirsten Poler & Andrew W. Mellon Head of Education and Curator of Academic Programs
Emily Potter-Ndiaye leads education and interpretive work at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College as the Dwight and Kirsten Poler and Andrew W. Mellon Head of Education and Curator of Academic Programs. In this role, she works directly with students and faculty through college course visits and designing museum-based curriculum. She supports a 4-person education team whose core projects include K-16 curricular programs, student employment/internship/mentoring, public and community engagement, collections access, and inclusive interpretation. Emily’s work mission is to facilitate better, fuller storytelling and connection through programs in history, art, and cultural heritage.
Miloslava (Mila) Hruba (she/hers)
Study Room Manager and European Print Specialist
Before permanently settling in the US, Miloslava was director of the Lobkowicz [Art] Collections in Czech Republic. She joined the Mead in 2010 as a researcher for the Thomas Whitney collection of Russian art. In her current role as Study Room Manager and European Print Specialist, she conducts collection-based research and coordinates art requests and installations for academic programs. She has curated and collaborated on numerous exhibitions. For more than a decade Mila has co-facilitated “Collecting 101: Acquiring Art for the Mead”, a student engaged art acquisition program. Mila continues to train and oversee student interns in ongoing collection metadata projects to enhance access and discovery in the museum online database. She seeks opportunities to integrate digital humanities and sciences into collection research, and to encourage interdisciplinary and intradepartmental use of the collection.