Ellyn Toscano
Ellyn Toscano | |
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| Education | New York University School of Law |
| Occupations | Arts administrator, curator and author |
| Notable work | Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History |
Ellyn Toscano is an arts administrator, curator and author who serves as executive director of the Hawthornden Foundation, an American organisation supporting contemporary writers and the literary arts, particularly through international residency programs in Scotland, Italy, and Brooklyn.[1] She co-edited the two-volume series Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History.[2]
Toscano holds an LLM degree in International Law from New York University School of Law.[3]
She worked for 18 years for New York University, including as Executive Director of NYU Florence,[2] where from 2004, she was the director of Villa La Pietra.[4][5] Her initiatives there included founding a summer festival in the Villa's gardens and a year-long series of conferences, talks and exhibitions.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "About Us". Hawthornden Foundation.
- 1 2 3 "Ellyn Toscano". Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
- ↑ "Ellyn Toscano". Black Portraiture[s].
- ↑ Kirchgaessner, Stephanie (31 May 2025). "NYU confronts stereotypes with exhibition of racially charged art". The Guardian.
- ↑ Toscano, Ellyn (2015). "La Pietra in a new Century". In Our Own Voice: An Oral History of New York University's Dramatic Transformation (PDF). New York University. p. 114.