Diary of a Nuyorican: A Solo Exhibition by Amanda Dorval

Amanda is a Latina artist, photographer, designer, and seven-year Air Force Veteran originally from NYC, now living in Maspeth, Queens. As an undergraduate at Barnard College of Columbia University, Amanda majored in art history. There, she also flourished in the pursuit of her second passion, language. While in the Air Force, she learned Arabic at the prestigious Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, CA. She is fluent in and regularly studies the Spanish, Italian, and Arabic languages, and also has some conversational skills in French, Greek and Japanese. She is currently a graduate student of library and information studies at Long Island University Post, where she is specializing in Rare Books and Special Collections as well as pursuing an advanced degree in Archives Management. She is currently interning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library and the Hispanic Society Museum and Library as a research fellow. She also has archival internship experience at the Brooklyn Museum and the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, and collections/publications experience at the Jewish Museum in New York City.