Rebecca Albiani 

Rebecca graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with highest honors in Art History and Italian, receiving the outstanding student award in both departments. She was on the student committee for the University Art Museum and helped design the Hans Hoffman Student Docent program.  She spent her junior year in Venice, Italy through the UC system’s excellent Education Abroad Program. 

In 1990 Rebecca entered the graduate program in Art History at Stanford University, where she served as a teaching assistant for general and Renaissance art history courses.  She also worked as a curatorial intern at the Anderson Collection of post-War American art in Menlo Park.  After earning her master’s degree in art history, she was admitted to doctoral candidacy.  Rebecca received a Graduate Lecturing Fellowship from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1993-94.  A Fulbright Scholarship in 1994-95 allowed her to do research on 16th century painting in Venice. 

Rebecca married and moved to Seattle in 1996 and began her association with the Frye Art Museum, she was one of the original gallery guides when the museum reopened in the spring of 1997.  Around that time she began lecturing at several of the local community colleges:  North Seattle Community College, Shoreline Community College’s winter and summer college programs, and Creative Retirement Institute through Edmonds Community College.   Although her specialty is Italian Renaissance, she has lectured on topics from ancient Greece to Pop Art.