Anna Gibson Holloway is the Vice President of Museum Collections and Programs at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, VA where she oversees the Curatorial, Collections Management, Education, Conservation and Exhibition Design functions of the Museum. She also serves as curator of the USS Monitor Center and in that role, won the American Association of Museum's Award for the Best Exhibition of 2007. Before the cheesebox on a raft entered her life, she was the Director of Education and Resident Pirate at The Mariners' Museum, then Chief Curator. In the waning years of the 20th century, she was Manager of School Tour Programs for the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA and has also worked for Jamestown Settlement as part of the crew of the Susan Constant, and for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where she was a puppeteer and understudy fire eater. This Winston-Salem native graduated from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro with baccalaureate degrees in English Literature and Medieval Civilization, neither of which was very helpful in fulfilling her goal of being a rock star. She received her M.A. in Tudor/Stuart History and, in 2012, her Ph.D. in American History from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. She lives in an old Sears farmhouse in Hayes, VA where she and her husband Jim serenade their two cats Quint and Moby with ukulele duets.
From the description of Anna Holloway image collection on ironclad warships, 1889-1911. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 775010560
