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Dr. Thompson Wylder has served as a museum operations specialist at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (FSU MoFA) since 1989. Her tenure has varied to include registrarial, publicity, education, and curatorial duties. In the 90s, she curated a Judy Chicago retrospective titled Trials and Tributes. The exhibition, focusing primarily on Chicago's works on paper, opened at the FSU MoFA in 1999 and traveled to seven additional venues through February, 2002. At the New Orleans Museum of Art, the exhibition was nominated by Edward Rubin for "Best Show Outside NYC," an award given by the International Association of Art Critics, The American Wing. The Trials and Tributes catalogue essay was abbreviated to become the primary essay for the 2002 catalogue (edited by Elizabeth Sackler) published in conjunction with the subsequent Chicago survey hosted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (October 9, 2002 - January 5, 2003). Other Thompson Wylder articles include  "Conversation with Judy Chicago, 1997-1998," an interview printed in Creating Women, the anthology (edited by Bryant and Elder) published in 2005 to be used by Women's Studies classes. Dr. Thompson Wylder teaches the core Women's Studies class at FSU titled, Women in Western Culture.

Correspondence regarding this article should be addressed to the author at vwylder@mailer.fsu.edu