Dr. Beverly Twitchell Marchant earned an A.B. in Art History from Randolph Macon Woman’s College in 1968, an M.A. in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1983. She began her professional career as a Researcher and Curator of Education at the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia. While in Richmond, she also served as a Research Assistant for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Dr. Twitchell Marchant joined the faculty of Marshall University in 1972 as an Instructor of Art and, among many other duties, was the founding Director of the University’s Birke Art Gallery and Director of the University Honors Program. In 1985, Dr. Twitchell Marchant joined the faculty at Virginia Tech; and in 1990, she joined the Department of Fine Arts at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, where she served as chair. In 1994, Beverly returned to Marshall where she remained an outstanding instructor and an energetic researcher until her retirement in 2010 as a Professor Emerita. In recent years, she has turned her attention and considerable talents to the study of Native American art, especially that of the Ledger Drawings of Brule Sioux. Her book, Bertoia: the Metalsmith, was published in spring 2019, by Phaidon Press. Harry Bertoia sculpted the Marshall University Memorial Fountain. Click here for additional information.