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This edition: Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art

Episode Details

Original tape date: February 10, 2026. First aired: March 23, 2026.

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we visit the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York, to speak with Karli Wurzelbacher, curator of the recent exhibition Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History.

This exhibition is the first to recognize Emma Stebbins (1815–1882) as one of the most significant American sculptors of the nineteenth century. While her Bethesda Fountain in Central Park has been a global icon for more than 150 years, the full scope of Stebbins’s life and work has remained largely unknown.

Guest List

Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD. Host, Italics

Karli Wurzelbacher Chief Curator, The Heckscher Museum of Art

  • About this series

  • Italics, Television for the Italian American Experience is a monthly presentation in the CUNY Presents timeslot that features prominent Italian Americans in the arts, business, government, sports, academia, and more. Each episode explores various aspects of the Italian diaspora, Italian-American history and traditions, contemporary Italian-American life, and takes a projected look at the future of the Italian-American community.

    Italics is hosted by Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College/CUNY and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures.

    Italics is now in its third decade serving the Italian-American community and those interested in Italian-American history and culture. Italics is co-produced with the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.

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