1.   As Kimberly Smith Ivey, associate curator of textiles at Colonial Williamsburg, explains, these girls knew that study with a needlework teacher was a status symbol.

2.   As an associate curator of Asian art at the Met, Meech was fascinated by how works came to the museum.

3.   At the start of this year, he hired Burgard, who came from Harvard University Art Museum as the Henry Luce Foundation associate curator of American art.

4.   At the time of his death, Slowinski was an associate curator of the department of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

5.   Before coming here, he was associate curator of American art at the Harvard University Art Museums.

6.   Catherine Voorsanger, an associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on Monday in New York City.

7.   DeSalle is associate curator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

8.   Early in his career Dierbeck, who was born in Urbana, Ill., was associate curator of education at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

9.   Erica Hirschler, associate curator of paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, points out that in these paintings, the difference between oil and watercolor blurs.

10.   Griswold has been associate curator in the department of drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for six and a half years.