Michael Quituisaca received his master’s degree in Art History from American University in 2020, specializing in 19th-century American painter Thomas Cole. He received a B.A. in Art History from Marymount Manhattan College in 2017. He has worked as a fellow for the Alper Initiative for Washington Art at the American University Museum. He was chosen for the 2018 class of Cole research fellows at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. He has held internships at the Museum of the City of New York and for the National Trust for Historic Preservation at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York. He opened his first show as a co-curator in the summer of 2022 at the American University Museum titled Home-Land: Exploring the American Myth.