Saman­tha Lyons, PhD, is a San Fran­cis­co Bay Area-based cura­tor, writer, and art his­to­ri­an. As a research asso­ciate for His­tor­i­cana, she has orga­nized the first large-scale dig­i­tal dis­play of Arthur Szyk’s work on Art­stor, with more than 500 images avail­able for edu­ca­tion­al use. Her pub­lished arti­cles on Szyk can be found in The Jerusalem Report and Alge­mein­er Jour­nal. As a cura­tor, Lyons has devel­oped exhi­bi­tions on mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art while work­ing in the cura­to­r­i­al depart­ments of San Jose Muse­um of Quilts & Tex­tiles and the Spencer Muse­um of Art at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kansas. She received an MA and PhD in Art His­to­ry from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kansas.