Museums Connect Program

Amy Buchan Baldonieri has over 20 years of experience working in nonprofit arts and cultural organizations and higher education in southwestern Pennsylvania and abroad. Amy is currently the vice president and chief operating officer of the Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation, which manages the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area and several historic sites, including three National Historic Landmarks.

Before joining Rivers of Steel, Amy held positions in development, finance, and fundraising at the American University of Rome, Italy; Central European University in Budapest, Hungary; and Chatham University in Pittsburgh. Amy participated in the Museums Connect Program in Germany during her 12-year tenure as the associate director/director of development and finance at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. That project, which featured a large-scale exhibition of the Museum’s industrial landscape paintings, led to the major transatlantic educational partnership. To document the project and the exchange, Amy wrote “From the Ruhr Valley to the Steel City and Back,” a chapter in “Museums in the Global Context,” published by the American Alliance of Museums in 2013.

Amy holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Piano from Westminster College and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Duquesne University. She currently lives and works in Homestead, Pennsylvania once considered the “steelmaking capital of the world.”