Share your passion for art: how a retired dentist became a docent at the Met with Deborah Pilla, DDS

Your Creative Midlife · Mar 18, 2025 · 35m

After a 33-year career as a pediatric dentist, Manhattan-based Dr. Deborah Pilla took on a challenge that rewards her love of art and of learning: becoming a docent and a school programs guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work with children in her dental practice makes her a natural for engaging students during museum tours. She also has her own arts practice, which she views as an important creative outlet. She has taken on a new project, writing a children’s story and developing it for publication.

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