29th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art

This symposium, now in its 29th year, brings together graduate students from nine mid-Atlantic colleges and universities to present current research in the field of art history. Each session includes presentations followed by a moderated discussion.

 

 

Moderated by Martha Lucy, deputy director for research, interpretation and education, Barnes Foundation

 

Caryatids and Courtesans: Women’s Artistic Labor at Delphi

Ella Gonzalez, Johns Hopkins University

 

Ghost in the Garden: Interruption, Opacity, and the Otherwise in Ja’Tovia Gary’s The Giverny Suite

Hilde Nelson, Bryn Mawr College

 

Arrivals and Departures: Ebony G. Patterson’s Excessive and Otherwise Bodies

Nicole Emser, Temple University

 

 

Moderated by Christiane Gruber, professor of Islamic art, University of Michigan

 

Antler Chronologies: On Moose, Land Management, and Cyclical Time in the European Middle Ages

Robyn A. Barrow, University of Pennsylvania

 

Between Meadows and Margins: Flemish Strewn-Flower Borders and Wildflower Collection in Late Medieval France and the South Netherlands

Isabella Weiss, Rutgers University

 

The Cardinal’s Coral Tree: A New-World Botanical Curiosity in Barberini Rome

Clio Rom, The Pennsylvania State University

 

Reusing Sacred Texts: The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Liturgical Books

Silvia Gianolio, Princeton University

 

 

Moderated by Alison Boyd, director of research and interpretation, Barnes Foundation

 

Hsiao Chin: Being Modern, Being Chinese, Being Nomadic

Filippo Grassi, University of Maryland

 

Drawing the Circle: Lakȟóta Aesthetics of Generosity in Arthur Amiotte’s Collaborative Wall Hangings

Julia Hamer-Light, University of Delaware