The Carlsberg Foundation has granted Alice M. Rudy Price (PhD 2014, Adj, Asst. Prof.) funding for six months of research in Denmark from May to December 2025. This funding will support catalogue research for a 2026–2027 art exhibition, "Aging Bodies, Mature Careers," hosted by Ribe Kunstmuseum and Skovgaard Museet in Denmark.

This grant funds art research on intersectionality of modernism, gender and aging to inform the 2026-27 exhibition “Aging Bodies, Mature Careers,” co-hosted by Ribe Kunstmuseum and the Skovgaard Museet (Viborg, DK). The project begins with this problem: a generation of Danish women artists who faced a modernist preoccupation with depicting young nubile female bodies, while their own bodies aged, such as Anna Ancher, Agnes Slott-Møller, Susette Holten født Skovgaard, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen (photograph), and others. Most of the artists empathetically depicted the bodies and memory of older women; resisted figurative abstraction; cultivated strong networks evident in their art; actively engaged in feminist politics; and prioritized mobility and travel. As a group, the artists elevated a positive concept of both self and others who were older. Seeing their collective work today accomplishes four tasks: appropriately contextualizing the artists by redressing the historical bias in favor of debut achievements; increasing the visibility of under-recognized makers of art; rectifying ageist discourse; and foregrounding a marginalized demographic.