More summer research projects by our grad students!
Flavia Barbarini (PhD candidate) spent part of the summer at the Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI) in Florence thanks to the International PhD Fellowship and the Marcia Hall Summer Travel Grant. As a NIKI Fellow she worked on a project titled “Trading Drawings Between the North and Italy: Joris Hoefnagel, Niccolò Gaddi, and the Drawings of Northern European Artists” which is related to her doctoral dissertation research. This fall, she will be the Kress Fellow at the Medici Archive
Liam Machado (PhD candidate) was able to do dissertation research at the Huntington Libraries and Art Museum in LA and the Charlie James Gallery in LA's Chinatown, in part due to a Marcia Hall Summer Travel Grant.
Maria de Lourdes Mariño (PhD student) spent the month of July researching at the Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) at the University of Miami as a recipient of the Goizueta Graduate fellowship. This fellowship's goal was to evaluate CHC's suitability for her dissertation proposal.
Molly Mapstone (PhD student) was the editorial assistant for Winterthur Portfolio and Summer Silver Fellow at Philadelphia Museum of Art, funded by the Center for American Art; she found time to write a book review of Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture, edited by Antje Krause-Wahl, Petra Löffler, and Änne Söll for Winterthur Portfolio. It will likely be published in early 2023.
Jesse Sullivan (PhD student) participated in a workshop on gilding at the Charles Douglas Gilding Studio , in part due to a Marcia Hall Summer Travel Grant.