PhD in Art History
Joanna Platt
- Email: joanna.platt@temple.edu
Joanna Platt is a Ph.D. student specializing in modern and contemporary art history. Her primary interests are the representation of labor and the economics of art and production, especially regarding issues of class and social status. Joanna is currently researching Philadelphia’s connections to the Works Progress Administration-sponsored Fine Art Project, specifically issues of inclusivity in the Fine Print Workshop.
With a background in bronze casting and fabrication, Joanna balances an active studio practice with research and teaching. Exhibits of Joanna’s work have included the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and the Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, The Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ, The Satellite Art Fair in Miami, SoHo 20, NYC, and The National Gallery of Costa Rica. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ.
MFA, Sculpture, University of the Arts, 2009
BFA, Sculpture, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, 1997
Advisor: Erin Pauwels, PhD