Temple University

Molly Mapstone (she/her) is a Ph.D. student studying modern and contemporary art. Her research focuses on installation practices and unconventional materials new to the history of art, in particular, plastics. She worked as the Editorial Assistant for Winterthur Portfolio, an interdisciplinary journal of American material culture and for the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a Summer Silver Fellow. She recently taught Arts of the World I: Prehistoric to 1300 and Arts of the World II: 1300 to Present. This Spring, she is teaching Art After the Internet, a new course that explores post-internet art and the relationship between the digital and material world. Her master’s thesis at the Winterthur Program, The Materiality and Art History of Glitter, examined the material’s origins and power to convey meaning. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison while working at the Chazen Museum of Art where she curated exhibitions of works on paper. 

M.A. American Material Culture, University of Delaware and the Winterthur Program (2021)
B.A. Art History and French, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2019) 

Primary Advisor: Erin Pauwels, PhD