RAVE+VMPEA | QP Symposium Part One
Please join us for the first part of our Qualifying Paper Symposium, co-sponsored by VMPEA and RAVE. During this two-part event, the second-year PhD students in the art history department will present their QPs.
4:45-5:15: Jenny Harris, “Worlds of Wire: Ruth Asawa’s Sculpture”
5:15-5:45: Li Jiang, “Replicating Death: The Gold Funerary Mask of Princess of the State of Chen (1018)”
5:45-6:15: Stephanie Strother, “‘Fashionable Things’: The Designs and Designers of the Atelier Martine”
6:15-6:45: Discussion
Jenny Harris is a PhD student focusing on 20th-century art. Her research interests include performance, intersections of dance and visual arts, and the status of decoration and craft in postwar American art. Prior to arriving at the University, she worked in The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Painting and Sculpture where most recently she participated in the reinstallation of the collection galleries and co-organized the exhibition The Shape of Shape, Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman (2019, with Michelle Kuo). She has also contributed to the exhibitions The Long Run(2017-18), Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends (2017), and One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North (2015). Jenny graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in Art History in 2012.
Li Jiang is a PhD student of East Asian art history, focusing primarily on funerary art in ancient and early medieval China. Li Jiang received her MA from the University of Chicago in 2018. Her thesis examined the fragments of a lacquer screen from an elite burial of the Northern Wei dynasty. Her current research involves the material cultural and inter-regional issues in northeast Asian tomb arts from the fourth to seventh centuries.
Stephanie Strother is a PhD student focusing on art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research interests include the relationship between art and craft at the turn of the century, popular reception and consumption, and global circuits of visual and material culture. She earned a BA from Carleton College in 2010 and an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2017. From 2017 to 2019 she was the Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Graduate Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago. In this role she authored curatorial entries and an essay for a digital catalogue on the museum’s collection of paintings and drawings by James McNeill Whistler, which was published in 2020.
Register here to join us as the first three students offer their presentations.