Department of Art History

We are thrilled to share our junior art history major Arnie Campa has won a Beinecke Fellowship for graduate study following her BA work at UChicago. The program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Arnie’s art historical interests concern queer and indigenous craft practices as well as notions of community and mutuality. While honing her weaving skills at the Chicago Weaving School, her UChicago studies have included research on Otti Berger’s Bauhausbilderbuch at the Art Institute and interning in our Joel Snyder Materials Collection in the VRC. She learned the good news while doing archival work in Louisville, Kentucky on The Little Loomhouse’s history as a site of queer artistic community and connecting with our alumni Jenn Sichel PhD ’18 at the University of Kentucky and Tyler Blackwell MAPH ’18 at the Speed Museum. Congratulations Arnie!