Department of Art History

Sixth year PhD candidate Catalina Ospina was awarded one of two pre-doctoral $45,000 fellowships from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation to advance her dissertation work on the native Andean image-making technique mopa-mopa, commonly called barniz de Pasto. Based in Chicago, the Thoma Foundation awarded a total of $159,000 to fellowships and research grants for six scholars of Spanish colonial art, the first grants dedicating unrestricted funds to scholars of colonial Spanish American art and history.