notes about contributors
Isabella Dobson is a PhD candidate at Boston University studying art of the Italian Renaissance. Her dissertation, tentatively entitled “Laboring Women: Picturing Female Care Workers in Italian Renaissance Childbirth Contexts,” analyzes how renaissance notions of race, class, gender, and domestic work informed depictions of female caregivers on birth trays, maiolica childbirth sets, and in devotional paintings. Previously, she has worked at the Johnson Museum of Art and the Gibson House Museum.
Annelies Verellen is a PhD candidate specializing in early modern Dutch and Flemish art at McGill University (Montréal, Canada). Her research examines how Netherlandish women artists assert their creativity by theorizing and performing femininity. She is interested in the extent to which early modern women confronted the gendered language used in artistic theory, the conceptualization of ‘genius,’ and prescriptive moralizing literature when articulating their skill and status as women artists.
Flavie Chantälle Deveaux is currently a master’s student at Queen’s University, Kingston, researching textiles and fashion as material culture. Her journey to art history began in the world of military history and, thus, Flavie enjoys bridging the gap between the two academic fields, where even today there is much to explore.
Sarah Grimes is a first year MA student in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Her research explores the overlaps between mainstream culture and the counterculture art world, and the intersection between art and the everyday.
Catherine Lennartz is a doctoral candidate at Boston University in the History of Art and Architecture Department. Her research examines the intersections of contemporary memory-focused art, exhibitions, and commemoration, especially as they relate to human rights violations and Indigenous issues in North America. Catherine has previously held positions at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal Archaeology and History Complex.
Sinnae Choi (BFA RISD 2011) is a New York City-born interdisciplinary artist currently working out of Las Cruces, NM. She has a background in glass, and her most recent body of work consists of painting using non-traditional materials such as salt and transparent plastic. Her work is concerned with material joy, optics in transparency, formal explorations into the structural elements of painting, and the creation of miniature worlds.
Madeline Drace received her BA in Art History and English from Emory University in 2015 and her MA in Art History from Tufts University in 2018. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.