Graduate Writing Fellow
Shannon Bewley is an advanced PhD Candidate in modern and contemporary art history at Boston University. Her research focuses on twentieth-century public sculpture commissions. She draws on newspaper reports, community interviews, and institutional archives to situate artists’ careers within the professionalization of arts administration amid state, federal, and international public funding for the arts. Her commitment to public art is anchored to her upbringing in Birmingham, Alabama, where living amid sculptures like the monumental cast iron Vulcan, and abstract and figurative Civil Rights memorials provided foundational experiences for her research and pedagogy.
Prior to entering Boston University, Bewley was the Provenance Research Fellow in the departments of American and European Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama.
Classes taught:
WR120 First-Year Writing Seminar – Public Art
WR152 Writing, Research, & Inquiry + Digital/Multimedia Expression – Native American Art History
WR152 Writing, Research, & Inquiry + Digital/Multimedia Expression – African American Art History