Congratulations to MA candidate Rebekah will work with public art nonprofit LAND Studio to develop interpretative content and community-based curatorial strategies for LAND’s fabulous app The City is Our Museum. Rebekah is a Barbato Fellow and focuses on early modern art history with Professor Benay. She graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in Art History and Studio Art and a minor in Italian. Her current research interests focus on the relationship between art, early scientific practices, and natural history. More broadly, she is interested in histories of collecting and intercultural relationships within the context of global Early Modern studies. Rebekah’s long-term aim is to advocate for and be a part of a more accessible and community-engaged practice of art history. To read more about LAND Studio’s initiative, click here.

Photo: Liane Engstrom, Jamie-Kiraly, Madison Link, and Lemma Shafik, The Rhythm of the City, 2018, painted mural