Congratulations to Madalyn Fox, second-year MA student in contemporary art and museum studies, who presented her paper, “Slabs, Seams, and Survival: Rose B. Simpson’s Symbiotic Claywork,” at the 2025 University of Kansas History of Art Graduate Student Symposium. This year’s theme, “Symbiosis: Art and Ecologies in Global Perspectives,” brought together MA and PhD students from across the United States to explore the urgent visibility and role of the environment and ecological methodologies in artworks from the ancient world to the present. While in Lawrence, KS and Kansas City, MO, Maddy visited the Spencer Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and connected with a wide network of art historians and museum professionals.