Reunion Symposia 2012

The Life of a Campus: Clark Buildings Then and Now | The Future of Health Care in America | An Inside View of Lloyd's of London | Environment and Energy in the Twenty-First Century | So You Want to be an Entrepreneur? | A Career in the Arts | The Changing World of Politics | The Future of Publishing in the World of New Media | Social Media 101

The Life of a Campus: Clark Buildings Then and Now

Ever wonder why the Clark campus incorporates such a fascinating variety of architectural styles? Professor of Art History Kristina Wilson will share what she and her students have uncovered about the buildings we live, learn and play in, and highlight some surprising discoveries.

Friday, May 18, 2012; 3:00 p.m.

Dana Commons, Fishbowl

Kristina Wilson

Associate Professor of Art History at Clark University

Kristina Wilson's scholarly research has focused on painting, photography, and design in the U.S. during the interwar years, and on the history and criticism of museums. She is the author of "The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925-1934" (Yale University Press, 2009), which received the 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is also the author of "Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression" (Yale, 2004), which won the Charles F. Montgomery Book Award from the Decorative Arts Society and was accompanied by an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery in 2004-2005. She has contributed articles and reviews to a wide variety of publications, including The Art Bulletin, Winterthur Portfolio, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, as well as exhibition catalogues at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, National Building Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Wilson received her Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale University in 2001.

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