2022 Graduate Cohort Joins Department

From the Curatorial to the Computational to Exploring Diaspora, Group Brings Wealth of Perspectives

The Department is pleased to welcome members of the 2022 graduate student cohort - Haojian Cheng, Caroline Kipp, Noriko Okada, and Dominic Pearson - to our academic community. Each member of this group brings a wealth of experience and rich perspective to our discipline and field.

Caroline Kipp is a trained textile artist and curator who worked most recently as Curator of Contemporary Art at the George Washington University Museum and at the Textile Museum downtown. She will be working with Professor Saggese studying Modern and Contemporary Art.

Working also with Professor Saggese is Dominic Pearson. He looks forward to drawing on his network from his past twenty years in the Arts, Entertainment, and Culture sector to center Blackness in transnational contexts as he studies Black Diasporic identity.

Noriko Okada, too, is interested in the study of Diaspora, specifically that of Japanese artists in the twentieth century, which was the focus of her M.A. work at Purchase College and a curatorial internship at Japan Society in New York. She will study with Professor Alicia Volk.

Haojian Cheng, who will study Chinese art with Professor Jason Kuo, comes to the Department with deep experience in computational art history. while an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, he developed computer vision search algorithms for porcelain at the university museum of art. Collaboratory staff look forward to working with him the fall!

Welcome Caroline, Dominic, Haojian, and Noriko!