GAHA Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Kelli Wood, “Artful Play: A Renaissance of Games and Pictures”
GAHA Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Kelli Wood, “Artful Play: A Renaissance of Games and Pictures”
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Join us for the Graduate Art History Association’s (GAHA) Spring Distinguished Speaker Lecture featuring Dr. Kelli Wood, Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum & Curatorial Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As this year's distinguished speaker, Dr. Wood explores the visual and material culture of games in the Italian Renaissance in her lecture, “Artful Play: A Renaissance of Games and Pictures”.
Reception begins at 5 p.m. Light refreshments served.
About the speaker
Kelli Wood is the Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor of Art History – Museum & Curatorial Studies at the University of Tennessee. Wood’s research on the visual and material culture of games and sports spanning from sixteenth century board games to contemporary video games has been published in journals such as Art History, Renaissance Studies, ArLis, and in edited volumes and magazines. Her first book based on her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy, is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press. In 2024 – 2025 Wood is a Berenson Fellow at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti and an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Her new projects turn toward craft production in Goa, India based on her field work as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India in 2022-2023. Wood’s scholarship has also been generously supported by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship in 2021-2022, the Michigan Society of Fellows, a CASVA Kress fellowship, and the Fulbright Italy. Wood curated the permanent gallery ‘A Global History of Sport’ of the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum which opened in 2022 for the FIFA World Cup.
Free and Open to All - RSVP
Join us for the Graduate Art History Association’s (GAHA) Spring Distinguished Speaker Lecture featuring Dr. Kelli Wood, Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum & Curatorial Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As this year's distinguished speaker, Dr. Wood explores the visual and material culture of games in the Italian Renaissance in her lecture, “Artful Play: A Renaissance of Games and Pictures”.
Reception begins at 5 p.m. Light refreshments served.
About the speaker
Kelli Wood is the Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor of Art History – Museum & Curatorial Studies at the University of Tennessee. Wood’s research on the visual and material culture of games and sports spanning from sixteenth century board games to contemporary video games has been published in journals such as Art History, Renaissance Studies, ArLis, and in edited volumes and magazines. Her first book based on her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy, is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press. In 2024 – 2025 Wood is a Berenson Fellow at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti and an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Her new projects turn toward craft production in Goa, India based on her field work as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India in 2022-2023. Wood’s scholarship has also been generously supported by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship in 2021-2022, the Michigan Society of Fellows, a CASVA Kress fellowship, and the Fulbright Italy. Wood curated the permanent gallery ‘A Global History of Sport’ of the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum which opened in 2022 for the FIFA World Cup.