Arts Career Entrepreneurship Space (ACES) Scholar Talk: Dr. Kathryn Floyd
November 15th, 2018 at 8:00 am
Exhibition "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) in the arcades of the Munich Hofgarten, opened on July 19, 1937. Upper level, 6th room, in the foreground Wilhelm Lehmbruck's "Large Kneeling Woman". Inv. Gm NS1865-15. Photo: Arthur Grimm.
The Association of Graduate Art Students, in conjunction with Arts Career Entrepreneurship Space, welcomes Dr. Kathryn Floyd for a talk on professional development in the field of art history. Dr. Floyd is a Professor of Art History at Auburn University where she teaches courses in Modern and Contemporary Art. She received her MA in Art History from the Lamar Dodd School of Art and PhD from the University of Iowa. Before teaching at Auburn, Dr. Floyd worked at the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa. She writes on Dada and Surrealism and has conducted extensive research on the history of documenta, an on-going exhibition series founded in 1955 in Kassel, Germany. Floyd will discuss her time at UGA, her decision to pursue a PhD, and her experience applying to jobs in art history.
