Kelsey Siegert is a first-year MA candidate, originally from Las Vegas, Nevada. She attended Seattle University, where she studied art history with an emphasis on modern to contemporary work. Her senior thesis examined Martha Rosler and Robert Mapplethorpe's varied approaches to documentary and ethnographic ethics within their respective photographic practices. While living in Seattle, she worked with studio e gallery and curated her first show, Kitsch, which examined the gendered politics of object-making. This experience sparked an interest in the marginalized nature of craft and shaped her current research goals. During her time at the University of Georgia, Kelsey hopes to further examine women's place within the Western canon as both artist and object.