Brooke Leeton

Brooke Leeton specialized in contemporary art, working on a dissertation about strategies of remediation in Ryan Trecartin’s video suite entitled Priority Infield (2013). While in residence at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Brooke served as Co-Chair for the 2016 Association of Graduate Art Symposium entitled Modernism Made Monumental, sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brooke has presented her research at the Art of Memory symposium at the University of St. Thomas, and at the Women and the Holocaust: Cultural Productions and Interpretations Comparative Literature Conference at the University of South Carolina. With the support of Rydquist Travel funds from the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 2018, Brooke participated in the Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, 1700-Present symposium at the University of Edinburgh, where she presented on Trecartin’s digital collage Comma Boat. Brooke also received a grant in 2019 from the Art History Department to develop UGA’s first online art history survey classes.