Advisor: Leo Costello
Lauren Lovings-Gomez is Ph.D. candidate with research interests in British, French, and American art during the long nineteenth-century with a focus on Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, the Arts & Crafts Movement, women artists, gender representation, and material culture. She received an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Museum of Art joint program and a BA in Art History and French from the University of Houston. Lauren has curated two American art exhibitions at a gallery in Cleveland and has held curatorial internships at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Menil Collection. She will be a Jameson Fellow at the Bayou Bend Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Publications
“The Lost Narrative of Natalia Shabelsky’s Collection of Russian Textiles,” Published in University of Nebraska, Lincoln's Digital Commons; Hidden Stories/Human Lives; Proceedings of the Textile Society of America 17th Biennial Symposium. Presented via Zoom; October 15 – 17, 2020. doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.tsasp.0117
“Antiquity, Exoticism, and Nature in Gold ‘Lotus and Dragon-fly’ Comb with Cyprian Glass Fragment,” Athanor XXXVII (2019). https://doi.org/10.33009/FSU_athanor116679
“Diving into the Details: Learning to Love Lace,” Cleveland Museum of Art Thinker Blog, May 24, 2019. https://medium.com/cma-thinker/diving-into-the-details-learning-to-love-lace-a4856612e440
“Curating Digital Spaces, Making Visual Arguments: A Case Study in New Media Presentations of Ancient Objects,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, Volume 7, Number 2, 2013.(Co-Authored with Dan Price and Rex Koontz) http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/2/000159/000159.html