Pratt Institute

Education

Ph.D., Twentieth-century, Italian Renaissance, and Ethnographic Art and Architecture, Columbia University
M.L.S., Columbia University
M.A., History of Art: Odilon Redon; Sculptural Architecture & Architectural Sculpture of the 1960s, Columbia University
B.S., History of Art: Iconography, Columbia University

Biography

Professor Edwards grew up in Oklahoma and lives in Manhattan. She studied at the Art Students League and Columbia University. She received a Columbia University Kress Fellowship for 1982-83; a National Endowment for the Humanities Travel-to-Collections Grant for 1988; a Gladys Krieble Delmas Grant for 2000; and travel grants from Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Cummington Community of the Arts, the Mary Anderson Center, and the Hambidge Center. Professor Edwards publishes on Picasso, Altichiero, Giotto, Duccio, Navajo Sandpainting, Pedagogy, Pictorial Narrative, Visionary Architecture, the Gesamtkunstwerk, Iconography, and other topics. Her articles have appeared in the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte; Studies in Iconography; Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Source: Notes in the History of Art; Konsthistorisk tidskrift; Il Santo: rivista francescana di storia dottrina arte; Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova; Art Education; Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia; and elsewhere. She reads papers at scholarly conferences several times a year, including those of the College Art Association, the Medieval Studies Congress at Kalamazoo, the Southeastern College Art Conference, the Patristic, Medieval & Renaissance Conference, and the Renaissance Seminar of Columbia University. Professor Edwards conducts research in Italy, as well as on Native American reservations and at Amerindian archaeological sites. She has been a member of the Pratt Academic Senate since 2004. I welcome the opportunity to work with students who wish to investigate Native American Art, 14th-century Italian art, 20th-century art or architecture, iconography, or narrative art.

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