Kathleen Quaintance, PhD Candidate

Year: 
TBD!

Major:
History of Art

Current position:
Crafter in Practice

More about Kathleen:
Kathleen Quaintance is a craft historian and practitioner doing a PhD about textiles as ways of knowing. She is an avid dyer, weaver, and a sewist, and an advocate for embodied artisanal knowledge, which makes teaching and working on the farm a natural extension of her research. As a vernacular scientist, she has been thrilled to help facilitate natural dyeing adventures on the farm and loves handling the farm’s patch of indigo and making the whole lengthy journey from leaf to blue. She is passionate about bringing historians into the field (literally) and making connections between humanists, scientists and beyond. Interested in materiality as method and theory, she completed a master’s in gender studies as an Ertegun Scholar at the university of Oxford, and a BA at Sarah Lawrence College. She has worked as a cheesemonger, an art studio technician, a curator, and a researcher, but she loves to teach most of all, and can often be found working on the loom or walking around the history of art department with blue-stained hands.