- Royce Fellowship
Claire
Grace
Concentration
Arts/Architecture
Award Year
2001
Claire traveled to Mali to study bogolanfini, a mud-painted cloth traditionally used as a medium for social and political expression. Through interviews with local artists and primary research, she analyzed bogolan’s continuing potential as a socially, politically and economically empowering art form.
Claire Grace is an assistant professor of art history at Weslyan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University, where she served as a research assistant to the ICA/Boston’s This Will Have Been. Prior to Harvard, Claire earned her Masters from Middlebury College. She is the recipient of a Henry Luce Foundation Dissertation Award in American Art.