EDUCATION. B.A Barnard College, Columbia University, Art History

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1 K.L.H. Wells Assistant Professor, Department of Art History University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 3203 N. Downer Ave, Mitchell Hall, Room 151, Milwaukee WI Mobile: EDUCATION Ph.D University of Southern California, Art History Dissertation: Tapestry and Tableau: Revival, Reproduction, and the Marketing of Modernism. Advisor: Nancy Troy. Committee: Vanessa Schwartz, Richard Meyer, Elinor Accampo. Visual Studies Graduate Certificate M.A University of Wisconsin-Madison, Art History Certificate in Material Culture Studies B.A Barnard College, Columbia University, Art History summa cum laude, Honors in the Major Field, Distinction on the Senior Thesis ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Art History, 2014-Present Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Craft, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Art History and Department of Craft & Material Studies, Spring 2014 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDS Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowship, Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, June-August 2016 Center for 21 st Century Studies Fellow, UW-Milwaukee, Alternate Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, (declined) Russell Endowed Dissertation Fellowship, University of Southern California (USC), (declined Spring 2014) Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Funding, USC, 2013, 2011, 2012 Art History Department Graduate Travel Award, USC, 2013, 2012 Graduate Student Government Travel Award, USC, 2013, 2011, 2010 Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Institut Français d Amérique, 2012 Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellowship, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Switzerland, Dornsife College Doctoral Fellowship, USC,

2 Wells, CV, 2 James Watrous/Chipstone Fellowship in Material Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Phi Beta Kappa, Barnard College, Columbia University, 2005 PUBLICATIONS Book Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York. Completed manuscript, 350pp. Under consideration by Yale University Press. Journal Articles Display, Textile Terms: A Glossary, edited by Tristan Weddigen and Gerhard Wolf, final volume of Textile Studies (expected 2016). (Invited) The merely imitative mood : British Japonisme and Imperial Mimesis, Nineteenth Century Studies 27 (forthcoming 2016). (Peer-reviewed) Rockefeller s Guernica and the Collection of Modern Copies. Journal of the History of Collections 27, no. 2 (2015): Published online October 9, 2014; doi: /jhc/fhu029 (Peer-reviewed) Serpentine Sideboards, Hogarth s Analysis, and the Beautiful Self. Eighteenth- Century Studies 46, no. 3 (Spring 2013): (Peer-reviewed) Curating the Cultural Landscape: Chipstone House as Historical Property. The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 2, no. 2 (2009): (Peer-reviewed) Catalogue Essays Counter Text. In Where Words Are Not Enough, VCU Craft & Material Studies MFA Candidacy Exhibition, ArtSpace Gallery, Richmond, VA, 25 April-18 May (Invited) Artistes contre Liciers: La Renaissance de la Tapisserie Française. In Decorum (Paris: Musée d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Skira Flammarion, 2013), (Invited) Reviews Review of Timothy Erwin, Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture (Bucknell, 2015). Eighteenth-Century Fiction (forthcoming). Review of Decorum, Musée d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 11 October February Journal of Modern Craft 7, no. 3 (November 2014): Online Interviews and Curations Jaydan Moore and Olivia Valentine in Conversation with K.L.H. Wells, Journal of Modern Craft blog, posted 25 August Flânerie: Strolling Amongst Aestheticized Selves of the Romantic Period. Gallery Exhibit, Romantic Circles, posted Summer

3 Wells, CV, 3 WORKS IN PROGRESS Book Uncanny Revivals: Designing Early America during the Great Depression. Research stage. Journal Articles Laboring Under Globalization: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists. Under revision for Art Journal Modernism s Craft Discourse: From Truth-to-materials to Medium Specificity. Research stage. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York, Bard Graduate Center, August British Japonisme, The Mikado, and Imperial Mimesis, Guest lecture for AH318- West Meets East: Japonisme in Europe and America, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, November Transatlantic Tapestry: Postwar Art between Paris and New York, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 2014 The Photographic Tapestry from Man Ray to Macuga, Virginia Commonwealth University, April 2014 Contemporary Tapestry: Globalization, Digitization, and the Value of Artistic Labor, Aktuelle Forschung zur Kunst der Neuzeit, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Switzerland, October 2013 Tapestries and Tableaux in the Twentieth Century, An Iconology of the Textile in Art and Architecture: Review of a Project at the Art History Institute of the University of Zurich, Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, January 2012 Inventing the Tapestry Revival in Postwar France, Aktuelle Forschung zur Kunst der Neuzeit, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich, October 2011 The Tapestry of Modernism, Aktuelle Forschung zur Kunst der Neuzeit, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich, May 2011 Panels Chair, Modernism s Craft Discourse, College Art Association, New York, NY, February 2017 Respondent, Newberry Library Seminar on American Art and Visual Culture, Chicago, February Co-Chair, Tapestry and Reproduction, College Art Association, New York, NY, February 2013 Conference Papers Le Corbusier s Muralnomad at Chandigarh, The Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Cedar Rapids, November Marketing Modernism in Postwar America: The Print Renaissance, the Tapestry

4 Wells, CV, 4 Revival, and the Craft of Reproduction, Association of Historians of American Art Biennial Symposium, Fort Worth, October Warming Up Cold War Modernism: The Decorative Function of Modern Art in Postwar America, Midwest Art History Society Conference, Chicago, April Trojan Family Tapestry, or, How to See the Materiality of Contemporary Art, Material Evidence, Visual Knowledge, Visual Studies Research Institute, USC, May 2015 How Paris Stole the Idea of Modern Tapestry, Society for French Historical Studies, Montreal, Canada, April 2014 The Logic of Revival and the Limits of Nostalgia, Nostalgia: Representations and Reconstructions of the Past, Student Session, Association of Art Historians, London, UK, April 2014 Greenberg s Tapestries: Revising Medium Specificity and Revisiting Its Discontents, Bay Area Graduate Symposium in Art History, Film, and Media organized by Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, October 2012 The Work of Tapestry in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The Life of the Object, Material Culture Program, UW-Madison, April 2011 Serpentine Sideboards, Hogarth s Analysis, and the Beautiful Self, Mid-Atlantic American Studies Association, La Salle University, March 2010 Curating the Cultural Landscape: Chipstone House as Historical Property, Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, July 2009 Mimicry and the Mikado: Japanese People-as-Exhibitions, National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, New Orleans, LA, April 2009 TEACHING University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Art History Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture, Spring 2015, Fall 2015 Introduction to American Art, Fall 2014, Spring 2016 American Art: Colonial Period to 1870, online, Fall 2016 American Art: 1870 to the Present, online, planned for Spring 2017 American Architecture, Spring 2015 History of Modern Design, Spring 2016 Frank Lloyd Wright, planned for Spring 2017 Colloquium in Method and Theory, undergraduate seminar, Fall 2015 Revival! Visualizing the American Past, graduate seminar, Fall 2016 Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Art History and Department of Craft & Material Studies Craft Since 1945, Spring 2014 History and Theory of Craft, Spring 2014

5 Wells, CV, 5 DIRECTION OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH Director, UWM Art History MA Thesis Cortney Anderson, Lydia at a Tapestry Frame: Art Embroidery and the Rise of Craft (Second Reader: Richard Leson), Spring Stacey Schmiesing, Sardanapalus and Gender: Examining the Works of Byron and Delacroix (Second Reader: Elena Gorfinkel), Spring Director, UWM Art History MA Exhibition Thesis Jacqueline Murphy, Colorscapes: Marko Spalatin , Spring Nick Pipho, Comic Cuts: The Satirical Prints of Warrington Colescott, Spring Second Reader, UWM Art History MA Exhibition Thesis Marin Kniskern, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski: Political Struggle and Metaphor (Advisor: Richard Leson), Spring Kathleen Tousignant, Tara Bogart: Modern Art Studies (Advsior: Jennifer Johung), Spring 2016 SERVICE Editorial & Advisory Journal Referee, Textile: Cloth and Culture, 2016 Journal Referee, Art Journal, 2015 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Academic Planning and Governance Committee, UWM College of Letters and Science, Fall 2015-Present ( term) Co-chair, Departmental Colloquium, UWM Art History, 2016-Present Admissions and Fellowships Committee, UWM Art History, 2014-Present Curriculum and Instruction Committee, UWM Art History, University of Southern California, Department of Art History Organizer and Moderator, From Scholar to Author faculty book panel, 2014 Graduate Liaison to the Faculty Search Committee, Co-chair, Works-in-Progress Colloquium, 2010, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Art History Grad Forum Co-chair, Graduate Research Colloquium, 2008, 2009 Treasurer-Secretary, Co-chair, Art History Grad Forum Guest Lecture Series, Community Hardy Gallery, Guest Speaker, The History of Modern Design, Ephraim, WI, September 2016 Director at Large, American Arts Society, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2015-present

6 Wells, CV, 6 LANGUAGES French (Excellent) German (Proficient) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association of Historians of American Art College Art Association REFERENCES Available upon request