Overview
Amelia earned a BA from the University of Washington, where she majored in Art History and Classical Studies before attending the post-baccalaureate program in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her senior thesis, titled Participatory Art and Object Empowerment: The Complicated Treatment of the Sleeping Hermaphroditus employed a comparative approach to interrogate methods of viewership surrounding historical objects and sought to highlight contemporary transhistorical approaches to the curation of ancient art.
Informed by postcolonial theory, Amelia’s research interests center on classical reception in global contemporary art, specifically in regions beyond Europe and North America. At large, her work aims to explore how intellectual hegemonies manifest through Greek and Roman aesthetics and understand how artists today adopt, appropriate, and transform this recognizable imagery in geographies far from the Mediterranean.
Amelia is also interested in the curation of ancient Greek and Roman art and maintains a sharp focus on museological conversations and practice. She has worked extensively in contemporary art, specifically as an Assistant Curator at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington as well as in archaeological collections (notably as an intern at the Penn Museum).