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Kyle Marini

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Kyle Marini

Assistant Professor
Educational Background

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, Art History
M.A., The Pennsylvania State University, Art History
B.A., Thiel College, Fine Arts and Spanish

Research Areas

Kyle specializes in the making of textiles by Indigenous American cultures. He uses scientific analyses to recuperate information about ancient textiles in international museum collections and situates these decontextualized objects within their respective rituals through Quechua socio-linguistics and archival research. His in-progress book manuscript uses technical study of braided Inca textiles to reconstruct a massive, destroyed textile that the Incas processed in a ritual dance on the solstice. His research has been supported by the Rhode Island Foundation, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation, and Fulbright-Hays.

Courses

ARTH 11A/12A Culture & Ideas I: Indigenous Art and Architecture of Latin America
ARTH 82 Weaving the World: Global, Traditional Textiles
ARTH 155 Twenty Questions to Decolonize Indigenous Art
ARTH 197 Special Topics