PhD Robin Lynch awarded 2019-20 Terra Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Art History PhD Robin Lynch, who was recently awarded the 2019-2020 Terra Foundation Pre-Doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, for her dissertation project "Packaging Environments: The Art and Design of the Container Corporation of America".
In examining the cultural programs of the CCA, Robin's project asks what the stakes are in turning to the 鈥渆nvironmental鈥� and 鈥渆cological鈥� in artistic and corporate methods, and concurrently why this became such a prevalent method within the CCA's programs. She further situates this interest in environment and ecology within a burgeoning military-industrial-cultural complex at the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War in the United States. In this context, Robin considers how the term 鈥渆nvironment鈥� becomes a concept used to signify the ability to administrate, represent, and mobilize territory, using art and design as a key medium to construct and communicate space.
The full abstract can be found here: