Katherine Werwie

Katherine Werwie is a PhD candidate in the history of art and architecture at Yale University specializing in medieval sculpture. Her dissertation, “Visions Across the Gates: Historiated Wooden Doors of Medieval European Churches,” examines embodied interactions with sculpture, spatialized ritual, and the materiality of the medium of wood through a group of ten doors created between the 11th and 13th centuries from Iceland to Croatia. Katherine received her BA in art history from Barnard College followed by an MPhil in the history of art from the University of Cambridge. She has worked at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, and the Yale Peabody Museum and served as the Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Worcester Art Museum where she oversaw the reinstallation of the museum’s galleries for medieval art. 

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2020-07-02

Announcing CCL’s Seventh Annual Seminar in Curatorial Practice Cohort

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the seventh annual class of the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Full bios for the fourteen doctoral students in this year’s cohort linked here. Since 2014 and with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CCL has provided ... Read More >