Kelsey Kresse is a Senior in the History of Art and Architecture Department writing her Senior Honors Thesis on Tracey Emin’s My Bed as a creative space and its ties to Ovid’s Pygmalion myth. In addition to her HAA major she is also a Theatrical Design and Italian minor. In the HAA Department she has worked with Dr. Gretchen Bender as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to World Art in the Fall of 2013 and on “Face Value: (De)Constructing Identity in Portraiture” in the University Art Galleries in the fall of 2012. She has also held internships in the Decorative Arts Department of the Carnegie Museum of Art and at Il Teatro della Pergola in Florence Italy. She is currently working on an exhibition at Point Park University featuring artists from the National Association of Women Artists. After graduation this spring Kelsey plans to work in non-profit service abroad for a year and then go on to get her Masters in Art History.
Kelsey will be presenting her paper, "Tracey Emin's My Bed as Creative Space" at HAAARCH!!! 2014.