Thalia Graeff is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences from New Hope, Pennsylvania. She is majoring in Art History and minoring in Cognitive Science, Fine Arts, and French. Her interests within art history include works on paper and women artists, especially those working in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is also interested in art publishing and journalism. Outside of the classroom, Thalia works at the Institute of Contemporary Art and the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is also one of the business managers for Bloomers Comedy.
Thalia Graeff
Wolf Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow
2025—2026 Forum on Truth
Thalia Graeff
History of Art
CAS, 2026
Rediscovering Histories and Reframing Ideas in Contemporary Artist Books by Women
This project will examine a series of contemporary artist books made by women that function to reframe topics related to women's history in terms of feminist ideas. It will draw upon a range of books published in the 21st century that are housed in the Kislak Center for Special Collections to undergo a twofold analysis of their materiality and narrative content. Then it will compare and contrast the different ways in which these artists draw upon history while imposing their own understanding of its misogynistic misrepresentations to create a new record, or new ‘truth,’ that they aim to communicate.