Marta is a first year Art History PhD student in the School of Visual Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections among visual and material culture of northwestern Europe during the periods traditionally labeled as the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Dutch Golden Age. Her work frequently engages media often repudiated as ‘decorative’ or ‘minor,’ including tapestry and metalwork.

Marta received her B.A. in Art History and Criticism from the University of Michigan-Flint. She earned her M.A. in Art History and Archaeology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she participated in the 51st Symposium of New Graduate Student Research in Art History and Classical Archaeology and co-curated Reframing the Renaissance Print at Mizzou’s Museum of Art and Archaeology. Her Master’s thesis, “Reliquaries, Tapestry, and Still Life Painting: The Mutability of Bodies and Bodily Ideologies from Medieval to Early-Modern Europe,” investigated diverse media to reveal manifold ways of seeing, understanding, and representing different bodies encapsulated within systems of knowledge from the 12th to 17th centuries. Currently, Marta is a Teaching Assistant and Writing Center Fellow at Mizzou and serves as the Graduate Professional Council Representative for the School of Visual Studies.