Madeleine is a first-year Ph.D. student in the history of art specializing in twentieth century art of North America, with an emphasis on folk art and modernism of the United States. The Hildebrand Fellowship will facilitate Madeleine’s research on pioneering Canadian nationalist artist Joyce Wieland (1930-1998). Promoting unity between francophone and anglophone Canada while maintaining critical distance through absurdist humor, Wieland’s work interrogates US economic and ecological interference in Canada through a feminist and ecocritical lens, utilizing unconventional mediums like textile and olfactory art. Madeleine’s research will closely analyze the artworks and archival documentation of Wieland’s 1971 landmark exhibition True Patriot Love, housed in several Canadian cultural institutions in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Analyzing Wieland serves as a means to consider North American art across national and temporal borders, focusing on Canada-United States relations and dialogues around national identity between the interwar period and 1960s-1970s.
Before beginning her Ph.D. program, Madeleine received her B.A. in studio art and Italian from Vassar College in 2014 and her M.A. in the history of art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2022.
