Congratulations to PhD candidate Dasol Kim for being awarded the Emerging Scholars in Object-Based Learning Award by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Hirsch Library for her paper “With Fingers and Eyes: The Transformation of Image, Material, and Space in an Islamic Inkwell.”
Dasol's paper was written for the spring 2023 new course “Art of the Object: Craft, Sensory Experience, and Materiality in Islamicate Lands” led by Assistant Professor Farshid Emami and Dr. Aimée Froom, curator of Arts of the Islamic World at MFAH. This award recognizes an undergraduate and a graduate scholar who have demonstrated excellence in object-based research.
Everyone is invited to attend the awards ceremony on October 12th at 6:00pm at the Hirsch Library of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where Dasol will be making a short presentation of her paper.
Dasol researches on the European production and reception of metalwork that depicts human figures with the reference to non-Christians or non-Europeans. She studies swords, candlesticks and lamps, tableware, statuettes, and bronze plaques that were made in German-speaking regions and Italy between 1500 and 1700.