Graduate students are even busier over the summer as evidenced by Marge Steurbaut, HART PhD student, who presented at the 2024 Colloquium of Corpus Vitrearum, an International Forum on the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass, earlier in July.
Held in Erfurt and Namburg, Germany, Marge tackled this year’s theme of “Visibility” with her presentation “A Fragmentary Legacy: Visualizing the Oeuvre and Working Methods of Prolific Seventeenth-Century Glasspainter Abraham van Diepenbeeck” which received wonderful feedback and compliments afterwards.
Congratulations to Marge for again representing Rice so well across the globe and achieving jer wish of presenting in front of so many stained-glass experts - we’re sure it’s just the start of many more presentations to come!
Marge also spent last semester as the exchange student at the University of Humboldt in Germany and will be returning to Rice in the fall as the new HART graduate representative.
Completing her master’s degree in 2020 at the University of York (U.K.) in Stained-Glass Conservation and Heritage Management, Marge’s master’s dissertation discussed the role of the cartoon in 17th century stained-glass making and the working relationship between master glass painter and designer.
[Photos: Marge Steurbaut]