Feverish Thumbs: Ceroplastic Tools

Emily Madrigal is a PhD student in Art & Architectural History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the materials of sculpture, specifically plaster in nineteenth-century France. She received her B. A. in studio arts from Princeton University, worked as a studio assistant for New York-based sculptor Martha Friedman, and studied at Penland School of Craft, all of which inform her understanding of material histories from an embodied perspective. She received her M. A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, where her qualifying paper was title ”Reverse Pygmalions: Plaster in Édouard Dantan's Atelier Paintings.”