Grace Clipson

Grace Clipson is a PhD student who works on the art and architecture of medieval Europe, with a focus on manuscripts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in late medieval architectural allusions, and how these devices can be understood within their codicological and devotional contexts, how they speak to dialogues between the local and global, their implications for architectural history, and the possibility for gendered and ecocritical readings of these allusive and elusive frames. 

Grace received her master’s degree (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford in History of Art and Visual Culture. For her master’s thesis, “Framing Devotion: Architectural Renderings in the Queen Mary Psalter and the Taymouth Hours,” she was awarded Oxford’s Best Dissertation in the Cohort Prize. She holds her BA in Art History and Government & Legal Studies from Bowdoin College. She has worked at auction houses and in educational and curatorial roles at The West End Museum and Worcester Art Museum. At the latter, she contributed book chapters and essays to Frontiers of Impressionism: Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum (2024) and WAM 100: Worcester Art Museum Collections Handbook (2024).