Professor of Art History
Department:
Art | Visual and Performing Arts
Phone: 706.238.5841
Fax: 706.802.6738
Location: Moon 204B
Email: vtroy@berry.edu
Virginia Gardner Troy is a scholar of twentieth century art and design. She has a secondary field of expertise in Pre-Columbian art and architecture. She is particularly interested in textiles; her scholarship examines the role and significance of textiles, including non-Western textiles, in shaping modernism.
Education
- Ph.D., Emory University
- M.A., University of Washington
- B.A., Western Washington University
Teaching Interests
- Early Twentieth Century Art
- Art Theory and Criticism
- Nineteenth-Century Art
- Renaissance Art
- Women and Art
- Pre-Columbian Art
- Historic Preservation
- Art Education
- Writing and Research in Art History
- Survey of Art I and II
- Internship
- Senior Thesis Supervision
Selected Publications
- Troy, Virginia Gardner, Dynamic Design: Jay Hambidge, Mary Crovatt Hambidge, and the Founding of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, (2023), UGA Press, ugapress.org
- Troy, Virginia Gardner, The Modernist Textile: Europe and America 1890-1940, (2006) London: Lund Humphries www.lundhumphries.com.
- Troy, Virginia Gardner, Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain, (2002) London: Ashgate.