M.S. LIS, Pratt Institute
M.A. Art History, Hunter College
B.A. Art History, Museum Studies, Smith College
I have an MS in Library Information Sciences from the Pratt Institute where I researched accessibility in GLAM institutions, open access initiatives, and radical cataloging. I received my MA in art history from Hunter College with my thesis Death Becomes Her: Rejecting the Muse and Reclaiming the Female Body in Leonor Fini’s Skeleton Women. I study women artists with specific research interests in tarot, occultism, and symbols of witchcraft in art of the Surrealist period and the intersection of sex and violence against women in performance art of the late modern period.
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Copyright 2023 Janna Singer-Baefsky
Comics for Classrooms is a Libguide I created with three other graduate students at the Pratt School of Information. The Libguide provides tools and resources for using comic books as a teaching medium in K-12 education.
In this paper, I trace the emergence of Open Access as well as its failures and success within academic communities. Looking at Open Access in conjunction with digital and media literacy, privileged voices, and forms of inaccessibility, I discuss its importance to the greater academic landscape and how Open Access is a social justice issue.
Graduate Projects and Papers
Conferences
ARLIS NA New York Chapter Webinar
I received the Celine Palatsky Travel Award to present my research at ARLIS NA 2020 on the "New Voices in the Profession Panel." The in-person conference was cancelled due tot Covid-19 but I was given the opportunity to give my talk through my local ARLIS Chapter. My talk can be viewed by clicking the link. I gave the talk again at ARLIS NA 2021.
"Death Becomes Her: Rejecting the Muse and Reclaiming the Female Body in Leonor Fini's Skeleton Women"
This thesis is organized through the varied ways Fini incorporated death imagery, like the skeleton, into her art. I trace how she changed her interpretations of death from being a symbol in earlier works to then rendering death as the subject itself and concluding with depicting herself as death.
Janna Singer-Baefsky
