Santa Clara University

Karen Rapp, Ph.D.

Adjunct Lecturer

Contact: Santa Clara University Department of Art and Art History 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 Phone: Email: krapp@scu.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D., Stanford University, Art History

Teaching

ARTH 11a, 12a: Cultures and Ideas (Land, Place, and Environment)

Research

Karen Rapp specializes in modern and contemporary art.  She teaches a two-quarter sequence on land, place, and environment, which considers the intersection of landscape and art beginning in Song Dynasty China and continuing up through contemporary environmental practice.  She has worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and has taught at a number of Bay Area institutions.  Her current research considers the legacies of earthworks art in contemporary site-based work.

Representative Publications