Kyle Marini
Kyle Marini
Assistant Professor
Educational Background
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, Art History
Research Areas
Kyle specializes in the making of textiles by Indigenous American cultures. He uses scientific analyses to recuperate information about ancient textiles in international museum collections and situate these decontextualized objects within their respective rituals through Quechua socio-linguistics and archival research. His in-progress manuscript uses technical study of braided Inca textiles as data to inform his reconstruction of a massive, destroyed textile that the Incas processed in a ritual dance on the solstice.
Courses
ARTH 11A/12A Cultures & Ideas I&II: Indigenous Art and Architecture of Ancient Mesoamerica
ARTH 82 Weaving the World: Global, Traditional Textiles
ARTH 197 Special Topics