Virginia Gardner Troy

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.