As an academic, there’s this feeling that we can’t affect any kind of change in the present moment — that our work is really about occupying this small little territory. I think there’s something exciting about being able to use some of those interests, skills, and real commitments and show people how there’s this wonderful continuity between past and present.
– Jodi
Jodi Cranston is a professor of renaissance art at Boston University. She is the author of two books, The Poetics of Portraiture in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Facture in Titian’s Later Paintings (Penn State University Press, 2010); editor and contributor to Venetian Painting Matters, 1450-1750 (Brepols, 2014); and has contributed several articles to interdisciplinary Renaissance publications.
With MISI, Jodi connected her expertise in 16th century Venetian art history – both the past portrayal of climate concerns and community-building – to today’s climate crisis and explored alternative approaches to environmental care.