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A-State Closing Early Thursday, Jan. 9, Closed Friday

Arkansas State University is closing all academic and business offices at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9, and remaining closed on Friday, Jan 10, in response to the incoming inclement weather.

However, while regular business offices are not open, the campus continues to operate. Essential personnel who maintain on-campus activities, including University Housing, Dining Services and Facilities Management, will report to work. Employees who are uncertain about their status as “essential personnel” are encouraged to check with their supervisor.

Full-time employees who track working hours can submit their time as “Authorized Leave.”

Revised Facility Hours:

  • Dining Services will operate under brunch hours at Acansa Dining Hall from 10:30 a.m. until 2 p.m.  Dinner service will begin at 4:30 p.m. and end at 7 p.m.  Howl's Grill and Starbucks will be open from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m.  
  • The Dean B. Ellis Library will be closed, but is scheduled to reopen on Sunday, Jan. 12, from 2 p.m. until 9 p.m.
  • The Reng Student Union will open for on-campus student usage at 8 a.m., closing at 8 p.m.
  • The Red WOLF Center will be closed.
  • The A-State Bookstore will be open on Friday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Saturday/Sunday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.

All campus residents are reminded to monitor official university media, including official social media accounts for updates. 

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Department Chair

Associate Professor of Art History


Education

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • M.A.,  University of Virginia
  • B.A.,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching Specialties

  • Medieval and Early Modern Art
  • Global Art History

Research Interests

  • Late medieval and early modern Parisian art
  • Ivory carving and the work of tabletier
  • Archival documents, particularly estate inventories
  • Games and toys made in 16th century Paris
  • Printed Books of Hours

Links of Interests:

A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly. Leiden: Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/64034?language=en 

“Parisian Painters and their Missing Oeuvres: Evidence from the Archives,” in Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France: Representation, Reimagination, Recovery. York Medieval Press series. York: Boydell & Brewer, York Medieval Press, 2022
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781914049057/lost-artefacts-from-medieval-england-and-france/

“Un jeu Gentil : la fabrication des damiers à Paris au XVIe siècle.” Documents d'histoire parisienne 23 (2021): 5-11. 
https://www.saprat.fr/documents-d-histoire-parisienne-20.htm

Baker, Katherine. “Chicart Bailly and the Specter of Death: Memento Mori in a Sixteenth-Century Estate Inventory.” In The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe, edited by Stephen Perkinson.

Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art (distributed by Yale University Press), 2017. 
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300225952/ivory-mirror

Baker, Katherine. “‘La Chambre aux dentz d’yvoire’: An Introduction to the Inventory of Chicart Bailly.” In Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Content and Context, edited by Catherine Yvard, 68-75. London: The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2017.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/courtauld-books-online/gothic-ivory-sculpture

Biography

Katherine Baker received her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Virginia in 2013. A research fellow at Institut national d'histoire de l'art, first through a Kress Institutional Fellowship and later as a chercheure accueilli, she completed a dissertation on collaborative making in Paris around 1500 while in residence. With a particular interest in what the archival record can tell us about lost artistic production, her current project examines the estate inventory of Chicart Bailly, a Parisian tabletier from the early 16th century. An examination of the document and complete transcription-translation can be found in her book, A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly (2023).

Katherine Baker


Contact Information

P: (870) 972-3050


Office

Building: Fine Arts Center
Room: 103A