Annabelle Oates

About

Annabelle Oates is an Art Historian and aspiring curator from Charlotte, North Carolina. She attended Skidmore College for her undergraduate studies, where she majored in Art History. She also pursued studio art, with a focus in fibers, oil painting, and color theory, as well as contributed to the collegiate field hockey team as a four year varsity athlete. She currently resides in New York City and recently completed her Master’s in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program at Parsons. While pursuing her Master’s degree, she has focused on 18th Century French Interiors as well as 20th Century American design and fashion. By grappling with issues of cross-cultural exchange, race, class, and gender, her scholarship interrogates the way objects and art serve as active agents in constructing and pushing forth meaning. She has completed scholarship on both spaces and places of the French elite, as well as on American material culture, such as fashion and advertisements in the post-war United States. Additionally, she serves as a teaching assistant for the History of Fashion to undergraduate students at Parsons, as well as coaches field hockey at Ethical Culture Fieldston School.