Biography
Clio Rom holds a Master of Arts in Italian Renaissance Art History from Syracuse University, and she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She has previously taught the basic art lecture course for the University of Arkansas. She has assisted with lectures and site visits which included Palazzo Barberini, GalleriaBorghese, Santa Maria Maggiore, and the Vatican museums in conjunction with the University of Arkansas Rome Center. Rom now works at Arts One Presents, a new arts non-profit organization in Northwest Arkansas focusing on making visual and performing arts equitable and accessible to the public. Her primary research interests lay in the augmentations ofthe natural world in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italy and the artistic rendering thereof for the sake of hegemonic and religious power. She is further interested in the role of public art, its patronage, and audience reception throughout modern urban development.