Officers & Committees

President
Tenley Bick (2025)

Tenley Bick is Assistant Professor of Global Modern Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at Florida State University. Her research on Italian art addresses postwar through contemporary Italian art in a global context, with interests in Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia, art and postcoloniality in Italy, and the history of Italian colonialism, intersecting with her work on contemporary African art. Her writings have been published in a range of scholarly journals, including Third Text, Portable Gray, Word & Image, African Arts, and the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (forthcoming). Other recent publications on postwar and contemporary Italian art, countercultural aesthetics, and Italian colonialism have appeared in the edited volumes Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris ’68 (eds. Cloonan, Faulk, Munro, and Weber; Lantham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021), and Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures (eds. Joos and Solterer; Manchester University Press, 2022). She is the founder and curator of the digital project Costellazione (www.costell-azione.com), a bilingual (IT/ENG) program dedicated to mapping new directions in contemporary Italian art and activism. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles. www.tenleybick.com.

Executive Vice President
Antje Gamble (2025)

Antje Gamble is an art historian of Italian modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices at mid-century. She is currently an associate professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Design at Murray State University in Kentucky. Dr. Gamble’s forthcoming book, Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design: “Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today”  (Routledge Press), looks at the 1950-53 exhibition with an interdisciplinary approach. Her scholarship has also been included in the recent volumes: Modern in the Making: MoMA and the Modern Experiment, 1929–1949 (Bloomsbury Press, 2020) and Postwar Italian Art History Today: Untying ‘the Knot’ (Bloomsbury Press, 2018); and another essay on the 1949 MoMA exhibition in Italian Modern Art. Dr. Gamble has been the chair of the Emerging Scholars Committee (ESC, 2016-2019) and is currently the Treasurer (since 2021).

Vice President for Program Coordination
Sheila ffolliott (2026)

Sheila ffolliott is Professor Emerita in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and a past President of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the Sixteenth Century Society. She currently serves on the Board of the Medici Archive Project. She majored in Italian at Vassar College and received her PhD in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on Montorsoli’s Fountains in Messina.
Her research now focuses on Renaissance women patrons and artists. Recent publications include: “Portrayals of Catherine de’ Medici at the Granducal Medici Court,” in Portraiture, Gender and Power in Sixteenth-Century Art: Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women, ed. Noelia García Pérez (London: Routledge) 2024 and “Cosimo de’ Medici and Catherine de Médicis: Making the Political Personal,” in The Brill Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici, ed. Alessio Assonitis. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

Treasurer
Lucia Colombari (2025)

Lucia Colombari is Assistant Professor of Art History and Arts Management at the University of Oklahoma. A native of Bologna, Italy, her research lands at the intersection of international avant-gardes, transnational exchange, and politics of exhibitions in museums and world’s fairs during the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Italian modernism. Dr. Colombari has published articles about Italian Futurism, Italy-U.S. cultural and political relations, and exhibitionary practices in journals such as the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues. Her current book project critically examines the role of world’s fairs and international exhibitions in the reception, dissemination, and transformation of Italian Futurism in the United States during the first decades of the twentieth century. Her research has received generous support from distinguished institutions, including the Getty Research Institute, the Italian Art Society, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Secretary
Alison Perchuk (2025)

Alison Locke Perchuk (Ph.D., Yale University, 2009) is a historian of medieval Italian art and architecture. Her recent book, The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone (Brepols, 2021) examines the roles of art, architecture, ritual, and landscape in the creation of communal identity; an Italian translation is forthcoming. She has spoken internationally, in both English and Italian, on topics ranging from male monasticism and narrative imagery of the Apocalypse to ecocriticism and medievalism. Her scholarship has been recognized by the Medieval Academy of America, the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, and CASVA. Professor of Art History at California State University Channel Islands, during the 2022–23 academic year, she is a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena CA, working on her second book, Medieval California: Medieval Art, Neomedieval Architecture, and White Identity in the Golden State, 1850–1960.