Marie Brown and Lindsay Cook
Handshouse Studio

Marie Brown is Handshouse Studio’s executive director, and leader of the Handshouse:Notre-Dame Project. She has worked in leadership positions with Handshouse since its founding. A director, maker, and educator, Brown received her MFA in Directing from the University of Texas (Austin, TX), a BA in Music and Theatre from the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), and a jack-of-all-trader mastery of nothing from a life-long practice of the learn-by-doing philosophy that founded Handshouse. Brown is drawn to collaborations that invite interdisciplinary approaches to exploring challenging questions, making connections, cultivating curiosity, and empowering the voice, body, heart, and hand.

Lindsay S. Cook is an architectural historian, medievalist, digital humanist, translator, and digital preservation advocate. A specialist in medieval European architecture, Dr. Cook’s current research addresses architectural and artistic responses to the Gothic cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris, medievalism in African American architecture, medieval architectural space, and digital and material approaches to the valorization, conservation, and restoration of cultural heritage. Her research on medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary histories of Notre-Dame has recently appeared in the journals Future Anterior and Different Visions and the edited volume The Analysis of Gothic Architecture (Brill, 2023). Notre-Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History, her English translation of the French-language monograph co-authored by Dany Sandron and Andrew Tallon, was published by Penn State University Press in 2020. She is currently writing a monograph about architectural and artistic responses to Notre-Dame from the 12th century to the present. She is a board member of the scholarly association Scientifiques de Notre-Dame, a member of the advisory board of the non-profit educational organization Handshouse Studio, and editor of The Notre-Dame Translation Project, which makes open-educational resources about the history, conservation, and restoration of Notre-Dame following the catastrophic 2019 fire available to students and the general public.

Tuesday, February 3, 12 pm

38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall
No registration required.