The Walters Art Museum
ABOUT THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM
The Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon Cultural District at North Charles and Centre Streets, is free for all. The collections include Egyptian and Greek art from the ancient world, medieval art and manuscripts, Asian art, Islamic art, 19th-century French paintings, Renaissance and Baroque art, jewelry and decorative arts and much more. At the time of his death in 1931, museum founder Henry Walters left his entire collection of art to the city of Baltimore. For more information visit thewalters.org.
Ashley Dimmig
Ashley Dimmig is currently the Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum. Her curatorial work aims to make Islamic art engaging and accessible to audiences in Baltimore and beyond. Within the broad scope of Islamic art history, her fields of specialization include a range of art and architecture from Turkish and Persian spheres in the early modern and modern periods. With a fine arts background in fiber arts and weaving, Dimmig is especially interested in textiles across the Islamic world. She is also interested in the historiography of the field of Islamic art and its intersections with museology, collecting, and issues of cultural heritage.
Her dissertation, “Making Modernity in Fabric Architecture: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period” (University of Michigan, 2019) views tents as imperial fabric architecture and analyzes their myriad functions and malleable meanings in the Ottoman court from the eighteenth century to the end of the empire in the early twentieth century. The dissertation was generously supported by the Ittleson Fellowship with the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA), the Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi Fellowship in Ottoman Architectural Culture and History at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) in Istanbul, and the Rackham Merit Fellowship from the University of Michigan. Dimmig also holds two Master of Art degrees from Indiana University Bloomington and Koç University in Istanbul, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute.