Are you an undergraduate or graduate student interested in learning more about exciting projects and possible career paths in the field of Dutch and Flemish art? Designed by students for students, Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA) Student Sessions connect you with various experts in Netherlandish art and history and give you a chance to engage in conversation with them in an informal setting.

Sessions are guided by student concerns and questions, prompting experts to reflect on their current work as well as their academic, personal, and professional journeys. This unique forum gives local and international students the opportunity to connect with one another, opening new pathways for innovation, access, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

In this session hear from Professor Judith Noorman as she discusses her current research project, The Female Impact. Professor Noorman and her team of seven researchers are analyzing the effect women had on the 17th-century art market in the Dutch Republic by studying household consumption. Also learn more about her professional journey, including her experience writing and publishing multiple books and her role as a teacher.

About the Speaker

Judith Noorman is associate professor (senior faculty) of Early Modern Art History at the University of Amsterdam, where she earned a research master’s degree as a student. She also lived and worked in New York, where she was Lowell Libson Postdoctoral Fellow at the Morgan Library and Museum and completed her PhD at New York University. Judith currently teaches a course called Writing Women into History.

Previous guest speakers have included Carrie Anderson, professor of Art and Architectural History at Middlebury College; Jessie Park, Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery; Pieter Roelofs, head of Fine and Decorative Arts at the Rijksmuseum; and Dr. Abbie Vandivere, paintings conservator, Mauritshuis.

The 2023–24 season of Student Sessions is organized by Tanne Bloks and Jessica Sternbach, with support from the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Founders of the Center for Netherlandish Art at the MFA are Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie.