Kajen Duvall accepted to Leuven, Belgium for graduate study

Kajen Duvall, graduating from UofL’s Hite Art Institute with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, will continue her studies in a Master’s program in Cultural Studies that focuses on visual art at the University of Leuven, Belgium—one of Europe’s most historic and prestigious universities. She will begin her two-year graduate program in January, where her first semester will be dedicated to semiotic theories and their applications in art.

Kajen recently received honors for research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by Transylvania University in April. She presented her research on the Dada artist George Grosz, analyzing his illustration Shut Up and Soldier On (Christ With a Gas Mask, 1928).

She was also one of the Hite Institute students to travel to Italy in December through a department grant. While preparing to leave for Belgium, Kajen works at the recently reopened Speed Art Museum where she volunteers in administration for the curatorial department.