Luci Williams

Luci Williams’ studies are animated by an interest in textiles: their design, production, and the lives of the people–and animals–that make them. She looks forward to exploring this in the context of Soviet Central Asia.  

A graduate of Oberlin College with a B.A. in Art History and Russian, Luci was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow and wrote her Honors thesis on the representations of “Russianness” in Natalia Goncharova’s costume designs for the Ballets Russes. This research further cultivated her interest in transnational artist communities, theories of identity and design, pedagogy, and the role of the spiritual in art.  

After Oberlin, she worked as a grant writer and marketing coordinator at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, her hometown. She has also worked as a docent at the Allen Memorial Art Museum and Research Intern at the Art Institute of Chicago.