Meg Milanick After earning a Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology at Southern Connecticut State University and working in the fields of genetics and limnology, Meg Milanick earned her Master’s Degree in Art History at the University of Missouri. Her thesis title is: “The Chinese Scholar’s Garden in France: Moulin Joli in Claude-Henri Watelet’s Essai sur les jardins.”
As part of the Carpe Diem lecture series “Dangerous Liaisons,” she has taken participants on a journey of discovery through the seventeenth-century French garden with the talk “Vaux-le-Vicomte: Jardin de Persuasion” or “Why You Shouldn’t Build a Garden Prettier than the King’s.” For the topic “Christmas in Art,” she and participants explored the question “Why Does Santa Look the Way He Does?”
She has led people of all ages through the world of art at the Museum of Art and Archaeology as a Docent for the past two decades. Her most recent publication is “An Eighteenth-Century French Snuffbox as an Object of Social Status” in the 2009-2010 issue of MVSE for which she gave a symposium talk at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. When she is not researching art history and material culture topics, she enjoys gardening, biking, yoga and singing. She lives in Columbia with her husband, her son, three dogs, a turtle and a rabbit.
