Overview
Frederick Nowell is a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology at Cornell University. His research centers on connections between the history of music theory and the work of visual artists and curators in the twentieth century. His dissertation, “God Geometrizes”: How Public Intellectuals and Modern Artists Visualized Occult Music Doctrines, repositions the history of music theory within discourses on how vernacular occult movements shaped modern art. He is also an artist and curatorial advisor, collaborating on projects that engage music aesthetics and contemporary art. He was previously a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and has contributed to projects at the Whitney, the Guggenheim, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), and the 14th Istanbul Biennial. He holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and an MFA in Art, Theory, and Practice from Northwestern University.