Photo by Justin Hayworth.

Amy Kan (they/she) is a fourth-year art history major and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at Grinnell College. They are a scholar of 20th century American and European art working on Swiss-American artist-poet Sonja Sekula’s poetry in relation to Gertrude Stein’s continuous present and insistence as repetition as well as camp, mysticism, and silence in American artist Paul Thek’s late paintings.