BIO
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio is Executive Director of the School of the Arts, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Art History at the University of Vermont, where she won the George Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award in 2023 and the Kroepsch-Marice Teaching Award in 2016.
In addition to over two dozen essays and articles, she has published Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance (2011); Leone and Pompeo Leoni: Art and Fame, co-author with Rosario Coppel and Margarita Estella (2013); Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain with Rosario Coppel Aréizaga (2013, paperback 2024); editor, Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy. (2015 and paperback 2021); Co-editor, with Tommaso Mozzati, Artistic Circulations between Early Modern Spain and Italy. (2020); Friends with Benefits: Artists and Friendship in the Early Modern Period, co-edited with Ilaria Andreoli (2025, in press); and Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy (Brepols, 2025).
She has two book projects underway: co-editor, with Lisandra Estevez and Cristina Gonzalez, Artistic Interactions Between, Among, and Across Early Modern America, Italy, and Spain and a monograph on Pompeo Leoni’s Notebooks. She is in the research group: Portrait Medals and Female Power in Renaissance Europe: The Women of the Spanish Monarchy, funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación of the Spanish government, and her work has been supported by the Kress Foundation, the Medici Archive Project, Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, and the Ministero de Cultura y Deportes.
Professor Helmstutler Di Dio teaches a variety of courses on Renaissance and Baroque Art and two courses that bolster the professional development of arts students, How to Get a Job in the Arts and Campus Art Projects.
Courses
ARTH 3000
Publications
Awards and Achievements
Prof. Helmstutler Di Dio won the University's 2016 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award; she was the recipient of an interdisciplinary teaching grant (EEIEE) from the College; and her courses have been featured in Vermont Quarterly, UVM News, and the Center for Teaching and Learning newsletter.
Bio
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio is Executive Director of the School of the Arts, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Art History at the University of Vermont, where she won the George Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award in 2023 and the Kroepsch-Marice Teaching Award in 2016.
In addition to over two dozen essays and articles, she has published Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance (2011); Leone and Pompeo Leoni: Art and Fame, co-author with Rosario Coppel and Margarita Estella (2013); Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain with Rosario Coppel Aréizaga (2013, paperback 2024); editor, Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy. (2015 and paperback 2021); Co-editor, with Tommaso Mozzati, Artistic Circulations between Early Modern Spain and Italy. (2020); Friends with Benefits: Artists and Friendship in the Early Modern Period, co-edited with Ilaria Andreoli (2025, in press); and Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy (Brepols, 2025).
She has two book projects underway: co-editor, with Lisandra Estevez and Cristina Gonzalez, Artistic Interactions Between, Among, and Across Early Modern America, Italy, and Spain and a monograph on Pompeo Leoni’s Notebooks. She is in the research group: Portrait Medals and Female Power in Renaissance Europe: The Women of the Spanish Monarchy, funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación of the Spanish government, and her work has been supported by the Kress Foundation, the Medici Archive Project, Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, and the Ministero de Cultura y Deportes.
Professor Helmstutler Di Dio teaches a variety of courses on Renaissance and Baroque Art and two courses that bolster the professional development of arts students, How to Get a Job in the Arts and Campus Art Projects.
Courses
ARTH 3000
Publications
Awards and Achievements
Prof. Helmstutler Di Dio won the University's 2016 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award; she was the recipient of an interdisciplinary teaching grant (EEIEE) from the College; and her courses have been featured in Vermont Quarterly, UVM News, and the Center for Teaching and Learning newsletter.