Karen Pope, PhD in the History of Art (University of Texas, 1981), is a specialist in the modern art of Europe and America. She retired in May 2015 from a full-time position on the Baylor University faculty, teaching art history courses in 19th-century European and American Art, the priority of the Allbritton Art Institute.  In addition to three decades of academic teaching, docent training, and informal lecture series, Karen has, since 1995 offered by popular demand, lecture programs, art museum daytrips, and art history-rich study tours in the US and Europe through Art inSight Adventures in Art History.  Her goal is to expand her companions’ understanding of art history, regardless of their backgrounds.

Karen has taught the following classes with Senior University:

• 6 Masterpieces: Method, Meaning, Context
• Just Looking / Art and Architecture
• The Allure of the East: Japan & Western Art, 1860-1920
• Great Art Museums
• Great Art Collectors & Their Collections
• A Primer on Prints
• Arts and Their Depictions of Great Cities—Rome, Venice, London, Paris