Meet the Founders

Dr. Cortney Chaffin Kim
cortney@artsq.org

Dr. Heather Graham
heather@artsq.org

Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
lauren@artsq.org

We want to take you on an adventure.

Founded in 2023, we created ARTSQ to instill a lifelong love of art, archaeology, and history in everyone. We recognized a need to ignite interest in our shared human history worldwide in quirky and creative ways, such as discovering cultures through cats, mythical creatures, technologies, and other cool stuff. To make history come alive, we believe learning should be fun and accessible. Looking closely at art is a way to open portals into other places and understand other people. This is why we also use beautiful images and graphics to excite curiosity.

Our goal is to guide learners to ask their own questions and to develop important critical thinking skills about world cultures today and in the past.

Our story

Lauren’s pick of the month!

My choice

Persimmons, attributed to Muqi (Chinese, active 13th century), ink on paper, hanging scroll, made originally in China, Collection of Daitokuji Ryokoin Temple

Why I like it

It is beautiful in person. Photographs don’t do justice to it. Seeing it firsthand made me appreciate how difficult it would have been to paint so quickly yet vividly.