About

Rebekah Utian is an art historian, writer, and artist whose interests live somewhere between the archive and the everyday.

She holds a Master’s in Art History and a Graduate Certificate in Public Humanities and Civic Engagement from Case Western Reserve University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History, Studio Art, and Italian from Kenyon College. Her work has been supported by the Cleveland Foundation, the Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities, and the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Institute for Art History. 

Her training in art history has shaped a fascination with the lives of objects: where they come from, why we find certain things beautiful, and the stories that transform everyday objects into keepsakes. She is the writer behind Slowly Slowly, a new and growing Substack about style, travel, culture, and the art of living well. Her writing has also appeared in a number of contemporary art journals, where she has written about exhibitions including the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Renaissance to Runway and Everlasting Plastics, the U.S. Pavilion of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. 

Rebekah is increasingly drawn to fashion and brand history, bringing an art historian’s instinct for research and a writer’s eye for storytelling to the histories behind the brands, designers, objects, and visual worlds that continue to shape how we dress and see the world.