Associate Professor Andrew Finegold’s website, Ancient Americas, Appropriated, is now live! Created, in part, with an Award for Creative Activity in the Fine, Performing, and Applied Arts from UIC’s Offices of the Chancellor,…
Congratulations to Nora James, who has just filed her MA thesis, on accepting a position as Associate Curator of Learning and Public Programs at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI!…
Nora James finished all requirements and filed her thesis this week, “Alternative Access: Description, Care, and Empathy in the Work of Andy Slater and Carmen Papalia.” Summary: This project considers a common trait of…
The Department of Art History is delighted to welcome Dr. Macarena Deij Prado as Visiting Lecturer in Arts of the Americas for the 2024-25 academic year. Dr. Deij Pardo has just received her…
UIC PhD Student Ayrika Hall has recently been awarded a pop-up gallery space for the black arts collective she formed, Black Artists Network, located in West Town as part of the West Town…
Undergraduate art history majors Maya Clary and Sara Moore are the inaugural recipients of the Robert Munman Award for Student Research in Art History. Maya will use her award to conduct a critical…
UIC’s Department of Art History congratulates our 2024 graduating majors: Justin Ayvar Jailine Gomez-Mendoza Alanis Johnson Megan Magennis Jessica Ramirez Isabella Solis Henry Tegethoff We are proud of you, and we wish you…
Among the Graduate College’s Spring 2024 awardees are two members of the Art History department: Leslie Wooden (PhD Candidate) is a recipient of the Dean’s Scholar Fellowship. Bert Geyer (PhD Student) is a…
Substantive democracy on campus — in which students, faculty members, and staff are meaningful participants in the governance of the university — is the only way to realize the values of academic freedom…
UIC’s Art History Graduation Student Association has published the first issue of Et Al: A Graduate Student Zine. The inaugural issue, “Intervention!,” features contributions from current graduate students in the Art History and…
Overall, one third of Britons say their job is not making a meaningful contribution to the world In 2015, a YouGov study found that 37% felt that their job “is not making a…
No War but the Class War Historical Materialism and Institute for the Radical Imagination Conference May 31 – June 2 New York 2024 @ Long Island University – Brooklyn The ongoing proliferation of…
The department of Art History is proud to announce that Riad Kherdeen will be coming to join us in the fall as a Bridge-to-Faculty Scholar. Riad, who is completing his PhD at Berkeley…
The University of Illinois Chicago Art History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA) is thrilled to extend an invitation for paper submissions for the upcoming Graduate Student Symposium: A Planetary Art History: Critical Engagement with…
UIC Art History majors Justin Ayvar and Dylan Lubiak have been selected as the recipients of the 2024 John D. McNee Award. This prize is awarded annually to graduating Art History majors who…
19th Century Photography Workshop ‘After Daguerreotypes’ Unknown maker; attributed to William L. Zuber, Untitled (Daguerreotype Studio and Russel & Co Livery Stable, Mokelumne Hill, California), 1852. In the history of photography, daguerreotypes seem to…
Undergraduate Art History major Karol Ramirez has been selected to take part in this summer’s weeklong McMullan Family Foundation Summer Intensive at the Art Institute of Chicago. More information about this program can…
Emmanuel Ortega, Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in the Art of the Spanish Americas, has been selected as a 2024–25 Faculty Fellow at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities. Emmanuel will be working…
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign’s 2024 Graduate Art History Symposium, titled “Perpetual Upkeep: Intersections of Art and Maintenance” (April 4-5, 2024)
Prof. Ömür Harmanşah is participating this week in a Colloquium/Workshop titled “Riverine: A Multispecies Approach to Decolonizing Landscapes” at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington DC) (March 25-29, 2024). Dumbarton Oaks Research Library…
Ionit Behar (PhD, 2022), Curator at the DePaul Art Museum, is profiled in this week’s issue of the Chicago Reader. Writer, Ally Fouts, describes her as “an invaluable pillar in the city’s abundant…
Emmanuel Ortega, Assistant Professor and Marilyn Thoma Scholar in Art of the Spanish Americas, speaks with the Chicago Reader’s Coco Picard about his work curating the show, “Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium,” on…
Congratulations to Amy Galpin (PhD, 2012) on beginning a new position as the executive director of Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art and Design! More information on her brilliant post-UIC career can be…
The Chicago Tribune has published art critic Lori Waxman’s review of “Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium,” an exhibition curated by Emmanuel Ortega, Assistant Professor of Art History and Marilyn Thoma Scholar in Art…
Kultura: Endi Vorhol, od supe kao simbola pobune do Olimpijskih igara u Sarajevu Dejana Vukadinović BBC novinarka 22 februar 2024 https://www.bbc.com/serbian/lat/svet-68348912
Look to the skies for the art of Hai-Wen Lin. Using materials such as sunlight, sweat, and a shivering body alongside more conventional ones such as silk and cotton, Lin’s kite works are…
Art History PhD candidate Maggie Schuster has been awarded an inaugural Fellowship for International Research from UIC’s Graduate College. This award of $12,500 will support dissertation research in India. Maggie’s dissertation, “Living Rooms:…
Congratulations to Drita Bruqi Kabashi (MA in Art History, 2023) who just published a peer reviewed article in the inaugural issue of peer reviewed journal Kosova Anthropologica. The title of her contribution is…
Art History alumna Caroline Fernald (BA, 2011) has been named the new Director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. An announcement of her new role can be read in The Harvard…
Abstract Melvin Edwards made his first abstract sculptures at the beginning of the contemporary period in the early 1960s, but the ways he held on formally to a modern notion of “interiority” in…
Several current Art History students and one alumna were recipients of Graduate College awards during the Fall 2023 semester. These include the following: Hannah Gadbois (PhD Candidate), Provost’s Graduate Research Award Josh Gomez-Ortega…
PhD Student Jacki Putnam has published an article titled “Nothing Comes from Nothing: Photographic Reinterpretations of Mesoamerican Codices” in volume XV of the journal Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, produced by graduate…
Professor Ömür Harmanşah (Director of the School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor in Art History) secured a $180K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, announced in UIC Today…
Kaveh Rafie introduced Pamela Karimi who gave a talk in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition co-courted by Yasaman Moussavi and Elmira Sarreshtehdari at Artspeaks, Vancouver, for the first anniversary of Mahsa Jina uprising.…
Danish artist gave a museum empty frames. Why it’s more than just a stunt. Conceptual artist Jens Haaning intended the works to be a commentary on capitalism; the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art…
Film Screening and Discussion Thursday, September 21st, 6:00 p.m. 22 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014 The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art (IAIA) invites you to join us for a screening of…
The Chicago History Museum has featured students from Art History 180 in their summer issue of Chicago History: “A fall 2022 Introduction to Museum and Exhibition Studies class at the University of Illinois…
Please join the Department of Art History in congratulating our alumnus Jeffrey Campbell (MA, 2008) on the publication of his new cookbook, Jeff the Homo Chef. Order your copy today!
Associate Professor Emerita Virginia Miller has co-authored two new articles: Vera Tiesler and Virginia E. Miller. “Head, Skulls, and Sacred Scaffolds: New Studies on Ritual Body Processing and Display in Chichen Itza and Beyond.” Ancient Mesoamerica vol.…
MA Student Drita Bruqi Kabashi performed “A Trojan Woman” as part of The Region of Attica Interbalkan Festival of Ancient Drama in an ancient theater building in Athens (July 4-7, 2023). This one…
Professor Ömür Harmanşah just published a book chapter in Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times Coloniality, Climate Change, and Covid-19, edited by Nick Shepherd and published by Routledge (July 2023). Professor Harmanşah’s chapter is…
