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…
Congratulations to Art History MA Student Drita Bruqi Kabashi, who successfully defended her MA Thesis on July 7, 2023. Her thesis is titled “”Critical Fabulation Meets Material Culture: Reimagining Kosova’s Art by Feminist…
With the death of Otto Karl Werckmeister on 7 June, the art history of the New Left has lost one of its most prodigious intellects and imposing personalities. Born in Berlin in 1934,…
On June 6, PhD student Humaira Hossain gave an invited lecture, “An Introduction to Art History Careers: What to do after we graduate,” at the University of Dhaka, where she received her BFA…
Cassandra Smith (PhD 2023) has accepted a Visiting Lecturer position in Contemporary Art, with a particular focus on Indigenous Art, in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.…
Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas Emmanuel Ortega will present a paper titled “From New Spain to Mexico, Belatedness as a Tool of Empire” at the “Belatedness…
Associate Professor of Art History Andrew Finegold presented a paper at the “Vessels Beyond Containment” conference organized by Sinem Casale, Jas Elsner, and Gerhard Wolf at the Kunsthistorisches Institut-Florenz, June 8–9, 2023. The…
Prof. Ömür Harmanşah has co-organized a conference session “Dialogues Across Landscapes: New Challenges to Practicing Landscape Archaeology in Western Asia” at the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meeting, Chicago IL 15-18 November…
Catherine Becker’s article “The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India’s Youngest State” has been published in the May 2023 issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle…
The Department of Art History is delighted to announce the recipients of this year’s prizes for Art History majors. Vae Faulkner, Maegan Resuello, and Haruka Smith have received the John D. McNee Art…
PhD candidate Sarah Rogers Morris has been selected for the Dean’s Scholar Fellowship, which provides funding from UIC’s Graduate College to support dissertation writing in 2023-24. Sarah will work toward completing her dissertation,…
First-year PhD student Humaira Hossain has received the Graduate College’s Award for Graduate Research to support summer research and Urdu language coursework with the American Institute of India Studies in Lucknow, India. Congratulations,…
As art history professors, we have experienced our share of student responses to artworks like the one testified to by Aram Wedatalla, president of the Muslim Student Association at Hamline University: “It hurts…
Associate Professor of Art History Andrew Finegold’s book Vital Voids (University of Texas Press, 2021), was reviewed in the latest issue of the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture: Mollenhauer, Jillian. “Review: Vital…
Raquel Flecha Vega (PhD candidate) has been awarded a fellowship for AY 2023-24 from the Mellon Foundation and the Inter-University Program for Latino Research through UIC’s LALS program to support the completion of…
