They used to outfit performers on Chicago’s theater stages, but today costume fabricators from across the city are making patient masks for health care settings in the fight against COVID-19 as part of…
AH alumna and current graduate student at the University of Washington, Lillian Xie (BA 2019), will demonstrate how to cook tea eggs this Wednesday, April 16 from 4:00-5:00 as part of the Global…
In the activity, students are asked to read a short passage on Matthias Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-1516), and then choose another piece on a disease or pandemic to analyze. Then, they are asked…
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To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing)…
Join LAS GANAS to discuss fellowship opportunities and career possibilities for after graduation. Join them this Thursday, April 2nd at 12pm by using the following link: https://bit.ly/2JrnY4s
As a postdoctoral research fellow at George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the Department of History and Art History, Deepthi Murali will be working on multiple collaborative digital history…
Michael Sorkin, the noted architectural critic and intellectual powerhouse behind Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform, has passed away due to complications resulting from COVID-19. https://archinect.com/news/article/150191096/michael-sorkin-visionary-and-incisive-architect-educator-critic-has-passed-away-from-covid-19
See “The omnivore paradox,” Josephine Livingstone’s TLS review of Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts by Jennifer C. Lena. Also reviewed: Nathalie Olah, Steal as Much as You Can: How to…
This fall Karen Greenwalt (PhD candidate) will join the Department of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History at Oklahoma State University as Assistant Professor of Art History and Criticism. Karen will teach classes…
Mirela Tanta is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Millikin University. In 2014, she earned her doctorate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago for her dissertation titled: Propaganda or Resistance: Socialist Realism in Romania 1972-1989. Mirela…
During the unprecedented crisis we want everyone to know that the UIC pantry will open every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4 PM for the remainder of the semester. Don’t forget bring your I-Card!…
KEY POINTS Democrats on Monday unveiled legislation that would forgive at least $30,000 in student debt for borrowers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Proposals to help people with student debt during the crisis are…
R.I.P Maurice Berger, 63; Historian, Writer. Of Coronavirus. We have been told that we may not die but we will all know someone who has. Maurice Berger, Historian Who Fearlessly Called Out Art-World…
Governor JB Pritzker is looking for people under 30 to be election judges on Tuesday to allow some elder election judges to stay home. 5am-7pm – $200. Share this. https://cookcountyclerk.com/agency/election-judges
Art History Major Kaelyn Andrade has received the first Art History Undergraduate Research and Travel Award for her research trip to San Luis Potosi, Soledad de Graciano Sanchez, Mexico to visit the churches…
An interview Ionit Behar did with DIGNICRAFT, an art collective from Tijuana, was just published in the journal FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism.
Art History PhD candidate Katja Rivera has curated the exhibition, “Harold Mendez: The Years Now,” at the Logan Center Art Gallery, where Katja is assistant curator. Los Angeles–based artist Harold Mendez brings together…
Dr. Virginia Miller, professor emerita of art history, will give the keynote address at the 43rd Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory at Northeastern Illinois University. Her talk, “Bones, Heads, and Eyes:…
Associate Professor Elise Archias has joined the editorial board of *nonsite.org,* an online, open access, peer-reviewed quarterly journal of scholarship in the humanities, plus poetry, editorials, reviews, visual art and more.
Alkebuluan Merriweather, Art History BA (2019), will be featured in “Juice: A Black Artist Showcase” by Fulton Street Collective (1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 307, Chicago, IL 60612). Fri, March 13, 2020, 6:00 PM…
UIC Art History alumna Monica Obniski (PhD, 2015) has been named Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. https://www.artforum.com/news/high-museum-of-art-names-monica-obniski-curator-of-decorative-arts-and-design-82193
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The UIC Heritage Garden Student Group is currently seeking upcoming Sophomore and Junior undergraduate UIC students, (or undergraduate students that can commit to this program up to four semesters) for…
My name is Colin Buist and I am a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I am writing on behalf of my colleagues at SAIC and the University of…
West compared the Sanders campaign to a Rembrandt painting. “It’s hard to find more humanity on the canvas than Rembrandt. ‘The Jewish Bride.’ You all know ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son.’ All…
Numerous members of UIC’s Department of Art History will be participating in the College Art Association’s 108th Annual Conference in Chicago, February 12–15, 2020. All events take place at the Hilton Chicago (720…
Numerous studies have shown that art and music can help soothe chronic pain, stave off symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and accelerate brain development in young children. Now, there is evidence that simply being exposed to the arts…
Isabelle Martin and Sarah Davis earn their MA degrees in three semesters. Isabelle Martins’s thesis is titled “The Question of Answerability in Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black and The Birmingham Project.” Sarah Davis’s…
Art History alum Catherine Burdick (PhD, 2010) was interviewed by the Hispanic American Historical Review. Presently an assistant professor of Art History at the Centro de Investigación en Artes y Humanidades, Facultad de Artes,…
Art History PhD student Maggie Schuster has received the Graduate College’s Award for Graduate Research to support fieldwork this summer in Delhi, India. In preparation for her dissertation on Mughal architecture, Maggie will…
Doctoral candidate Daniel Sánchez Bataller will be presenting a paper at the International Conference, Arts and Models of Democracy in Post-Authoritarian Iberian Peninsula, at the University of Huddersfield, UK, November 28–29, 2019. https://intlconference.wixsite.com/art-demo-iberianpen
MA student Isabelle Martin (second from left) was the recipient of a Fall 2019 President’s Research in Diversity Travel Award. The award supported her travel to the Twelfth Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate…
This person in the streets of Santiago de Chile is holding a poster with the message: “Monthly Pension $53,447 [$76 USD]. I pay electric, water, gas. I suffer and my stomach suffers too.…
PhD Candidate Alisa Swindell has been appointed as a curatorial research assistant at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, where she will be focusing on an upcoming exhibition opening in Winter 2021.…
Art History major Jacqueline Valdez has played a major role in organizing the exhibition “Reclaim” at Awakenings Gallery as part of her internship there. The opening will take place on Friday, October 11th,…
Please join The 5th Floor Gallery on Friday, September 6th, 2019, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm to celebrate the opening of CASA. Light refreshments will be served. The 5th Floor Gallery is located at 400 S. Peoria…
Aug. 30—Notes from the Field, Members of the department share insights and observations from their travels Sept. 6—Daniel Bataller (Doctoral Candidate, UIC Dept. of Art History), “Art and the Specter of Fascism in…
University of Illinois at Chicago’s Department of Art History seeks to hire an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Art History beginning in January 2020. The successful applicant will complement the existing strengths of the…
“Melvin Edwards Between Culture and Art” Sunday June 23, 5 p.m. UIC (room TBD) Here is a link to the full schedule <http://www.marxistliterary.org/schedule>. And, link to conference registration <http://www.marxistliterary.org/membershipregistration>.
