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>.
Isabelle Martin has been awarded the 2019 Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Conference Presentation from the Graduate Student Caucus of the Comics Studies Society for her paper “‘The Weight of Their…
The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, MG+MSUM, 23 to 30 August 2019 This year’s Summer School, organized by…
ANNOUNCEMENT May 7, 2019 The UIC Fine Arts Review Committee is pleased to announce that Chicago artist Christine Tarkowski has been awarded the Engineering Innovation Building public art commission based on her proposal…
Cassy Smith organized “Belongings: A Critical Forum on Museum Practices,” held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on April 26th, with panelists Jenny Davis, Andrea Carlson, Nina Sanders, and Woody…
The Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Summer Academy and Curatorial Fellowship Program is an initiative that aims to make a critical impact on arts leadership across the nation. The Summer Academy is a one-week…
The Society of Architectural Historians has hired Dr. Sarah M. Dreller as its Humanities Research Analyst, a newly created position supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Dreller will be charged with collecting data…
Professor Martha Pollak, Chair of the Department of Art History, has been named inaugural Circle Professor of Art History. Created in February 2019 for the Department of Art History, in the College of…
Finegold, Andrew. “Objects without Texts: Mimbres Painted Bowls and the Problematics of Interpretation.” Art History 42.2 (2019): 216–241. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8365.12438. [publisher’s website]
Elise Archias in her role as chair of the campus Fine Arts Review committee in collaboration with the College of Engineering has organized the “Exhibition of Finalists for the Engineering Innovation Building Sculpture…
Pamela Granda (Art History BA, 2018) has been accepted into the VoluntarItaly Internship program run by the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan (https://www.dantemichigan.org/voluntaritaly/) for Summer 2019. She has also been offered a position…
AAS Annual Conference, March 21–24, 2019, Denver, CO, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel Panel: AIIS Showcase on New Research: Coastal South Asia and its Cultural Connections, 9:00–10:15 AM, March 23rd, Vail, Tower Bldg. https://goo.gl/NtWNK9
Fictions and Frictions: The Power and Politics of Narrative Graduate Art History Student Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign March 1-2, 2019
Bataller, Daniel. “Brazilian Landscape in the Misplaced Modernism of Glauber Rocha’s Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1963).” Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas 11, 1 (2018): 6.
Deepthi Murali, PhD candidate in the Department of Art History, has been selected as one the Fellows for the 2019 Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Workshop.
The Iranian Revolution as a World Event Marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79, which is considered as one of the most significant events of the 20th century, this workshop…