Friends of Frick Fine Arts
The Friends of Frick Fine Arts help support special grants, awards, and activities for both the graduate and undergraduate programs in History of Art and Architecture. The support of the Friends is crucial in enabling students to see works of art and architecture in the original and to understand the cultures in which those works were made. With the help of Friends funds our graduate students have delivered papers at conferences around the country and have undertaken significant research or study trips to Europe and Asia. In the future we hope to devote more Friends resources to underwriting field trips for undergraduates, to expanding our annual awards programs, and to undertaking new initiatives.
Examples of beneficiaries of the Friends fund include:
- Third-year graduate student Julia Finch used a small Friends grant to help defray the costs of fieldwork at Chartres Cathedral in France, where she was able to work first-hand with medieval images of female readers, in stained glass and manuscripts - a topic that will form the core of her dissertation.
- PhD candidate Naoko Gunji used a Friends grant to help spend the summer in Japan working in local archives to investigate the role of portrait imagery and architectural space in the rituals of death and pacification at the medieval imperial temple of Amidaji.
- Friends funds helped PhD candidate Miguel Rojas deliver a paper at the national meeting of the Latin American Studies Association.
If you would like to support the Friends of Frick Fine Arts, feel free to contact the department chair, Kirk Savage, at 412-648-2405 or ksa@pitt.edu. To be included on our mailing list, contact Emily Schantz (ets2@pitt.edu).
It is now possible to donate online. When viewing the online donation site, please fill in general contact information on the first page. On the second page, please check the box "The Friends of Frick Fine Arts Gift Fund" to ensure that your donation is received.