We study the art, architecture, and visual culture of the global past and present to understand our world today and create better futures. We adopt a capacious definition of art that explores all human creativity, regardless of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, or ability. Our mission is to expand our field which has entrenched an elitist and exclusionary worldview.
The Frick Fine Arts Library has an outstanding research collection containing over 90,000 volumes.
The University Art Gallery (UAG) is an open, flexible, and immersive laboratory for studying and displaying how art and visual objects generate knowledge and understanding of the world.
The Constellations at the University of Pittsburgh are hubs of innovative practice that unite faculty and students across subfields in the Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh fosters opportunities for collaboration between Pitt faculty, students, and the local cultural sector.
The Visual Media Workshop is a humanities lab focused on the investigation of material and visual culture.
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Bai and McCoy present on transcultural exchange in Eastern Eurasian religious art at MARAAS
HAA graduate student Mengtian Bai (presenter) and faculty member Micki McCoy (discussant) jointly participated in the panel, "Negotiating Foreignness: Rethinking Religious Art within and beyond East Asia, 12th-17th Centuries," at the Mid
Students Explore African and Diasporic Dance with Legacy Arts Project’s Erin Perry
On October 16, Erin Perry, executive director of the Legacy Arts Project, led a dynamic workshop for students students enrolled in the course Arts of Africa.
Copeland Contributes Interview to Echo Delay Reverb Exhibition Catalog
An interview with Professor Huey Copeland was published on October 17, 2025 in the catalog for the exhibition Echo Delay Reverb: American Art, French Thought, on view through February 2026 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.