History of Art and Architecture faculty and students engage with local collections in a variety of ways. These class activities, object-based encounters and community events represent just a handful of the ways in which we facilitate access and encourage new research.
March 2020
Conversation on Andy Warhol: Revelation at the Warhol
A group of HAA faculty and students participated in a conversation on the Andy Warhol: Revelation exhibition with Chief Curator Jose Carlos Diaz and graduate student Sarah Reiff Connell.
Learn about the exhibition here
February 2018
Conversation on William Henry Fox Talbot at the CMOA
A group of HAA faculty and students participated in a conversation on the William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography exhibition with Dan Leers, Curator of Photography at CMOA and graduate student Krystle Stricklin.
Learn about the exhibition here
January 2018
Curator Koyo Kouoh visited Rivers of Steel
For Jennifer Josten’s Contemporary Art on/and Display graduate seminar, students visited the Rivers of Steel Heritage Area archives with curator Koyo Kouoh, who is participating in the 57th edition of the Carnegie International.
Read more about the visit here
October 2017
Tour of Fahrad Moshiri at The Andy Warhol Museum
A group of students joined Jose Carlos Diaz, Chief Curator of The Andy Warhol Museum and graduate student Golnar Yarmohammad Touski for special tour of the Fahrad Moshiri: Go West exhibition.
Read more about the conversation here
October 2017
Discussion on Marsden Hartley at CMOA
Eric Crosby, Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, participated in a conversation on Marsden Hartley’s painting Sustained Comedy with graduates in the Queer Modernisms seminar.
See the painting here
October 2017
Students respond to Contemporary Craft exhibit
For Approaches to the Built Environment, students visited the Shelter exhibition at Contemporary Craft and then create a site-specific installation in the cloister of the Frick Fine Arts Building that addressed themes in the exhibition.
Learn more about the Shelter exhibition here
October 2017
Thomas Eakins discussion at the CMOA
Hosted by Lulu Lippincott, Curator of Fine Arts, and Jennifer Doyle, Professor, UC Riverside, this gallery discussion explored the sexual politics of Thomas Eakins’ Study for Salutat (1898).
See the painting here
September 2017
Museum Studies Seminar at Special Collections
This year Museum Studies Seminar, led by Professor Shirin Fozi, explores the art of the Nationality Rooms. In preparation for The class visited Special Collections at the Hillman Library to inspect collections that document the development and history of these unique spaces.
Explore Special Collections here
September 2017
Falk Library collection visit
For the Queer Modernisms graduate seminar, this class visited the Rare Books and Special Collections room of the Falk Library of the Health Sciences to inspect a selection of early sexology and psychiatry titles.
Explore the Falk Library here
August 2017
Smog meringues at the GASP Air Fair
Consuming Nature participant Shelby Brewster served smog meringues at the GASP (Group Against Smog and Pollution) Air Fair, held at the Assemble Community Art Space in Garfield.
Read more about this culinary performance here