Gao and McCoy Receive Collaborative ASC Grant
Graduate student Naren Gao and Dr. Michelle McCoy have received an Evelyn and Thomas Rawski Graduate Student/Faculty Partnership Grant from the Asian Studies Center. Gao will develop an undergraduate course in collaboration with McCoy, and conduct field research in Inner Mongolia, China, this summer. Learn more on the UCIS website.
Wyatt Curates Upcoming AFAM Exhibition
Graduate student Brooke Wyatt curated the new show, Somewhere to Roost, at the American Folk Art Museum. Opening April 12, 2024, the show explores the ways that artists evoke and construct ideas of “home” – from experiences of immigration and incarceration to visions of home that are inventive and unexpected.
Brownlee and Savage Host a Curator Talk on Artists' Books Exhibit
Chrislynn Brownlee and Eli Savage will host a curator talk on their exhibit, "May Induce an Epiphany”: Artists’ Books on the Future." All books on display deal with the imagination of the future.
Larson Curates Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Ellen Larson (PhD 2022) recently curated the University of Pittsburgh Studio Art faculty exhibition, Neither Here nor There, which opened at the Brew House Gallery on March 21, 2024.
Ptaschinski Presents at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome
On Feb. 22, Claire N. Ptaschinski presented her paper, "Catastrophic Thinking: Picturing Natural Disaster in Quarant’ore Altar Design of 17th-century Rome," at the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome as part of a two-day workshop on Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism in the Early Modern Netherlands and Italy. Ptaschinski's paper formed part of a panel addressing flooding's impact on architectural design in premodern Italy and considered how printed designs for ephemeral Baroque altars reveal an ecological vision of human impermanence in the face of powerful climatic agents.
Bertagnolli Receives SAAM Fellowship
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded Isaiah Bertagnolli the Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. This fellowship will support work on his dissertation "Landscapes of Disarmament: US Antinuclear Arts Activism," which examines the role artists played in the disarmament cause. Bertagnolli will work under the supervision of Dr.
Vuk Vuković Presents at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Vuk Vuković delivered a paper at the 2024 SCMS Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
UAG Featured in NEXTPittsburgh
Boaz Frankel, the host of NEXTpittsburgh's popular segment Yinzer Backstage Pass, visited the Frick Fine Arts building for a tour of the Cloister, University Art Gallery, and the Fine Arts Library. Dr. Sylvia Rhor, Gallery Director, shared the history of the building and its unique architecture.
Giordano Contributes to LARB “Short Take” Series
Graduate student Rebecca Giordano recently reviewed an exhibition of the work of multidisciplinary artist Yoshie Sakai at the Vincent Price Art Museum for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Miramontes Olivas Opens New Show at Schnitzer Museum of Art
Adriana Miramontes Olivas (PhD 2022) recently opened her latest exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art as Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American & Caribbean Art. My Body, My Choice? Art And Reproductive Justice considers bodily autonomy through the work of Nao Bustamante, Judy Chicago, and Alison Saar.
Nygren to Present at Renaissance Society of America
Chris Nygren will present his paper, “Bones of the Earth: Subterranean Materials in The Florentine Studiolo” at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting on March 21, 2024 in Chicago.
Alex Taylor Presents at Business History Conference
Alex Taylor will present his work at the Business History Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, March 14-16, 2024.
Roberts Awarded Lyons Canadian Film Scholarship
Graduate student Emma C. Roberts was awarded The Jeffrey & Sandra Lyons Canadian Film Scholarship in support of work that will engage TIFF's Film Reference Library (FRL). Roberts will have extended access to the resources and collections housed in the FRL as she continues to develop research on Allan King’s 1983 film Who’s in Charge? Read more about the scholarship on the Toronto International Film Festival's website.
Georgina Laube to present at the University of Szczecin, Poland
In March, Georgina Laube (HAA 2020) will present her paper titled “The Silent Narratives: Investigating the Impact of Absent Bodies in Memorial Photography” at the “Legal Bodies, Embodied Subjects: (Re)contextualizations of Physicality” conference hosted by the University of Szczecin in Poland.
Maxwell Gives Talk at Kent State University
On February 2, 2024, Andrea Maxwell led a graduate student workshop and gave a public lecture titled, "Symbolic Violence and the Jew in Premodern Italian Art," at Kent State University as part of the School of Art's Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series.