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University Art Gallery Wins UPSIDE Award

The UAG has received a $10,000 award as part of a University Prize for Strategic, Inclusive and Diverse Excellence (UPSIDE).

Barbara McCloskey Participates in Holocaust Educational Foundation Seminars

In December, Barbara McCloskey was an invited fellow of the Holocaust Education Foundation and will be serving as a seminar leader this summer.

UAG Director participates in #NotWhiteCollective's In Dialogue Series

UAG Director Sylvia Rhor will be a guest in the In-Dialogue series presented by the #notwhitecollective in partnership with City of Asylum on January 10th at 6pm.

Jennifer Josten Moderates Conversation at The Warhol

Jennifer Josten will moderate a conversation titled Art in Context: Expanding Art History at the Warhol on January 28, 2022.

Sylvia Rhor publishes article on Maxo Vanka's Millvale Murals

UAG Director Sylvia Rhor Samaniego publishes "Gift to America: Maxo Vanka and the Millvale Murals" in the Winter 2022 issue of Pennsylvania Heritage.

HAA seeks its next Mellon Chair, a modern or contemporary historian of African, African American, or African Diasporic Art

The Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh seeks to appoint a historian to the Andrew W. Mellon Chair.

Karla Huebner Wins Czechoslovak Studies Association Book Prize

Alum Karla Huebner's book Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) has won the biennial Czechoslovak Studies Association book prize.

Adriana Miramontes Awarded 2021 Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award

The Graduate committee is delighted to announce that Adriana Miramontes has been awarded this year’s Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award.

Prof. Nygren lecture at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome - December 6th

Spanish colonization introduced a host of artistic materials into European workshops. This research seminar examines the artistic, ecological, and spiritual stakes that motivated several European painters to use obsidian from the Americas as the substrate for their devotional paintings.