Kale Serrato Doyen Receives A&S GSO Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award
Kale Serrato Doyen has been awarded the 2024 A&S GSO Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award that acknowledges excellence in graduate student teaching across the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences. This award is presented to three graduate students nominated by faculty, fellow graduate students, and undergraduates, and includes a monetary prize of $500. The award is named after Elizabeth Baranger, former Dean and, later, Vice-Provost of the School of Arts & Sciences.
Presentations from HAA community at SECAC 2024
Faculty, alumni and graduate students from HAA feature in the program at the 80th annual SECAC conference held this year in Atlanta.
Villela Balderrama Writes About Incorporating AI Into an Asian Art History Course
Marisol Villela Balderrama's essay "Incorporating AI Into an Asian Art History Course" appeared in AI Bites, the website [blog?] of the Dietrich Graduate AI Innovation and Networking Series (GAINS). It details her pedagogical approach to incorporating AI in a summer 2024 edition of the HAA course "Introduction to Asian Art."
Read the complete essay here: https://www.dsgains.pitt.edu/incorporating-ai-asian-art-history-course
Adriana Miramontes Olivas Curates Exhibition on Democracy and Justice
Featuring works by Doris Salcedo, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Carlos Castro Arias, and Oscar Muñoz, Dr. Miramontes Olivas questions dictatorial governments, authoritarian tendencies, censorship, disappearance, and political repression. In artworks by Voluspa Jarpa, Luis Camnitzer, and Regina Jose Galindo the exhibit examines U.S. interventions in other countries and CIA backed-up regimes, while Valaria Tatera and other artists in the exhibit focus on gender violence, racism, and police brutality.
Taylor Participates in Panel on Art in Architecture
On October 1, 2024, the Arts and Humanities Center at the University of Oklahoma will host Alex Taylor in a panel discussion at the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West.
Titled Art in Architecture: Perspectives from Twentieth-Century American Art History, the event will also feature Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland) and Emily Warner (University of Oklahoma).
López Presents “Serigrafía para la comuniversidad” at the Humanities Center
Hosted by the Humanities Center, graduate fellow, Janina López, will discuss the history of screen-printing as a primary medium of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), an activist collective of artists formed in 1969 at California State University, Sacramento. Screen-printing, a process of pushing ink through a stencil onto a surface, was prioritized by artists of the Chicano Movement given the medium’s relative accessibility and persuasive aesthetics combining image and text. This event will be hybrid, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom.
Vukovic Presents "Art Beyond Borders: The Global Networks of Satellite Art (1984–1988)"
Hosted by the Humanities Center and graduate fellow, Vuk Vuković. Respondents include Mark Collins from the Geology and Environmental Science department and Joshua Ellenbogen from the History of Art and Architecture department. This event will be hybrid, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as you prefer.
Taylor Presents “Selling National Treasures” at the Humanities Center
Alex Taylor will discuss enterprising curators of American decorative arts in the 1950s who began licensing and selling three-dimensional reproductions of objects in their care as a way to generate museum revenue. These reproduction programs helped promote their collections and, more broadly, boost middle-class tastes for antiques. Among the businesses that would capitalize on this growing market was Sears, Roebuck, and Co., which launched their own range of some 500 “authentic reproductions” in 1966.
Sarah Bromberg Receives Medieval Academy of America Grant
Sarah Bromberg has been awarded the Olivia Remie Constable grant from the Medieval Academy of America. With this funding, Sarah traveled to the Newberry Library to examine woodcuts in illustrated biblical commentaries and a world chronicle in order to work on a chapter for her book project, Jewish Art and Exegesis for Christian Eyes: The Reception of Nicholas of Lyra’s Illustrated Biblical Commentary (1335-c. 1800).
Alex J. Taylor Presents on George Rickey at Institute of Fine Arts
On September 27, 2024, Taylor will present at a symposium on the American sculptor George Rickey (1907-2002) at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His paper is titled "Peripatetic Before Kinetic: George Rickey as Artist-in-Residence."
HAA Welcomes Huey Copeland as Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Modern Art and Black Study
Dr. Huey Copeland is widely recognized as a leader in the fields of global modern and contemporary art, specializing in visual cultures of the African diaspora, Europe, and the United States.
Rajagopalan Co-Authors Writing in Kinship on Platform
Whom do you think of as your closest fellow traveler in your academic journey? This is the question Mrinalini Rajagopalan and Shundana Yusaf, assistant professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Utah, discuss at in Writing in Kinship. Read more at Platform website.
Sahar Hosseini Presents at the "Glass in the Islamic World" Symposium
Sahar Hosseini presents at the "Glass in the Islamic World: 19th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society." The symposium, organized by Vitrocentre Romont in Switzerland, aimed to stimulate the study of glass in the fields of art history and archaeology of the Islamic world by presenting ongoing research that addresses art historical, architectural, archaeological, as well as material, technical, and socio-cultural aspects.
Sahar Hosseini Consulted on the "Treasured Ornaments" Exhibition
Sahar Hosseini served as a consultant for "Treasured Ornaments: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art", an exhibition on display at the Frick Museum of Pittsburgh from August 17 to October 20, 2024. Curated from the Joseph and Omaya Touma Collection at the Huntington Museum, the exhibition reflects the couple's deep passion for art as a means of fostering goodwill, peace, and intercultural understanding. The objects on display represent a diverse array of cultures, regions, and time periods, spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to South Asia, and covering over a millennium of history.
HAA Presentations at Pitt Momentum Funds Internal Showcase
Two projects from faculty in the Department of History of Art and Architecture will be featured at the 2024 funding showcase for the Pitt Momentum Funds. They are Drew Armstrong, who will present his project titled "The Cathedral of Learning: A New Vision for the American University" and Alex Taylor and Sylvia Rhor Samaniego, who will discuss their project "Beyond the Rust Belt: Reinterpreting Labor and Land in the UAG Collection."