Pitt Students Present Public Sculpture Tour at Hartwood Acres
Three Museum Studies students presented a two-hour walking tour of the Carol R. Brown Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres Park on Saturday, August 12, 2023.
Alison Langmead Receives Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring
Dr. Alison Langmead is the recipient of the 2023 Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring. This award recognizes the considerable efforts and effective mentorship of members of graduate faculty across all divisions of the Dietrich School. Her achievement will be honored at an awards ceremony on September 14, 2023. Learn more about the graduate mentoring awards on the DSAS website.
Krystle Stricklin Appointed Assistant Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Krystle Stricklin (PhD 2022) has been appointed Assistant Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Prior to this position, Stricklin was the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Curatorial Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Fava-Piz Appointed Assistant Curator at Denver Art Museum
Clarisse Fava-Piz (PhD 2021) was recently announced as the Assistant Curator of European and American Art before 1900 at the Denver Art Museum.
Castro Co-Curates “Sitting on Chrome” at SFMOMA
Maria Castro (PhD 2020) recently co-curated Sitting on Chrome, a new three-person exhibition at SFMOMA.
Kirk Savage and Beyond Granite: Pulling Together Exhibition Featured in Pittwire
Kirk Savage, HAA professor, was featured recently in Pittwire for his work on Monument Lab, a nonprofit that "facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments".
Statement by Sylvia Rhor, Director of the University Art Gallery
When the University Art Gallery (UAG) was founded decades ago, it followed the colonial model of so many other museums and galleries, a model premised on Eurocentrism — a polite term for white supremacy. While the UAG has deliberately moved away from this model, and we have sought to contest its legacy in our programs and exhibitions, we have not done enough. We must do better, we must do more, and we must do this now.