History Of Art And Design Blog
Oct 26 2011
Faculty: Matthew Burger and Jeff Kapec
In a project for the senior studio, Making Meaning Joe Kent and Sally Ann Corn created a project called Street Eats. This was an extensive research/3D project that involved redesigning the NY street food cart, which led to a ‘real world’ project of redesigning a fleet of mobile information carts for…READ MORE...
Jul 25 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2011 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference on Money/Myths at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, March 3-6, 2011
Proposal for special Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) panel The Art of Cultural Capital, Julie Codell, Arizona State University
Papers for his panel will explore strategies used by 19th-century artists to shape, define…READ MORE...
May 27 2010
During the past academic year our students have obtained outstanding internships with major museums and other non-profit organizations. For the first time, one of our graduate students interned at the Neue Galerie for the Administrative Manager and was involved in a range of activities that included translation from German to English and registration and curatorial assistance…READ MORE...
May 20 2010
Sarah Wilkins (MS 2004 and Pratt in Venice alumna), now in the Ph.D. program in Art History at Rutgers, has been granted a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Italy in 2010-11. Wilkins wrote her masters paper under the direction of Diana Gisolfi on the Franciscan Magdalen Chapel at Assisi, and in her doctoral research, under…READ MORE...
May 20 2010
The Institute for Advanced Study is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Each year scholars from around the world apply to come to the Institute to pursue their own research. Those who are chosen are offered a…READ MORE...
May 14 2010
On May 14 at the 45th annual Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Professor Mary D. Edwards became president of the 14th-century Society, an interdisciplinary group that investigates the culture of Europe between the years 1300 and 1400.
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May 07 2010
Professor Marsha Morton has curated an exhibition of contemporary art in Westchester. Titled "Looking Back: Forty Years at the Pelham Art Center," the show, accompanied by a small catalogue, creates a visual institutional history by assembling previously exhibited multimedia artworks. The Center was begun in 1970 as part of the centennial activities of the Metropolitan…READ MORE...
May 04 2010
28th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium
Department of Art History
The Florida State University
October 22 & 23, 2010
The Art History faculty and graduate students of Florida State University invite students working towards an MA or PhD to submit abstracts of paper for presentation at the Twenty-Eigth Annual Art History…READ MORE...