“So, tell us about yourself” (An Arts Career Resume/CV Workshop)

Led by Leslie Wilson, Smart Museum Curatorial Fellow, this participatory workshop will holistically focus on resume/CV writing for careers in the arts and provide a forum to discuss the state of the job market during COVID-19. Participants will be required to submit a resume/CV draft and read one set of materials from a fellow student in advance of the workshop. Overall, this forum aims to provide support tailored to applying for your first jobs after graduation. Open to graduating 4th years in Art History and current MAPH students.

Museum Careers Workshop

Are you curious about what it is like to work at a museum or how to begin your museum career? Join members from the Smart Museum’s staff as they speak about their current positions and the serpentine paths of their careers. Speakers will include representatives who work in curatorial, education, registration, exhibition design and coordination, publications, grant writing, and communications.

Rachel Cohen 'Remembers' Museums

During this intense period of closures, uncertainty, and isolation, Rachel Cohen has been reviewing thousands of photos of artworks that she has taken over the last nine years, creating a ‘remembered museum.’ Cohen is a Professor of Practice in the Arts in the creative writing program. Besides frequently teaching courses on writing about art that are cross-listed in art history, she also leads an annual session on writing labels for COSI Fellows at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Spring Design Workshop

Urban Architecture & Design at the University of Chicago presents the Spring Design Workshop, a mini-course to learn and practice your design skills (manual, digital, or both) through a microproject, guided practice, revision & peer critique.

Led by Luke Joyner (lecturer, UAD studios).

RAVE: Victoria Andrews

"The Female Figures in the Margin of the Devasano Pado"

Victoria Andrews, PhD Student, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Andrew Ollett, Assistant Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

RAVE: Andrew Hamilton

Andrew Hamilton, Associate Curator of Arts of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago; Rhoades Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art History

Title and respondent TBA

RAVE: Bermet Nishanova

“Within Context: Chinese Paintings as Genres in the Timurid and Safavid Periods”

RAVE: Maggie Borowitz

“Magali Lara’s Flower Pictures, or: ‘The most conventional thing in the world’”

Bridge Scholar joins 2020-21 Cohort

Congratulations to Bianca Passalacqua-Thon for her admission to the Department of Art History Ph.D. program! 

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