Objectified: Methods in Environmental Humanities
February 5, 2024–February 23, 2024
Jenny Harris curating “Art of the Obama Years”
The Logan Center for the Arts announced today the exhibition Longer than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years, conceived and curated by doctoral candidate Jenny Harris and on view from July 10 until October 11. The exhibition is organized on the occasion of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, designed like UChicago’s Logan Center by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and located down the street.
VMPEA: Dongmei Liu
We cordially invite you to join us on Wednesday, May 27 for our last VMPEA workshop this spring. Please note the date change. The time and location will be announced soon. This workshop features:
Dongmei Liu
Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History, UChicago | Professor, Institute of Tibetan Studies, Minzu University of China
Who will be presenting the paper titled:
Seonghee Ha Receives Liu Cong Memorial Prize
We are proud to announce that Art History PhD student Seonghee Ha is the recipient of the 2026 Liu Cong Memorial Prize for the Best Essay on East Asian Art and Visual Culture.
VMPEA: Yanlong Guo
“The Affordances of the Ji 几 Furniture in Ancient China"
Yanlong Guo
Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Associate Professor of Art, Smith College
Discussant: Sizhao Yi
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Art History, UChicago
PhD Student Jessie Alperin Receives Booth Teaching Award
We are proud to announce Art History PhD student Jessie Alperin has received the 2026 Wayne C. Booth Prize for Excellence in Teaching for her work in courses such as “Introduction to Art" and "Introduction to Modern Japanese Art" and recently “Global Art Nouveau,” the standalone course she created herself.
Joint BA/MAPHer Lucia Rathke heading to AIC’s Department of Provenance Research
Following her graduation with joint BA and MAPH degrees in art history in June, Lucia Rathke will be joining the Department of Provenance Research at the Art Institute of Chicago as the Ambassador Nicolas M. Salgo Fund Research Associate. Focused on the AIC’s collections connected to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states, Lucia will work to identify relevant objects and review related curatorial files, archival records, and any existing provenance documentation.
Opening Celebrating for ‘Side by Side: Color and Textiles'
CWAC Exhibitions invites you to join the curators and artists to celebrate the opening of Side by Side: Color and Textiles with jubilation, curator-led object chats, and a reception.