Drawing together the works of Chicago-based Ukrainian American artists, Anna Kuczma (1910-2002) and her daughter Lialia Kuchma (b. 1943), Side by Side: Color and Textiles situates modern artists’ experiments with color in textile histories, practices, and technologies. To further elucidate these connections, the show also includes quilted and embroidered works by fellow Chicago artists Liz Barr (b. 1993) and Charlie Kolodziej (b.
Museums and the stories that they tell are shaped not only by what is displayed, but by what remains unseen. Collections reside in storage, in the archive, in footnotes, in historiographic obscurity; they endure materially beyond their makers, and accrue and shed meanings over time. Darkness can signal neglect or erasure, but it can also suggest incubation, preservation, resistance, and potential.
Please join us for this year's Global Ancient Art Symposium featuring Department of Art History faculty.
Jas’ Elsner, “Curtains and Pictures from Antiquity Onwards”
Wei-Cheng Lin, "Miniature Clothes from the Crypt of the Faman Pagoda: Modeling the True Body”
Richard Neer, “Surface, Depth and Textiles: Sculptural Scenography”
This one-hour workshop, co-hosted by the Visual Resources Center and Dissertation Office, is designed for PhD students who are preparing to include images (photographs, artwork, and charts) in their dissertations. The session will cover key considerations including copyright and citation requirements, image quality and formatting guidelines, and accessibility standards.
A study by Pew Research Center states that “38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.” This 45-minute workshop, co-hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship and the Department of Art History, explores what’s at stake and how scholars can proactively archive cited web pages so their readers will be able to see the archived webpage even if the original is no longer available.
CWAC Exhibitions invites you to join Chat About to celebrate the opening of their first group show, Weathervanes!
Eleven artists find themselves thrown about by a twenty-first-century storm, distinct in its demands and challenges.