WEFT presents the work of 20th century women weavers who worked out of The Little Loomhouse in Louisville, Kentucky. The Little Loomhouse (1939-present) is a system of cabins in Louisville, Kentucky that was established as a weaving studio, gallery space, and meeting place for Kentucky weavers.
Associate Professor Niall Atkinson, has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the multi-university digital research platform called Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society.
“Individuals can use our data to build their own datasets and make their own arguments and publications—print or digital,” said Atkinson, project director for Florence Illuminated and associate professor in the Departments of Art History and Romance Languages and Literatures.
We are pleased to announce the launch of CWAC Voices, an online journal for art criticism and exhibition reviews written in UChicago classes.
Associate Director of the Visual Resources Center, Bridget Madden, has been awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Humanities Division. Madden provides support and resources not only to the Art History department, but to the entire humanities and arts community.
Roko Rumora, Ph.D. student in ancient art, has been selected for the Center for Curatorial Leadership’s 2024 Mellon Foundation Seminar.
We are thrilled to share our junior art history major Arnie Campa has won a Beinecke Fellowship for graduate study following her BA work at UChicago. The program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Congratulations to Natalie Jenkins on being awarded this year’s T.
We are happy to share that Christian Scheidemann, who teaches our Suzanne Deal Booth Conservation Seminar, is featured in Spike Magazine. This article provides a great overview of his conservation practice and work with contemporary artists.
Initiated in 2007 by artist Tania Bruguera along with a committee of other University of Chicago members, the Open Practice Committee (OPC) invites artists, critics, and curators of contemporary art to address the campus community to explore the atmospheres and attitudes that make art contemporary.
In this conversation, three curators—Mark Pascale, Art History PhD student Stephanie Strother, and Kathryn Cua—discuss the exhibition Four Chicago Artists: Theodore Halkin, Evelyn Statsinger, Barbara Rossi, and Christina Ramberg and explore how these four iconic artists shaped the visual culture of Chicago.