On a sunny Saturday in November, nine students travelled to Greencastle, Indiana to see the exhibition Beyond: Tapestry Expanded at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University. The exhibition, curated by Erica Warren, featured works, by thirty-six contemporary artists, that examine and interrogate the denotative and connotative potential of "tapestry" as a well-used, and seemingly well-known, designation.
Roko Rumora, Ph.D. student in ancient art, has been appointed as assistant curator of ancient art at The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA). The Toledo Museum of Art was established in 1901 to share the transformative power of art with the community.
CWAC Exhibitions invites you to join the makers and curators of How We See to celebrate the opening of this exhibition with conversations, merriment, and a light reception!&
How We See is a course-based exhibition that encourages students to draw from their own lives, seeking out things that spark their interest, observing and reflecting on them, and completing a project through images and text.
Students travel to New York City as part of COSI Seminar, “Exhibition as Argument: Displaying Modern and Contemporary Art in Chicago and Beyond.”
Theorising the Artist Interview, fresh off the press from Routledge, features a chapter, as well as cover art created, by college and doctoral alumna Zsofi Valyi-Nagy. Edited by UK-based art historians Lucia Farinati and Jennifer Thatcher, the volume’s essays theorize the artist interview as a form of cultural production and embrace it as a critical practice co-constructed by interviewer and interviewee. Zsofi's chapter, "Herstory or mine?
We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture as part of the 2024-25 Smart Lecture series. The lecture is Tuesday, May 20th in CWAC 157 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow.
We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture as part of the 2024-25 Smart Lecture series. The lecture is Thursday, April 3 in CWAC 157 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow.
We invite you to join the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago for this upcoming lecture as part of the 2024-25 Smart Lecture series. The lecture is Thursday, February 20th in CWAC 157 at 5:00pm CT with a Q&A session and reception to follow.
Ellen Larson joins the Center for the Art of East Asia (CAEA) as newly appointed Associate Director. A scholar and curator of global contemporary art from Asia, Larson was CAEA’s postdoctoral fellow from 2022-2024, where her research and writing culminated in her current book project Ephemeral Architectures: Video Art from China since 1988. Larson also spearheaded high-profile public programming and media screenings, in addition to curating and developing exhibitions, courses, and events related to the study of contemporary art from Asia.