Art History students and faculty presenting at CAA meetings!
Tyler Art History is being represented by an excellent group of students and faculty at the CAA Annual Meetings, Feb 12-15 2025.
The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*: · Discussant: Li Machado (PhD candidate)
Prof. Leah Modigliani, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure”
Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate), “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship”
Reimagining British Art: The Contributions of Transnational Artists in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s· Chair: Jessica Braum (PhD candidate)
Jessica Braum (PhD candidate), “Probing the Nature of Existence: Joan Brassil’s Kinetic Materialization of Time and Light” ·
Lily F. Scott (PhD candidate), “Precarious Encounters & Connoting Ephemera of Trauma: An Examination of Interwar Sapphic Portraiture”
Özlem Yıldız (PhD candidate), “Illustrating Women in the Tales of the Prophets in Sixteenth-Century Islamic Manuscripts”
Navigating the changing terrain of fair use in the digital world* Chair: Nicole Emser (PhD candidate)
Brazilian & U.S. Art in Exile: Transnationalism, Migration, and the Politics of Being “Latin American” in the United States and Brazil
· Discussant: Prof. Mariola V. Alvarez
Healing and the Museum: Critical Perspectives in 21st Century Art· Chair: Megan Voeller (PhD candidate) ·
Megan Voeller (PhD candidate), “Racial Injury and Ancestral Healing in the Photographic Archive”
Challenges of Teaching: What, Why, How, and Solutions for Right Now*· Chair: Nicole Emser (PhD candidate)
Joanna Platt (PhD candidate), “Printmaking as Labor: Images of Industry from the WPA-Sponsored Fine Print Workshop in Philadelphia”
Expanding the Practice of Research: Transdisciplinarity in Art and Art History · Discussant: Jessica Braum (PhD candidate)
Highlights in Undergraduate Art & Design Research (Session 1)*· Chair: Nicole Emser (PhD candidate)
Highlights in Undergraduate Art & Design Research (Session 2)*· Chair: Nicole Emser (PhD candidate)
Srđan Tunić (PhD student), “"Block Bro Brooklyn Bro": The Origin Myth of New York Graffiti and Transnational Hybrids--case study of Belgrade, Serbia”