Art History

Back to Blog December 12, 2024

Art History students and faculty presenting at CAA meetings!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

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”