Alumni Newsletter 2018-2019
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ALUMNI NEWSLETTER 2018-2019 Dear Alums, Culture and the Ph.D. Program in Art History; the student organizers were Christopher Green and Dana Liljegren, The 2018-19 academic year has been a busy one for faculty with faculty sponsor David Joselit. It was followed by and students alike, with a diverse new cohort of incoming “Erasures: Excision and Indelibility in the Art of the students, along with two student-organized symposia and Americas,” which was co-organized with the Institute for thirteen dissertation defenses. Studies on Latin American Art at New York University; our student organizers were Sonja Gandert, Tie Jojima, and We welcomed our 2018 cohort of nine students this August Ana Perry, with faculty sponsors Anna Indych-Lopéz and and they have settled in nicely. They’ve bonded over the Katherine Manthorne. Both were exciting events that Methods seminar, had a lively new student dinner at Café highlighted how much our students are doing to foster China in December, and are now busily preparing, through informed debate about issues that are pressing in the Pedagogy Practicum, for their first term of teaching in contemporary society, but also have significant historical the fall. They also created, on their own initiative, the “Art antecedents. I am constantly impressed and reinvigorated History Social Hour,” a drop-in opportunity for students to by their efforts. talk over tea and cookies in the lounge on Wednesdays at 4 pm. It’s been a lovely, very civilized way for students to For announcements about these events, and many others, forge connections in the program. For more details on our you can follow not only our listserv, but also our Facebook 2018 cohort, please see the introduction to them later in page https://www.facebook.com/GCArtHistory/, our this newsletter. We have just finalized our incoming class Twitter account (@GCArtHistory), and our Instagram feed of 2019. As always, we’ve got an interesting mix of (@GCArtHistory). All are maintained by our Social Media students, specializing in topics from Spanish Baroque Fellow, Chloe Wyma, who has done an extraordinary job painting to South Asian modernism, contemporary dance, this year again. Please follow us online, and also send and materiality in Pop Art. Stay tuned for our student updates on your own doings to profiles of them in next year’s alumni newsletter. [email protected]. This year, we also welcomed a new professor to the Over the course of the 2018-19 academic year, our Doctoral Faculty: Michael Gillespie of City College. students have completed thirteen dissertations, on topics Michael gave a stimulating Rewald lecture on ranging from centaurs in Italian Renaissance painting to net contemporary African-American film in the fall, and was art in 1990s Amsterdam and mid-century photography in elected to the faculty in December. He brings to our São Paulo. We’re going to miss them, but are proud of program a wide-ranging expertise in black visual and their accomplishments and of the exciting positions they expressive culture, film theory, global cinema, popular have landed, including a curatorial job at the Metropolitan music studies, and contemporary art, and extensive Museum, an assistant professorship at Osaka University in experience as a scholar, teacher, and writer. We’re excited Japan, and a high-profile postdoc at Princeton. to have him on board. We’re also extremely proud of the banner year we’ve been Our current students have had a busy year — I know, I having in external fellowships. Chloe Wyma, our Social always say that, but this year, even more so! With our Media Fellow, somehow found time to produce a Rewald Endowment, we’ve hosted two student-organized substantial body of art criticism, for which she was conferences in 2018-19. The spring kicked off with “Shift: awarded a grant in short-form writing from the Andy Blood and Earth and Soil Symposium,” organized by the Warhol Foundation. Two students specializing in British editors of Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material art, Rebecca Pollack and Jenny Sarathy, received travel grants from the Paul Mellon Centre, while Chris Green, In addition, alumni donations this year have made it whose topic concerns Native American modernism, won possible to offer an Alumni Tuition Fellowship to a student the Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. In nearing completion on the dissertation. These fellowships, addition, Ana Perry will be traveling to Washington, DC, though not large in terms of their price tag, have proved to courtesy an American Art Predoctoral Fellowship in Latinx be some of the most critical in helping our students finish. Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Joseph We are extremely grateful for your generosity in allowing Henry to Berlin, under the auspices of the German us to offer them. Academic Exchange Service. And closer to home, Maya Harakawa will be focusing on Harlem in the 1960s with a As these examples suggest, even a small donation can Luce/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation make a great difference to our needy students. Particularly Fellowship. The number and variety of the fellowships our in the current funding climate, with widespread cuts to students have won testifies to the exciting, out-of-the-box public higher education, your assistance is very helpful; any work they are doing; we are extremely proud of them all. amount is welcome. For making possible more far-flung adventures by students, Best, we are grateful to two generous donations this year. Funds from Professor Emerita Ricki Long and Patricia Phelps de Rachel Kousser Cisneros will send two students to Central Europe and one Executive Officer to Latin America, respectively. Ph.D. Program in Art History RECENT FACULTY AND STUDENT EVENTS Top Right: Photo from Fall 2018 course with Katherine Manthorne Art 87400 “Printmakers and Collectives across the Americas, 1870-1970”, with Prof. David Christie, Print Specialist, New York Public Library Bottom Left: Gillian Sneed (Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Center, CUNY) and Madeline Murphy Turner (Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) co-organized the panel "Latin American Women Artists and the Auto-archive c.1970-1985" at the International Art and Architecture conference, “Rethinking the Past: Memory/Archive/Document" held at the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal on Nov. 8-9. Bottom Center: Erika Nelson Pazian presenting her paper was “Saving Face, Saving Place: Visual Occupation of the Zocalo in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Mexican War” at ISLAA Bottom Right: Professor Claire Bishop at the Association for Art History annual conference in Brighton, UK DEPARTMENT NEWS DEPARTMENT WELCOMES NEW STUDENTS We would also like to extend a warm welcome to The department congratulates our newest cohort of our upcoming cohort of students who will begin students who began their studies at the GC this Fall their studies at the GC this Fall 2019: 2018: Elizabeth Akant (BA, Oberlin College) . Jeremy Bleeke (MA, Cambridge Univ.) Flora Brandl (MA, Goldsmiths/ NYU) . Maria Beatriz H. Carrion (MA, Tulane Univ.) Isabel Elson (MA, Courtauld Institute) . Anna Carroll (BA, Univ. of Chicago) Jacqueline Edwards (MA, UT- San Antonio) . Caroline House (BA, Univ. of Chicago) Monica Espinel (MA, Hunter College) . Karen Klockner (MA, NYU) Alexandra Foradas (MA, Williams College) . Jana La Brasca (MA, Univ. of Texas- Austin) Beatrice Grenier (MA, Columbia Univ.) . Maura McCreight (MA, Stony Brook Univ.) Taylor Hartley (MA, Univ. of Iowa) . Hadley Newton (BA, Princeton Univ.) Khushmi Mehta (BA, Art Instit. Of Chicago) . Anna Orton- Hatzis (MA, Univ. of Chicago) Terra Warren (MA, Georgetown Univ.) UPCOMING STUDENT CONFERENCES "Sessions in Art and Practice: Writing in Tempo" Organized by: Kirsten Gill, Jack Crawford, Mia Curran, Rachel Valinsky, Joseph Henry, and Lauren Rosenblum In Spring 2020, the Art History program will initiate a new speaker series, titled “Sessions in Art and Practice”, that will bring contemporary practitioners in various fields into dialogue with students and the broader community on topics in art, research, and writing. The inaugural semester of Sessions in Art and Practice will center on the concept of “Writing in Tempo.” Writers with backgrounds in art history, film, poetry, literature, art, and urban studies will be invited to join us in asking how writing might “keep pace” with an artwork in order to formally capture its time signature. How can interpretive or descriptive writing sequence, narrate, record, mark, prolong, or curtail aesthetic experience? Sessions in Art and Practice will create opportunities for students and a wider audience to engage the question of writing in tempo through a closed workshop and a public talk at the Graduate Center, taking place the same day. Stay tuned for further details coming in the fall! “Un-Fair Trades: Artistic Intersections with Social & Environmental Injustices in the Atlantic World, 1500-Present.” Organized by: Caroline Gillaspie & Alice Walkiewicz The Art History Department will host this student-led conference on October 10-11, 2019. This conference will explore the way that artists have engaged with issues of oppression and exploitation—byproducts of colonialist and capitalist systems—throughout the history of transatlantic encounters, “Un-Fair Trades” seeks to create a conversation between historic and perpetuating inequalities by reanalyzing visualizations of oppression and environmental degradation from the perspective of the 21st-century activist revival (with movements like Occupy Wall Street, #BlackLivesMatter, #NODAPL, and #MeToo). The conference is co-organized by Ph.D. candidates Caroline L. Gillaspie and Alice J. Walkiewicz under the advisement of Professor Katherine E. Manthorne, with keynote addresses by Dr. Alan C. Braddock and Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson. Please join us for this exciting event, which is free and open to the public in the Graduate Center’s Segal Theater. RECENT STUDENT & FACULTY ORGANIZED CONFERENCES Erasures: Excision and Indelibility in the Art of the Americas, Symposium for Shift: Blood and Earth and Soil the Fourth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art.