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Haappenings VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 UNIVERSITY of PITTSBURGH I DEPARTMENT of HISTORY of ART and ARCHITECTURE FALL 2016 HAAppenings VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH I DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE Ta Prohm Temple in Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia CONTENTS: THE CHA maintain our position as the flagship M IR O for the humanities at Pitt. Meanwhile, Letter from the Chair R F our wonderful staff members—Linda R 2 E Hicks, Veronica Gazdik, and Corrin T Department Receives Mellon Grant T Trombley—continue to keep every- E thing running smoothly. 3 L This is the second year of our $1 million Joseph Koerner Gives 2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, Wilkinson Lecture which was awarded to HAA in January 3 2015 and will continue to fund our initiatives through 2018. The grant Gallery Update supports efforts to establish mutually Welcome! 4 beneficial relationships among HAA I’m pleased to share with you this and museums, libraries, and archives Frick Fine Arts Library News first edition of our HAAppenings in the Pittsburgh area for the purpose 5 newsletter for the Department of of providing our students with Visual Media Workshop History of Art and Architecture enhanced research and profession- (HAA) in the Kenneth P. Dietrich alization opportunities. The grant 6 School of Arts and Sciences at the also supports our work to foster Faculty News University of Pittsburgh. I wish to collaborative research, exhibitions, thank everyone for their help on this and publication projects and helps to 7 launch, including one of our graduate expand public engagement with the Top Achievers: students, Jackie Lombard, who came extraordinarily rich art and artifact Undergraduate Students up with the inspired title! We’ll be collections that are part of Pittsburgh’s 9 using this forum to keep you up to historical and cultural landscape. date with some of the many activities In fall 2015, Pitt Chancellor Patrick Graduate Student News that go on each year in Pitt’s very Gallagher and Carnegie Museums of 10 busy Frick Fine Arts Building. This Pittsburgh President and CEO Jo Ellen newsletter will feature some of the Parker joined us to celebrate the latest about our creative ecology in Mellon award and the founding of CONTRIBUTORS Published by the Department of History Frick, with programming that brings our Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh of Art and Architecture faculty and students together around consortium, which we have assembled Editor ..................................... Barbara McCloskey, Chair, Art History the outstanding research and pedagog- with the help of the grant. Founding Assistant Editor ..........................Corrin Trombley ical resources housed in the building. partners in the consortium are the Department of Communications Services As you will read, these resources Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carne- Editor ..........................................Marygrace Reder include the University Art Gallery, Editorial Assistant ..........Sarah Jordan Rosenson gie Museum of Natural History, the Art Director ...........Rainey Opperman-Dermond the Visual Media Workshop, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Senator Production Manager ................. Chuck Dinsmore Frick Fine Arts Library, and HAA’s John Heinz History Center, the Frick HAApenings is published annually and is neighbors in the Department of Studio Pittsburgh, Rivers of Steel National sent to alumni and friends of the University of Pittsburgh Department of History of Art Arts. We are especially proud of our Heritage Area, the Hunt Institute for and Architecture. graduate and undergraduate students, Botanical Documentation at Carnegie who continue to raise the bar on Mellon University, the Society for ON THE COVER: The Nicholas Lochoff Cloister achievement, and of our faculty Contemporary Craft, and Pitt’s of the Frick Fine Arts Building accomplishments, which help us to University Library System. 2 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE We’ve already accomplished quite a Department Receives Mellon Grant lot with our Mellon grant, beginning with the hiring of Erin Peters, who joined us in fall 2015 and holds a joint appointment as a lecturer in curatorial studies in HAA and assis- tant curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. She has arrived amid booming undergraduate enroll- ments in both our museum studies minor and our academic internship program, which has our students gaining invaluable professional experience with our Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh consortium partners. The Mellon grant also has enabled us to host guest speakers, conduct workshops, and develop other exciting programming that The Department of History of Art and Architecture (HAA) held a celebration of its receipt of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant at the University Club on November 12, 2015. we will be reporting on in future editions of HAAppenings. In the Seated, left to right: Lugene Bruno, curator of art at Carnegie Mellon University’s Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; Chris McGinnis, chief curator of Rivers of Steel Arts; Robin Nicholson, director meantime, you can follow all of the Frick Pittsburgh; and Janet McCall, executive director of the Society for Contemporary Craft current department events on Standing, left to right: Terry Smith, Barbara McCloskey, and Erin Peters of HAA; Jo Ellen Parker, president our Web site, haa.pitt.edu. and CEO of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher; Pitt Provost and Senior I want to extend a special thank- Vice Chancellor Patricia Beeson; Catherine Evans, Carnegie Museum of Art chief curator; N. John Cooper, Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt; and you to our many Friends of Frick Maureen Rolla, director of strategic initiatives at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Fine Arts, who generously support HAA with funds for student research travel each year. Our friends help us Joseph Koerner Gives to maintain and grow the excellence 2016 Wilkinson Lecture of our graduate and undergraduate In November 2016, Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas programs. You’ll see ample evidence Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard of that in the student biographies University, delivered the Department of History of Art included in this newsletter. Thank and Architecture (HAA)’s annual James and Susanne Wilkinson Lecture on Outstanding Scholarship in Pre- you again for helping to make modern Art, “The Moment of the Fall in Renaissance Art: these students’ impressive level The Ethical Challenge of Adam and Eve,” to a standing of achievement possible! room-only crowd in the Frick Fine Arts Building. The department invites top scholars to deliver this lecture in honor of James and Susanne Wilkinson, who sponsor the James and Susanne Wilkinson Research Prize for Outstanding Scholarship on Topics in Premodern Art. The prize is awarded to an HAA graduate student each Barbara McCloskey year in support of summer research travel. Through their Chair, Art History generosity, the Wilkinsons have helped us to build the profile of our graduate program and maintain HAA’s tradition of scholarly excellence. More information about the Wilkinson Prize and Lecture can be found under Events at haa.pitt.edu. This reproduction of "The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden" by Masaccio appears in the Nicholas Lochoff Cloister of the Frick Fine Arts Building. HAAppenings FALL 2016 3 UAG also unveiled the second of its Constellations-based exhibitions, titled Data (after)Lives, a curatorial effort led by Alison Langmead, GALLERY director of the Visual Media Workshop, in collaboration with Josh Ellenbogen, Chartier, and history of art and architecture graduate student Paulina Pardo. UPDATE In keeping with its role as an incubator of innovative collaboration and pedagogy, UAG, along with the Frick Fine Arts Library (FFAL), s always, the University Art Gallery (UAG) has had partnered with the School of Information Sciences at Pitt in a busy exhibition calendar this past year. Highlights summer 2016 on an initiative that allowed graduate students include UAG curator Isabelle Chartier’s collaboration A from the library and information science master’s degree program with Aaron Henderson and Michael Morrill from the Department to conduct provenance research on items from the UAG and of Studio Arts and Mathew Rosenblum from the Department FFAL collections. of Music to launch Portal, a site-specific multimedia work installed in the UAG rotunda. The installation debuted in FFAL and UAG have an intertwined history. Both collections were September 2015 as part of the studio arts faculty exhibition originally created with the support of Helen Clay Frick in 1927, and will remain a spectacular fixture of UAG. In fall 2015, when Pitt’s fine arts department was located in the Cathedral of the gallery hosted the highly successful museum studies Learning. Following the relocation of the department to the Frick exhibition titled Exposure: Black Voices in the Arts, led by Fine Arts Building in 1965, the gallery and the library received their Janet McCall of the Society for Contemporary Craft. This fall, own spaces, and items from the collections were redistributed. Portal, a multimedia installation in the UAG rotunda by Aaron Henderson and Michael Morrill (with accompanying sound piece by Mathew Rosenblum), 2015 Photo courtesy of Aaron Henderson of Aaron courtesy Photo 4 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE Today, FFAL falls under the jurisdiction of the University Library System, whereas UAG remains under the purview of the Department
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