Congratulations to Cindy Evans, who defended her dissertation “Political Playgrounds: The Effekt Group’s activist art in Postwar West Germany and Yugoslavia” under the direction of Dr. Tenley Bick in the

Four FSU doctoral students and Professor Lynn Jones presented papers at the 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference in Vancouver Cananda in October. Dr. Jones also completed her three-year service as President of the governing Byzantine Studies Association of America.

The Florida State University Art History faculty and graduate students invite current PhD and MA students to submit abstracts for papers to be presented at the 40th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium. The symposium will take place March 1–2, 2024, on our main campus in Tallahassee, FL. The deadline for submission of abstracts is November 15, 2023.

Art History Professor Robert Neuman was interviewed recently by Los Angeles Times Senior Entertainment Writer Meg James for her story on the centennial anniversary of the Walt Disney Company.  The studio’s celebration, called “Disney 100,” received worldwide notice, including the LA Times article, “Disney at 100: Seven Ways Walt’s Company Forever Changed Entertainment,” which appeared in print and online in the October 16, 2023, edition of the Times. 

The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to open “Intertwined: Labor and Technology in Contemporary Textile Art,” a new exhibition co-curated by alumnus Keidra Daniels Navaroli (MA Art History 2007) and Annie Booth, MoFA’s curatorial assistant and visitor engagement coordinator.  

We are excited to welcome Dr. Mora Beauchamp-Byrd to Florida State University this fall as Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies. An art historian, arts administrator, and curator, she specializes in the art and visual culture of the African Diaspora; Art of the Americas; British art; global modern & contemporary art; museum & curatorial studies; and representations of race, class and gender in American comics.