Recent alumna Dr. Jennifer Baez will join the University of Washington faculty in September 2022 as Assistant Professor in Latin American art history in the School of Art + Art History + Design.

Please join us on Wednesday, December 1, at 6 pm for a remote lecture by FSU Art History alumna Gabriela Germana, now a visiting faculty member in the School of Art and Art History, University of South Florida. Germana will present “Disrupting the Narrative: Tablas de Sarhua and the Questioning of Essentializing Categories in Peruvian Contemporary Art.”

This Fall, the Art History Museum Object class created the exhibition The Shape of Care in the WJB Gallery. The exhibition, which features works from the FSU Museum of Fine Arts permanent collection and local artists, encourages visitors to reflect upon practices of care by engaging with visual art that explores how we care for ourselves, our families, and our communities.

This fall, doctoral candidate Mallory Nanny presented “An-My Lê’s Small Wars: Re-enacting Memories of an Ongoing War” at the Sixth Biennial Symposium for the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA). Mallory also received a departmental Mason Dissertation Research Award for research travel in Viet Nam next year. Her dissertation examines how Vietnamese American artists An-My Lê and Tiffany Chung and American artist Jessica Hines reconstruct fragmented memories into photo-based narratives of the war-time experience.

Students in the Art History Methods class under the direction of Dr. Tenley Bick will present their research in a Capstone Symposium on Thursday, December 2nd in room G41 WJB. The talks begin at 11:35am, and there will be a short break at 12:30pm. All are welcome! Please join us in support of these emerging scholars.

The Department of Art History is pleased to welcome Dr. Jay Boda in a graduate teaching role beginning January 2022 when he joins the faculty of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art as Associate Director of Academic Affairs and Collections. Dr. Boda will supervise the Ringling’s academic programs and in-residence interns while teaching two graduate seminars for Museum & Cultural Heritage Studies.