Four FSU Art Historians Participate in Contemporary Arts Conference in New Orleans

Two FSU Art History professors, one student, and one alumna participated this month in the 10th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) in New Orleans. This conference brings together scholars and artists from institutions all over the globe to share research, debate trends, and generate new projects concerning the “arts of the contemporary.”

Doctoral candidate Amy Bowman-McElhone and alumna Lesley Wolff (PhD 2018) co-chaired the panel Printing Ecologies in the Global South: Case Studies in Museality and Subversive Corporeality, in which Dr. Paul Niell presented the paper “History, Contemporaneity, and the Coloniality of Print in the Urban Atlantic.” In the panel, Lesley also presented “Curatorial Conversation: (Un)Refined Approaches to The Kingdom of This World” and Amy presented “Decolonizing the White Cube: Visualizing Difference through Print Media and Curatorial Practice in Katrina Andry’s Depose and Dispose (of).”  Dr. Adam Jolles presented the paper “The Emergence of Visual Literacy: Sequential Photography in Rochester in the 1960s” in the session Rural/Urban Aesthetics.