Faculty & Student Travels, Conference
Presentations, and Publications
Dr. Mora Beauchamp-Byrd published the essay “Mining Art History: Barbara Walker’s Vanishing Point Series,” in the exhibition catalogue for Barbara Walker: Being Here (The Whitworth Art Gallery, The Univ. of Manchester, 2024). She attended the October 2024 opening reception of this exhibition at The Whitworth Art Gallery in the fall. Dr. Beauchamp-Byrd also published “From Red Room to Blue Jay (1987): A Curatorial Approach to Denzil Forrester’s UK Black Arts Movement-Era Paintings” in the exhibition catalogue for the co-organized exhibitions Denzil Forrester: Duppy Conqueror (org. by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO) and Denzil Forrester: We Culture (org. by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami) in 2024.
In addition to publishing her new Pistoletto book this spring, Dr. Tenley Bick published a chapter, “A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Italy,” in The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History, edited by Eddie Chambers (London and New York: Routledge, 2024). She also wrote “Armatures of a Different Value, of Boundless Feeling: The Art of Buzz Spector,” the sole critical catalog essay for an exhibition of work by contemporary artist Buzz Spector (Buzz Spector: verso/recto, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, Sept. 20–Dec. 21, 2024).
Dr. Kristin Dowell will present a paper, ‘“Fite Fuaite (Interwoven): Relationality, Land, and Language within Irish Art,” at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Savannah, Georgia in February. The paper is based on research for the exhibition Talamh agus Teanga: Land and Language in Contemporary Irish Art which she curated last year at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts.
Dr. Adam Jolles presented the paper “’On Man Considered as an Instrument for Hurting:’ André Masson, Roberto Matta, and the Algerian War” at the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS) Annual Conference in Paris in October 2024.
Dr. Lynn Jones has a new article, “Deconstructing an Iconography: Depictions of Constantine and Helena in Middle Byzantine Cappadocia,” in the inaugural edition of Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts, published by Koç and Penn Universities.
Doctoral candidate Tess McCoy was invited to contribute a book chapter for an edited volume based on The Materiality of Resistance symposium in which she participated last year at the California College of the Arts.. The chapter will be an expanded version of her paper “Unbroken Connections: Customary Materials in Contemporary Alaska Native Art.” She will also participate in the Association for Art History Conference in York, UK in April this year, presenting “Embodying Interconnectedness and Indigenous Worldviews in Hannah Claus’s our minds are one.” Tess received support for the conference attendance from the department’s Helen J. Beard Conference Travel Grant and from the FSU Native American and Indigenous Studies Center.
Dr. Lorenzo Pericolo, together with Dr. Elizabeth Cropper, organized an international conference on Bolognese art historian Carlo Cesare Malvasia, in association with their ongoing “Malvasia Project,” the critical edition and annotated English translation of Malvasia’s Lives of the Bolognese Painters (1678). More details.
PhD student Danelle Bernten received a National Committee for the History of Art Graduate Research Travel Fellowship to attend the 36th CIHA World Congress in Lyon, France in 2024, and a 2025 Graduate Summer Fellowship at the Johnson Collection in Spartanburg, SC to conduct hands-on research and to obtain curatorial experience on their 19th- and 20th-century works from the American South.
Doctoral candidate Emily White co-organized the 2025 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library, at which PhD student Isabel Brady presented the paper “St. George, Relics, and the Myth-Making of Venice’s Maritime Empire.”
Three FSU Art History faculty members and at least six of our alumni are participating this month in the College Art Association’s 113th Conference; details here. And in the fall of 2024, four FSU doctoral students participated in the 50th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference; read more.