FSU Art History will be represented at the 113th College Art Association Annual Conference by professors Adam Jolles and Tenley Bick and visiting professor Brendan Weaver, as well as alumni from around the country. CAA is the primary professional association of artists and art historians in the United States. This year’s conference will be held in New York, NY, February 12–15, 2025.
Dr. Jolles will present his paper “Identity and Self-Representation in the East Harlem Community Resource Center’s Photo Workshop” in the session Learning and Unlearning Photography on Friday morning, Feb. 14. Alumna Krystle Stricklin (MA ’14), now Assistant Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will also participate in that session, presenting “That Which is Boundless: The Legacy of Apeiron Workshops, 1970 – 1982.”
Dr. Weaver will present his paper “Toward the Identification of Afro-Peruvian Potting Traditions” in the round table session From Made to Making: Ongoing Acts of Creation in Colonial Latin America on Saturday, Feb. 15.
Dr. Bick will host a meeting of the Italian art society as outgoing president of the organization, and will also appear as guest on a podcast episode about her new book Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics (The Art Pod, by Karolina Chojnowska).
Other FSU alumni presentations include:
Cindy (Evans) Torgesen (PhD ’23) presenting “Socialist Futurism(s): Utopian Art and Design in Yugoslavia and Beyond” in the session Building Futures: Art, Architecture, and Social Visions Across Time and Place. on Thursday, Feb. 13.
Gabriele Germana (PhD ’21) will present “Language to express issues on gender violence and racial discrimination: The work of four Andean and Amazonian contemporary women artists” in the session Descentrar el canon: Critical Perspectives on Artistic Modernism in the Andean Region on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 15.
Amy Bowman-McElhone (PhD ’20) and Jennifer Baez (PhD ’22) presenting “The Apotropaic Collective: Kinship and Care as Knowledge-Practice” in the session Collaboration as Art Historical Practice on Friday afternoon, Feb. 14.
Lesley Wolff (PhD ’18) is a discussant in the ISLAA-ALAA Encuentro for Latin American and Latinx Art on Friday afternoon, Feb. 14.
