The Department of Art and Art History invites all alumni, faculty, and students attending the College Art Association's (CAA) annual conference to a department reception. Connect with fellow alumni, faculty, and students.
Thursday, February 22, 5:30–7 pm
Los Feliz Room, Lobby Level Westin Bonaventure Hotel
404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles
Wednesday, February 21
10:30 am – Session: "Localizing History through Donor Portraits: Images of Donors and Ritual Scenes in Early Medieval South Asia"
- Janice Leoshko, Associate Professor, Art History (South Asian Art), discussant
2 pm – Session: “Dissent and Resistance: Responses to Authoritarianism in Ancient Art"
- Gretel Rodríguez, PhD Candidate, Art History (Ancient Rome), Captives and Resistance in the Art of the Late Roman Empire
4 pm – Session: “All in the Family: Northern European Artistic Dynasties, CA. 1350-1750" (Historians of Netherlandish Art HNA)
- Catherine Powell, PhD Candidate, Art History (Northern Renaissance/Baroque), Marketing Matriarchy: Maria Sibylla Merian, her Daughters, and their Blooming Watercolors
Thursday, February 22
4 pm – Session: “Permanence/Impermanence: Materiality in the Pre-Columbian World"
- Stephanie M. Strauss, PhD Candidate, Art History (Mesoamerican Art and Writing), chair
- Elliot Lopez-Finn, PhD Candidate, Art History (Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, Postclassic Mexico), chair
Friday, February 23
4 pm – Session: "'Change the Joke, Slip the Yoke' Twenty Years Later: African American Artists and 'Negative' Imagery"
- Jessi DiTillio, PhD Candidate, Art History (Modern and Contemporary American Art), chair
- Cherise Smith, Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies (Affiliated Faculty, Art History), chair
4 pm – Session: “The Park Place Group: Another Minimalism"
- Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Professor of Art History (20th Century European and American Art), Rethinking Park Place and its Place in Art History: Fifty Years Later
Saturday, February 24
10:30 am – Session: “A Way/s from Home: Blackness Across Nations"
- Julia Elizabeth Neal, PhD Candidate, Art History (Modern/Contemporary U.S. Art and African-American Art), Presently Elsewhere: Benjamin Patterson’s Flux
10:30 am – Session: "What Do We Do Now? Art and Politics Circa 1970 and Now"
- Allison Myers, PhD Candidate, Art History (Modern and Contemporary Art), The Revolutionary Abstraction of Supports/Surfaces in the 1970s and Today
4 pm – Session: "New Directions in Black-British Art History"
- Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani, PhD Candidate, Art History, chair
- Eddie Chambers, Professor of Art History, chair
4 pm – Session: "Surrealism's Subversive Taxonomies"
- Claire Howard, PhD Candidate, Art History (Modern and Contemporary Art), chair