Announcements

In this conversation, art critic and Berkeley History of Art PhD student  Tausif Noor recently discussed the art exhibition, Botanical Entanglements, currently on view at the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens, from March 12th – 18th, 2022 with environmental artist 

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Prof. Julia Bryan-Wilson is curating an official collateral exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled Louise Nevelson: Persistence. Opening April 23, 2022 at the historic Procuratie Vecchi in Plaza San Marco, the show marks the 60th anniversary of Nevelson’s appearance at the 1962 Biennale and considers her use of assemblage as a feminist and immigrant strategy; it thus provides a glimpse of some of the themes Bryan-Wilson grapples with in her forthcoming book on Nevelson (due out in 2023 from Yale University Press).

The Archaeological Institute of America is pleased to announce that the Gold Medal Committee has selected Professor Andrew F. Stewart as the 2023 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. This award, presented each year at the AIA-SCS Annual Meeting, recognizes distinguished contributions to archaeology, primarily through research and/or fieldwork. The Gold Medal is the highest honor the Institute bestows.

Sugata Ray has been selected as the 2021 winner of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for his book Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 (2019).

Jez Flores-Garcia (PhD ’20) has been named an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow for 2021! She begins a yearlong placement at Johns Hopkins University, where she will teach and continue research on “Camp as a Weapon: Chicano Identity and Asco’s Aesthetics of Resistance.” The program supports early career scholars whose voices, perspectives, and broad visions will strengthen institutions of higher education and humanistic disciplines in the years to come.

Congratulations Jez! 

Amy Xiaochen Zhong, History of Art’s Class of 2021 valedictorian, interviewed Assistant Professor Atreyee Gupta as part of the Spring 2021 Asian American Women at Berkeley 150W URAP/SPUR Projects exploring the representations and experiences of Asian women on the UC Berkeley campus.

We are proud to celebrate some of the recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our graduate students.

Graduate Predoctoral Fellowships/Awards

Lesdi Goussen Robleto
-Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
-Center for Race and Gender Grant

Claire Ittner
-Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art (Ellen Holtzman Fellowship)
-Smithsonian Institute Predoctoral Fellowship (Will Barnet Fellowship)