Announcements

What can art, architecture, design, and performance practices offer to current debates on climate change and environmental justice? Curated by students in UC Berkeley Professor Sugata Ray’s Fall 2023 College of Letters & Science First-Year Pathways course Art and Climate Change, this Five Tables presentation highlights artworks in the BAMPFA collection that reflect, mediate, and delve into the interconnected ecologies of life.

The department is pleased to announce the publication of The Imagined New, (or, what happens when History is a Catastrophe?) Working through Alternative Archives | Art, History, Africa and the African Diaspora (2023).

The department is pleased to announce that an essay by Whitney Davis, on James McNeill Whistler’s appropriations of Asian folding screens in the early 1870s, will be featured in the catalog for a major international exhibition on Asian and Western screens opening at the Prada Foundation in Milan in November.

History of Art congratulates PhD student Krishna Shekhawat for winning a 2023 DARTS Grant, endowed by the Decorative Arts Society of Orange County in California, from the Decorative Arts Trust. The grant will support Krishna’s visit to the Mehrangarh Museum Trust in India to study an 18th-century gilded mahadol. We laud this recognition and support for Krishna’s work.

The Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Indigenous and/or Pre-colonial and/or Colonial Art and Visual Cultures of Latin America, tenure-track.

History of Art congratulates PhD student Christine Delia for winning funding from the University of California MX’s 2023 call for proposals for Short-Term Research in Mexico by UC graduate studentsThe aim of these funded short-term stays is to support graduate students at the University of California in accomplishing specific laboratory, library, or field research, at partner institutions in Mexico.

We are proud to celebrate recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by some of our spectacular graduate students. Congratulations, all!!!

Fellowships and Grants

Elizabeth Fair 

– Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellowship

– The Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library

Lesdi Goussen Robleto

– Summer Dissertation Writing Grant for Arts & Humanities

– Collection and Archive Fellow at 500 Capp Street