Identity
May 9, 2023
Author: Lilly Forrest
When I first arrived at the University Art Gallery, I was unsure of what my internship would consist of. I had never worked for a...
May 9, 2023
Author: Mati Castillo
I first heard of the Latin American Cultural Center during my sophomore year at Pitt when I saw the sign that said, “Latin...
March 29, 2023
HAAARCH!!! is an annual showcase that features the accomplishments of our undergraduates in the History of Art and Architecture,...
December 12, 2022
Author: Odessa Patmos
This past semester, I had the amazing opportunity to intern at Pittsburgh Glass Center, a creative hub for glass artists to...
December 12, 2022
Author: Morgan Meer
Just as scuff marks on a shoe can show an owner’s love, or a thread-bare shirt reveals its favored status, fingerprints left...
December 12, 2022
Author: Christina Gioia
This semester I had the opportunity to work at the Heinz History Center with Melissa Marinaro, Director of the Italian American...
December 12, 2022
Author: Heather Hershberger
On Walnut Street in Shadyside, there is a little gallery that is free to the public. The little-known new spot is filled with...
May 4, 2022
Author: Celia Kaine
Preserving art as a form of personal history has never been a more essential process. Creation, as a reckoning with the...
April 28, 2022
Author: Ellie Downs
The return to in-person tours in February of 2022 marked the first time in nearly two years that the Nationality Rooms could...
April 24, 2022
Author: Isabel Meline
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) is a local nonprofit which organizes shows in the Pittsburgh area for artists in the...
December 6, 2021
Author: Emily Wiley
Repatriating the objects of various Native American tribes across the United States has been an ongoing process for many museums...
April 21, 2021
Author: Jasmin Brown
Last summer, we all had a lot of time to watch Black Lives Matter protests and the various positive and negative responses to...
April 19, 2021
Author: Megan Myers
Every year, the Nationality Rooms Program hosts an Open House event in early December, allowing visitors to see the 31...
January 22, 2021
Author: Diana Flatto
Over the past two years, I have worked on the exhibition “Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music” at Americas Society in New York,...
November 18, 2020
Author: Grace Marston
When I sought to conduct my Museum Studies Internship at the Mattress Factory’s Greer Lankton Archives, part of the idea was to...
August 28, 2020
Author: Isaiah Bertagnolli
On the night before my last day working as a graduate fellow with the Greer Lankton Archive at the Mattress Factory, Greer came...
April 21, 2020
Author: Morgan Powell
This spring I interned at the Mattress Factory in their Greer Lankton Archive; Lankton was a doll-maker, sculpture, and mixed-...
April 20, 2020
Author: Sujeeth Buddai
Though not always widely recognized, Pittsburgh has been an international hub for black art. I had the pleasure of working with...
April 20, 2020
Author: Maja Lynn
You might expect a Holocaust center to be a solemn, distressing space. However, while the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh takes...
January 6, 2020
Author: Katie LoneyPhD Student in History of Art and Architecture and Graduate Student Assistant in Public HistoryHow can furniture...
October 24, 2017
Author: Golnar TouskiGraduate student. History of Art and ArchitectureFarhad Moshiri: Go West, an exhibition curated by Jose Carlos...
July 11, 2016
The website is finally here!
sitstillexhibition.squarespace.com
May 23, 2016
Our workshop ended on Friday the 13th with a beautiful day at the Carnegie Library of Braddock with the artist collective...
March 9, 2016
In our far from post-racial world, museums are increasingly feeling the pressures of demographic change and urgent new campaigns...
November 6, 2015
On October 24-26, 2015, we had the pleasure to participate as presenters, panel chairs and attendees in the Southeastern College...
August 13, 2015
Please read this article, "An Undergraduate's Love Letter to Digital Humanities Research," by Tiffany Chan...and let me know your...
June 9, 2015
A number of the members of the DH community at Pitt have put together the following list of texts that do a good job of...
April 15, 2015
Today is my last day working on the Itinera database until my presentation tomorrow. While gearing up for the end of the semester...
April 1, 2015
Last week, I got into the story surrounding Thomas Bruce and the Parthenon Marbles. Now, let me tell you about the controversial...
March 26, 2015
With generous support from the Dean of Graduate Studies, ten HA&A graduate students (Maria Castro, Nicole Coffineau, Clarisse...
March 18, 2015
As I mentioned in a previous post, my next step in Itinera is to input my Elgin Marbles-related information into the database. So...
March 17, 2015
CAA has produced the pamphlet, "Code of Best Practices for Fair Use for the Visual Arts." It is clear, concise, and direct. Do read...
February 18, 2015
Here's my second attempt at the Itinera abstract, after some comments from Jen:
The humanities are ingrained in the history of our...
February 3, 2015
For the past few months, Aisling and I have been searching for the identification cards created for Chinese immigrants using the...
January 8, 2015
This is the current theme of Wesleyan's Humanities Center. To add to all the many "turns" we have heard about, there is now a "...
December 16, 2014
I've attached a short, interesting piece arguing that historians need to be more engaged with nonacademic publics. The author...
December 9, 2014
ULS has recently subscribed to the peer-reviewed journal ARTMargins, published by MIT Press. According to its website, "ARTMargins ...
November 12, 2014
Last week’s break-through led us to begin researching the use of the Bertillon system to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act. The...
November 10, 2014
I am gearing up to do a DH project which has some interesting parallels with Decomposing Bodies, the Bertillon project about which...
October 30, 2014
Recording data set after data set of prisoner identification cards, a curious abstraction occurs. The brain seeks the numbers,...