Alli is a senior completing a double major in the History of Art and Architecture and Nonfiction English Writing, with a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She has served as an undergraduate teaching assistant and is currently interning at Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery.
Having studied in China, Canada, Austria and France, Liyi Chen is currently a fourth year HAA major and interning with the department’s online journal “Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture.” She was an undergraduate assistant at the University Art Gallery and Visual Media Workshop. She received a Brackenridge fellowship to conduct her honors thesis on 21st century re-presentations of the Empress Dowager and Marie Antoinette, a cross cultural comparison project overseen by Dr.
Maddi Johnson is a sophomore in the Architectural Studies Program. She is a Pittsburgh native. Art and architecture have always been an area of focus in her life. She chose architecture as a path after involving herself with the functional arts. Her primary background lies in furniture and textiles. In architecture she believes in simplicity and likes to study and embrace ideas from Modernism. Her favorite architect is Philip Johnson. She travels frequently to experience architecture first hand.
Sarah Horton is a senior majoring in History of Art and Architecture, with a minor in Studio Arts and a certificate in Asian Studies. Her primary area of academic interest is modern and contemporary East Asian art, but she appreciates art from an eclectic range of locations and time periods.
Grace is graduating senior majoring in History of Art and Architecture with a minor in Spanish and a certificate in Latin American Studies.
Last summer, the University Honor’s College awarded her an off-campus research award, which Grace used to travel to Houston and Austin, Texas. There, she investigated an exhibition, Rhodislandia, by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica, a project done under the guidance of Professor Jennifer Josten.
Alice Gallagher is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, pursuing a major in History of Art & Architecture and Communications with minor in French. She is originally from Princeton, New Jersey, but has had the opportunity to live in larger cities, such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Paris. She is aspiring towards a Public Relations career in a museum or gallery, a desire which began after interning in the press room at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2013.
Currently a senior, Karen will graduate in April 2015 with double majors in History of Art & Architecture and Economics and a minor in French. Her long-term career goals include working as a curator or director of education or public programming in a museum, gallery, or another arts institution. She has had experience as an undergraduate teaching assistant for three semesters and a research assistant in the Visual Media Workshop.
Abbey O’Brien is a senior majoring in History and Art & Architecture. Originally studying Art Education with a minor in Art History at the University of Vermont, Abbey transferred to the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 where her passion for art history flourished. She is interested in a broad scope of modern topics that range from Austrian art during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods to the impact of the Mexican mural movement.
Matthew Sova is a senior History of Art and Architecture and Anthropology double major at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently completing an undergraduate honors thesis on the Ottonian convent church of Saint Cyriakus in Gernrode, Germany, under the mentorship of Professor Shirin Fozi. Due to the generosity of the Friends of Frick Fine Arts and the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Office of the Associate Dean, he traveled to Germany in Spring 2015 to complete his research on this site. He
Austin Gehman is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Architectural Studies. Throughout his four years at the university, Austin has participated as a teaching assistant in multiple classes, participated in HAAARCH three times, and designed the promotional materials for HAAARCH. He also studied abroad in the fall of 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark where he explored themes and styles of Scandinavian and European architecture. He is also a senior representative of the Pitt chapter of AIAS a
