The 23rd Annual Art History Graduate Symposium

The Department of Art & Music Histories is pleased to announce its annual Art History Graduate Symposium. This event is open to the public and will take place on Friday, May 12, 2023, 9:00am-12:15pm, in 132 Lyman Hall and via ZOOM. The program will feature the following presentations:

• Steph Adams  Nailor’s New Deal: Recentering Diné History in Gerald Nailor’s  Department of the Interior Murals
• Hannah Alvino  Nature of the Garden: Landscape and Illusion through Tiffany  Studios’ Window from Rochroane Castle
• Ankush Arora  Becoming a Plant: Re-framing Gardens and Plant Diasporas in Shahzia Sikander’s Sculpture and Drawings
• Madeline Drewes  Unbound: Beauty, Chastity, and Women’s Hair in Early Stuart Portraiture
• Rachael Hickman  Beyond the Convent Walls: Artistic Influence and Plautilla Nelli’s Lamentation with Saints
• Julia Neufeld  What the Hell Do You Do with Your Dough? H. C. Westermann and the National Endowment for the Arts
• J. Sabine Rishell  Meta Material: A Study of Antonio Tempesta’s Stone Paintings of the Red Sea Narrative
• Madelaine Cosette Thomas  From Private Devotion to Public Display: The Evolution of Syracuse University’s MS 2
• Dominic Zaffino  The Biopolitics of P.A.I.N.: Dying for Social Change

 

Top row (l to r):  Steph Adams, Hannah Alvino, Ankush Arora, Madeline Drewes

Bottom row (l to r):  Rachael Hickman, Julia Neufeld, Madelaine Cosette Thomas, Dominic Zaffino, J. Sabine Rishell