News from the Art History Department at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Jessica will present “Mapping the Hyperhorizon: Relational Visuality in Artistic Depictions of the Caribbean,” at FSU’s Department of Art History Annual Graduate Student Symposium.
And “What Remains Unsaid: Reading Kim Lim’s Words, Silences, and Afterlives of Artistic Speech,” at the In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing Symposium at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University
Conversations at MOCA with exhibiting artist Hiba Schahbaz and curator Jasmine Wahi, moderated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD. Dive into Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden, her first major retrospective showcasing 15 years of lush paintings inspired by Sufi mysticism, global myths, the feminist gaze, and fantastical realms of sea, land, and sky. Framed as a jannat or Paradise Garden with Persian and Mughal char-bagh influences, the exhibition merges Indo-Persian miniature traditions with large-scale works evoking South Florida’s lush landscapes and themes of transformation, selfhood, and care.
Jessica’s review of Isamu Noguchi’s exhibit at the Clark Art Institute can be found here: https://www.bu.edu/sequitur/2026/01/14/isamu-noguchi-landscapes-of-time/
In a few weeks she will be presenting a paper at the 20206 CAA meetings: “Contextualizing Transnational Practices: Leveraging Art Historical and Digital Humanities Methodologies to Amplify Marginalized Narratives;” as part of the panel: Visibility as Resistance: Amplifying Marginalized Narratives.
Jessica will as well be co-chair for the session “Expanding Critical Frameworks: Unraveling Devaluation and Recontextualizing the Field of Fiber Art.” As part of this session, Liam Maher (PhD candidate) is presenting a paper titled “Conceptual Threads – Tina Girouard and Antoine Oleyant’s Drapo Vodou”.
and a Workshop Co-leader for: “Grids Across Borders: Art, Craft, and the Global Context.”
Her travel to CAA is funded by the Association of Print Scholars Travel Grant.
The panel is “Unstable Monuments: Nation, States, Spaces and Conflicts in Public Sculpture 1811-1947. Noah will be presenting a paper, “Claiming Independence/Claiming Columbus”
