News from the Art History Department at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
The article, “Celebrating 50 Years of the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation Oral History Project” (with Rebecca Rushfield) can be found in the Jan 2026 News in Conservation – with great photos of Molly in action: https://www.iiconservation.org/publications/nic/news-conservation-issue-111-december-january-2026
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
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”
Molly Bernhard (PhD candidate) will be giving a talk at the 16th-Century Society Conference titled “”In Situ: Battle-Scarred Art from Early Modern Italy”
Camila Medina (PhD candidate) and Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate) will give talks at the SECAC annual conference. Medina will present “Queering the Grid: Mary Vieira, Gego, and the Transmateriality of Abstraction in the Cold War.” Schoolman’s talk is “Mourning Spaces: Memory, Marking, and Refuge in the Site-Specific Works of Horacio Zabala, Lotty Rosenfeld, and Artur Barrio.”
Cecelia Heintzelman will present at the 51st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference: “To Have and To Hold: The Enkolpion and Divinity in Byzantium.”
Emily’s clarity in learning goals and creativity with rigor in assignments resonated deeply with the undergraduates she taught in the writing class “Memory in Contemporary Global Art”.
She noted in her teaching statement that “teaching art history can equip students with skills and ethical commitments that they can carry with them into a plethora of career paths, as well as engage them with current events…my goal as an educator is to address students holistically to develop critical thinking skills, visual literacy, and empathy that will inform how they interact with the wider world.”
