Alpesh has been appointed coeditor of the Rethinking Art’s Histories book series, through the University of Manchester press. You can read the official announcement here:
News from the Art History Department at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Tag: art history
Hylton interview in CAA News as he takes on the role of Art Journal‘s new Reviews Editor can be found here: https://www.collegeart.org/news/2026/03/17/member-spotlight-meet-new-art-journal-reviews-editor-richard-hylton/
Find out what he plans to do in the role!
Emma presented the paper “Isabella Piccini: A Nun-Printmaker in 17th-Century Venice” in the panel titled ‘Women in Print before 1800.’ This paper stemmed from Emma’s Research Fellowship with Save Venice Inc. where she supported the Women Artists of Venice initiative, which seeks to recover the history of female artists in early modern Venice and the Veneto. Noah presented the paper “Claiming Independence/Claiming Columbus” in the session titled ‘Unstable Monuments: Nation, States, Spaces, and Conflicts in Public Sculpture 1811-1947.’ His paper stemmed from his Ph.D. dissertation, which he defended the week prior.
We’re proud that a number of Tyler Art History students presented at the 8th Annual SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium, which took place April 8–12, 2026. Congratulations to these undergraduates for representing our department with such a strong showing!
Griffin Cutler (BA ’26)
“Tough Act to Follow: The Access Behind Albrecht Dürer’s Self Portraits”
Molly Melissen (BA ’25)
“Ọ̀ṣun to La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Iconography”
Alexis Rago (BA ’26)
“What is it?: Proletariat Photographic Arts in the Soviet Union and Japan”
Jay DaCruz (BA ’27)
“Constructions of Empire: Maximilian I’s Monumental Arch on Paper”
Mahsa presented her paper, “Writing as Preservation: Remembering the Lost Life of Toopkhaneh Square” at Sohbat: Third Biennial Yale University Graduate Symposium on Islamic Art and Architecture.
Beatrice presented her paper, “Je Me Souviens: An Evolving Public Memory on the École Polytechnique Massacre, as Shown Through the Place du 6-Décembre-1989” at the University of Virginia Department of Art’s Graduate Symposium, One & Done: Single Object Studies” on March 26, 2026.
Molly’s paper was awarded the runner-up prize for the best paper on American history at the 31st Annual James A. Barnes Graduate History Conference at Temple University, one of the largest and longest running graduate student conferences in the region, drawing participants from across the nation and around the world.
Emma Holter (Ph.D. candidate) recently presented at the annual Renaissance Society of America conference in San Francisco. Her paper was titled “Isabella Piccini (1644-1734): A Cloistered Female Printmaker” and highlighted the work of an understudied nun-printmaker in seventeenth-century Venice. This paper stemmed from Emma’s Research Fellowship with Save Venice Inc. where she supported the Women Artists of Venice initiative, which seeks to recover the history of female artists in early modern Venice and the Veneto. She presented her research in a panel sponsored by Save Venice, alongside Temple professor Dr. Tracy Cooper, and their respondent was Dr. Peter Lukehart, Temple alumnus and Associate Dean of CASVA. Emma will be presenting a version of her paper on Isabella Piccini at the upcoming Association for Art History conference in Cambridge, UK.
Jessica let us know about a recent blog post about a workshop Meghan Kelly and she co-led at CAA: Grids Across Borders: Art, Craft, and the Global Context. The workshop extended, in part, from a section of her dissertation research, particularly her interest in reframing the grid not only as a formal device but as a cross-cultural and methodological framework. She tells us “It was rewarding to see those ideas translated into a collaborative, hands-on pedagogical setting.”
The blog is linked here: https://jeffersonaspire.com/grids-across-borders-workshop-at-caa-2026/