February 22, 2021
Department of the History of Art & Architecture
Brown University
Weekly News Update
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Timely
- Don’t miss Professor Jeffrey Moser's workshop at the Sheridan Center on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at noon. Entitled “The Awkward Object”, the workshop uses case studies from the RISD Museum to explore ways of helping students apprehend and articulate the awkwardness of objects for themselves.
- SPRINT Award applications, via UFunds, are due on Wednesday, Feb. 24 @ noon. Funding is available to support summer internships, faculty research, course development, and teaching collaborations.
- Voting for the Rhode Island Mar. 2 special election has begun! Learn how to vote early in-person and how to vote by mail from home. The seven bond issues include funding for projects for arts programming and facilities, higher education, state beaches, affordable housing, early childhood care, and more.
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Looking Ahead: Department and University Updates
- Please note that there are a number of March 1 deadlines related to summer 2021 courses, concentrations and commencement. These include: proposing an Independent Concentration; for Semester 01 students to declare a personal leave for the Summer 2021 term: and for graduating students with more than one concentration to select the departmental ceremony in which they wish to obtain their diploma. If you have questions about academic planning, please make an appointment to speak with an academic advising dean
- Help keep the Brown campus safe at its Level 2 Activity Status by following all CDC, State of RI, and Brown University guidelines; wear a face covering when outside of your household, maintain physical distance, wash and sanitize your hands often, clean surfaces often, Keep track of who you have been in direct contact with, check your temperature, and stay home if you feel sick.
- Please adhere to safety measures when inside the List Art Building:
- Keep elevator use to one person.
- Note the stairwells are for one way foot traffic.
- Wash or sanitize your hands, as well as any surfaces that you touch.
- The 2nd floor bathroom is for List staff and faculty. Other visitors should use the bathrooms in the basement, and on levels 3, 4, and 5.
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Happenings
- Feb. 23 @ 3:30 pm: The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice presents This Is America: Reimagining Memorials and Commemoration, a conversation with scholars, artists and students as they share the important work they are doing in Rhode Island to address the state’s history. Registration is required.
- Feb. 24 @ 5 pm: The Department of Visual Arts will present a talk by Jamaican visual artist Ebony G. Patterson, whose work explores questions of beauty, death, postcolonialism, and more. Read her biography and register online.
- Feb. 26 @ 5:30 pm: Join the Brown Arts Initiative for until we not know, a performative celebration of the joyous Jewish holiday, Purim. Created by Ariel Efraim Ashbel, a Berlin-based performance maker, audience members are invited to dress up in response to the category, “my favorite Illusion!” Advance registration recommended.
- Feb. 27 @ noon: Professor Holly Shaffer worked with The American Council of Southern Asian Art and the Peabody Essex Museum to create, “Cloth, Comfort, and Care,” a conversation between Pika Ghosh and Sylvia Houghteling about their new scholarship on South Asian textile practices. Registration required.
- Feb. 1 - Feb. 28: Discover the talents of Brown’s department managers, library staff, researchers, and beyond by looking through this year’s After Hours, the BAI’s annual staff appreciation art exhibition.
- Mar. 8 - Mar. 26: Brown Fashion Week will be online this spring! (And longer than a week.) Find the full schedule, which includes talks with Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kenneth Cole, and Steve Madden at https://tinyurl.com/brownfashionweek21.
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Opportunities for Undergraduates
- Apply for the Edward Guiliano ‘72 Global Fellowship, which funds scholarly and artistic projects that students undertake outside of their current communities. Awards range from $750 to $5,000. Spring 2021 applications are available on UFunds and are due Feb. 24.
- Use your research, graphic design, writing or photography skills to volunteer or work in the Rhode island Community. Applications for spring or summer opportunities are available through the Swearer Center's BrownEngage site.
- Did you conduct research for a class project in the 2020 calendar year? Submit your project to the 2021 Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research. Application materials, which include the project itself, a statement, a list of sources, and a faculty letter, are due Feb. 26.
- The Northwestern Art Review is looking for art-historical papers, written by undergraduates, to publish in their annual journal. Submit by Feb. 27, and read previous issues at https://issuu.com/nuartreview. Please note that papers must be no longer than 10 pages.
- The Urban Journal is accepting submissions until Mar. 1. This Urban Studies Department publication invites academic and creative pieces that relate to cities, urban life, planning, and architecture. Submit via a Google form and send any questions to Thomas_Wilson@brown.edu.
- From July 12 - July 23, 2021, Bard Graduate Center will hold the summer course, “Re-Dress and Re-Form: Intersectionality in the History of Fashion and Design, 1850 to Today.” This program is open to rising juniors, seniors, and recent graduates. Application deadline is April 1.
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Opportunities for Graduate Students
- The University of Rochester’s InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture is seeking articles, creative pieces, and reviews on art and activism, queer social life, institutional critique, and more. Submit by Feb. 28.
- The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is accepting applications for the John Coolidge Research Fellowship and the Retting Fellowship until Mar. 1. For more information.
- Apply by Mar. 1 for a Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum has several opportunities available for current graduate students as well as postdocs.
- On Mar. 5 at 11 am, the Center for Public Humanities will host a panel for graduate students with alumni working in advocacy, government, and service. This will be the second installment of the 3-session series, “Careers in the Public Humanities” Register and learn more at the panel’s event page.
- Apply by Mar. 12 for the 2021 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program. This national fellowship provides opportunities for doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.
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Artists in Bengal, textile (detail), early 20th century. Cotton with embroidery. Gift of the Davida Herwitz Fine Arts Trust, 2003. Peabody Essex Museum. E302403. Photo by Bob Packert/PEM. Artists in India, Palampore (bed cover) (detail), 1710–50. Cotton embroidered with silk and metal. Museum purchase, the Veldman-Eecen Collection, made possible by an anonymous donor. Peabody Essex Museum. 2012.22.82. © 2009, Fotostudio John Stoel.
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Cloth, Comfort and Care: New Scholarship on South Asian Textiles
HIAA Professor Holly Shaffer, an Officer at The American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA), helped create a virtual program taking place on February 27, hosted by Siddhartha V. Shah, Curator of South Asian Art and Director of Education and Civic Engagement at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Cloth, Comfort and Care: New Scholarship on South Asian Textiles will be a conversation with renowned art historians, Pika Ghosh (Visiting Associate Professor, Haverford College) author of the book Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal, and Sylvia Houghteling (Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College), author of the book-in-progress The Art of Cloth in Mughal India. In these talks, the authors will discuss how objects ranging from Mughal imperial robes of honor to embroideries created on repurposed cloth for household use held the intimacy of touch and conveyed gestures of affection.
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdOCrqT4qH9MjeWZHARItXt5_ZgtpRUX4
The American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) was established in 1963 by Pramod Chandra with the primary goal of undertaking the establishment of an “American Academy” in India dedicated to the study of South Asian art.
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