Midwest Art History Society ANNUAL CONFERENCE, CHICAGO, 2016
The Midwest Art History Society will hold its 43rd annual conference in Chicago, from April 7th-9th, 2016, hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College, DePaul University, and Loyola University. Presenters from UIC include Jonathan Mekinda, Ellen Taylor Baird, Alyssa Swindell, Marissa Baker, Aleksander Vujkov, Omur Harmansah, Katja Rivera, and Hannah Higgins.
See schedule below for details on presentations.
THURSDAY, APRIL 7th
10:00-11:30
Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives Room 8002
Co-chairs: Jonathan Mekinda, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bess Williamson Stiles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Robert Buerglener, Northwestern University School of Professional Studies, “Ornamenting Mobility: Chicago Transportation Infrastructure at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Laura Herlocher, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Designs for the People: The Interior Designs of Marianne Willisch”
Barbara Jaffee, Northern Illinois University, “The ‘Chicago-Type’ Gallery”
Dan Costa Baciu, Illinois Institute of Technology and Architektur Studio Bellerive, “The Chicago School of Architecture - Historiography and Design”
1:15-2:45
Latin American and Pre-Columbian Art Room 8002
Chair: Ellen Taylor Baird, University of Illinois at Chicago
Maggie Borowitz, University of Chicago, “‘Not a White-Men-Only Terrain, Sorry Boys’: Latin America as Context and Identity in the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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Zoe Goldman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Latin American Architecture at MoMA: Developmentalism and Third World Modernism”
Meredith Derks, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Whimsical Meets Mechanical: Exploring the Paintings of Remedios Varos”
Ana Nieves, Northeastern Illinois University, “Beyond Style and Iconography: Reflectance Transformation Imaging at Rock Art Sites of the Rio Grande de Nasca Drainage (Department of Ica, Peru)”
History of Photography Room 8009
Chair: David Travis, Columbia College
Emma Stein,
University of New Mexico, “Chicago on the Threshold: Photography, the Photogram and the Architecture of the City at the Institute of Design, 1946-1952”
Kelsey Fradey Malone, University of Missouri, “Uncovering Esther Bubley’s War Work”
James R. Swenson, Brigham Young University, “The Space in Between: Arthur Siegel’s Experimental Documentary Photography, 1942.”
Alisha Swindell, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Cruising Photographic Genealogies: Call and Response of Rotimi Fani-Kayode to Robert Mapplethorpe”
Black Arts Movement
Chair: Marissa Baker, University of Illinois at Chicago Room 8014
D. Denenge Akpem, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Women of AFRICOBRA: Highlights and Reflections on Art, Motherhood, and Community”
Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University, “Independent Art Spaces in Chicago During the Black Arts Movement”
Marissa H. Baker, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Murals for the People: Intersections of the Black Arts Movement and the Chicago Mural Movement”