Welcome to the Williams Grad Art List, edited by Andrea Gyorody (MA ’09).
Hi again! Please enjoy this rather full edition of the newsletter, and don’t neglect to send announcements big and small for the next one!
News + Announcements
Recent RAP lectures by Elyan Jeanine Hill, Keisha Oliver, Cynthia Hahn, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Edward Payne, and Roberto Conduru are viewable online until Jan 3, 2022.
Non-Academic Jobs + Fellowships
Executive Director, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, IL - due Dec 13
Hoehn Curatorial Fellow for Prints, University Galleries, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA - due Jan 3, 2022
Curatorial Fellowship, Center for Craft, Remote and Asheville, NC - due Feb 14, 2022
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX - due Feb 15, 2022
Director, Video Data Bank, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Staff Writer, Artsy, New York
Research Assistant (Temporary), Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Curator, Motown Museum, Detroit, MI
Associate Curator / Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Director or Assistant Director, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA
Interim Curatorial Assistant, Jewish Museum, New York [h/t Rebecca Shaykin ’09, who would be happy to talk with anyone interested in the position]
Programs Manager, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Curatorial Fellow, Prints & Drawings, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Director, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Curatorial Assistant / Communications Coordinator, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Curator of Education and Engagement, Museums at Washington and Lee, Lexington, VA
Director, American Museum of Asmat Art, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Executive Director, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Associate Curator / Curator and Department Head of European Painting & Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Curator and Preparator, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Senior Curator / Director of Programs, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Executive Director, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID
McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Director of Development, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Guest Curator, Elisabeth Jones Art Center for Social and Environmental Justice, Portland, OR
Luther W. Brady Curator or Associate Curator of Japanese Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Assistant Curator for Campus and Public Programs, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Academic Jobs + Fellowships
Assistant Professor in Art History – Early Modern Art, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Doha, Qatar - review began Nov 30
Associate Lecturer, Birbeck, University of London, London, UK - due Dec 9
James D. McDonough Fellowship in Queer Art History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - due Dec 15
Assistant Professor, Critical Studies, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - due Jan 1, 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy - due Jan 7, 2022
Professorship in East Asian Art History, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland - due Jan 12, 2022
Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada - due Jan 14, 2022
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity, American University, Washington, D.C.
Calls for Papers + Nominations + Participation
42nd Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, co-hosted by
University of Toronto Mississauga’s Department of Visual Studies and the Art
Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Mar 25-26, 2022) - abstracts due Dec 17
Landscape, Nature, and Sacred Site: Synergies across the Global Middle Ages, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, May 12-13, 2022) - proposals due Dec 20
Photography as Knowledge (Re-)Production in Twentieth-Century East Asia, Heidelberg University (Online / Heidelberg, Feb 17-19, 2022) - abstracts due Dec 22
Art & Philosophy: After Arakawa+Gins, Kyoto University of the Arts (Online / Kyoto, Mar 11-15, 2022) - proposals due Dec 31
Mothers and Fathers in the Pre-Modern World, c.1000-1800, University of Cambridge (Online/Cambridge, Apr 23, 2022) - abstracts due Dec 31
Wear and Tear/Usure(s), Department of French and Francophone Studies Graduate Conference, Brown University (Providence, RI, Apr 8-9, 2022) - proposals due Dec 31
Shaping “Spanish” Sicily: Spaces of Interaction and Dynamics of Power, Society and Visuality Workshop, Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck Institute for Art History (Rome, May 5-6, 2022) - due Jan 7, 2022
Nineteenth Annual Graduate Student Symposium (Online, Mar 19-20, 2022) - proposals due Jan 9, 2022
Virtual Matters: Rethinking Image and Reality in Art History, HAA Graduate Symposium, University of Pittsburgh (Online, Mar 25, 2022) - abstracts due Jan 10, 2022
The Emergence of Gendered Power Structures since Early Modern Times: Practices, Norms, Media, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Marburg, Nov 23-25, 2022) - abstracts due Jan 15, 2022
Rhythms and Resonances. Sounding Objects in the Middle Ages, German Center for Art History – DFK Paris (Online / Paris, May 19-20, 2022) - due Jan 15, 2022
Revisiting Russian-Speaking Artistic (E)migration (Online, Apr 7-8, 2022) - abstracts due Jan 15, 2022
In Excess: Opulence, Splendor, Surplus, and Glut across Time and Space, RASC/a Art History Graduate Student Association Conference, Southern Methodist University (Online, Apr 1-2, 2022) - abstracts due Jan 18, 2022
Beyond Friendships: International Conference on Regional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the ’70s, Artpool Art Research Center and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (Budapest, 11-12 May 22) - abstracts due Jan 20, 2022
Art History and Discourse on the Centre and Periphery, Croatian Society of Art Historians (Zagreb, May 19-21, 2022) - proposals due Jan 25, 2022
Theory and Criticism of Literature & Arts Special Issue: Reversed Ekphrasis - proposals due Feb 2022
Nonhuman Artists: Challenging Anthropocentrism, University of Toronto (Online / Toronto, Mar 18, 2022) - abstracts due Feb 4, 2022
Work in Progress, Berkeley-Stanford-SFMoMA Symposium (San Francisco, Apr 23, 2022) - abstracts due Feb 11, 2022
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