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Panelist Highlight: Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese

On Friday, October 23, Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese will join us for “Working in the Arts: Grant Panel,” an exciting discussion about funding creative projects through grants. Dr. Saggese is the Director of The David C. Driskell Center and a Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. A leading scholar in modern and contemporary American art, Dr. Saggese is internationally recognized as a foremost expert on Jean-Michel Basquiat, having authored two landmark books on the artist: “Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art” (2014), which received the PEN Center Award for Exceptional First Book, and “The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses” (2021). Her latest book, “Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation” (2024), extends to broader examinations of Black visual culture and explores the visual and cultural history of Black boxers and how representations of these athletes have shaped discourses on race, masculinity, and power. As the Director at the Driskell Center, Dr. Saggese has raised over 1.6 million dollars through grants and awards such as the Exhibition Grant from The Terra Foundation, the Faculty Student Research Award Grant from the Graduate School, and a grant from the Getty Foundation’s Black Visual Arts Archives.

If you want to learn more about grant writing, please join us on Friday, October 23, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at the Prince George’s Room, located on the first floor of the Stamp Student Union.

For more information and/or accommodations, please email us at stampgallery@umd.edu Panelist highlight featuring a portrait of Dr. Jordana Saggese, director of the David C. Driskell Center and professor of art history and archaeology at the University of Maryland. by @terparthistory

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The Division of Student Affairs, the Department of Art History & Archaeology, and Foundry are pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for a new mural on our campus. The work will be installed on the second floor of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Building, located at 7999 Regents Drive (College Park, MD).

The commissioned work will feature in the 2027 edition of NextNOW Fest, organized annually by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

We invite submissions that express the vision, mission, and values of the Division of Student Affairs (DSA) as described in Forward Together, DSA’s Strategic Plan. We are particularly interested in inspirational, colorful designs that encapsulate the diverse experiences and trajectories of students outside of the classroom and across their UMD careers. Preference will be given to artists who have a personal connection to UMD.

Submissions should be new and original works and should be painted directly onto the wall. Artists may incorporate additional space along the hallway, but the mural is primarily intended for a slightly recessed portion of a wall on the second-floor hallway of the Mitchell Building (approximately 164 × 82.5 inches; photos and video of the space are available on the submission form).

Link in Bio to submit an application! taken in University of Maryland Office of Student Financial Aid by @terparthistory

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The Division of Student Affairs, the Department of Art History & Archaeology, and xFoundry are pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for a new mural on our campus. The work will be installed on the second floor of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Building, located at 7999 Regents Drive (College Park, MD). This initiative stems from a course on Public Art, taught by Professor Abigail McEwen, and is led by twenty-two undergraduate students who are invested in bringing new art to UMD and who will serve as jurors. The commissioned work will feature in the 2027 edition of NextNOW Fest, organized annually by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

We invite submissions that express the vision, mission, and values of the Division of Student Affairs (DSA) as described in Forward Together, DSA’s Strategic Plan. We are particularly interested in inspirational, colorful designs that encapsulate the diverse experiences and trajectories of students outside of the classroom and across their UMD careers. Preference will be given to artists who have a personal connection to UMD.

Submissions should be new and original works and should be painted directly onto the wall. Artists may incorporate additional space along the hallway, but the mural is primarily intended for a slightly recessed portion of a wall on the second-floor hallway of the Mitchell Building (approximately 164 x 82.5 inches; photos and video of the space are available on the submission form).

Scan the QR code for more information! by @terparthistory

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Exploring the interconnected histories of modern Chinese art, experimental practices, and the institutions of art pedagogy and exhibition in China and abroad, Dr. Oen-Lee's talk starts in the late 1980s and early 1990s of China’s Reform Era. Using this period of both institutionalization and experimentation as an anchor for a protean concept of the global both outside and within China, her talk then explores a historically diverse cast of characters including foreign supporters of Chinese art and artists from the early- and mid-twentieth century.

Looking at the production of artists including Pang Tao and Zhang Peili, and the art historian Tao Yongbai, Oen-Lee explores how these figures utilized their positions within mainland Chinese state infrastructure not to overthrow the system, but to introduce glitches and systemic noise that rendered the state’s pedagogical machinery less legible. Simultaneously, these strategies allowed for the internal broadening of perspective while purposely placing art in China in relation with modern art practices around the world. This project also traces a material lineage from literati ink painting through state-sanctioned oil painting of the 20th-century academies in both the Republic of China and People’s Republic periods, to Reform Era “new” media work (video, installation) by artists who were themselves academy-trained oil painters. By analyzing intellectual trends such as "Science Fever" and cultural touchstones like the Towards the Future book series (1984-1989) and the River Elegy television documentary series (1988), this project examines an intentionally global strategy for maintaining creative agency within authoritarian and other politically-charged structures.

Karin Oen-Lee is a curator and art historian who last year was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Museum Studies at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

A light lunch will be served at 11:30. taken in Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture by @terparthistory

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🕯️✨ Step back in time with the Undergraduate Art History Association (AHA)! ✨

Join us for a festive October craft night as we create our own 17th-century neck ruffs inspired by the elaborate fashion of the past. 🎨🏛️ Whether you’re an art history enthusiast or just looking for a fun, creative evening, we’d love to see you there!

📍 Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture, Art-Sociology Building, Room 4213A
📅 Tuesday, October 20
⏰ 6:00–7:30 PM

Come craft with us and add a little Renaissance flair to your October! 🖤 taken in Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture by @terparthistory

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Our ARTH201 students recently took their learning beyond the classroom with a visit to the National Gallery of Art! 🎨

Led by Professor Aneta Georgievska-Shine, ARTH201 students explored works spanning centuries of art history, gaining a deeper understanding of the artistic movements, cultural traditions, and historical contexts they’ve been studying this semester.

The visit also offered students the opportunity to share their research in action, with several delivering impromptu presentations on works of art they selected for their semester-long research projects.

A great example of bringing art history to life through firsthand engagement with the collections! 🖼️ taken in National Gallery of Art by @terparthistory

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Please join us Wednesday, October 7th at noon, when Alison Singer shares some of her latest research in a talk titled, "Embedded Stories: Material Engagement and New Reparative Practices at McLeod Plantation Historic Site."

Her lecture considers reparative practices at McLeod Plantation Historic Site, located near Charleston, South Carolina, that reclaim narratives of the enslaved. Tours at McLeod are transformed into haptic experiences through direct material engagement: visitors are prompted to touch and explore objects that enslaved individuals once made by hand, such as bricks that contain small, visible fingerprints left behind by enslaved children during the brick drying process. These fingerprints serve as both visible traces of labor and as physical “signatures” embedded in the bricks that built McLeod, and that built the city of Charleston itself. Objects like the bricks become narrative bridges that connect visitors, through touch, to the enslaved individuals who lived at McLeod. Through new reparative storytelling practices, as well as recent and urgent archival work, the lives of these individuals are centered in the history of Charleston. Their stories form important counternarratives at McLeod Plantation Historic Site and beyond.

The Pressly Forum offers members of Department faculty and selected speakers to give a talk to members of the Department (faculty, staff, students) in an effort to create bonds of intellectual and collegial community. The forum is the brainchild of Professor Emeritus William L. Pressly, after whom the forum now is named.

A light lunch will be served at 11:30. taken in Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture by @terparthistory

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All Week, October 5th-9th, 10-3 @ Tawes Plaza Entrance - GAHA Book and Bake Sale!

That's right, everyone's favorite (and tastiest) fundraiser is back! GAHA will be baking a bevy of goodies and sorting out a choice selection of books for your consideration. Plan accordingly!

For more information, please visit:
arthistory.umd.edu/events/gaha-book-and-bake-sale taken in Tawes Plaza Gardens by @terparthistory

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We look forward to seeing YOU tomorrow for the start of our TWO-DAY international conference on Islamic art in the U.S.!

How should American museums that present Islamic art engage the diasporic communities that are increasingly recognized as key public constituencies? How have these diasporic publics been constituted inside and outside institutional museums? What strategies might best encourage communities to move from viewing art to responding to it—and in doing so, reshape how it is interpreted in public spaces?

These questions are at the heart of the organization of this international conference, which takes place over two days at the University of Maryland, College Park, and in Baltimore at the Walters Art Gallery, Islam & Print, and Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Organized by Sarah Slingluff (ARTH), Peter Wien (HIST), and Karin J. Zitzewitz (ARTH), this conference will feature a keynote address by Dr. Stefan Weber, Director, Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin, a site visit at the Walters Art Museum led by Dr. Ashley Dimmig, former Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow of Islamic Art. An accompanying exhibition, LANDLINE, has been curated by Safiyah Cheatam of Islam & Print, Baltimore, at the University of Maryland Art Gallery.

The conference is co-organized by the College of Arts and Humanities, the Department of Art History and Archaeology, and the Department of History, with support from Department of American Studies, Roshan Institute of Persian Studies, Center for Global Migration Studies, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Enoch Pratt Free Library, and Islam & Print.

For more information and to register please visit https://arthistory.umd.edu/research-innovation/balkans-bengal-baltimore-engaging-diasporas-shaping-publics-and-reimagining taken in Tawes Hall by @terparthistory

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A two-day international conference at UMD and in Baltimore will examine how American museums can better engage Muslim and diasporic communities in interpreting Islamic art.

Beginning tomorrow, “From the Balkans to Bengal in Baltimore” will bring together curators and other museum professionals, scholars and artists to consider questions ranging from how museums classify objects and write labels to whose knowledge and experiences shape the stories told in galleries. Speakers will represent institutions including the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin, the New York Public Library, the MSU Broad Art Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge.

An accompanying exhibition at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, called “LANDLINE,” features contemporary Muslim artists with connections to Baltimore, Maryland and UMD. Open through December 4, it is the first exhibition dedicated solely to Islamic art at UMD.

For conferencegoers, the exhibition helps connect historical works created outside the United States with contemporary art by Muslim artists in the region, organizers say.

Read more at the link in bio.

📷: Taneen Momeni by @terparthistory

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This is a reminder that The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is excited to invite you to a film screening of Alaav TOMORROW September 22, 2026 at 5 PM in SQH 1117.

Alaav (Hearth and Home), directed by Prabhash Chandra, is the story of Bhaveen Gossain, a 63-year-old son, taking care of Savitri, his ailing 95-year-old mother in their home in a quiet suburb of New Delhi, India. Bhaveen rarely steps out of his house as he is completely devoted to looking after his mother. The film is a dispassionate yet intimate portrayal of the bond between a mother and son along with the other people closely involved in Bhaveen’s life.

Screening of the film will be followed by Q+A and discussion with the director. This event is co-sponsored by the Cinema and Media Studies Program and the Department of Art History and Archaeology. It is open to all students, faculty, and staff who may be interested in attending so please feel free to share.

To RSVP, visit us at https://go.umd.edu/HearthandHome taken in Susquehanna Hall by @terparthistory

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Part of the magic of our upcoming conference, From the Balkans to Bengal in Baltimore, this Thursday and Friday, is the access to not only artists and curators in the exhibit LANDLINE at the @umdartgallery but also a tour of the re-installation of Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum with its curator, @amdimmig.

By basing our conference at both the University of Maryland and in Baltimore (at @thewaltersartmuseum, @makingspace_bmore, @islamandprint, and the @prattlibrary), participants will have behind the scenes access to the people who connect art to the public.

So come! Tour these spaces with the people who know them best!

Register here: https://arthistory.umd.edu/research-innovation/balkans-bengal-baltimore-engaging-diasporas-shaping-publics-and-reimagining

For more about LANDLINE: https://artgallery.umd.edu/events/landline

#islamicart #baltimore #curators #communityrepresentation #glam by @terparthistory

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