Ithaca College Department of Art History

AAHA! the Department of Art History has joined with the Department of Art. We are now the Department of Art, Art History, and Architecture! Please follow our new page for up to date news and information. https://www.facebook.com/AAHA-Ithaca-College-Department-of-Art-Art-History-and-Architecture-108237982028172

We're excited to have Paul Nicholson as the new director of the Handwerker Gallery!

Paul Nicholson begins as Director of the Handwerker Gallery | Ithaca College Paul Nicholson is joining us as the next director of the Handwerker Gallery. He is coming from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he was the director of the Martin Art Gallery for the past seven years. As director of the Martin, he curated dozens of contemporary art exhibitions, ov...

We are bidding Mara Baldwin, our unflappable director of the Handwerker Gallery, a fond farewell. We wish her the best of luck teaching art at Bard College!

Mara Baldwin steps down as Handwerker Gallery director | Ithaca College Mara Baldwin is stepping down as director of the Handwerker Gallery at the end of May. Mara has led the gallery since 2011. She has been a creative, energetic gallery director who has pushed the Handwerker's exhibitions and programming towards emerging art practices and has taken a special interest....

Congratulations to Sam Hefti, Jaylin Rumsey, Daniella Mulvey, and Cyerra Adams who all presented at our annual Senior Symposium. Daniella was also awarded the 2022 Art History Prize!

We're hiring! The Handwerker Gallery seeks enthusiastic candidates for the Director position, set to start in May 2022. Please forward widely! All applications should be submitted through Ithaca College HR interface. Prioritizing applications received by mid-March.
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Congratulations to Prof. Nancy Brcak and Prof. Jennifer Jolly!

Prof. Brcak has been named an Emerita Professor. This is an honorary title awarded after retirement to those who have made sustained contributions to Ithaca College and to their profession in teaching, scholarship, and service. She taught at IC for 36 years, starting before there was an art history department!

Prof. Jolly was awarded a 5-year Dana Professorship at the College. The Dana Professorship is awarded to selected full professors who have demonstrated a continued record of excellence as well as a promise of outstanding future contributions in teaching and service.

So proud of Hali Keller for carrying her undergraduate research on to grad school and publication!

“No Apology in a World of Men”: Marion Mahony Griffin and Women in Architecture Curricula As a woman student of architecture, I didn’t initially question how architectural history was presented as being the sole domain of male genius. A seminar on gender and architecture, taught by Lauren O’Connell at Ithaca College, opened my eyes. Architecture’s pedagogical emphasis on men does n...

We are seeking applications for a 1-year pre or post-doctoral diversity fellowship in architectural studies. Special consideration will be given to candidates with a focus on the architectural history of Africa, Asia, or Latin America and/or their diasporas.
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DIVERSITY SCHOLARS FELLOW The School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College announces its Diversity Scholars Fellowship Program search for 2022-2023.

Critique Day in Architecture Studio II

We're excited to unveil our brand new architectural studio in Gannett! Here's Prof. Zohreh Soltani and her Studio II course in the new space.

David Salomon, Associate Professor of Art History and Coordinator of the Architectural Studies program, is featured in episode four of the Nature of Enclosure podcast: https://urbannext.net/nature-of-enclosure-s4/. Drawing on his research on the aesthetics of landscapes, patterns and fake-natures, Professor Salomon engaged in a wide ranging conversation with host Jeffrey Nesbit and architects Alex Santander and Denise Luna Acevedo.

Nature of Enclosure is a joint endeavour of Actar publishers and urbanNext, exploring the status of enclosure in the design fields and its impact on contemporary forms of capital, culture, and politics.