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Applications for a Fall 2024 internship at one of our favorite museums—the Springville Museum of Art—are due June 28th.

Intern Interns gain first-hand experience at a local art museum and are assigned to a specific department. They may assist with the following:

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Next week, we'll be hosting Dr. Emily C. Burns, Director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West. In addition to this event, we'll be holding a Q&A session for those interested in hearing about her career path and getting advice from a highly successful, terrific person—more to come on this event shortly.

There's a job opening in the education department of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Check out the details here:

Jobs - Clyfford Still Museum Thank you for your interest in the Clyfford Still Museum. Please review the available employment, contracting, and volunteer opportunities.

Our partner at the Museo del Prado just sent us this announcement. Unfortunately, there’s no English version, but the right candidate will have to have high proficiency in Spanish.

The Prado Museum offers a one-week “summer school” for students who are:

Under 30 yrs of age
In their last year of undergrad or masters program or in a PhD program

The Summer School is an academic activity of the Museum’s Centro de Estudios aimed at deepening the training of young art historians, future curators, and museum managers; from a practical perspective, offering a comprehensive experience of research functions and those related to collection management.

Escuela de Verano del Museo del Prado 2023 - Actividad La Escuela de Verano del Museo del Prado es una iniciativa académica del Centro de Estudios que tuvo en 2019 su primera edición. Su objetivo es profun...

Congratulations to Katie Seastrand, one of our amazing alumna!

UMFA Educator Honored with NAEA Award | The Utah Museum of Fine Arts The Utah Museum of Fine Arts: UMFA Educator Honored with NAEA Award

Come hear from one of your favorites this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. It's free and open to all!!!

I'd love to have students (past and present) who have either worked as research assistants on our project on Utah women artists or are simply interested in knowing more, attend. We may be able to get a BYU van and hit the road together, so let Professor Belnap know if you want to join us.

Heather Belnap + Emily Larsen / Women Artists and the Utah Art Scene, Past and Present / Granary Arts Granary Arts invites you to join us Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 6pm for a discussion on "Women Artists and the Utah Art Scene, Past and Present" lead by researchers Heather Belnap and Emily Larsen. Location: Granary Arts, 86 N. Main St. Ephraim, UT, 84627

The Kress Foundation has awarded the Middlebury Language Schools 5 full fellowships, each covering a summer (tuition, room, & board) in Vermont to study French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish. The Kress Fellowships are for graduate students in art history with a focus in European art history or art conservation. Preference is given to students who are accepted to, or are currently enrolled in, a Ph.D.

The fellowship deadline is December 15th!

We'll be discussing lots of fascinating images of how the 19th c. French represented Mormons—please come!

https://meadowsmuseumdallas.org/education/fellowships/

Fellowships – Meadows Museum, Dallas Overview Meadows Museum curatorial fellowships, graciously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Center for Spain in America (CSA), provide pre- and postdoctoral scholars interested in a museum career with professional and international experience through the Meadows Museum’s curato...

The Interdisciplinary Humanities program (one of the ARTHC "sister" programs) has a full-time, tenure-track position open; note that the call mentions our department's emphasis in "Art History/Visual Culture Studies" among others. Please spread the word about this position—and let folks know that if they have any questions, they can direct them to me (Professor Belnap), as I'm on the search committee.

Such a great film that celebrates humanity and the power of art—highly recommended!

American University's Kantzen Arts Center is looking for a museum registrar. Information here:
https://careers.american.edu/Staff/job/Washington-Museum-Registrar-%2812642%29-DC-20016/778253800/

The Springville Museum of Art is hiring part-time outreach educators! These positions will support and assist with general Museum programming and will facilitate our outreach programs in K-12 schools across the state! If you love art, teaching, and road tripping across Utah this is the job for you! Application window is short because we're hoping to get people hired before January, not because we have someone already in mind! Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

Nathan Rees and I are excited to announce a new project. Please consider submitting a proposal!

Sending out a last call for contributions to our digital memory book for Professor Mark Johnson's retirement. Photos, anecdotes, tributes, well wishes and anything else you might like to add would be much appreciated! Send them to [email protected]

Thank you for helping us celebrate one of the pillars of our program.

Dear BYU Art History family:

After a long and illustrious career, Professor Mark Johnson is retiring. We are gathering notes of appreciation, memories, photos from study abroad, and any other material that honors his many contributions over the years.

Please send these in digital form to [email protected] (or DM Professor Belnap for her home address if you'd like to send a hard copy) before the end of May so that these can be presented to him at his retirement party in early June.

Thank you!

Texas Christian University is still taking applications for its two-year MA program. The deadline closes April 19, 2021. Please note we are waiving the GRE test scores requirement this year.

All accepted students receive a full tuition waiver, a competitive stipend, and health insurance. We also provide additional funding for national and international research travel. Our students have used these grants to travel to New York, Los Angeles, Mexico, Cuba, Italy, France, Switzerland, and elsewhere.

Our MA program prides itself on the “museum experience." Fort Worth is an especially rich area for the study of art history, as it contains three major art museums, all with close relationships with our program and faculty: the Kimbell Art Museum (https://www.kimbellart.org), the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (http://themodern.org), and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (http://www.cartermuseum.org), the Dallas Museum of Art (https://dma.org), and the Nasher Sculpture Center (https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org). Many seminars are organized around temporary exhibitions and meet regularly at the museums. All our students take a seminar on art museums, earn valuable professional experience by completing a museum internship, and frequently have the opportunity to curate an exhibition in TCU’s Moudy Gallery. The most recent exhibition was a section of work by our School of Art faculty (https://calendar.tcu.edu/event/interpreting_renditions_of_nature_community_and_self_featuring_selected_works_by_tcu_school_of_art_faculty #.YGObiC1h2X1), which went on to be displayed at the Moncrief Cancer Institute. We also takes students on an annual trip; in the past we have visited Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles.

Many of our graduates have gone on to work in museums, while others have gone on to receive the PhD in art history and are now teaching at the college level.
You can read more about our program and faculty on our website: https://finearts.tcu.edu/art/academics/areas-of-study/art-history and our page (https://www.facebook.com/TCUArtHistory).

For further information, please contact Jessica Fripp, Assistant Professor and Art History Coordinator, [email protected]

TCU Art History The Art History Division at Texas Christian University

Congratulations to Dr. Peacock on the recent publication of her book, "Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age."

From the publisher:

"In Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives, Martha Moffitt Peacock provides a novel interpretive approach to the artistic practice of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age. From the beginnings of the new Republic, visual celebrations of famous heroines who crossed gender boundaries by fighting in the Revolt against Spain or by distinguishing themselves in arts and letters became an essential and significant cultural tradition that reverberated throughout the long seventeenth century. This collective memory of consequential heroines who equaled, or outshone, men is frequently reflected in empowering representations of other female archetypes: authoritative harpies and noble housewives. Such enabling imagery helped in the structuring of gender norms that positively advanced a powerful female identity in Dutch society."

You can read more about here: https://brill.com/view/title/54814 and read excerpts of it here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Heroines_Harpies_and_Housewives/neIJEAAAQBAJ?hl=en

An exhibition at the UMFA that is not to be missed.

Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem | The Utah Museum of Fine Arts January 23, 2021 to April 10, 2021 Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem Advance tickets are required as museum capacity will be limited. Please review the UMFA's COVID-19 safety precautions. Featuring one hundred works by nearly eighty artists from the 1920s to the present,...

Tomorrow! Ehlers is a Trinidadian-Danish artist whose works address colonialism and racism in really compelling ways.

The Springville museum is hiring!

Museum Outreach Educator (POPS) - Springville, UT Under the direction of the Head of Museum Education and Public Programs, develops and implements educational school, outreach, and community programs for target audiences and performs general tasks for the Museum Education department. Specific tasks will vary depending on assignment. This position i...

We're so thrilled to be hosting Caroline Weber next week! Her book "Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution" has been taught in basically every single class that Professor Belnap taught in the last 10 years. Mark your calendars!