Chat About
Founded in 2021, Chat About pairs students in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities and the Master of Fine Arts program in the Department of Visual Arts and provides them with resources for critique, programming, and exhibition. Throughout the year, the student pairings will present a talk and conversation with one another on shared themes and research in their practices followed by comments, questions, advice, and cheers from their cohort and the campus community. The group momentum of such conversations and collaborations often leads to students self-organizing and proposing group exhibitions across campus venues.
Research in Art and Visual Evidence
The RAVE workshop specifically features scholarship on art, architecture, media, and art criticism across divisions of geography and historical periodization. In mobilizing art historical methodologies and interpretive approaches, RAVE seeks not to foreclose other frameworks for considering visual evidence and visual culture, but rather to use the tools of art history as the generating motor to open up broader dialogues about what and how artworks mean.
Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
The VMPEA workshop centers on the study of material or visual objects from East Asia. It explores the possible use of recent theories of art, history, and material and visual culture in the study of East Asia. Presentations of studies of objects, sites, visual materials, and built environments cover a variety of historical periods and geographic locations within East Asia. Flexible in how the methodologies are defined, this workshop does not limit itself to art history but also includes archaeology, anthropology, film studies, museum studies, and visual culture. The workshop invites UChicago students and faculty as well as outside speakers to participate.