Please join us in celebrating the achievements of our outstanding students in the Department of Art and Art History! Each student will be giving a brief presentation of their Honors and Allcott Travel awards work in the past year. Refreshments will be served.
Through a generous gift to the UNC Arts and Sciences Foundation, William G. Rand established this lecture series in memory of his late wife, Bettie Allison Rand. This funding allows the Department of Art to bring one or more eminent art historians to UNC-CH every other year for residencies of various lengths.
The Department of Art and Art History and the Carolina Asia Center of UNC-Chapel Hill are proud to welcome Soni Kum as a Hanes Visiting Artist in Fall 2023. Soni Kum is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Tokyo, Japan as a third-generation Korean.
Antoine Williams (MFA alumnus) is an interdisciplinary artist who is heavily influenced by speculative fiction, critical Black studies and his working-class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina. His practice utilizes critical studies and the surreal to explore ways in which Black physical, mental, and emotional states of being exist within and subvert the status-quo.
UNC’s Art Students Graduate Organization (ASGO) is excited to welcome you to the 9th annual ASGO symposium. This year’s symposium will center on questions of affect, agency, and emotion in the visual arts.
Central themes in Shimoyama's practice stem from his personal perspective on and experience with the Black queer male body. By asserting vibrant queer bodies in his works, he acknowledges the political aspects of being queer in this society.
Xeuwu Zheng examines history and contemporary experiences in a very personal way and thinks about the cultural relationships between the East and the West. He integrates philosophy, religion, and everyday reflections into his art, opening the language gap between Eastern and Western cultures and paying attention to the relationship between humans, nature, and modern civilization
Julia Lum is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Scripps College. She is currently a 2023 Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art. Lum’s fellowship project, Landfalls: Art Between Britain and Polynesia, reexamines and re-centers art history in the Pacific region from the 18th century onward, with a particular focus on the role landscape painting played in British colonization in the aftermath of James Cook’s voyages from 1768–79.
In this talk, Stella Nair will investigate the elements of Inca design and construction and its settings and uses in order to highlight Inca architecture's complexity and creative expressions. As will become clear, it is by foregrounding Inca (Quechua) categories and early colonial narratives, that the dynamic world of the Inca built environment comes into focus, as do the diverse Indigenous actors who gave it meaning.
Sandra Moterroso considers herself a multimedia artist because she works in different media, however something is always present in all her artistic practice "performance"; the action of placing the “body” in a conscious state in relation to other media in such a way that her concerns and negotiations about the body-political-body-identity-racialized woman body, a woman who recognizes her ancestral history and takes it to the contemporary space through art.
