Month: September 2020

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Coming in 2021: Essays on Engaged Art History

I’ve written two essays that will appear in Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative approaches to the theory and practice of art history, edited by Cindy Persinger and Azar Rejaie, and coming out from Palgrave Macmillan in early 2021.

“Structuring Academic Jobs for Engaged Art History” is a case study of the Public Scholar positions at IUPUI.

“Cultivating an Engaged Art History from Interdisciplinary Roots” offers a theoretical and practical framework for engaged art history based on scholarship developed outside of the discipline.

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Essay + Exhibit on Art, Ethics, and Access to COVID Medicine

“Free the Vaccine,” IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, September 11, 2020. Coauthored with Steve Lambert.

I’m working with a bunch of amazing collaborators to create an exhibition about artistic activism and health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic. Creativity vs. COVID: Ending the Pandemic for Good shares the work of Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 – a collective that’s using artistic activism to make sure publicly-funded COVID tests, treatments, and (eventually) safe and effective vaccines are globally available, sustainably priced, and free to individual patients.

The exhibit goes live this fall!