This semester the Art History Museum Object class curated and installed the exhibition The Art of Persistence: Exploring Symbols, Materials, and Function in Southwestern Indigenous Art. The class integrated online and in-person museum exhibition strategies, highlighting the role of digital platforms in expanding access to collections.

Sarah Andyshak combines her background in art history with her passion for teaching and technology in her new role as Director of the Digital Learning Studio and Instructional Technologist.

A former graduate student of Florida State University’s Department of Art History is now the Tibbals Curator of Circus at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art’s Circus Museum and is leading the creation of a new permanent gallery space that highlights the contemporary era of circus. 

The spring 2024 undergraduate Museum Object class, under the direction of Art History doctoral candidate Tess McCoy, is preparing the online exhibition The Art of Persistence: Exploring Symbols, Materials, and Function in Southwestern Indigenous Art, to open on March 27th.

Florida State University’s Department of Art History will celebrate 40 years of symposia featuring graduate students’ original research within all areas of study, from art and architectural history to visual and material culture.

Alumna Lesley Wolff has published the new volume Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art along with  co-editor Dr. Hannah Ryan (St. Olaf College). In this interdisciplinary and comparative volume, published by Yale University Press, scholars and artists engage with foodways through decolonial and intersectional feminist lenses. Contributors include fellow FSU Art History alumna Jennifer Baez, who wrote a chapter examining the creative practice of artist Joiri Minaya and its intersections with botanical knowledge.