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April 7, 2021
Ryan Kulka –
During Spring 2020, I was an intern at the Carnegie Museum of Art in the Fine Arts Department. Over the course of my internship,...
January 22, 2021
Diana Flatto –
Over the past two years, I have worked on the exhibition “Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music” at Americas Society in New York,...
November 20, 2020
Marisol Villela Balderrama –
As the Teaching Fellow for Pitt’s course Arts and Politics in Modern Latin America (HAA0520), I participated in the class’s first...
November 20, 2020
Victoria Swindle –
This fall I interned for the Senator John Heinz History Center here in Pittsburgh. Given the current situation, I was working...
November 18, 2020
Isaac Pleta –
I surely don't have to express how strange this year is, but I would like to discuss how important social media and virtual...
November 18, 2020
Grace Marston –
When I sought to conduct my Museum Studies Internship at the Mattress Factory’s Greer Lankton Archives, part of the idea was to...
November 18, 2020
Melanie Pantano –
To finish out my final semester at Pitt, I had the opportunity to be a Museum Studies Intern at Silver Eye Center for Photography...
November 17, 2020
Dara Czernikowski –
When walking through the galleries of a museum, how often do you read the labels on each display? Do you dissect each one with...
November 13, 2020
Andrea Maxwell –
In the History of Art and Architecture Department (HAA) we benefit from our Constellations, researching and learning along...
October 31, 2020
Sahar S. Hosseini –
In the past few months, I have been researching and reading about Pittsburgh and its minority neighborhoods. The drive behind...
October 1, 2020
Alison Langmead –
Researchers in the Visual Media Workshop, a digital humanities lab located in the Department of History of Art and...
September 21, 2020
Golnar Yarmohammad Touski –
Over the eventful summer of 2020 the isolation we collectively experienced across the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic...
August 28, 2020
Isaiah Bertagnolli –
On the night before my last day working as a graduate fellow with the Greer Lankton Archive at the Mattress Factory, Greer came...
April 22, 2020
Ashton Crawley –
For as long as I can remember, I’ve simply loved old things. I started at a young age by watching history documentaries with my...
April 21, 2020
Clara Wang –
As an artist, I am always interested in approaching art from new perspectives to discover how different views and experiences...
April 21, 2020
Morgan Powell –
This spring I interned at the Mattress Factory in their Greer Lankton Archive; Lankton was a doll-maker, sculpture, and mixed-...
April 21, 2020
Sean Rosenthal –
The Carnegie Museum of Art has about 600 unaccessioned works of video in physical format in its collection. This means that the...
April 20, 2020
Kelli Slogan –
Though people walk by public works of art every day, information about them is often not easily accessible to the average...
April 20, 2020
Sujeeth Buddai –
Though not always widely recognized, Pittsburgh has been an international hub for black art. I had the pleasure of working with...
April 20, 2020
Archer Klein –
Picture the ground floor of Posvar Hall. Continuous renovations have turned old and dusty sitting areas into contemporary study...
April 20, 2020
Lei Li –
What does it take to build community in a museum department? As an intern at Education Department of the Carnegie Museum of Art,...
April 20, 2020
Annette Yauger –
Chancellor John Bowman, the 10th Chancellor of the University in 1927, developed the Nationality Rooms in a moment of turmoil. He...
April 20, 2020
Elizabeth Masterson –
Craft is skillful making which generally produces a functional object. This functional object could be edible, drunk from,...
April 20, 2020
Christina Hansen –
When exploring the hallowed halls of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, guests might expect to find themselves enraptured by...
April 20, 2020
Maja Lynn –
You might expect a Holocaust center to be a solemn, distressing space. However, while the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh takes...
April 16, 2020
Lumnija Gjoni –
Archaeologists by trade are multi-disciplinary. Digging in the hot, dusty field in a foreign country and the lab of a world-...
April 16, 2020
Ryan Negron –
There are always two sides to any conflict in life. In my time studying History at Pitt, I’ve narrowed the focus of my studies on...
April 15, 2020
Stephen Dadio –
Walking into the Anthropology department of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History I was confronted with an endless array of...
April 14, 2020
Erin Patrick –
Humans shape the world in more ways than you think. Spraying your hairspray every morning can have a direct impact on the quality...
March 2, 2020
Shirin Fozi –
On February 22 a group of 37 HAA undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty were in Toronto to see the Aga Khan and Royal...
March 1, 2020
Author: Emi Finkelstein
PhD Student in History of Art and Architecture
Say their names: Tina Williams Brewer, Fran Gialamas...
March 1, 2020
Author: Thomas J. MortonSenior Lecturer, Architectural Studies Program, History of Art and ArchitectureWhile approximately 50% of...
March 1, 2020
Author: Sarah Reiff ConellPhD Student in History of Art and ArchitectureThis Valentine’s Day, members of the History of Art and...
March 1, 2020
*You can read this text in English below the Spanish versionAutora: Marisol Villela BalderramaDoctoranda en Historia del Arte y de...
February 3, 2020
Authors: Paula Kupfer and Paulina Pardo GaviriaPhD Students in History of Art and ArchitectureOn Saturday, January 18, scholar...
February 2, 2020
Author: Sylvia RhorDirector, University Art Gallery“I refuse to be one of the forgotten women!” Artist Lila Hetzel’s defiant words...
February 2, 2020
Author: Paula KaneJohn and Lucine O’Brien Marous Chair of Catholic Studies, Department of Religious StudiesIn a year that honored...
January 6, 2020
Author: Katie LoneyPhD Student in History of Art and Architecture and Graduate Student Assistant in Public HistoryHow can furniture...
January 6, 2020
Author: Christopher NygrenAssistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies...
December 16, 2019
Museum Studies Intern at Silver Eye Center for Photography – Fall 2019 When I began my internship at Silver Eye Center for...