Welcome Friends of Art History and Alumni! I look forward to reconnecting with you this year as FOAH director and Department of Art History Chair.
We had a busy summer doing work we love, developing internships with new and existing museum partners, and funding these internships with the generous donations of our Friends of Art History, notably a transformative contribution from Vincent Steckler.
Vince is a brilliant, successful UCI alumnus who majored in Math and Computer Science at UCI and remembers Art History courses as the best part of his education. His donation has made possible an amazing three-day study trip for 28 students in Professor Nisbet’s fall 2018 course to the desert in Nevada and Utah to see the Spiral Jetty and other nearly inaccessible and rarely visited works of Earth Art.
We've planned
events throughout the year beginning with a tour and talk at the now closed Pasadena Museum of California art of the Grafton Tyler Brown exhibit, curated by Bridget R. Cooks in October. Please make a note in your calendars with the following dates and be on the lookout for the invitations to arrive in your inbox for upcoming events.
You’ve probably heard by now about our
Irvine Museum of California Art. Learn more about the museum in the following pages of this magazine and join us for a private tour of the Buck Collection on
Wednesday, December 5th 2018 at 5 pm: “First Glimpse: Introducing The Buck Collection” with Sharissa Iqbal.We’ll continue our theme of California Art on
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 5 pm with a private tour of "Art Colony: The Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1935” at the Laguna Art Museum with Executive Director Malcolm Warner.Saturday, February 3rd, 2019 at 10 am: “Saturday at the Gateway: The Black Index” with Bridget R. Cooks here on campus, who will discuss drawing projects by three African American artists, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, and Whitfield Lovell, who counter the assumptions of photography as the most accurate and transparent form of providing information about Black subjects.
Stay tuned for more opportunities to get together with old friends and classmates! Follow us on twitter and/or visit our Department of Art History website and facebook page, and the Art History Undergraduate Association (“AHUA”) facebook page for additional invitations, news and more. Learn more about FOAH interns and award winners in this issue of our FOAH Magazine and past issues on our website. Click on the links throughout this magazine for additional details and information.
We hope to see you all soon and encourage you to renew your FOAH membership.
We've been busy developing and producing an array of new internships with museums and arts organizations, with awards based upon $15 an hour ( which we've done since starting FOAH seven years ago), thanks to our new and continuing FOAH members. Students began interning at the organizations noted below early F18 and will continue those internships through W19.
- Four at the Laguna Museum of Art (one each in Education, Curatorial & Collections, Development, and Special Events),
- Two at the Orange County Museum of Art,
- Two with independent scholar Roni Feinstein assisting with art collections management and art career-related events and networking opportunities for Arttable (the leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts) , and
- One with 4+1 grad and FOAH internship recipient, Jasmin Pannier, director of the Workwell Gallery in Irvine gallery in a new shared work space that provides entrepreneurs with a range of work space options from a virtual office to a suite with four walls and a locked door. The intern will work with Jasmin to curate exhibits, as well as plan and execute special events.
We'll be putting out new calls shortly put out calls for internships and awards at the Huntington Library and Gardens with Elee Wood, Fielding Curator/Educator of Early American Art, Derek Quesada in Langson Library's Special Collections, and Bridget Cooks with an IMCA exhibition internship.
FOAH has now provided over 100 internships/awards FOAH to students over the past six years! FOAH donations are tax-deductible and provide extraordinary opportunities for our students. Small gifts add up; anything you give will be well-utilized and much appreciated! Peruse
past magazine issues to learn more about the many internships and opportunities our students have benefited from, with thanks to FOAH.
