Mar 4, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is a book written by Lawrence Weschler in 1982 about the West Coast conceptual artist Robert Irwin. The book explores the dislocation that occurs in the face of Irwin’s early work with light and space. His conceptual...
Feb 25, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
The terminology by which we describe and communicate ideas about art is, by its very nature, limiting. The limitations of language create a space of discourse with boundaries and hard surfaces to push against in order to expand our understanding of that which is the...
Feb 18, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
Our elevator in the Humanities Building stopped working last week, and while it may seem a minor inconvenience on the surface, I immediately felt a sense of shame for how it impacted our students with disabilities and any other community members who are affected. I...
Feb 11, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
Twenty-first century institutions of art are spaces in which compassion, empathy, and institutional responsibility must be carefully balanced. Those who choose a career in the arts must be particularly responsive to the changes in cultural expectations while still...
Feb 4, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
In a short book, The Gift, written in 1966 by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss, the author distinguishes the numerous differences between historically understood gift economies; in which interactions are almost always reciprocal and more often than not used to...
