October 22-25, Atlanta
Building on Dana was part of the annual meeting of the Southeastern Art Conference in multiple ways.
It was part of a presentation, by Nell and Katherine, in Evie Terrono’s session “Navigating Programmatic Prioritization and the Future of Art History,” which included multiple examples of and ideas for addressing both the downsizing and dissolution of art-historical offerings at colleges and universities across the US and confirming the multiple, significant ways that the discipline of art history integrates and deploys skills relevant to current employment landscape. We discussed Building on Dana as an example of the Visual Practices curriculum, and the result of our increasingly expansive thinking and collaborating, as we have continued developing studio art and art history–as visual practices–within a broader intellectual and creative context, in Creative Arts.
Molly Jean Kilcrease ’27 and Jada Richardson ’25 both volunteered with screenprinting projects for conference attendees.
We are extremely proud of August Fisk ’25 and Tallulah Stroud ’26, who presented their own work in one of the undergraduate sessions at the conference — and also helped us promote Building on Dana and make connections with artists and scholars whose practices are relevant to the current work and spring exhibitions.
Building on Dana was also the site of the Saturday excursion; we welcomed visiting scholars to see our progress and discuss our plans. We were especially pleased to host Susanneh Bieber, whose scholarship focusing on dialogues between art and architecture in the 1960s is one of the intellecual inspirations for the work we are doing in this project.
The students from VPS 395 Topics who helped us host the visit, were especially impressive, as multiple attendees reflected. Thanks, team!
