Tim Rohan (Chair of History of Art & Architecture) organized a panel of historians for the UMassBrut symposium on Brutalist libraries at UMass Boston on Oct. 24, 2025. The symposium was a great success and so well-attended that we ran out of chairs!
Special lectures in Professor Karen Kurczynski’s ART-HIST 391P/691P feature artist and Slavery North Fellow Camille Turner on Oct. 28—a fall resident at UMass whose work will be shown at the UMCA in Spring 2026—and Kéla Jackson (Visiting Assistant Professor, UMass; PhD Candidate, Harvard) on Nov. 14, presenting “UnBecoming: The Poetics of Rupture in Visions of Black Girlhood.”
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy will discuss their new book, Women Architects at Work — a comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism. The authors will also discuss Smith College's role in educating women in architecture and landscape during the twentieth century.
Student Chloe Borgida ('25) wrote an article on the undergraduate exhibition curated by Professor Schmitter's class on the art of Venice. Read it here!