What is engaged art history? - Engaged Art History

Engaged art history is a method and a movement, a practice and a philosophy. It includes public scholarship, co-creation, public address, and community collaboration in and around the discipline of art history.

The projects featured here highlight some of the many ways engaged art history can take shape.

Painting on Walls

Project Leaders: Erin Benay (Case Western Reserve University) and Greg Peckham (LAND Studio)

Two people hold signs in front of a large sculpture of a person on a bucking bronco. One sign says "OSU cowboy? Or Stillwater Pioneer?" The other sign says "bust the buster."

Yay or Neigh? Frederic Remington’s Bronco Buster, Public Art, and Socially-Engaged Art History

Project Leaders: Jennifer Borland and Louise Siddons (Oklahoma State University)

This We Believe: A Citywide Mural Project from Mural Arts Philadelphia

Project Leaders: Laura Holzman (Indiana University IUPUI), Lori Goldstein (Public Art Archive), Emily Cooper Moore (Mural Arts Philadelphia)

Pressing Matters

Project Leaders: Erin Benay & Steve Ciampaglia (Case Western Reserve University), Jackie Feldman & Brittany Hudack (Zygote Press)

A poster with yellow text that says "the virus will use the minutes we lose!" In the background is an image of the virus that causes Covid-19 and workers producing vaccines, adapted from a WWII-era poster.

Creativity vs. Covid: Ending the Pandemic for Good

Exhibit Development Team: Merith Basey, Rebecca Bray, Julia Briggs, Jeff Crouse, Beth Dunlap, Stacy Early, Laura Holzman, Steve Lambert, Dannie Snyder, Simbie Yau, and other Free the Vaccine for Covid-19 members and advisors