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)
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)
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