School of Art Faculty and Students Present at Midwest Art History Society Conference

University of Cincinnati School of Art faculty, students and alums will be well represented at the March 21-23 Midwest Art History Society Conference, a gathering that will draw presenters from Maine to New Mexico.

Among the UC College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning’s School of Art contingent are

• Mikiko Hirayama, associate professor, will chair a session titled “East Asian Art.”

• In that session, graduate student Leah Daniel will present “Morita Shiryu and Artistic Classification: Avante-Garde, Abstract Expressionist, or Sho?”

• Theresa Leininger-Miller, associate professor of art history, will chair a session titled “Seeing the Civil War I: Illustrations, Landscapes, Memphis, and the Sea Islands,” as well as a session titled “Seeing the Civil War II: A Diary, An Illuminated Manuscript, Food Still Lifes and Memorials.”

• Graduate student Tracy Flagg will present “In Spiritual Solidarity: The Significance of Black Chorus Members as Christ’s Sympathizers in Allan Rohan Crite’s Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?: A Negro Spiritual in Illustrations (1944).”

• Kate Bonansinga, associate professor and director of the School of Art, will present “Art at the Edge of the U.S. and Mexico” in a session titled "Latin American Art."

• Morgan Thomas, assistant professor, will present “Liquidities: Rothko, Pollock, and Thinned Paint” in a session titled “Rothko in the 1940s.”

• Lauren Cordes Tate, adjunct instructor, will present in a session titled “American Art.”

• UC art history alumna Guisela Latorre, associate professor at Ohio State University, will present “Hecho en Chile: Graffiti, Muralism and Urban Intervention in Post-Dictatorship Chile.”