Join UChicago graduate students from a wide array of disciplines for short reflections on selected objects in the Smart Museum of Art’s collection-based exhibition Calling on the Past.

The gallery talks offer an opportunity for the UChicago community to know the past through works by Kerry James Marshall, Helen Saunders, Lauren Quin, and other artists.

FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.

This program is offered in conjunction with UChicago GRAD and the University of Chicago’s 2023 Alumni Weekend.

Schedule of talks

Gallery talks begin every 20 minutes

1 pm and 2:40 pm
Kaitlin ‘Mouse’ Rikala (MAPH, Art History, 2023)
on Lauren Quin, Godwink, 2022

1:20 pm and 3 pm
Jenny Harris (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History)
on Helen Saunders, Canon and Balance, 1915

1:40 pm and 3:20 pm
Yao Xiao (MAPH, Art History, 2023)
on Kerry James Marshall, Slow Dance, 1992–1993

2 pm and 3:40 pm
Ben Diego (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History)
on Richard James Wyatt, Narcissus, 1829–1846

2:20 pm and 4 pm
Chiza Mwinde (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geophysical Sciences)
on Architectural Fragment: Crowned Head [Elder of the Apocalypse or Old Testament King], c. 1120–1150

Image: Installation view, Calling on the Past: Selections from the Collection, Smart Museum of Art. Pictured: Kerry James Marshall, Slow Dance, 1992–93, and Auguste Rodin, The Cathedral, 1908 (model). Photo by Robert Chase Heishman.