Midday Sessions

12:15 to 1:15 p.m. CDT

Bill Michel

As the Associate Provost and Executive Director of UChicago Arts, Bill Michel works to advance the creative work of students and faculty and support a vibrant set of public arts programs and arts collaboration across the University and Chicago.

Guided tour of OI Museum galleries from Mesopotamia to Ancient Egypt

The Oriental Institute (OI) is the University of Chicago’s—and one of the world’s—very first interdisciplinary institutes and a world-renowned museum, housing some 350,000 artifacts, excavated mainly by OI archaeologists. Together, the OI Museum collections comprise one of the best resources in the world for the ancient Middle East and North Africa, allowing us to understand, reveal, and protect the past. The OI Museum displays objects in permanent galleries devoted to ancient Egypt, Nubia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, and the Levant, as well as rotating special exhibitions.

Guided Tour of Monochrome Multitudes

Explore the global resonance and creative possibilities of “the monochrome” during this guided tour of Monochrome Multitudes at the Smart Museum led by UChicago graduate students. This exhibition offers an expanded history of 20th and 21st century art through more than 100 monochromatic works.

This tour will be led by graduate student Mary Huber (MAPH 2022)

***THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT***

University Staff

Smart Museum is hosting two guided tours of Monochrome Multitudes. 

Tour 1: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Led by Graduate Student Mary Huber (MAPH 2022)

Tour 2: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Led by Graduate Student Claire Rich (MAPH 2023)

Guided Tour of Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI

Come learn about the new special exhibition, Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI, co-curated by Kiersten Neumann, OI Museum interim chief curator, and Roko Rumora, PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago. This exhibit brings together a group of Roman sculptures from the OI’s collection and presents them on view as a group for the first time, including two life-size marble sculptures.

Kiersten Neumann

Kiersten Neumann’s research is grounded in theoretical approaches to ancient art, with a focus on sensory experience and visual culture of the first millennium BCE. Her many articles include topics of ritualized practice, built environments, and sensory experience in Assyria and Persia. Additionally, Neumann curates OI museum exhibitions, including “Persepolis: Images of an Empire” (2015–2017).

Tasha Vorderstrasse

Tasha Vorderstrasse is the University and Continuing Education Program Coordinator at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. She received her PhD in Near Eastern archaeology from the University of Chicago in 2004. Her work forcuses on understanding the identity of past communities through archaeological and textual evidence as well as the interconnections between different regions.

Guided Tour of Passing Through: Artists from DoVA 2012–2021

The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, opened in 2012, is a multidisciplinary arts center at the University of Chicago. Designed by renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the building integrates classroom, performance, and exhibition spaces to create a dynamic collaborative environment for arts and scholarship. It is a space for academic and artistic work by UChicago students, faculty, visiting artists and scholars, professional organizations, and community partners.

University Staff

The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is hosting two times for guided tours of Passing Through: Artists from DoVA 2012–2021. Registrants should meet their tour guides at Logan Center, 915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.

Tour 1 at Midday: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.

Tour 2 during Session 2: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

 

Guided Tour of Slavs and Tatars: MERZbau

MERCZbau features a custom-designed line of merchandise by the Berlin-based art collective Slavs and Tatars. The exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium offers a timely reflection on East/West divides, made so much more poignant by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The artists have imagined a Department of Oriental Studies in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, as if age-old traditions of scholarship about “the East” had survived the Polish population’s forcible westward journey after World War II. All proceeds from the sale of the merchandise will be donated to the Scholars at Risk organization.

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