The Florida State University Art History faculty and graduate students will host the 40th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium on March 1–2, 2024 in WJB 2005. 

Symposium Dates: 

Friday, March 1st, 2024 I 1:30pm-6:00pm

Saturday, March 2, 2024 I 9am-3:30pm

Join us as we begin the event with an insightful keynote presentation on "Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined” by Dr. Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History from Duke University, on Friday, March 1st, at 5:00 pm. 

Dr. Powell is a leading scholar in the field of African American art and culture. He teaches courses in American art, the arts of the African Diaspora, and contemporary visual studies; he has written extensively on topics ranging from primitivism to postmodernism, including Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), Black Art: A Cultural History  (1997, 2002 & 2021), Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008), and Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020).

Inaugurated in 1981, the FSU Art History Graduate Symposium participates in a long tradition of student conferences in our discipline. This open forum brings together students, professors, and members of the community to share ideas and expertise. We call it a symposium, with all the classical associations of that word, to suggest that it is not just a series of lectures, but a conversation.

For more info, visit: arthistory.fsu.edu/sympo