Spring Semester Student Showcase

Over the last few weeks of the 2024-25 academic year, we were delighted to showcase the work of U of A Wildcats by hosting three student-curated pop-up exhibitions in our learning classroom and a number of student presentations in our galleries.

Students in "ARH 314: Art & Culture in Renaissance Europe," taught by Dr. Jennifer Saracino, used the UAMA collection to curate a pop-up exhibition of artworks from 1496 to 1655. Titled Mortality and Morality: Early Modern Prints & Paintings, it invited visitors to explore themes of death, conflict, temptation, sin and redemption.

Aileen Feng’s seminar course "ITAL 410: Machiavelli and His Legacies” went beyond their studies of the 1532 political treatise "Il Principe" (in the author's native Italian!) to analyze prints from the UAMA collection made around the same time/place. Using themes from their reading, they settled on five works for a pop-up they titled, L’occhio del Principe: Machiavellian Lessons Through Renaissance Prints.

Inspired by work in the UAMA exhibition Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES, students in Prof. Patrick Baliani’s W.A. Franke Honors College seminar “Legends in the Landscapes” wrote original folktales "for today and tomorrow" and read them in the galleries.

Students in Dr. Kate Alexander's Honors course "Art, Borders and Boundaries" collectively curated an exhibition of works from UAMA’s permanent collection in response to the LOVERULES exhibition. Their selections and interpretive content aimed to help visitors explore and define how our shared experiences of being human align and diverge.