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Art History Association

About Us

The Art History Association at UC Riverside is a student-run organization founded in the Spring of 2008. Our mission is to promote, support and encourage the study of art history in the UCR community. We have various events both on and off campus including topical meetings, discussion forums, museum trips, research presentations and film screenings.
We are enthusiastically supported by the faculty and staff of the Art History Department at UCR. Our membership includes both undergraduate and graduate art history students, though students of any major are welcome to join. We communicate with our members through regular emails and we maintain a Yahoo group on the web where we post events, discussion forums, polls and documents that support our mission.

Who We Are

Officers 2007-2008
President and Founder- Jane Arney '09
Jane is an Art History major who transferred to UCR in the fall of 2007 from MiraCosta Community College in Oceanside, CA. She plans to attend graduate school to study the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world. She was formerly a volunteer at the San Diego Museum of Art and President of the Anthropology Club at MiraCosta College. She is attending a travel study program to Greece and the Greek islands in summer of '08 and promises to bring back pictures!

Vice President and Co-founder-Tia Welch '09
Tia Welch will be entering her Senior year as an Art History major at UCR in the Fall of 2008. She is interested in 18th and 19th century American and European art, as well as Asian and Islamic art.She is the recipient of the 2008 Richard C. Carrott Memorial Fund Award which she will use to travel to Boston to investigate the creation of a portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner by John Singer Sargent. Tia plans to go on to graduate school and pursue a career in museum education.

Secretary-Susan Goldsand '09
Susan is an Art History major who transferred to UCR in the fall of 2006 from Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA. With a wide variety of interests, she plans to go to graduate school in pursuit of the MBA or MA in Art History. Susan has travelled extensively in Europe, North America and the Middle East. At home she is involved with the local school district advocating for special needs students.

Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Kristoffer Neville

We have officer openings!
We have openings for Treasurer and Membership officer positions. We also seek motivated people to help organize the first Art History Undergraduate Conference and creative souls who would like to publish our first online newsletters. Bring your talents to us and make your resume/grad school applications stand out from the crowd!

What We Do

Book Group
Read a good book this summer with your Art History Association friends! Vote for your choice of art-related books on our Yahoo group and then join the online discussions.

Trips to Southern California Museums. Possibilities include:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Getty Villa in Malibu
Robert V. Fullerton Museum at CSU San Bernardino
Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach
Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside
Bowers Museum in Santa Ana

Presentations and special discussions on topics including:

Choosing and applying to Graduate programs
Special Faculty research presentations
Undergraduate Research Conference
Alumni mentoring program

...and on the lighter side:

Movie nights!
Riverside Art Walk
Art and coffee socials
Newsletters