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Programs
Ringling Museum Summer ’13 Paid Internship Program
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida will be offering six paid internships to be held for ten weeks, from June 3 – August 9, 2013 (the dates of the theater internship are June 10- August 3). Ringling is part of Florida State University and serves as the State Art Museum of Florida. Located on a 66-acre site overlooking Sarasota Bay, it consists of an art museum, two circus museums, historic home, theater, and research library. Summer internships at the Ringling combine practical, hands-on experience...
read moreInterning Abroad: One Student’s Story
Art History student Rima Garsys will graduate from Florida State University in December 2012 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and a minor in Museum Studies. She is spending her final undergraduate semester completing her Museum Studies internship at Printroom, a contemporary art gallery in London. Her experiences working with clients and artists, preparing exhibits, and learning all aspects of the gallery business have added invaluable practical skills to her education in art history, as she describes in a recent post: Through...
read moreNEH Grant Supports Visual Cultures of the Americas
This summer our expanding field of study, Visual Cultures of the Americas, received a powerful boost in the form of a $280,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant for “Origins of the Mesoamerican City.” FSU faculty (Drs. Mary Pohl and Michael Carrasco) and students will work in collaboration with the Humanities Faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México on a three-year multidisciplinary, international project that will explore the Olmec ceremonial center of La Venta, a prototypical...
read moreVisual Cultures of the Americas
The Visual Cultures of the Americas is new field of study within the Department of Art History. Taking advantage of the primary and secondary specialty areas of a majority of the department’s faculty, it is a hemispheric, interdisciplinary investigation into the art and visual cultures of the Americas. These in turn have been generated through the dynamic and complex exchange between indigenous, European, African, and Asian societies from the Precolumbian periods to the present. Critical for an understanding of the colonial period, the...
read moreNew Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies Program
The Art History Department inaugurated its new Masters program in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies in the 2011-2012 school year. For Graduate Students: The Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies major at the MA level offers theoretical and practical training in the investigation and management of cultural heritage. Interdisciplinary courses explore the various ways in which people represent, value, and use the past, and how this past is taught, disseminated, and publically debated. Extended internships provide professional experience in real...
read moreSummer in Paris & London
Summer programs in Paris and London give Art History students once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to study art on-site in some of the world’s greatest collections. In the first six weeks of this summer, Dr. Lauren Weingarden leads The Artistic Avant-Garde in Paris and Dr. Robert Neuman teaches two Art History courses on the London program. Paris This summer, Dr. Lauren Weingarden will teach two courses in the International Studies Paris Program: Museums of Paris and The Avant-Garde in Paris; these two courses are taught in tandem as Paris:...
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