Congratulations to CCS alum Matty Wolfe on her recent appointment as the Development Event Coordinator and Communications for the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona! Matty graduated from NAU in 2017 with a B.A. in Art History with minors in Museum Studies, Studio Art, and Italian. She is a… Read more
Congratulations to CCS alum (B.A. Art History, 2009) Rachel Sadvary Zebro on her new appointment as the Associate Curator of Collections at the Phoenix Art Museum! Rachel will curate exhibitions of the modern, contemporary, and European art collections as well as manage all collection-focused projects and acquisitions. She previously worked at PAM from 2013-2022 in the positions of assistant registrar, curatorial associate, and assistant curator as well as at the Di Donna Galleries in New York City as the… Read more
The department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Asian Studies program present two curators in conversation on Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. in Liberal Arts room 120 for “Art in the Atomic Age: Japan, the Pacific Islands, and North America.”
This lecture features Gabrielle Decamous, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, and Shawn Skabelund, an artist working to reveal the complex issues, ecologies, and cultural histories of and in… Read more
We wanted to hear more from our students about why they are a part of the department, so we interviewed… Read more
Love museums? Interested in a career in museums? Join the Museum Studies Club during the last Thursday of every month in Cline Library room 249 at 7 p.m.!
Congratulations to the Martin-Springer Institute on the completion of their digital exhibition “Stories of the Spanish Civil War.” The project featured student interns from across campus and several from CCS major and minor programs under the direction of CCS Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions and director of the Martin-Sprinter Institute Dr. Bjorn Krondorfer.
About the exhibit:
What can a simple fan tell us about war? Explore with us the Spanish Civil War through a fan signed in 1938 by… Read more