Surveying Art:
2022 Art History Capstone Exhibition

Daniella Hsia Bulack
Isabella Darlington
Moth Edrei
Katja Gappert
Morgan Hicks
Cassandra Jasulevicz
Irina Kasharsky-Segal
Atom Kessler
Maddie Landis
Nzinga Lee
Yoona Lee
Áine M. Playdon
Mariann Raad
Laura Roth
Joseph Rullo
Carly Steiner
Tamane Takehara

Each year, members of the Art History Capstone class develop independent research projects on topics of their choosing. This undergraduate seminar is the final requirement for Art History majors at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and supplements the historical content learned in other courses with a deep dive into the methodological and historiographic issues that animate current debates within the field.

Our virtual exhibition showcases this year’s thesis projects which display the rich diversity of interests supported within our department. Topics range from Ancient images of the Artemis Ephesia and Fayum Roman Egyptian mummy portraits; to reflections on counterculture fashion in the 1960s; precocious feminisms from radical women makers; reexaminations of understudied Russian artists; landscape painting as an expression of Black American identity; syntheses of art and film; a defense of Philadelphia’s own school of modernist architecture; and works by contemporary artists that take glass, wire, and new digital media as their tools of expression.