2026 UVU Art History Symposium

Welcome and Introduction
Katherine Jackson, Assistant Professor of Art History, Utah Valley University

Keynote Address: “You and I are Earth”
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis, Director, Field Studio Geontological Survey

“Sexuality, Power, and Repression in the Works of Juan Batlle Planas”
Savannah Allen, Undergraduate Student, Utah Valley University

“Combining Technology and Art: Fontana’s Concetto Spaziale and Scientific Advancement”
Anna Cline, Undergraduate Student, Utah Valley University

“Butterflies and Hyacinths: The Artistry of Maria Sibylla Merian and Painting the Feminine”
Emma Thomas, Undergraduate Student, Art History, Brigham Young University

Q&A

“Building the White City: How Daniel H. Burnham and F.D. Millt Led the Design of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and Shaped an American Cultural Identity”
Emily Swan, Undergraduate Student, Utah Valley University

“Portraiture and Power in the Court of Isabella d’Este”
Ashley Savage, Undergraduate Student, Utah Valley University

“Kiowa Calendars and Beyond: How Culture and Environment Influenced Different Eras of Kiowa Art”
Dana Anquoe, Alumna, Utah Valley University

Q&A

“A Monument to Enlightenment: Boullée’s Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton and the French Cemetery Reform Movement”
Joshua Bushman, Undergraduate Student, Utah Valley University

"Ornament as Devotion: The Application of Spiritual Aesthetics as an Architectural Bridge within the Great Al-Nuri Mosque”
Aubrey Gallafent, Undergraduate Student, Utah Valley University

“Windows for the Masses: Ervin Bossanyi’s Stained Glass in Canterbury Cathedral”
Nathaniel Wells, Undergraduate Student, Brigham Young University

Q&A

“Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror and the Cultural Environments of Womanhood”
Jenny Rock, Undergraduate Student, Brigham Young University

“The Parthenon of Books: Marta Minujín’s Performance Art as Embodied Political Resistance”
Brittany Lund, Undergraduate Student, Utah Valley University

“Song Dong – Performing Futility”
Hannah Singleton, Undergraduate Student, Utah Valley University

“Remapping the Borderlands: Jackie Amézquita’s Sortilegio III and the Migratory Site"
Cuauhtemoc Sandoval, Graduate Student, University of Utah

Q&A

Event Conclusion