Material Collective Blog Archive

2022

“One Amazing Ball of Learning” —Faith Rush, University of Akron, class of 2022
Maggie M. Williams, June 9, 2022.

2021

#WeAreWorkers: Why Faculty Should Support the GWC-UAW Local 2110 Strike
Maggie M. Williams, March 27, 2021.

2020

“Burn Something”
Gabby Coll, November 12, 2020.

Growing Up in the Shadow of the Mountain
Rachel Dressler, August 10, 2020.

HIStory not My story
Zaina Siraj, May 19, 2020.

Bootstrapping the Soft History of Female Subjecthood in the Middle Ages
Alicia Walker, April 16, 2020.

2019

Untangling the Myth of Linguistic Purity in the Medieval Classroom
Sharon Rhodes, December 16, 2019.

Don’t Mourn, Organize!
Maggie M. Williams, November 6th, 2019.

Ten Proposals for a More Ethical Art History: an undergraduate perspective 
Emily Clark, June 19, 2019.

Collaboration and Cowboys: Community-Based Engaged Art History in the Classroom
Jennifer Borland and Louise Siddons, March 25, 2019

The Urgent Case for Teaching Yemeni Art History 
Lily V. Filson, February 8, 2019.

Collections-based Teaching and Social Justice
Jennifer Kingsley, January 9, 2019.

2018

Teaching Beyond the Borders of Medieval Art
Alexa Sand, November 28, 2018

Towards the Ethical Practice of Art History
Karen Overbey, August 31, 2018

Reflections on Kalamazoo 2018
Maggie M. Williams, May 17, 2018

Calling All Art History Teachers!
Maggie M. Williams, October 1, 2018

No Comment
Maggie M. Williams, July 30, 2018

Conference Review: The Art of the Poor

Open Letter to the Met RE: Admissions Policy
Asa Mittman, February 5, 2018

2017

Slow Down!
Emma Bergman, Jennifer Borland, Nancy Thompson, December 19, 2017

Medieval Studies in the Age of Trump
Maggie M. Williams,

D(r)ipping Books
Dr. Tina Bawden, J

“Celtic” Crosses and White Supremacism

Teaching Medieval Art History in a Time of White Supremacy
Luke A. Fidler, August 12, 2017

Tattooing Loss

The Dinner Party: Invitations Long Overdue
The Material Collective,

2016

The Resistance

Severed Heads, Abnormal Sights, and Perplexity

Hoarders and Hoards

The Problematic of Things

“If Everyone is Special, Then No One Is”: Medieval Manuscripts for the Masses
Martha Easton,

Something Old, Something New

#Kzoo 2016
Maggie M. Williams,

#ArtHistoryEngaged at SECAC 2015 and CAA 2016!
Jennifer Borland,

2015

Surface and Substance
Kerr Houston,

BABEL 2015: Off The Books Wrapup

Union Yes!
Maggie M. Williams,

Competition or Collaboration?
Rachel Dressler,

Still Looking

Michon Weeks, Wheel Within a Wheel
Nancy Thompson,

2014

Scale and the Challenge of Sand

Collaborating at Babel 2014: Thinking Collectively about the Atlantic

Becoming Ocean: BABEL 2014 at UC-Santa Barbara

What Would You Save from a Burning Museum? Thoughts Upon Reading “The Goldfinch”

Working Practice
Jennifer Borland and Karen Overbey,

Keep Things Strange
Joy Partridge, June 6, 2014

New Materialisms at CAA

Looking at Gleaning

Looking at Art with Cynthia

Collective Thoughts on Collaboration

2013

“From which it was carved”: Medieval Ivories and the Residue of Violence
Kerr Houston, December 2, 2013

College
Maggie M. Williams,

Post-Mortem on an Undead Exhibition: “Art That Kills”

Italian Painters of the Renaissance: A Poem
Marian Bleeke, July 17, 2013

A Medievalist Encounters Richter
Karl Whittington,

Marking Time

Aura and Absence 
Martha Easton,

Some Thoughts About Things
Nancy Thompson,

The Doge and I
Karl Whittington,

In Search of Lost Time

Collecting Material
Maggie M. Williams,

MC in the Midwest
Jennifer Borland,

Feeling Cheesy

On Being in Love with Concrete, Wood, Water, Stone, Glass

2012

On Feminism and Materiality
Marian Bleeke,

Angst in the A.M.

Thoughts on Vibrant Materiality: Finding Meaning in my Secular World
Nancy Thompson,

On Speculative Touch
Anne Harris,

Exposed

The Eyes of a Scholar, the Eyes of a Believer

On the Hunterian Museum, London