VITRINE
The Art History Vitrine hosts month-long exhibitions dedicated to the public expression of art historical research, methods, and objects of study. Since 2006, professors and graduate students have curated installations in this display cabinet on themes as varied as Canadiana, print culture, postcards, as well as architectural drawings and models, often using original works of art by Concordia students.
Current exhibition
ARTH 380: Histories of Art History: Craft Theory and Discourse
August-Sepember 2025
The winter 2025 offering of Histories of Art History: Craft Theory and Discourse encouraged students to think of craft beyond physical actions, discrete objects, and histories of making. Instead, inspired by Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976), students considered the way that our encounters with craft are shaped by the ever-changing definitions of words like labour, care, gender, and tradition.
To highlight this relationship between making, thinking, and writing, students had the option, for their final project, to create an object and write an artist statement connecting their creative work to one of the course’s key words, examples of which can be seen here.
Previous exhibition
In Search of Black Women, A Feminist Art Poster Project
Summer 2025
Canada’s Black visual art and exhibition milieu has largely been led by the work of Black women for several decades. In the Fall semester of 2024, Dr. Joana Joachim offered the course ARTH 381: Feminism in Art. In this course, students considered some of the leading figures in art history as they related to the topic of Black women and art in Canada and beyond. As part of their assignments for this course, students created posters in the style of the Guerrilla Girls with a focus on Black women artists in Montreal art institutions. As part of their research process, students pulled from both the Visual Collections Repository (VCR), here at Concordia University, and from the Artexte collection to research aspects of Black woman’s art history in Montreal.
