Giving to the History of Art
The Department of History of Art is one of the most varied and vibrant programs at UC Riverside, and growing more so every day. As we continue to build our program we invite alumni, parents and friends to partner with us and invest in our goal of shaping the future generation of leaders in the arts, both in Southern California and beyond. We need your support!
Today, our need is dire as the tight economy has siphoned away funding—damaging especially our ability to fund research travel for advanced graduate and undergraduate students. Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends we have traditionally offered two competitive research travel stipends: the Richard C. Carrott and Barbara B. Brink Travel Awards. Yet these funds are shrinking and need to be replenished to ensure that we may continue in our support of high caliber student research in the future.
Examples of recent Brink and Carrot award recipients include: |
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Lauren Popp, a graduate student whose Carrott award enabled her research at four East coast museums that were subjects of her thesis on alternative art museums. Lauren is currently Education Programs Coordinator at San Diego’s Children’s Museum. |
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Diana Rose, a graduate student who used her Brink Award for travel to Chiapas, Mexico, where she researched maize mythology and agricultural rituals in Maya communities. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Pre-Columbian art at UC Santa Cruz. |
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Gina Greene, a graduate student whose Brink Award enabled travel to Paris where she analyzed the architecture and decor of a luxury brothel, the Chabanais, and depictions of brothel life by Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas and others. Gina recently completed a PhD in Architectural history at Princeton and has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Tia Vasiliou, an undergraduate, who used her Carrot award to fund research travel to Boston, where she explored archives related to late nineteenth-century patron of the arts Isabella Stuart Gardner. Tia went on to complete an MA at UCR and is currently pursuing a PhD in American art at Washington University in St. Louis. |
Even in these tight economic times, we ask that you do what you can to support student research travel in Art History at UCR. Please consider donating $25, $50, $100, or whatever you can afford.
The Department of the History of Art sincerely appreciates your investment in a future generation of young art historians.