The Rice Art History Department, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality, is proud to present a 2023 conference, “Where are our women artists?: Linda Nochlin’s Question in the Age of Feminist Visual Culture.” This conference seeks to generate conversations on feminist methodologies and interrogate feminism anew within the Academy. Based around feminist art historian Linda Nochlin’s 1971 essay, the conference brings together graduate students at Rice and from outside universities to participate in a sustained dialogue about where feminism has been, where it is now, and where it may go in the future. Presentations for the conference will address these questions through a variety of methodological approaches and media. Presenters’ work covers visual and material culture across all time periods, regions, and cultures, as well as approaches from women, gender, and sexuality theory, method, and/or praxis.

This conference seeks to create a brave space in which participants can critique institutional barriers and celebrate women artists, both past and present. The conference opens up questions about the status of women and women artists within the discipline of art history and visual culture more broadly construed. We hope that the connections made at the conference will continue to be generative for presenters throughout their academic career.

“Where are our women artists?” is sponsored by the Rice University Department of Art History; Humanities Research Center; the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Co-organized by Department of Art History graduate students Lauren Lovings-Gomez (Third-year PhD student) and James McCabe (Fourth-year PhD candidate) with faculty mentorship by Dr. Olivia Young and Dr. Tesla Cariani.