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
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.
Previous exhibition
Brazilian Anti-Costume Books
Winter 2025
For their final examination in ARTH 368 Brazilian Art, students were tasked with creating a journal (either analog or digital) that evolved throughout the semester. Each week, they contributed entries reflecting their historical insights into Brazilian art, culminating in a final presentation. Among the journal themes are explorations of a vast range of historical narratives and figures, including the Tupinambá feathered cloaks; fundamental presences in pre-colonial Brazilian Indigenous art and now reclaimed by contemporary Tupinambá artists.
The "Brazilian Anti-Costume Books" exhibition showcases a variety of artistic media, including collage, illustration, digital montage, poetry, and more. Together, these written and visual reflections act as "anti-costume books," actively challenging the colonial gaze and reclaiming dissident cultural narratives that inform Brazilian culture.
