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
The Things We Brought, The Things They Never Said
Sepember-October 2025
EAHR (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research) is proud to present the vitrine exhibition, The Things We Brought, The Things They Never Said, on the themes of migration and diaspora.
This exhibition gathers the intimate fragments of migration: songs steeped in inherited grief, images composed of nostalgia and surreal memory, and artworks that turn food into a language of care. In a single vitrine, five artists from diasporic backgrounds examine what crosses borders—not just physically, but emotionally.
Previous 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.
