If you’re attending College Art in Chicago, we hope to see you at some of the events below. If you are presenting a talk that we have missed in reviewing the program, please let us know so we can add it to this list.
HNA Sponsored Session
Rising Tides: Netherlandish Engineering in a Threatening World
- Friday, February 20, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
- Update: This panel is ONLINE/VIRTUAL ONLY.
- Chair H Stephanie Lebas Huber
- Presentations
- Jan van Goyen’s Haarlemmermeer Alec Aldrich, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Rembrandt’s Landscapes: Ambivalence and the Environment Dr. Lara R. Yeager-Crasselt, Clark Art Institute
- Rembrandt’s Water Management Sarah Walsh Mallory, The Morgan Library & Museum
Sessions of interest:
Freedom, Fugitivity, and Revolt in the Global Netherlandish World, ca.1500-1800
- Friday, February 20, 2026 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
- Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-4 (Hybrid)
- Chair D Kathleen DiDomenico Washington University in St. Louis
- Approaching Freedom and Privacy through Darkness in Siraya Indigenous People’s Houses during Dutch Colonisation Ms. Hui-Yi Yang, Royal Danish Academy
- The society of fear: Bosnegers and the active fight against slavery in Dutch Brazil (1630-54) Carolina Monteiro, Leiden University
- The Art of Marronage: Mapping and Unmapping Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Suriname Arianna Ray, Northwestern University
Pigments and Praxis in the Early Modern Period
- Thursday, February 19, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
- Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Ontario
- All that Glitters: A Rare Surface Decoration on a Tyrolean Altar Wing Cybele Tom, University of Chicago and Ken Sutherland, The Art Institute of Chicago
- Scaling Up Pigment Mapping for Large Illuminated Choir Books Made in Seville Matthew J Westerby, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Roxanne Radpour, University of Delaware
- Experiential Learning with Natural Ultramarine Blue Lisa Barro, Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts
- All that glitters is not … blue? Artistic strategies for creating optical blues in 17th-century Netherlandish painting Kirsten Derks, University of Antwerp
Individual Papers:
The Uppsala Kunstschrank as Material Messenger of Diplomacy
- Thursday, February 19, 2026 Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Ontario
- Sandra F Racek School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Translating Rubens: Abraham van Diepenbeeck’s Use of Tronies and Painterly Techniques
- Thursday, February 19, 2026 Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Ontario
- Margot Steurbaut Rice University