Dr. de Stecher's research engages with American art, in integrated histories of visual culture production. Her areas of expertise include critical museology, material culture studies, and Indigenous art histories. Her current research takes a fresh look at 18C and early 19C trade silver in the US and Canada, and how in this period French and British empires and the newly formed American state used silver gifts as an essential mediator with their Indigenous allies. Her study foregrounds narratives of Indigenous-settler engagement in a project to decolonize colonial archives and center Indigenous voice.
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Critical museology and museum studies, material culture studies, Indigenous art histories, materiality, women's histories, Canadian art history, gender studies, Indigenous diplomatic histories
ARTH 1400 - History of World Art 2
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Spring 2019 / Fall 2019
Surveys major art styles from about 1600 to the present, including Europe, Asia, the Islamic world, the Americas and Africa. Emphasizes comparison of Western and non-Western visual expressions as evidence of differing cultural orientations.
ARTH 3439 - Native North American Art II
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Fall 2024
This course explores the historical and contemporary arts of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast, Eastern Woodlands, Great Plains, and California, in their richness, diversity, and temporal depth. We will explore the value and role of these art forms to Indigenous nations and communities. We will address issues of DEI and colonial histories, and themes of cultural continuity, survivance, and gender.
ARTH 3929 - Special Topics in Art History
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Summer 2019 / Fall 2020 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2023
May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours when topic varies.
ARTH 4919 - Capstone Seminar: Topics in Art History
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2023
Seminar course dealing with selected areas or problems within the history of art. Consult current online Schedule Planner for seminar topic. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.
ARTH 4939 - Art Museum Internship
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Fall 2022
Focuses on opportunities at the Denver Art Museum, working with individual curators and master teachers in selected areas, such as audience interpretation, interpretive research files, and public school curriculums. Introduces students to the professional culture and activities of art museums. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as ARTH 5939.
ARTH 6929 - Seminar: Methods/Theories of Art History
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Fall 2023
Provides a systematic critical overview of the development of art history as a discipline beginning with 18th century theories of aesthetics and ending with current interdisciplinary models of critical interpretation. Weekly readings, discussions, reports, and written papers constitute the format of this seminar in methodology. Topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours within a term. Required for MA (art history) students.
ARTH 6939 - Graduate Seminar: Open Topics in Art History
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2024
Subjects and topics vary. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
MUSM 6110 - Advanced Seminar in Museum Issues
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Fall 2022
Offers a weekly seminar for museum and field study students that addresses one new topic each semester relevant to museum operations such as archival administration, museums, multiculturalism, repatriation and others. Department enforced prerequisite: MUSM 5011.
