iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“Paper Backs: Hidden Stories of European Prints from the VUMA Collection” is now open at Vanderbilt! See it in-person through December 7, or via the online version. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b996...

storymaps.arcgis.com

Paper Backs

Hidden Stories of European Prints from the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art Collection

000

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Please join us next Thursday for a virtual symposium that explores the backstories behind Southern U.S. museums’ collections of pre-1915 European prints, featuring curators from six museums (including me!). Register in advance to attend. More info here: printscholars.org/online-sympo...

printscholars.org

Online Symposium: Paper Backstories: European Prints in Southern Museums : Association of Print Scholars

061

Reposted by Dr. Courtney Wilder

Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Our Summer Newsletter is out! In this edition: HBA's book awards long list📖; an inside view of The Clark's exhibition "A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945" from curator Alexis Goodin 👩‍🎨; as well as exhibition, events, CFPs, and grant listings. mailchi.mp/bc3b126e4fb3...

mailchi.mp

Historians of British Art – Summer 2025 Newsletter

122

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Good crowd at #HandsOff in Nashville’s Centennial Park (home to our Parthenon replica).

070

Reposted by Dr. Courtney Wilder

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In a suit and tie.Since last night. You can WATCH. And I’m hearing that Sen. Warnock is up next.

642612428

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The Senator’s empathy and anger on behalf of the many families facing devastating diagnoses of a loved one with diseases like Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s, who must now worry about losing essential support from the government, hit me hard. Thank you @booker.senate.gov for speaking for us.

030

Reposted by Dr. Courtney Wilder

Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We're now accepting panel submissions for the HBA-sponsored session at CAA 2026 in Chicago! 🗓️ Deadline: April 18 🗓️ Learn more via our website: historiansofbritishart.org/caa-conferen...

historiansofbritishart.org

CAA 2026 – Call for Panel Submissions

The Historians of British Art (HBA) invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 114th Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA), to be held in Chicago from February 18–21, 2026. We …

022

Reposted by Dr. Courtney Wilder

Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection

Abstract painting with a band blue sandwiched between two bands of golden yellow, the top one thick and the bottom one much thinner. The borders between the colors are rough.

8580188

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I’ve been saving cataloguing several little booklets of ornament prints as a special “treat.” I needed them today 😔 Here are a few lovely little details from the booklet featuring Adriaen Collaert and Etienne Delaune to help offer a momentary break from the tragedies filling our timelines.

Part of an ornament prints by A. Collaert (ca 1580-99) featuring rabbits, moths and snails as part of grotesqueries on a black ground

Part of an ornament prints by E. Delaune (ca 1550-72) featuring a squirrel as part of grotesqueries on a black ground

Part of an ornament prints by A. Collaert (ca 1580-99) featuring flowers and snails as part of grotesqueries on a black ground

Ornament prints from the 16th century pasted into a small booklet of folded paper (possibly blue at one time?). Collection of Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, gift of George H. Sullivan

1161

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This 1800 print that I just catalogued isn’t in good condition, but I love that it was published by Lackington, of the Temple of the Muses bookstore fame - and therefore feels like a ticket into that space! (See v cool trade cards from British Museum, touting a stock of 200k volumes for sale!)

An early modern print depicting a winged Satan on a hilltop with gods and demons surrounding him

A tradecard depicting the exterior bow windows of a bookshop ca. 1800; 2 ancient gods and a street cleaner stand on the sidewalk. The words Small Profits Industry Fidelity and Perseverance are written at the bases of the windows.

A print showing the interior of the early 1800s bookstore the Temple of the Muses with people browsing

A hand-colored print showing the interior of the early 1800s bookstore the Temple of the Muses

092

Reposted by Dr. Courtney Wilder

Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Our article in Digital Humanities Quarterly is Open Access. It's a case study, so even if you don't study Nashville, the Civil War, Slavery, the South, or even Black Studies, there's a lot of discussion here about how to do a co-creative DH project. 4/4 www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/4...

digitalhumanities.org

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Community-Driven Linked Data Approaches in Builders and Defenders: Nashville's Historical Black Civil War Database

031

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Cataloguing some Picart prints cut out from the Ceremonies et Costumes religieuses de tout les peuples du monde (1723-37) and found this absolute gem in a digitized copy!

A detail of an engraving showing a cat climbing up a man

A detail of an engraving showing a cat (whose expression suggests she may be plotting something)

A detail of an engraving showing a (chonky) cat from the back begging at a man’s feet

A detail of an engraving showing a cat smelling a cloth in a man’s hand

181

Reposted by Dr. Courtney Wilder

Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We're here! (And still hanging on over at The Bad Place: @HBA_CAA). Looking forward to sharing updates from our members and news about upcoming events, awards, etc.! (Image: Frederic, Lord Leighton, The Sluggard, bronze, modeled 1886. Met Museum Collection)

A bronze statuette of a nude young man stretching as if just waking up

042

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Ugh, the rebooted @rijksmuseum.bsky.social collection search is awful!! It’s style over substance: finding advance search very challenging to navigate, and am bombarded by (never thought I’d say this) waaay too many images (my eyes and RAM hurt). Bring back the perfectly good previous iteration!

020

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Dangerous 25¢ record sale this weekend at The Great Escape in Nashville! So tempting to buy for the sleeve art alone…

020

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Following @possumeveryhour.io was an excellent decision during these anxious times 🙏

A screenshot of a Bluesky feed showing a happy possum from “Possum Every Hour” directly above a post from Kamala HQ reading “WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN!”

000

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Anyone else having issues lately with British Museum collection website functionality? Search no longer works for me in Safari, and permalinks bring up blank pages across browsers 🤔

100

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

New banner debuting on Cohen Hall today announcing the Vanderbilt U Museum of Art’s 2024-25 lineup!

010

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

Another great-looking show happening on a great lake this coming fall/winter - WEIRD 18th c PRINTS!! (I edit the Historians of British Art summer newsletter, and really enjoy surveying upcoming exhibitions for our listings!) www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/...

clevelandart.org

Imagination in the Age of Reason | Cleveland Museum of Art

Pulled from the CMA’s rich holdings of 18th-century European prints and drawings, this exhibition explores the complex relationship between imagination and the Enlightenment’s ideals of truth and know...

030

Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Follow me, I look like this. (Waistcoat (French), silk, 1775-1800; Cooper Hewitt, 1905-11-1 - collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1814...)

Four embroidered fish stacked vertically along one edge of an ivory-colored silk waistcoat, accompanied by scattered embroidered seaweed and flowers

050