https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1484084556901-6U146D0TZMMQJ2FVYSUK/Photo+Aug+01%2C+2+16+07+PM.jpg Exhibitions and Community Engagement Projects - Open Storage + Behind the Scenes | Toledo Museum of Art I oversaw this open storage project which was on view from November 2015 until August 2016. The intention of the display was to provide the public with behind the scenes knowledge of how artwork is stored and cared for in the museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1595199587647-MZ4X1UNFNWU8R5QQ0V28/Art+in+Food.jpg Exhibitions and Community Engagement Projects - Art in Food | Toledo Museum of Art I served as a liaison between the museum and the Ambassadors, who are a group of dedicated women who volunteer in support of the museum. Art in Food spanned 10 days and was held in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion. Designed by the Japanese architectural firm SANAA, the Glass Pavlion is an award-winning building that houses the museum's encyclopedic glass art collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1484085528006-XK17U72J8DIAXYR7FXKG/AW1_0688.JPG Exhibitions and Community Engagement Projects - Play Space | Toledo Museum of Art We used Imagination Playground blue blocks to pilot a playground this summer. The blocks encourage free play and are modular. They can be interchanged to create many different sculptures. I oversaw the development and implementation of this project that drew over 6,200 visitors during 50 days of play with over 100 blue blocks. Additionally, we hired 14 interns for the summer to facilitate Play Space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1484083353651-JGIFBMFPJ57AL5LEYHIN/Shakespeare%27s+Characters.jpg Exhibitions and Community Engagement Projects - Shakespeare's Characters: Playing the Part | Toledo Museum of Art The year 2016 marked the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. In honor of the great playwright, this exhibition explored The Bard's band of characters, from the comedic to the tragic. It also centered on ideas of influence and inspiration. Queen Elizabeth I's patronage of Shakespeare and her support of theatre in general created a culture that was captivated by plays about love, comedy, revenge, and tragedy. Greek and Roman mythology was also loved by the Elizabethan public, so it is not surprising that Shakespeare would weave those mythological characters into his plays as themselves or as disguised figures with new names but similar personality traits. Most importantly, the exhibition showcased the influence Shakespeare has had on the visual arts. From the production of paintings and engravings by England's great artists for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery to actors and actresses who took the Shakespearean stage for more recent audiences, Shakespeare's legacy remains very much alive. Review of the exhibition: “Notes on an Exhibition - Shakespeare’s Characters: Playing the Part” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1484086135378-RFPS19D2NDLJWACWRNMU/Caporali2.jpg Exhibitions and Community Engagement Projects - Exhibition | Connecting with Caporali | The Cleveland Museum of Art I co-curated the exhibition "Connecting with Caporali" with Rebecca Michaels. The project involved 30 college students from five area schools who created artwork in response to the exhibition "The Caporali Missal." https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/writing-and-publications daily 0.75 2026-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763636004924-HGK489LE7W81YV0D7MZW/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.51.46%E2%80%AFAM.png Writing and Publications Christina Larson, Shatha Baydoun, and Roxane Pickens, “Supporting Teaching with Primary Sources at the University of Miami” (report, University of Miami, 2020). Christina Larson, Shatha Baydoun, and Roxane Pickens, “Executive Summary: Supporting Teaching with Primary Sources at the University of Miami” (report, University of Miami, 2020). Tanaka, Kurtis, Daniel Abosso, Krystal Appiah, Katie Atkins, Peter Barr, Arantza Barrutia-Wood, Shatha Baydoun, et al. "Teaching with Primary Sources: Looking at the Support Needs of Instructors." Ithaka S+R. Last Modified 23 March 2021. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.314912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1765800617785-12Y1XN27PT8DCNGJR9SH/sample_beavermeadow.jpg Writing and Publications Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Ph.D. in Art History, May 2015 19th and 20th Century American Art; 20th Century European Art Advisor: Dr. Henry Adams Dissertation: “America Seen through the Work of Paul Sample” Abstract Paul Starrett Sample (1896–1974) was an artist of the American Scene movement who worked primarily in Los Angeles, California, and Hanover, New Hampshire. He produced paintings that were revered in his lifetime but mostly forgotten in later art-historical scholarship. Sample’s body of work offers considerable insight into the art of the 1930s and 1940s, since he was involved in nearly every facet of American art. He showed paintings in prominent exhibitions, connected with Regionalist and California School artists, created murals for businesses and New Deal programs, produced illustrations for leading magazines, taught at the University of Southern California, served at Dartmouth as one of the first artist-in-residents in the United States, and worked as an artist-correspondent for LIFE magazine during World War II. Sample’s artwork is part of a larger discourse on masculinity. During the Great Depression and World War II, he continually represented scenes of male camaraderie, which seems to have had a powerful personal resonance for him. Sample was a gifted athlete who led an active life as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College but later had to abandon physical activity due to illness. Shortly after graduation he and his younger brother Donald were diagnosed with tuberculosis; they spent over four years together in a rest cure at a sanatorium, but Donald died of the disease. This emotional trauma influenced the way Sample would depict men in his American scenes. Unlike most other painters and muralists of the 1930s who portrayed American men as muscular, heroic figures, Sample represented them as downtrodden, frustrated, or idling. Sample’s paintings offer a different view of masculinity—a definition that is rooted in listlessness and leisure rather than in physicality and work. Sample produced his most notable paintings during the 1930s when he lived in Southern California. This dissertation revisits those paintings and reconsiders their Regionalist context, demonstrating why it is important to see America and its art through the work of Paul Sample and why he is a significant figure to American art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763641560400-E3B6D3UWCWAVBUTWLJ7F/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.34.02%E2%80%AFAM.png Writing and Publications Christina Larson, Paula Kiser, Kevin O’Sullivan, and Anne Peale, “From 'Outside the Box' to 'Out the Window':  Teaching with Primary Sources through the Pandemic,” College & Research Libraries News (April 2024). https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/teaching daily 0.75 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624395118053-GTYTZ09HRPU86T8VOYA9/Lowe_Education_Broch_2019_Digital_Final_Page_1.jpg Teaching and Research Areas - Learning with the Lowe: A Guide for Faculty I developed the content and worked with a graphic designer to produce this digital and printed brochure on academic engagement. Additional information can be found here: Academic Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624395739352-NGJJ8QXCCBU1MZ7EX2AI/Soul+Food.png Teaching and Research Areas - Sista’ Soul Food: Black Women, Food, and Power | University of Miami Course Description: Through slave narratives, academic articles, and contemporary commercial memoirs, we will trace the culinary agency of black women and examine our current state of affairs. In this Advanced Composition course, we will respond to topics related to the culture, cuisine, and history of African-American women. We will explore these topics in essays we read, films/documentaries we view, and in our discussions with one another. Our class discussions, journals, fast-writing, research, writing, revised writing, and presentations will all respond to this central theme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624396138071-86QF0FSLFUZZN5SR9A2F/Cartier+Bresson.jpg Teaching and Research Areas - History of Photography | Tri-C and Case Western Reserve University Henri Cartier-Bresson, Place de l’Europe, Paris, 1932, Gelatin silver print Course Description: In our current digital age, the art of posing for a photograph, taking a photograph, saving a photograph, and printing a photograph is a relatively simple process. But what are the origins of photography and how has it developed over time? This is a survey course, covering the history of photography. Coursework presents leading photographers in a context of cultural, art historical, social, and political trends alongside the history of photography from its earliest beginnings through the present. We will read about and discuss technological innovations in the medium and philosophical shifts that led to photography’s classification as an art form, which in turn have made photographs attractive commodities to collectors and museums. Students will gain greater proficiency in the art historical field by studying photographs and photographers; learning from primary source documents; reading recent scholarly writings; and analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs and texts on the history of photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624397312392-OS0617UYO36WHFOJEKDA/CWRU.jpg Teaching and Research Areas - Professional Communication Skills for International Teaching Assistants | Case Western Reserve University I worked in the department of Educational Services for Students during most of my time in graduate school at Case Western Reserve. I served as a Mentor TA and eventually as a Tutor, Instructor, and Lead Faculty for this course with students from Iran, China, Japan, South Korea, and Nepal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624396853346-QIY1843N3G32SNZ1D8XE/George.jpg Teaching and Research Areas - American Art: Colonial to Contemporary | Cleveland Museum of Art Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741-1827) and workshop, George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, c. 1779, oil on canvas, 51 9/16 x 47 13/16 inches, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.946 I taught a four-week survey of American art at the Cleveland Museum of Art for continuing education students. The course mostly highlighted the CMA’s collection but also introduced key examples from other museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624321741520-NY6E6QFNSR42159RANN3/robertfrank.jpg Teaching and Research Areas - American Art and Culture: Civil War to Now | University of Miami Robert Frank, Parade-Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1955 (printed c. 1968), gelatin silver print, from the series The Americans. I developed this online survey course for the University of Miami in 2019. Since then, I have taught the course in Spring 2020, Spring 2021, and Summer 2021. Course Description: “American Art and Culture: Civil War to Now” surveys the history and culture of the United States from 1865 until the present. Readings and lectures explore American social history and artistic production. The textbook is used for a general overview of these topics, while the lecture notes and online videos expand on this information. Students are encouraged to think critically about American artwork and its intersections with politics, religion, race, gender, and class. The textbook and lecture notes are intended to encourage online discussion about topics related to American art history and culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763523396525-XIGBUWD1GU1WDF1BP2VN/2019.1.5_Brock.jpeg Teaching and Research Areas Studio Glass and Decorative Arts have been areas of interest and intrigue for me throughout my career. While working at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, my mentor was curator Jane Milosch, whose exhibitions and scholarship exposed me to the Decorative Arts—especially in their connections with the work of Grant Wood. My employment at Project Art (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City); the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Lowe Art Museum continued to fuel my interest in the Decorative Arts and specifically in the Studio Glass Movement that was founded in Toledo, Ohio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1765801235720-9P4MU98FP4Q3D8KR2S3U/%27David%27_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU002.jpg Teaching and Research Areas - Art History Survey II: Michelangelo to Maya Lin | Case Western Reserve University I taught this survey of Art History initially for Case Western Reserve University but more recently at the University of Miami in Spring 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763637694915-A0497Z8SIUWIT4Z09GTD/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+6.21.21%E2%80%AFAM.png Teaching and Research Areas I have an extensive background in museum studies and non-profit leadership through my education and experience. At the University of Iowa, I took courses to earn a Certificate of Museum Studies and as a graduate student at Case Western Reserve, i earned an MA degree in art history and museum studies. At the Toledo Museum of Art, my post-doc position focused on museum leadership, which established a foundation for my leadership roles at the University of Miami. Most importantly, my varied experiences in museums throughout my career has enabled my creative approaches to art history, education, technology, and audience engagement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763634183942-JEM5YCJGWL768YDQRP8G/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.22.52%E2%80%AFAM.png Teaching and Research Areas I have used the following methodologies in my own art history projects and also when teaching courses on art history. I encourage students to consider art history as interdisciplinary in its connections with music, literature, history, religion, economics, culture, politics, and many other aspects. I also challenge students to learn the vocabulary of art and to employ various methodologies that assist them in developing their own interpretations of visual art. https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/academic-outreach daily 0.75 2022-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624320088500-RQX49GB7X7H884LV5HZ4/The+Artful+Scholar+Brochure+2014.jpg Academic Outreach - The Artful Scholar, Cleveland Museum of Art I oversaw The Artful Scholar program at the Cleveland Museum of Art as part of my academic outreach responsibilities. It involved an evening open house at the CMA with light appetizers and drinks, an introduction to the Museum, and guided tours of the collection. Through this informal program, undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from Case Western Reserve (Engineering, Law, Medicine, MSASS, Weatherhead School of Business, and Graduate Student Senate); as well as Cleveland Institute of Art attended the program, around 60 students per Artful Scholar event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624318421875-M0WSEJLFXM980DHA22VO/African+Asian+Galleries.Students.jpg Academic Outreach - College of Engineering Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I co-organized with my colleague Hope Torrents at the Lowe an object-based workshop for first-year students in Engineering and Business for their course “Innovation in Engineering.” The group discussed shared concepts between artists, entrepreneurs, and engineers. After that initial discussion, students were divided into small groups. They entered the African, Asian, and Indigenous Arts galleries to examine 3-D art objects. Each group selected one artwork as their focus to draw, to examine materials, and to consider function. They reported their findings and their questions to the larger group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624318707599-E626N0ZJLYKWB6CVDR62/Kress+Gallery.Students.jpg Academic Outreach - School of Education and Human Development Most of my work with the School of Education and Human Development has been through the CREATE Grants Program (see “Major Projects” section of this site). My colleague Jodi Sypher has worked closely with a professor on developing object-based learning lesson plans and videos for K-12 audiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624318479731-LC8T7GZO1E5VNN2BNZ96/120618_JAbreu_053.jpg Academic Outreach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624320962436-KMS5IFCVALSCWIITLICP/O0-X0cuK3gxAQDrr63TRF3nqQxY2uW9WJfSt57itKXojl4nK22SCKvzd1aQNZL2WpWbuvhIEidbZHH87toDSdw.jpg Academic Outreach - Academic Outreach, Cleveland Museum of Art As a Nord Graduate Fellow at the CMA, I worked closely with different academic disciplines and departments for object-based learning in the galleries: Art and Art History, Continuing Education, Human Resources, Psychology, and SAGES (First-year Rhetoric Courses). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624318544988-X5K6OJC4V60C6F5F6X8E/090618_JAbreu__524.jpg Academic Outreach - Herbert Miami School of Business We have partnered with the Herbert Miami School of Business on several occasions. Their Global MBA and One MBA students have accessed the Lowe’s comprehensive permanent collection and exhibitions in-person and virtually to learn more about cultures from around the world. I also hosted a virtual Mindful Looking exercise using artwork as our focus for their Global MBA residents from China, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624318653427-QV8O0YF04VNUWDMYUL28/UMTheatreLowe-22.jpg Academic Outreach - School of Communication Most of my work with the School of Communication has been through CREATE Grant Projects (see the “Major Projects” section of this site). I also provided feedback to a CoLab course, where students worked in groups to develop projects to improve the Lowe Art Museum through AR, visualization, and database discovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624318365802-OB0OT3W2N063DB55CEUG/120618_JAbreu_084.jpg Academic Outreach - College of Arts and Sciences At the Lowe Art Museum, I worked with many different departments within the College of Arts and Sciences: Art and Art History, Classics, English, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Geography, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Museum Studies, Physics, Religious Studies, and Theatre Arts Additionally, I served as Chair of the Lowe / College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Liaison Committee with faculty representatives from most CAS Departments. This group met once per semester for information sharing and to plan future collaborations. https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/medical-humanities daily 0.75 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624318784937-9Y4DQ4HAV0Y9W1BPNF9O/_DSC0667.JPG Medical Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624318598487-5PTS9SVJV48JSP30L5EX/Asian+Gallery.Fine+Art+of+Healthcare.JPG Medical Humanities - Miller School of Medicine For over one decade, my colleague Hope Torrents has coordinated “The Fine Art of Health Care” workshop at the Lowe Art Museum. Using art and Visual Thinking Strategies as tools for engagement, medical students have gained insights into implicit bias, communication strategies, active listening, careful observation, and self-care. They have also attended inter-professional workshops with nursing students and physical therapy residents. I have assisted as a facilitator of this program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1484087324634-N44B2O90BP5BGFGEVR3S/VS20.jpg Medical Humanities - Vital Signs: Cleveland Museum of Art Programs for Healthcare Professionals I coordinated the program "Vital Signs: Cleveland Museum of Art Programs for Healthcare Professionals." Over the course of almost 3 years, we partnered with 5 different healthcare education institutions and served nearly 900 healthcare professionals. These included physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physical therapists, and undergraduate healthcare students. The goal of the program was to address observation skills, self-knowledge, stereotyping, teamwork, communication, and empathy. This pilot program of arts integration with healthcare education has continued at the CMA with its updated name “Art and Insight.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763351514856-JTHK25BSQ2QXSBXVBLYK/image-asset.png Medical Humanities - NIH-SBIR Grant | MediaCombo + University of Miami The project is formally titled “ViTaLS: Visual Thinking and Learning Strategies – Enhancing Health Professions Education through VR Enabled Museum Art Experiences.” It focuses on adapting Visual Thinking Strategies to a virtual reality environment for health professions students. This reflects the next step in UM’s leadership in integrating arts and humanities into healthcare education. Award Overview The NIH has awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant in partnership with MediaCombo, a Brooklyn-based company specializing in VR education and technology. The project highlights the University of Miami’s role in advancing healthcare education through innovative, interdisciplinary collaboration. The award supports both national innovation and UM’s cross-campus strengths. • Grant: NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase One • Lead: MediaCombo (VR education and technology firm, Brooklyn) • Total Award: $261,620 • University of Miami Subcontract: $71,033 https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/new-index-1 daily 0.75 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1603163931694-2IKASYRCD0XE1RSVROCU/geomuse_gray_logo_stacked-2x_001.png Digital Arts and Humanities Projects - "GeoMuseUM" with Professor Lien Tran (Cinema and Interactive Media) and Professor Diana Ter-Ghazaryan (Geography) | CREATE Grant Project Please visit: GeoMuseUM GeoMuseUM is a guide to the Public Sculpture Collection at the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. The University’s Sculpture Park comprises more than thirty artworks by leading sculptors from around the world. These sculptures are in the collections of the University of Miami and the Lowe Art Museum, which maintains their care. GeoMuseUM offers a virtual and interactive experience, encouraging all to locate and learn about these sculptures while enjoying the beautiful surrounding scenery. Professor Lien Tran (UM Interactive Media) and Dr. Diana Ter-Ghazaryan (formerly UM Geography & Regional Studies and now GIS Research Associate at Florida International University) developed GeoMuseUM with a team of University of Miami NERDLab students and William Jattin (UM Web Developer) and in partnership with colleagues from the Lowe Art Museum. The GeoMuseUM project was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CREATE Grants Program (create.miami.edu), which supports innovative projects for teaching, learning, and scholarship that feature cultural resources from University of Miami Libraries and the Lowe Art Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1595346964459-KV62NH0LZMHVCHQI57CV/FIGURE%7E1.PNG Digital Arts and Humanities Projects - "Animating Antiquity" with Professor Karen Mathews (Art and Art History) | CREATE Grant Project In spring 2018, Professor Karen Mathews and her students from Art History and Classics embarked on a class project using photogrammetry and 3-D printing to document eight sculptures from antiquity in the Lowe Art Museum’s collection. I assisted with this project from its inception to its various stages of completion. Animating Antiquity was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CREATE Grants Program (create.miami.edu) that I manage. Animating Antiquity - Interactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624229437445-LQHGTX8F0NMEQH5Y07SI/diversity-brazil-artwork.png Digital Arts and Humanities Projects - "Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil" with Professor Steven Butterman (Modern Languages and Literatures) | CREATE Grant Project Virtual Symposium: April 12 - 13, 2021 About the Symposium The University of Miami hosted the virtual symposium “Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil,” established to highlight the unique and richly-textured Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection in Special Collections at the University of Miami. The two-day event attended by more than 120 people per day featured keynote presentations by João Silvério Trevisan (Brazilian LGBT activist, journalist, and novelist), Dr. Leila Míccolis (Lawyer, activist, and writer) and Sonia Guajajara (Brazilian environmental and indigenous activist and politician), alongside invited papers of scholars who have worked with the Collection to showcase intersectionalities and (dis)connections between burgeoning social and political movements in Brazil from the military dictatorship (1964–1985) to the present day, as well as works focusing on human rights, social justice, and cross-fertilization of historical and sociopolitical trajectories that shed more light on recovering the voices of marginalized Brazilians. Acknowledgments The symposium, “Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil,” was made possible due to a grant funded by the CREATE Grants Program, a joint Lowe Art Museum and University of Miami Libraries initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support has been provided by our co-sponsors, including the University of Miami's Office of the Provost, College of Arts and Sciences, the Joseph Carter Fund of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Latin American Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Office of Hemispheric and Global Affairs, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, American Studies Program, Department of English, Department of Political Science, Native American and Global Indigenous Studies (NAGIS), U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil (USNDB), and the Miami Network for Democracy. For more information, please see the symposium’s website: “Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624230840879-AJNYOBBN9BHOKYSLLBUS/Compressed_61.026.000.jpg Digital Arts and Humanities Projects - "Hidden Stories - New Voices" | Grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Battista Dossi (Italy, ca. 1490-1548) and Dosso Dossi (Italy, ca. 1486-1542), The Flight into Egypt, ca. 1520-1530, Oil on wood, 33 1/2 x 46 x 4 in. (85.1 x 116.8 x 10.2 cm), Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Gift of The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 61.026.000 I worked with my colleagues from the Lowe Art Museum, doctoral candidate Anna Nelson Bennett (Intern in Material Culture), and with Culture Connect to develop the content and design of this interactive, “Hidden Stories - New Voices” featuring Renaissance and Baroque paintings from the Lowe’s Kress Collection. The purpose of this interactive is to highlight this important collection of Renaissance and Baroque artwork while inviting our audiences to make contemporary connections with themes presented by the paintings. To experience this interactive, please see: “Hidden Stories - New Voices.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1603165952202-9STE7JOAUINHM7SCRURX/57062000.Paul+Sample.jpg Digital Arts and Humanities Projects - #LoweOnTheGo | Paul Sample, "Matthew IV: 19 (The Auction)," 1939 Paul Sample (United States, 1896-1974), Matthew VI: 19 (The Auction), 1939, Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 35.5 in. (74.9 x 90.2 cm), Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hokin, 57.062.000 #LoweOnTheGo | Sample “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” — Holy Bible, Book of Matthew 6:19-21 (New Revised Standard Version) The title of Matthew VI: 19 (The Auction) (1939) and the Biblical quote it references provide a lens for interpreting American Regionalist artist Paul Sample’s composition. Although Sample emphasized Matthew 6:19 and its warning against collecting treasures on earth, verses 20 and 21 complete the moral message. Many visual elements complement this Biblical quote. Snow on the ground, barren trees, and a looming sky of greys and mauve serve as metaphors for death. Framed by branches is an apparition of indeterminate gender in bed with a dog, painted lightly, as if faded from memory. The figure gazes upon the scene below as a lifetime’s worth of possessions are auctioned off. Underscoring this ghostly theme, a church and its cemetery are near the horizon. In the foreground, men and women claim their newfound treasures. The scene references the memento mori (Latin: literally, “remember you must die”) adage that “you can’t take it with you,” but Sample also emphasized life with the playful dog and snow-white horse while cues direct the viewer’s gaze toward the baby at the center of the scene. This relationship between life, death, and earthly possessions is the composition’s central theme. This painting is an important example of Sample’s Regionalist work after he returned to Norwich, Vermont, in 1938 to become artist-in-residence at his alma mater Dartmouth College. He had spent the previous twelve years establishing his artistic career in Los Angeles. It was during this time that Sample and his friend Millard Sheets were named “the best of the west” in a TIME magazine article that debuted Regionalist artists to the nation. Sample’s paintings and watercolors cast him as a chameleon; his artistic style often shifted between those of Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-69), Grant Wood (1891-1942), Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), Alexandre Hogue (1898-1984), Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974). The Lowe played an important role in promoting the work of Paul Sample after its acquisition of this painting in 1957. In 1984, it mounted a major retrospective, Paul Sample: Ivy League Regionalist, and this painting was on the front cover of the corresponding catalogue. —Dr. Christina Larson, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Academic Engagement, University of Miami Libraries and Lowe Art Museum. Dr. Larson completed her dissertation, “America Seen through the Work of Paul Sample,” at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1603162999385-B6O0QVRZKCGE319YQ3DB/CREATE_postcard_final.pic_Page_1.jpg Digital Arts and Humanities Projects - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CREATE Grants Program I oversaw the CREATE Grants Program at the University of Miami. During the program’s four-year pilot, the CREATE Committee awarded over $150,000 to 24 faculty members with projects ranging between $2,000 and $10,000 each. Faculty awardees were from the following University of Miami Schools and Departments: Art and Art History, Cinema and Interactive Media, English, Geography, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Miller School of Medicine, Frost School of Music, School of Education and Human Development, and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. I have highlighted some of these projects in my portfolio, because I have worked closely with many grantees on their projects from inception to conclusion. For a full description of the CREATE Grants Program, please see: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CREATE Grants Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1644460572127-2MN9J7G57XLHG4I9HJZI/Lowe+CREATE+brochure_FINAL2_Page_01.png Digital Arts and Humanities Projects - Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Academic Engagement In this four-year position (2017-2021) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, I had a joint appointment between the University of Miami Libraries and the Lowe Art Museum. The Mellon CREATE Grants Program was one of my primary responsibilities to encourage faculty and students to feature cultural resources for teaching, learning, and scholarship from UM Libraries, Special Collections, the Cuban Heritage Collection, University Archives, and the Lowe Art Museum. I worked with graphic designer Chris Rogers of Yazi (Coral Gables, FL) to develop this brochure, which highlights projects from the pilot phase of CREATE in order to inspire financial support to continue the program. Working on this project was one of the greatest experiences of my career. Faculty from many different disciplines received grants, and I had the great joy of meeting with them to discuss their initial ideas and guiding them along the way until their projects came to completion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763638447039-E4W0ZYN22DABUJRH67JL/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+6.31.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Digital Arts and Humanities Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763638670256-ONJ5JQEHV5EOWSZ0MPJV/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+6.37.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Digital Arts and Humanities Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763352910835-EI23PBBKOYP2PRID7UIJ/image-asset.png Digital Arts and Humanities Projects - Humanities Events | Newsletter | Wed., Nov. 5, 2025 The Center for the Humanities produces a bi-monthly newsletter “Humanities Events” during the academic year. I oversee the content and design of the newsletter, with input from other staff at the Center. This newsletter have evolved during my work as Assistant Director to feature the Center’s public and academic programs as well as humanities and arts programs at the University of Miami and in our greater South Florida region. This recent iteration evolved after we identified a solution to the graphic design and CMS—where we develop pages within Canva to copy into the CMS to share via Listserv. This was an exciting revelation, as it allows all staff and student workers to contribute to production of “Humanities Events.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763637887078-YSB7OJNP2C2LJZFKX0BN/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+6.24.27%E2%80%AFAM.png Digital Arts and Humanities Projects Since the 2021-2022 academic year, I have overseen the content and production of the Annual Report for the Center for the Humanities. Digital versions can be viewed on the Center’s website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763638125221-HWZDEQ1S9J82YG98H1PG/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+6.28.34%E2%80%AFAM.png Digital Arts and Humanities Projects I manage and update content for the website and events listings for the Center for the Humanities, which includes photography, graphic design, and program descriptions. https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/new-index-2 daily 0.75 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763349301896-PKY2KVGQHSRXVKDM391Q/image-asset.png Environmental Humanities - Florida Humanities | "Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Civic Activism, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary South Florida Co-Coordinated by the University of Miami Center for the Humanities and the Office of Civic and Community Engagement With Co-sponsorship from the University of Miami Libraries and funding from the Florida Humanities Award Presentation The Reitmeister-Abess Center Environmental Stewardship Award is given annually to the individual(s) who has made a singularly significant contribution to conservation, particularly related to water resources and/or endangered species. This year's recipient is Betty Osceola, an Everglades educator, conservationist, and anti-fracking and clean water advocate. Panel Discussion The year 2022 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s landmark book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947). Though Douglas is most noted as an environmentalist, she also engaged in activism for many other causes, including women’s rights, civil liberties, civil rights, and efforts to improve the social conditions of African Americans and of migrant laborers. The Center for the Humanities is partnering with the Office of Civic and Community Engagement to organize a panel discussion that will highlight the connections between the history of the environmental movement and the fight for racial justice. The event will begin with a brief presentation of the intersection of Douglas’s environmentalism with her other forms of activism. It will then turn to the same intersections in the present, through a discussion with representatives from a number of community organizations. The overview of Douglas’s activism will be presented by Professor Robin Bachin, who is the Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor of History, the Founding Director of the Office of Civic and Community Engagement, and is an urban and environmental historian by training. Panelists Professor Robin Bachin, University of Miami Natalia Brown, Catalyst Miami Rev. Houston Cypress, Love the Everglades Movement Commissioner Nancy Metayer, City of Coral Springs Kathleen Elliott and Robert O’Bryant, Mahogany Youth Corporation Rachel Silverstein, Miami Waterkeeper To learn more about upcoming events related to t https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763351059324-CZ2LE1T5P7HDQR33X2S1/image-asset.png Environmental Humanities - “Miami as Ground Zero: Tracing the Magic City’s Environmental History and Future” I have been involved in the grant proposal phase of this Environmental Humanities project, with the Research Sprints planning in Summer 2025, and am currently a member of the core research group, especially for both the physical and digital components of the exhibition. https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/new-index-3 daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1595213344502-SHTIEV21N8NFRZQD0PB3/_DSC0611.JPG Humanities | Performing Arts | Visual Arts - "Dancing Glass" with Professor Carol Kaminsky (Dance Program) | CREATE Grant Project In Fall 2018, I worked closely with Professor Carol Kaminsky, Professor Jorge Luis Morejon, and students in their dance class on a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CREATE Grants Program (create.miami.edu). Students choreographed and performed dances in response to glass sculptures in the collection of the Lowe Art Museum. Graduate students from Frost School of Music created original music to accompany the dances at the public performance on December 1, 2018 that drew a crowd of over 100 people to the Lowe Art Museum. A documentary was also produced on this project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1624145797106-O8IV1Q6NOTY6IS5U0T5I/CTC.Final.Promotion.compressed.jpg Humanities | Performing Arts | Visual Arts - "Composing the Collection" with Professor Dorothy Hindman (Frost School of Music) | CREATE Grant Project, May 2021 I worked with Professor Dorothy Hindman from Frost School of Music, University of Miami, who received funding in Fall 2019 from the CREATE Grants Program for her project “Composing the Collection: Sonifying the Lowe Art Museum’s Musical Instruments and Art Works in Written Music and Live Performance.” Undergraduate and Graduate Music Composition majors selected and researched instruments and artworks from the Lowe Art Museum’s collections and composed original pieces based on these objects for the professional new music ensemble Duo Sequenza who performed the works. This project culminated in a live online broadcast on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. In addition to learning about the Lowe Art Museum’s collections that inspired their musical compositions, the students also learned about grant writing, marketing, and live broadcast technology that will be of great benefit to their careers. To see the students’ research and samples of their music, see: “Composing the Collection” https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/articles daily 0.75 2025-11-20 https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/articles-1 daily 0.75 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763634856729-MRFF4U6LZ1V21UIAQ9D7/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.34.02%E2%80%AFAM.png Articles Co-Authored Article Paula Kiser, Christina Larson, Kevin M. O’Sullivan, and Anne Peale. “From ‘Outside the Box’ to ‘Out the Window’: Teaching with Primary Sources through the Pandemic.” CR&L, Vol. 85, No, 3 (April 2024): 362-377. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763634787576-KX6M7UO96F0PGBUQ9ZFI/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.32.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763634856729-MRFF4U6LZ1V21UIAQ9D7/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.34.02%E2%80%AFAM.png Articles Co-Authored Article Paula Kiser, Christina Larson, Kevin M. O’Sullivan, and Anne Peale. “From ‘Outside the Box’ to ‘Out the Window’: Teaching with Primary Sources through the Pandemic.” CR&L, Vol. 85, No, 3 (April 2024): 362-377. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763634898004-5RCT2U9X77T8WC3I2XJ4/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.34.48%E2%80%AFAM.png Articles Co-Authored Article Paula Kiser, Christina Larson, Kevin M. O’Sullivan, and Anne Peale. “Primary Source Pivoting: How Faculty Adapted Primary Source Instruction During the Pandemic and What is Here to Stay.” ACRL Conference 2023: Forging the Future (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 15-18, 2023): 495-501. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763634942689-ZC0ZPIQXFUT77HCPO0F7/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.35.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Articles Co-Authored Article Jill Deupi, Charles Eckman, and Christina Larson. “C-R-E-A-T-E: Building an Institutional Cultural Resources Platform,” Research Library Issues, no. 300 (2020): 18–31. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1763635001663-DFOU5HD1VCLSJW0FJR6I/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+5.36.29%E2%80%AFAM.png Articles Co-Authored White Paper Christina Larson and Amanda Valdespino, “Object-Based Learning,” (University of Miami, 2019). https://christina-f-larson.squarespace.com/cover-page daily 1.0 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/587543a929687ffb91f6b58a/1495074866653-OQASU9P08BXXNSPHF2JT/TMA+Photo.jpeg Cover Page Winslow Homer, Sunlight on the Coast, 1890, oil on canvas, Toledo Museum of Art