Professor Jill Casid noted as a “particularly influential” Art History professor by alum curating the 2026 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the longest-running survey of American art and one of the preeminent events in the art world! When Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer toured the country this year visiting studios and potential artists for the Whitney Biennial, they visited UW–Madison in early February to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Art History Department from which they are graduates. The article notes how Guerrero “recalls being particularly influenced by Professor of Art History Jill Casid, the director of the department’s graduate studies program.“ Guerrero reflects on conceptual influence from Professor Jill Casid:
“The idea of how an empire can build a visual discourse,” says Guerrero of what she learned during her time here. “And how, within this, there are people who have the agency to build a counternarrative was eye-opening for somebody coming from the Caribbean.”
Read more about the Whitney Biennial and the curators’ reflections as UW-Madison alums in “The Fine Art of Curating Greatness: A pair of Department of Art History alums talk about the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create one of the most impactful art exhibitions in the United States” here.