Bay Area Art History Research Symposium
Lucas Gustin, '27 presented his paper "Photography, Uranium, and the Navajo Landscape" at the annual "Bay" Symposium" (Bay Area Undergraduate Student Research Symposium). Lucas' paper showed how Laura Gilpin's photographs of the Navajo landscape reveal contradictions and tensions between sacred space and exploitative mining. His paper argued that because of the conceptual relationships between the two types of photographs, they should be seen together as a single artistic project. The Symposium organizer, Professor Andrea Pappas, worked with Associate Professor Qiuwen Li's graphic design class to produce the Symposium brochure. The Symposium took place April 25th at the de Saisset Museum and was followed by a reception.
Congratulations Lucas Gustin for representing SCU at the Annual Bay Area Undergraduate Student Research Symposium at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University.
SCU's Department of Art and Art History co-founded the Symposium in 2010. We now have 12 institutions that participate; each one sends one student. Participating institutions in 2026: California State University Easts Bay, California State University Sacramento, Dominican University of California, Saint Mary’s College of California, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, University of California Santa Cruz, University of San Francisco.
