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Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of Art and Design
Dr. Benjamin Ogrodnik earned his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. Broadly concentrating on forms of working-class visual culture, Ogrodnik鈥檚 writing has appeared in academic journals such as Afterimage, Film History, Contemporaneity and Feminist Media Histories. His current book project, Sublime Borders, tracks how contemporary artists visualize the US-Mexico borderlands through conceptualism and craft-based practices. He has curated art events and film screenings at the Andy Warhol Museum, LUX, Cain Art Gallery and Silver Eye Center for Photography. At 黄瓜短视频, he teaches courses on aesthetics, art and the environment, the Renaissance, and arts of the Americas.
Theories of contemporary art, art and the environment, history of craft, New Media, art of the Renaissance
Working-class visual cultures, labor histories, conceptualism, craft-based art