Two DFPA Students Recognized for Achievements in Art History Research
Two College of Arts and Sciences Students Recognized for Achievements in Art History Research
Two students in Loyola University Chicago’s College of Arts and Sciences were recently recognized for outstanding achievements in art history.
Hailey Gates received the prestigious Peter C. Marzio Award from the International Center for Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, while Sofia Martinez was selected to the Museum Scholars program at the Art Institute of Chicago.
“The amazing achievements of Hailey Gates and Sofia Martinez exemplify student academic excellence within the College of Arts and Sciences,” said Peter J. Schraeder, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “Their work in art history highlights the impact of a transformative education, and we are proud of their contributions to the arts and humanities.”
Gates, an English major with minors in journalism and art history, has been named the 2024 undergraduate winner of the Peter C. Marzio Award from the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for Outstanding Research in 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art.
The ICAA committee awarded Gates for her essay, “The Hands of Humanity: Marxism, Activism, and Indigenismo in the Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín,” for her analysis of the artist’s positionality and political statements.
“I'm honored to be a part of such an amazing department,” Gates expressed. “I absolutely couldn't have done it without the guidance and encouragement of Loyola's brilliant art history professors!”
Gates’ essay will be included in the ICAA 2025 issue of Working Papers, a forum for emerging scholarship.
Martinez, an Art History major, was selected for the two-year Museum Scholars fellowship designed for undergraduates at the Art Institute after recently completing its Summer Intensive program. The fellowship program is part of a museum-wide effort to provide students the opportunity to gain experience, career awareness, network, and skills that will position them to thrive as future art museum leaders.
As Martinez noted in her application for the program, she is looking forward to sharing her perspective as an aspiring Latina and Puerto Rican art historian. She will be working specifically with the Department of the Arts of the Americas (through 1945), which has placed an increased emphasis in the areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Learn more about Loyola’s DFPA, ICAA Marzio Awards and the Art Institute.
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”
Two students in Loyola University Chicago’s College of Arts and Sciences were recently recognized for outstanding achievements in art history.
Hailey Gates received the prestigious Peter C. Marzio Award from the International Center for Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, while Sofia Martinez was selected to the Museum Scholars program at the Art Institute of Chicago.
“The amazing achievements of Hailey Gates and Sofia Martinez exemplify student academic excellence within the College of Arts and Sciences,” said Peter J. Schraeder, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “Their work in art history highlights the impact of a transformative education, and we are proud of their contributions to the arts and humanities.”
Gates, an English major with minors in journalism and art history, has been named the 2024 undergraduate winner of the Peter C. Marzio Award from the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for Outstanding Research in 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art.
The ICAA committee awarded Gates for her essay, “The Hands of Humanity: Marxism, Activism, and Indigenismo in the Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín,” for her analysis of the artist’s positionality and political statements.
“I'm honored to be a part of such an amazing department,” Gates expressed. “I absolutely couldn't have done it without the guidance and encouragement of Loyola's brilliant art history professors!”
Gates’ essay will be included in the ICAA 2025 issue of Working Papers, a forum for emerging scholarship.
Martinez, an Art History major, was selected for the two-year Museum Scholars fellowship designed for undergraduates at the Art Institute after recently completing its Summer Intensive program. The fellowship program is part of a museum-wide effort to provide students the opportunity to gain experience, career awareness, network, and skills that will position them to thrive as future art museum leaders.
As Martinez noted in her application for the program, she is looking forward to sharing her perspective as an aspiring Latina and Puerto Rican art historian. She will be working specifically with the Department of the Arts of the Americas (through 1945), which has placed an increased emphasis in the areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Learn more about Loyola’s DFPA, ICAA Marzio Awards and the Art Institute.
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”