Talk:Eva Díaz (art historian)

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Notability for subject

The WP:THREE best sources that establish the notability of the subject Diaz are:

1. the Getty Senior Fellowship she was awarded. Being chosen as a Getty Scholar is among the most selective senior fellowships in the humanities ^[1]

2. her professional roles as a) full professor with tenure at Pratt^[2] and b) having been a Curator at Art in General (she is already listed under "Curators" on the Art in General page on Wikipedia), and

3. the importance of her work in the field of contemporary art and art history having been given an in-depth profile in E-flux Journal, the contemporary art publication with perhaps the widest global audience (E-Flux, Survey: Eva Diaz).^[3]

Further details about her meeting criteria of notability are below.

I believe the page now meets WP:NPROF criteria #2 because the Warhol Grant Art Writers Grant and the Graham Foundation awards are lucrative and extremely competitive awards within the fields of art history and architectural history. Few are awarded Graham Foundation Research or Publication awards (she was awarded both), and even fewer Warhol Book grants, as Diaz has received.

Diaz's page now meets WP:NPROF criteria #3 of her Getty Scholar status.

Diaz's page meets WP:NPROF criteria #7 because she has made invited media appearances at notable national and international venues like the Brian Lehrer Show and E-Flux's widely-distributed podcast.

Diaz's page now meets WP:NPROF criteria #1 as she has two sole-authored, peer review books published with prestigious university presses (Chicago and Yale), in addition to serving as commissioning editor and contributor on a volume from Dia Art Foundation and Yale, two very notable organisations. This is more than comparable entries for male art historians of her generation like Noam Elcott, who already has a Wikipedia page.

I believe the page now meets WP:NPROF criteria #1 as Diaz was a curator at Art in General. The Wikipedia page for Art in General already lists her name there under "Curators," so it seems important to create an independent page for her as well.

Diaz meets WP:NPROF criteria #7 as she has published many feature articles in non-academic but prestigious contemporary art publications like Artforum, Frieze, and Art in America. Few academics have that reach.

Diaz meets P:NPROF criteria #7 as the importance of her work in the field of contemporary art has been profiled in E-Flux ^[4].

Diaz meets WP:NPROF criteria #5 a she is a full, tenured professor. Most art schools do not have named professorships, so full professor with tenure at Pratt is itself very selective.

(I would like to continue adding entries on important women in the field of modern and contemporary art history like Eva Diaz, Suzanne Hudson, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty, joining similar existing Wikipedia entries like those on Caroline A. Jones and Julia Bryan-Wilson, to match those of male scholars like David Joselit and George Baker who already have pages.)

Please note that none of the current references are from sources like blogs, company websites, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, or Spotify. The subject (Diaz's) official website is listed on the Wikipedia page as it contains all her published work, amounting to some 200+ peer review articles, magazine features, and art reviews, itself a very substantial record of publication. Avengers23 (talk) 19:03, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^ "Getty Announces 2023/2024 Scholars". Getty.edu. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
^ "Eva Diaz, Professor". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
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@Avengers23: Thanks for this helpful detail. The draft certainly has good prospects.

I'm just not seeing any reliable sources about Diaz. Could you see if you can find and add some-- a person of her quality surely has had at least one article (from a reliable source) written about her?

I note the link to E-FLux is just a survey that she has presumable self-filled? As such it doesn't qualify as reliable so doesn't contribute towards her notability, which is what we want to evidence.

And again, for the absence of doubt, we are seeking article about her, not by her. Cabrils (talk) 05:57, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there,

Here are further articles about her work. (Though as far can parse it from the limited number of these published per year, only 2-3 important people per year are asked/nominated to have their work profiled in-depth by E-Flux in this manner, so it is a sign of her notability in the field.) My sense of academia it is not so much people writing articles "about" each other biographically as the venues one publishes in and the citation of one's work, so here are some further ones that do so biographically, and others in terms of reviewing her books The Experimenters and Mind the Gap. I have gone ahead and included these as citations in the draft article on her (as obtained from her CV available on the Pratt website). There are other articles from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal that quote her as an expert. I have included a few of those at the end of this list. Thanks and cheers!

1. Graham Foundation http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/6587-after-spaceship-earth

2. Pratt Folio https://www.pratt.edu/prattfolio/stories/how-are-artists-thinking-differently-about-life-beyond-earth/

3. Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute: https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-announces-2023-2024-scholars/

4. "CAA Names Fellows: Eva Diaz,” CAA News, September, Vol. 31, No. 5 https://www.collegeart.org/pdf/caa-news-print-archive/caa-news-09-06.pdf

5. The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College, Eva Díaz (2015); Kiser, Barbara, “Books in Brief,” Nature, 518, Feb. 5

6. Horton, Allan, “A New Book Explores Albers, Cage, Fuller, and the Making of Black Mountain College,” (review of The Experimenters), The Architect’s Newspaper, August 2016

7. Raskin, David, “The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College,” (review) Common Knowledge, Vol. 82, Issue 2, May 2016

8. Antliff, Alan, “The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College,” (review) caa.reviews, July 2016

9. Lucas, Patrick Lee, “The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College,” (review) Journal of Southern History, Vol. 82, No. 3, August 2016

10. Belsey, Alex, “The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College,” (review) Make Literary Magazine, September 2016

11. Frank, Thomas Edward, “Three Models of Design at Black Mountain College, (review of The Experimenters), Appalachian Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1-2, Spring 2018

12. “The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College,” (review) Casabella rivista di architettura | architectural magazine September 2016

13. Kazi, Olympia. Article on Mind the Gap, The Architect’s Newspaper, May 15, 2006

14. Schwendener, Martha, Review of Mind the Gap, Time Out New York, Apr. 26, 2006

15. Viaggio, Chris, “The Experimenters,” The Wave, Feb. 20, 2015

16. Austin, Bruce A., “’The Experimenters’ Offers Engaging Look at Black Mountain College Arts,” New York-Pennsylvania Collector, June 2015

17. Fortini, Amanda, “Why Are We Still Talking About Black Mountain College?,” The New York Times, July 7, 2022.

18. Kino, Carol, “Return to Black Mountain College,” Oct. 6, 2015 Wall Street Journal Avengers23 (talk) 16:53, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you kindly re-present WP:THREE here?

I still feel you have not perused the links I sent you in my original comment.

I would also refer you to the helpful remarks of Peter Southwood. Cabrils (talk) 00:57, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry this has become so byzantine! Here are the WP:THREE

1. Source 1 meets WP:NPROF #3 due her Getty Senior Scholar Fellowship status https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-announces-2023-2024-scholars/

2. Source 2 meets WP:NPROF #1 as she is considered an expert and her work is cited and reviewed widely: Horton, Allan, “A New Book Explores Albers, Cage, Fuller, and the Making of Black Mountain College,” (review of Eva Diaz, The Experimenters), The Architect’s Newspaper, August 2016 https://www.archpaper.com/2016/08/experimenters-black-mountain-college/

3. Source 3 meets WP:NPROF #2 due to the subject's Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts award http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/6587-after-spaceship-earth Avengers23 (talk) 13:29, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"US-based" or "American"?

Why do we refer to Díaz as a "US-based" art historian, etc. This seems slightly odd and ambiguous syntax, especially in the first sentence of the lead. Is she an American citizen? Was she born in the US or did she immigrate from somewhere else? If we have a source, let's make this clear. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 09:15, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Getty Announces 2023/2024 Scholars". Getty.edu. Retrieved 14 March 2025.

[2] "Eva Diaz, Professor". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 14 March 2025.

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