Stephen Urchick

Stephen Urchick specializes in the painting and visual culture of Russia’s late nineteenth century. He focuses on the Partnership for Traveling Art Exhibitions, or Peredvizhniki. Stephen received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 2016. He interned then at the MCA Chicago and Gene Siskel Film Center, facilitated inquiry-based tours for the Smart Museum of Art, and wrote extensively through the alternative weekly news magazine “South Side Weekly.”

In New Haven, Stephen has since designed a teen arts journalism intensive with the city’s 501(c)3 arts service organization, coordinated creative placemaking initiatives under Yale’s Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking, accessioned over 1,100 Soviet posters to Yale University Art Gallery, and researched the provenance of more than two dozen John Constable paintings at the Yale Center for British Art. He has also led half a dozen discussion sections on Russian and Soviet art, feminist and contemporary art, the art and architecture of Istanbul, global sacred space, and media theory.