In her 2025 exhibition The reflection at the threshold of a categorical division at Carnegie Museum of Art, Los Angeles-based artist Gala Porras-Kim offered a rigorous analysis of the collecting mandates of the Carnegie Museums and Library in the form of several diptychs of her characteristic index drawings. This presentation of work-in-progress will illuminate the conceptual and institutional origins of Porras-Kim's index drawing format.

About the speaker: Jennifer Josten is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture. Read her faculty profile here: https://www.haa.pitt.edu/people/jennifer-josten

About the image: Gala Porras-Kim, 202 ivory objects at Carnegie Museum of Art or at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 2025. (c) Gala Porras-Kim. (From CMOA website)