Rebecca Zorach is Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College at the University of Chicago. She teaches and writes on medieval and Renaissance art, contemporary activist art, and art of the 1960s and 70s (particularly African American artists in Chicago). Her most recent book, The Passionate Triangle (University of Chicago Press, 2011), examines the cultural aesthetics, theology, geometry, and erotics of the triangle in Renaissance Europe. Recent articles have addressed AfriCOBRA's gender and family politics; Claes Oldenburg's lawsuit challenging the copyright of the Chicago Picasso; and the experimental art center Art & Soul, founded on the west side of Chicago in 1968 by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Conservative Vice Lords, a street gang. She is currently at work on a book on Art & Soul that also explores the larger landscape of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago. For the past year she has supervised a research project at the South Side Community Art Center, Art of a Community Speaks, which focuses on cataloging, presenting, and interpreting the Center's permanent collection. She has also served as a consultant for the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum exhibition, Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords. At the University of Chicago she has curated two exhibitions on early modern European prints and printed books (Paper Museums, 2005, and The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome, 2008), and, at DOVA temporary gallery, the exhibitions Looks Like Freedom (2008, on the year 1968 in Chicago, with students) and Our Demons (2011, in conjunction with a CAA Centennial panel organized with artist Renee Stout).