For the past 52 years, the Art Institute of Chicago has hosted an annual symposium for graduate students in art history at Midwestern universities. Students are chosen by their universities because of outstanding research or writing projects, and a local faculty member acts as discussant to the panels. One of the papers will be chosen as a public lecture topic. The 2017 seminar takes place April 21–22 in the Nichols Board of Trustees Suite at the Art Institute.

This year, we are proud to be represented by Erin Gregory, with her paper entitled Donatello's Musical Spiritelli: The Baptism of the Quattrocento Spiritello."