Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, will co-chair a panel session with her colleague,Katherine Jackson (assistant professor, Department of Art History, Utah Valley University) from Oct. 19-22 at the 2025 Nordik Association for Art History Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Their panel session, titled, "Negotiating Spaces: Nordic artists working within or in resistance to institutional spaces," includes papers that examine Nordic and Northern European artists and artist collectives from the 1960s to the present in their operation within or in their attempt to change institutional bodies such as the government, the corporation and the art school. This panel ultimately grapples with the complex question: Can an artist operate critically within systemic structures without dismantling the institution itself?