May 16, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Peter Wang (Ph.D. 2017) recently accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky. (UK SAVS) He is excited to be working with 30 some art history majors and a few MFA students in Curatorial Studies. After a one-year visiting assistant professorship at Saint Mary's College and a five-year period as a lecturer at Butler University, Peter has developed more than a dozen courses, and he looks forward to connecting his research with his teaching at Kentucky, including surveys and special topics on American art, modern/contemporary art, and history of photography. He will continue to work on his book manuscript on photography and the American road trip, while developing the next research project on Asian American art and visual culture.
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May 16, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Haley Brown (BA 2021) will be attending NYU to pursue an MA in Costume Studies
Tamane Takehara (BA 2022) has been accepted into the Art History program at SAIC, where they will pursue their MA.
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May 8, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Michael was awarded a Title VIII Language Training Grant from the U.S. Department of State for his studies in the Azerbaijani language for the summer of 2023.
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May 8, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma Holter published, "Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 20, 2022–February 23, 2023)" in Renaissance Studies online: 17 April 2023; forthcoming in volume 37, issue 3, 2023. You can find the review here: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.temple.edu/doi/10.1111/rest.128...
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May 5, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Seohyun (Sera) Park will be part of the 2023 Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation at UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the conservation of cultural heritage
Zoe Cudney will be interning at InLiquid here in Philly
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May 4, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Rachel presented at the "Look at a Book" series, organized by Dr. Joe Kopta, with the Charles Library. She presented on “Alicia Bailey’s Cosmeceutical Collection” and told us: "In this unique artist book, the Cosmeceutical Collection, Alicia Bailey has created three miniature books that are each contained in a cosmetic case that recalls different forms of makeup: an eyeshadow palette entitled Belladonna; a press-powder compact entitled Compact Beauty; and a tube of mascara entitled Lashlure. The text inside each recounts the history of beauty standards that women have been held to, and explains in a witty, wry, and solemn narrative the dangerous extremes women went to in hopes of achieving those standards."
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May 4, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
We're proud of our majors, Hannah J. Mackey (BA 2023) and Seohyun (Sera) Park (BA 2023) for their induction into Phi Beta Kappa, due to their excellent academic records and leadership in the liberal arts.
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April 25, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The lecture, part of "The Pulse of Art History Lecture Series" will be on "Florida Orientalism: Islamic Architecture in the American Imagination"
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April 21, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Nicole has been awarded the Mayers Fellowship from the Huntington Library, the George B. Cooper Fellowship from Yale's Lewis Walpole Library, and the Brian Leigh Dunnigan Cartography Fellowship from the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. The fellowships will support research for her dissertation, “Ordering, Reordering, and Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Resistance and Repossession in Contemporary Caribbean Art."
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April 21, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Lily will be in NYC for two weeks in July for the 2023 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, on the heels of the show she curated for the Philadelphia Art Museum as the Barra Fellow in American Art, "Seeing with Empathy: The Female Gaze in American Modernism".
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