April 5, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Maria has been accepted for the Goizueta Fellowship with the University of Miami for June and July 2024. This fellowship supports research at the Cuban Heritage Collection, one of her dissertation's primary sources.
She has also been appointed Smithsonian American Art Museum's inaugural Audrey Flack Short-Term Fellow for August 1-30, 2024. This fellowship allows her to be in DC for a month to research the Smithsonian collections related to her research.
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April 5, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Ali Printz (PhD candidate) delivered her paper, "Extraction in the Alleghenies: John Kane’s Naive Ecocriticism" in Session Two, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScK31cTSu4Y
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March 27, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Art History Department was very well represented at the Renaissance Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting, this year held in Chicago from March 21–23, 2024! We’re very proud of the great Early Modern scholarship of our department members and alumni.Emma P. Holter (PhD Student), “Bellini in Black and White: Reconsidering the Uffizi Lamentation;"Jesse Rhian-Yu Sullivan (PhD Candidate), “Ripples on the Surface: Active Dimensionality as a Lens for Understanding Early Renaissance Painting;"Dr. Tracy E. Cooper (Professor), “The Renaissance Book: Lilian Armstrong and Art History;" Dr. Cooper was also the respondent to the Society for the History of Collecting double-panel “Collecting and Knowledge Production through Travel;”
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February 28, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Graphic and Interactive Design program was widely represented at the 2023 Flux Student Design Competition, with a total of 24 selected projects—more than any other program represented in the competition."It's gratifying to see Tyler represented so well in the competition," said Abby Guido, Associate Professor of Graphic and Interactive Design. "It shows that our focus on creativity, technical skills, and critical thinking is practical. This is a great moment for all of us to appreciate."
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February 12, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
We have a bounty of researchers presenting at the CAA annual meetings this month:Nikki Marcel (PhD candidate) chairing three panels: Rebellious Creating: Opacity as Praxis in the Contemporary Caribbean; Writing for Each Other: Collaboration Across Art History and Art Practice; Office Hours: Open Discussion between Students and ProfessorsDr. Alpesh Patel chairing Peer Review Futures Publications CommitteeEmmy Schollenberger (PhD candidate) "Mountains and Memory: The Geography of Japanese Internment Camps in Emma Nishimura's Locating Memory"Noah Randolph (PhD candidate) chairing Uneasy Pieces: Pedagogical Approaches to Sensitive Topics and Controversial Works of Art and co-chairing with Dr. Leah Modigliani, Walls, Blockades, and Barricades: Art at the Margins of the New Enclosures"
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February 7, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
Fibers & Materials Studies graduate student Mika Obayashi received first prize in Excellence in Fibers IX, a juried exhibition by the publication Fiber Art Now. Over 1,200 artworks were submitted for consideration. The installation, titled “Gospel of Three Dimensions,” was originally on view in the Jewett Art Gallery at Wellesley College from September 6 through October 28, 2022. The piece is made of abaca paper, cotton cord, and indigo dye, and is created to be a partially immersive experience, giving viewers the opportunity to step into the sculpture. This is in line with Obayashi’s interest in examining conventional experiences of space in her work.
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January 19, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Maria's chapter, “Decolonizing La Revolución: Cuban Artistic Practice in a Liminal Space” can be found in The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, edited by Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, and Charlene Villaseñor Black (2024). Check it out here!
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Decolonizing-Art-Hi...
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January 15, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Carlsberg Foundation has granted Alice M. Rudy Price (PhD 2014, Adj, Asst. Prof.) funding for six months of research in Denmark from May to December 2025. This funding will support catalogue research for a 2026–2027 art exhibition, "Aging Bodies, Mature Careers," hosted by Ribe Kunstmuseum and Skovgaard Museet in Denmark.
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