September 14, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Forum will be held at the University of Pittsburgh September 23-24; it is an annual graduate student workshop co-organized by Alvarez, Abigail McEwen (UMD), Jennifer Josten (Pitt) and is funded by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). The Forum was originally organized at the University of Maryland in March 2020, but subsequent years had to be delayed due to COVID.
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September 13, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The summer of 2022, Lydia worked as an intern at the Barnes, where she was worked in the editorial/publications department. She is continuing to work as a freelancer for the department and has joined the Rosenbach Museum and Library this fall, as a collections intern.
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September 9, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Flavia Barbarini (PhD candidate) spent part of the summer at the Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI) in Florence thanks to the International PhD Fellowship and the Marcia Hall Summer Travel Grant. As a NIKI Fellow she worked on a project titled “Trading Drawings Between the North and Italy: Joris Hoefnagel, Niccolò Gaddi, and the Drawings of Northern European Artists” which is related to her doctoral dissertation research. This fall, she will be the Kress Fellow at the Medici Archive
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September 8, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Sahiti and Sara have been matched with arts organizations: Sahiti with the Asian Arts Initiative and Sara with InLiquid. Both will be serving as non-voting Board members through April and have been asked to present a strategic project for the organizations.The Asian Arts Initiate "has a mission of creating community through the power of art: connecting cultural expression and social change. Asian Arts Initiative uses art as a vehicle to explore the diverse experiences of all communities which include Asian-Americans."InLiquid was formed "to mobilize and make accessible the visual arts culture of the greater Philadelphia region in order to unite communities, establish wider audiences for artists and designers, facilitate the relationship between artists and collectors, and nurture the public's appreciation of all forms of visual art."
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September 1, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Lauren Wilson (PhD student) travelled to Crete in June on a grant to the INSTAP-SCEC study center to conduct preliminary research on the ceramic materials from the rescue excavation of Kastelli. The site is southeast of Knossos and produced Minoan pottery that will be the focus of her dissertation. She returned in August to attend a course on prehistoric through Roman pottery analysis taught by professors from the British School in Athens. Lauren also presented a paper, “Defining the End of the MM IIB in the Mirabello Region: the Alatzomouri Pefka Deposit” at the workshop, ‘Protopalatial Pottery: Relative Chronology and Regional Differences in Middle Bronze Age Crete’ hosted by INSTAP-SCEC in honor of its 25th anniversary.
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September 1, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emily tells us in her teaching philosophy that, "My own experience as an undergraduate studying art history shaped my goals for teaching. Art history transformed my awareness of racism, sexism, and colonialism, revealing how these injustices remain embedded in our visual culture and the ways that artists and makers have critiqued social issues. Teaching is a way to pass this transformative experience on to my students and to equip them to not only become visually literate, but to employ their visual literacy toward ethical commitments to inclusivity and justice." Her syllabi consistently reflect these goals, with inventive and technologically innovative assignments.
Emily has completed temple's Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education.
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August 13, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
PhD Candidate Tyler Rockey will deliver a paper entitled ‘“Ancient’ Marble as Natural Resource: The Materiality and Reuse of Sculpture Fragments in Early Modern Rome” at the University of North Carolina’s 8th Annual Art Student Graduate Organization Symposium “Matters of Art: Materiality, Functionality, and the Agency of Art Objects.” The paper, part of the panel “Materials in Decline: Displacing, Degrading, Decaying,” presents the view of ancient marble sculptural fragments used in renaissance restorations of antique statues as natural resources with unique and differing connotations, systems of extraction and movement, agency, and material qualities than other stone resources.
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August 10, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The article, "A Wise Enemy: The Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Portrayal of the Polish Commander Stanislaw Zolkiewski" can be found in IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies 15 2022. If you would like to read this article before it is available online, please contact Oslem.
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August 10, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Lynn Dolby, Collections Manager and Assistant Curator of the Penn Art Collection has curated a show that will be on view until August 21, 2022: "From Studio to Doorstep: American Artists in Prints from the Penn Art Collection": https://penntoday.upenn.edu/Arthur-Ross-Gallery-From-Studio-to-Doorstep-...
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August 8, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Tyson Scholars of American Art Program encourages and supports interdisciplinary scholarship that seeks to expand boundaries and traditional categories of investigation into American art and visual and material culture from the colonial period to the present. Ali's fellowship begins in September of 2022 as she continues her research and writing for her dissertation.
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