June 25, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Lily F. Scott was awarded the Barra American Art Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Center for American Art for 2021/22. The Barra American Art Fellow assists with department research and exhibition projects while also working on personal research and dissertation writing. Lily's project, Neither Then nor Now: Queer Temporalities & Interwar Portraits of Expatriate Sapphists, examines the portraiture of/by queer American women artists living in 1920s Paris.
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June 16, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Natalia Vieyra (PhD 2021) and Tara Kaufman (MA 2019) have both contributed articles to Panorma: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 7.1 2021. Natalia's article is in the Special Section on Art and Politics in the US Capitol: "Columbus, Conquest, and the Capitol"; Tara's article is a review of an exhibition: "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art Nature, Culture" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Both can be found here : Panorama Spring 2021
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June 14, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Michael Ernst (PhD student) has published a conference precis of "What is an Islamic Garden in the 21st Century?", the Islamic Landscape Symposium at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2019, in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10.2 2021 514-516.
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May 8, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Sarah Iepson, Associate Professor, Art and Design, Community College of Philadelphia will be using the Mellon/ACLS Community College Fellowship to pursue her research, She Crosses the Atlantic: The Power of the Feminine in the Art of Glasgow and Philadelphia.
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May 4, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Mariola Alvarez will present a paper at the "Women in Abstraction. Another History of Abstraction in the 20th Century" Symposium, May 19-21, 2021. The symposium is organized by the Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Pompidou Museum in Paris.
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April 29, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Mariola V. Alvarez has been awarded a Regional Faculty Fellowship with the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2021–2022 academic year. Alvarez will join Mellon postdoctoral fellows, advanced doctoral fellows, and faculty fellows from Penn and other institutions throughout the region, whose work represents a wide range of disciplines in the humanities. Alvarez will present work on early twentieth century immigrant artist groups in São Paulo, Brazil as part of the Center's Mellon Research Seminar on "Migration."
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April 8, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
India Thorne was awarded a SROP summer grant for her internship at the Penn Museum.
Aine Playdon was awarded a TU Diamond Research Undergraduate grant. She will be working with Prof Evans on a project about ancient female athletes, and will be presenting the results of her work at the Diamond Research conference in the fall.
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April 6, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Michael's project is to start preliminary research for his dissertation on mosques in Azerbaijan.
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