October 5, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
We have a terrific group of scholars presenting at the annual SECAC conference this month:Gillian Yee (PhD student): “Life, Death, and Everything in Between: Peter Hujar’s Capuchin Catacomb Portraits” (also session chair)Brittany Rubin (PhD student): “’All the Tricks of Aretin[o]’: The Affective Lives of Samuel Pepys’ Reproductive Portrait Collection”Joseph Kopta (Asst. Prof. of Instruction): “The Trebizond Alexander Romance and Representations of Kingship” Noah Randolph (PhD candidate): “Atop the Pedestal: Paula Wilson’s ‘Living Monument’”Ali Printz (PhD candidate): “Upending the Plantationocene: The Coal Sculptures of Charles Edgar Patience”
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September 14, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma P. Holter, a University Fellow and second-year PhD Art History student, will deliver a paper "Color Wars: Woad, Indigo, and the Emergence of Venetian Blue Paper" at the 2023 SECAC conference taking place in Richmond, Virginia. Her paper, part of the panel "Methodology and Pedagogy: The Art of Renaissance and Early Modern Italy," examines the advent of blue drawing paper in fifteenth-century Venice through an eco-critical lens, and explores the material's entanglement with the local textile dyeing industry and the importation of foreign dyestuffs.
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September 12, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Based on the innovative syllabus, student outcomes that showed that learning objectives were met in the course and excellent SFFs, the Art History Department has named Maik the Graduate Teacher 2022/3 awardee. Maik developed the course, "The Ocean and Art: Marine Art, Maps and the Ecology of Architecture" contributed significantly to the department's curriculum for undergraduates.
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July 19, 2023
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
Art history graduate students Jessica Braum (left) and Natalie Cruz arrange prints for hanging.In early 20th century American artist Asa Cheffetz’s (1897-1965) wood engraving Deserted Farm, the carved lines are so adroitly executed that they create the illusion of wind blowing across a field of grass.“It is remarkable that an artist can convey such a fleeting movement and sensorial experience of the wind blowing in nature by incising lines in wood in a specific manner,” said Tyler art history graduate student Jessica Braum, who along with eight other Art History graduate students and Art History Associate Professor Ashley West co-curated a print exhibition for the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in Collegeville, 30 miles outside of Philadelphia.
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July 18, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
This past spring nine Art History graduate students and alumni co-curated a print exhibition for the Berman Museum at Ursinus College, whose Executive Director (Lauren McCardel) is a current doctoral student in our program and whose Collections Manager, Catherine Sirizzotti, is one of our MA alumni. The students acting as co-curators are: Jessica Braum (PhD student), Danielle Cooke (MA alum 23), Natalie Cruz (MA alum 23), Emma Holter (PhD student), Rachael Reynolds (PhD student), Samantha Rhodes (PhD student), Brittany Rubin (PhD student), Alexandra Schoolman (PhD student), and Jessica Sternbach (PhD candidate).
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May 31, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emily is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Huntington Travel Exchange Fellowship with New College, Oxford, and a Bancroft Library Summer Study Award (2023). The fellowships will support research for her dissertation "Shifting Sediments: Photography, Memory, and Imperial Landscapes in Contemporary Art."
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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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