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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April 17, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Annissa Malvoisin will discuss her current research and curatorial work on the display of ancient African art.
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April 6, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Both Marie and May, who are finishing their work for their MA degrees, have been invited to be part of the Fox Board Fellows program. According to the Fox website, "Fox Board Fellows is building the next generation of business leaders dedicated to community-based engagement that strengthens their community. The program, powered by experiential learning, places graduate students on the boards of directors at local nonprofit organizations as non-voting members for an academic year."
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March 22, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Art History faculty member Joseph Kopta participated in a panel, “Globalizing Medieval Art Education: A Roundtable,” on February 25, 2023 at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in Washington, D.C. His participation, titled “The Global Middle Ages: Syllabi in Three Case Studies,” was part of two sessions in Honor of Lawrence Nees, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Art at the University of Delaware, and an early proponent of the geographic expansion of the discipline beyond Western Europe. Kopta's presentation discussed Tyler's curricular development of its pre-modern art history course offerings from an intersectional perspective.
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