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 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
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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May 8, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma Holter published, "Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 20, 2022–February 23, 2023)" in Renaissance Studies online: 17 April 2023; forthcoming in volume 37, issue 3, 2023. You can find the review here: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.temple.edu/doi/10.1111/rest.128...
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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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