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May 6, 2019

Marlise Brown (PhD candidate, Art History) selected to participate in the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) hosts the seminar, which will be held this summer (2019) in New York. It is a two-week intensive program where participants attend workshops, meet with curators, directors, educators, and trustees from New York museums and cultural institutions. Each participant is paired with a curator in the city who will act as a mentor. Read More

April 25, 2019

Newly elected to Phi Beta Kappa!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Congratulations to the new inductees to Phi Beta Kappa (2019)! Maya Borrero (2019) Lindsey Gilbert (2020) Olivia Hosie (2019) Catharine Lautenbacker (2019) and an AH minor, Aron Skarzenski (Anthro, 2019) Read More

April 25, 2019

Hannah McCoy (BA anticipated, Art History) and Jessye Storey (BA anticipated, Art History/Communications) awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for the Summer Academy at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The program includes workshops,field trips, and networking events with museum professionals. At the end of the Academy, participants are invited to apply for the two-year Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, which matches them with a museum mentor and provides an internship and stipend. There are 17 Summer Awards annually.  Congratulations to both! Read More

April 11, 2019

Ali Printz (PhD student, Art History) to attend Emerging Curators Retreat and Casa Lu's Parque Hundido Residency

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Ali Printz will be attending the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) Emerging Curators Retreat. The leading scholar of the Retreat will be curator Jeffrey Deitch (formerly Director of MOCA, now an independent curator). She will then head to Mexico City for a residency at Casa Lu Parque Hundido, where she will be creating a new body of paintings based on the history and fabric of Mexico City. Read More

April 9, 2019

Dr. Erin Pauwels awarded two post-docs for her sabbatical leave

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Dr Erin Pauwels, who will be on leave AY 2019-2020, was awarded both the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Residence at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library (where she will be housed in a gardener's "cottage") and the Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship for research in American art and print culture from the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. Her research centers on the late 19th-century American photographer Napoleon Sarony. Read More

Joseph Kopta teaching at the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy
April 5, 2019

Joseph Kopta (PhD Candidate) awarded Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Joseph Kopta (PhD Candidate) has been awarded a two-year Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History) in Munich, Germany, supporting his dissertation research on the materiality of Byzantine manuscripts.   The Samuel H. Kress Foundation devotes its resources to advancing this history and conservation of European art from antiquity through the nineteenth century. It regularly awards six pre-doctoral Fellowships each year in the History of European art in association with one of six European host institutions.   Read More

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