Congrats to the Spring 2017 MA Graduate!

The Department of Art History congratulates the following Spring 2017 MA graduate!

2016 Lawrence R. Hoey Memorial Prize

The 2016 Hoey Prize winner, Abby Armstrong, accepted the award at the reading of her paper, “Performance and/or Performativity in Yates Thompson 13: Constructing the Medieval Female Identity” on Tuesday, May 2, 2017.

Armstrong uses Hayes Award to research in Laon

Graduate Student Abby Armstrong is writing her thesis on the Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Chapel in Laon Cathedral, in Laon, France, by the late medieval woman, Joan of Flanders, under the supervision of Associate Professor Richard Leson. Thanks to the generous contribution of the Jeffrey R. Hayes Award, she traveled to France this past January to visit the chapel in Laon.

Armstrong participates in Graduate Seminar at Newberry Library

This semester, graduate student and teaching assistant, Abby Armstrong, has been attending a Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies ten-week Graduate seminar, entitled “Gender, Bodies, and the Body Politic in Medieval Europe”, at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL.

Armstrong exhibit featured on NARM

Graduate student and teaching assistant Abby Armstrong’s recent exhibition, “Religion and Neo-medievalism in Roualt’s Miserere”, curated during her time as an intern with Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art, was mentioned by the North American Reciprocal Museum Association (NARM)’s Facebook page and “Featured Exhibitions” Pinterest board on October 24, 2016.

2016-2017 Art History TAs

The Department of Art History is pleased to introduce the 2016-2017 teaching assistants.

UWM Art Collection icon on loan to the Haggerty Museum of Art

On Thursday, August 18, Religion and Neo-medievalism in Rouault’s Miserere opened at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University.

A Glimpse at the Life of an Intern

Abby Armstrong has been a curatorial intern at Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art this spring semester.

Armstrong and Cecere in the Haggerty Museum of Art Newsletter

This semester the Haggerty Museum of Art is hosting three outstanding interns from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Abby Armstrong and Marianna Cecere are both students in UWM’s Department of Art History Program, while Adam Meister is a student in the ArtsECO program run by UWM’s Peck School of the Arts Department of Art & Design.

2015-2016 Art History TAs

The Department of Art History is pleased to introduce the 2015-2016 Art History teaching assistants: