Alumni adopt art from UWM Art Collection

Alumni from the 2012-2013 ARTHIST 703/704: Introduction to Museum Studies courses donated to the Adopt Art program to preserve two objects from their course exhibition, Fragments of Faith.  They adopted a 12th-13th century, silver gilt, German chalice from the Charles Bolles… Read More

A Day with Rauschenberg!

On Thursday and Friday, May 7 and 8, graduate students from ARTHIST 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II, welcomed kindergarten students from Maryland Avenue Montessori School to the UWM Art History Gallery to view Global Matters: Rauschenberg Print Media 1968-1975.

ARTHIST 704 Screenprints

On Tuesday, May, 4, Associate Professor Richard Leson’s colloquium, ARTHIST 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II, visited Jessica Meuninck-Ganger (Assistant Professor, Print and Narrative Forms Area Head) in the Peck School of the Arts to learn the mechanics of Rauschenberg’s approach to printing.

Bendiner Gives Gallery Talk

Kenneth Bendiner, UWM Professor Emeritus of Art History, returned to UWM on Thursday, April 30, 2015, to give a lecture on Rauschenberg in the UWM Art History Gallery.

Murrell Interviews Art Museum Studies for Shepherd Express

Katherine Murrell, Lecturer for the UWM Department of Art History and an MA alumna, interviewed graduate students from Associate Professor Richard Leson’s ARTHIST 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II colloquium for her Shepherd Express show “Look at This.”

ARTHIST 704 Tours Growing Power

In keeping with the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg’s environmental advocacy and to mark the conclusion of the exhibition Global Matters: Rauschenberg Print Media 1968-1975, graduate students in Associate Professor Richard Leson’s ARTHIST 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II, the department’s biennial colloquium on Art Museum Studies, visited Growing Power in west Milwaukee.

Global Matters Opens in the UWM Art History Gallery

Global Matters: Rauschenberg Print Media 1968-1975 opened in the UWM Art History Gallery on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

Art Museum Studies Installs Upcoming Exhibition

Associate Professor Richard Leson’s ARTHIST 704 Introduction to Art Museum Studies II colloquium installed their upcoming exhibition, Global Matters: Rauschenberg Print Media 1968-1975, in the UWM Art History Gallery on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.

Students Learn Collection Management

Graduate students in ARTHIST 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II get one-on-one collection management training from the Curator, UWM Art Collection, Christa Story.