Art History Graduate Student Presentations II

Art History Graduate Students Olivia Lonetti, Kelsey Kuehn, and Robert Olive Little Jackson presented on three objects from the UWM Art Collection in Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany’s Proseminar course Tuesday, September 26th. This week the grad students examined Rembrandt’s Self Portrait, Kathe Kollwitz’s… Read More

Art History Graduate Student Presentations

Art History Graduate Students Samantha Maloney and Jeremy Schrupp presented on two objects from the UWM Art Collection in Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany’s Proseminar course Tuesday, September 19th. Students were asked to conduct independent research on an object related to… Read More

Cornish used Hayes Award to Present Research at Australian and New Zealand Studies Conference

Graduate Student Emily Cornish is writing her thesis on the place of Oceanic tattoo in Lisa Reihana’s In Pursuit of Venus [infected] and Joseph Dufour et Cie’s Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique under the supervision of Matthew Rarey and Associate Professor Jennifer Johung.

ARTHIST 365 Peers through a Stereoscope

While exploring the ways that photography became part of everyday culture, students in Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer’s ARTHIST 365: History of Photography class peered through an antique stereoscope at stereographic photographs, some of which were nearly 150 years old.

ARTHIST 760 Prints Lithographs

Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer’s ARTHIST 760: Modern Print Culture took a break from discussing the history of prints last Monday to experience a demonstration of lithographic printmaking.

Art Exposé: Elissa Peterson

On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.

ARTHIST 365 views Photography from UWM Art Collection

On Wednesday, September 16th, Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer’s class, ARTHIST 365: History of Photography, viewed several photographs from the UWM Art Collection in the UWM Art History Gallery.

Welcome New Graduate Students!

The UWM Department of Art History welcomes six new graduate students to the MA program!

MA Alumna, Michelle Grabner, Featured in L&S In Focus

The Department of Art History was featured in the July 2015 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.

Alumni Spotlight: María C. Blas Pérez – MA 2012

The UWM Department of Art History opened many doors for me. Because UWM participates in the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, I had the opportunity to present my MA research at the Newberry’s annual conference in Chicago. I… Read More