Aschenbrenner Lectures at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Senior Lecturer Michael Aschenbrenner presented three lectures to the Milwaukee Art Museum docents throughout the Spring 2015 semester.
May 2015
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.
Art Exposé: Nick Pipho
On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé. Art Exposé is a monthly gallery talk that exhibits a selected object from the UWM Art Collection on the second Tuesday of every month from 1-2 PM.
2014 Lawrence R. Hoey Memorial Prize
The 2014 Hoey Prize winner, Emily Cornish, accepted the award at the reading of her paper, “Luminism: Shedding Light on a a Contested Iteration of the American Landscape” on Monday, May 11, 2015.
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.
Choreographic Arrhythmias
Author: Jennifer Johung, Associate Professor Published in: Leonardo Vol.47, No. 2 Year: 2015 More information
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 102 Views Le Corbusier and Chagall
This week Assistant Professor Kay Wells’ ARTHIST 102: Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture discussion sections visited the UWM Art History Gallery to view works from the UWM Art Collection.
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.