Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the Mexican Revolution, featuring works from Manuel Carrillo, Leopoldo Méndez, Diego Rivera, Francisco Toledo, and more.

This show was curated by the ARTHIST 704: Intro to Art Museum Studies II class, this collaborative course teaches Art History graduate students the methodologies and technologies of art museum work, including collection management, exhibition organization, catalogue production, and educational programming.

• On view from December 5, 2024 through to February 20, 2025
  The opening reception will be held on December 5th
  from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
• Remarks at 5:30pm on 12/5/24
• UWM Emile H. Mathis Gallery
  Mitchell Hall 170
  3203 N. Downer Ave.
  Milwaukee, WI 53211
• Gallery Hours: Monday – Thursday 10am to 4pm, December 9-12, 2024

Gallery will be closed between the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters, December 15, 2024 through January 20, 2025.

The 2024 Friends of Art History Lecture marks the 60th anniversary of the Department of Art History at UWM. Our speaker is Professor Christina Maranci of Harvard University (Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of History of Art and Architecture), where she holds the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies. Professor Maranci taught in our own department from 2001 until 2008, and we are thrilled to welcome her back to Milwaukee.

Professor Maranci is the author of four books and over 100 articles and essays on medieval Armenian art and architecture, including most recently, the Art of Armenia (Oxford UP, 2018). Her 2015 monograph, Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Brepols, 2015) won the Karen Gould Prize for Art History from the Medieval Academy of America and as well as the Sona Aronian Prize for best Armenian Studies monograph from the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). She has also published op eds. and essays in the Wall Street Journal, Apollo, The Conversation, and Hyperallergic, and has been featured on National Public Radio’s Open Source with Christopher Lydon. For her work, she received in 2024 the Moses Khorenatsi Medal from the President of the Republic of Armenia.

Image: Lectionary of Het’um II, 1286. Yerevan, Matenadaran, MS 979, fol. 293r. Decorated chapter heading. Photo: Matenadaran.

Additional support provided by the local chapter of AIA (Archaeological Institute of America)

Event is free and open to the public.

3203 N. Downer Ave. | Milwaukee, WI 53211

Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at UWM honors the fiftieth anniversary of the foundational bequest of the Blanche and Henry Rosenberg Art Collection to UWM. In 1974, the UWM Art Collection was much like the young university itself: small, impressive, and growing. With this significant gift, the artwork on campus more than doubled in number and was codified into one collection that highlighted modern art of the twentieth century.

This exhibition presents the personal aesthetic interests of the Rosenbergs while also considering collecting trends of the mid-twentieth century. The breadth and depth of the collection is especially significant when evaluating their decision to bequeath their collection to UWM to support teaching and learning. Major modern artists featured include Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Joan Miró, Ernst Kirchner, Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, Alexei Jawlensky, and more. Also presented are works by the donor, Blanche Rosenberg, who studied in the fine arts department here at UWM. Organized to showcase major art historical movements represented in the collection, this show underscores the ways this donation established a strong teaching collection here at UWM and honors the legacy of these impactful donors.

Curated by academic curator Leigh Mahlik, exhibition runs through November 14, 2024.

All are welcome. The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, Mitchell Hall Rm 170 is open 10-4 Monday-Thursday and is always free to the public.

The Art Exposé are 15-minute presentations in which Gallery Staff, Faculty, or Gallery Interns discuss a mystery art object in the gallery collection. This is a wonderful opportunity to see the results of object-based learning and support our gallery team. Plus, you may see something new and exciting you never knew we had!

Tuesday April 9th – Morgan Moore, Mathis Gallery Graduate Curatorial Intern will present at 1pm in the Mathis Gallery.

Public lecture by Dr. Jennifer Robertston, Professor emerita, Departments of Anthropology and Art History, Michigan State University