Two Handled Jar Syrio-Palestinian Late Imperial Rome (ca. 4th-5th C CE) Blown glass with attachments UWM Art Collection, Gift of Edward P. Strothman, 1979.012.02 This small (H-3.5” x W-3.625” x L-3″) Imperial Roman glass jar was acquired by the Emily… Read More

Please join us Thursday, March 10th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Off the Press: Exploring Reproducible War Art curated by Emily Hankins. This will be our first graduate thesis exhibition since 2020!  The exhibit will be open… Read More

Please join the UWM Department of Art History on Wednesday, November 10th at 5pm for a book talk by Art History Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer, who will discuss her recently published monograph Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination (Oxford, 2021). The event… Read More

Abby Armstrong Check, Ph.D. Student and guest lecturer in the Department of Art History this fall, recently participated in the International Center for Medieval Art’s Oral History Project, interviewing Art Historian Mary B. Shepard. Check out Episode 8 here and… Read More

Late Ming Dynasty Cup Unknown Chinese artist 17th century Blanc de chine porcelain UWM Art Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Krikorian, 1987.018.13 In a scene from one of my favorite movies, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,… Read More

Dilmus Hall (American, 1900-1987) Abraham & Isaac, 1984 Colored Pencil and Ink on Paper UWM Art Collection, Gift of Emile H. Mathis II, 1993.019.07 Dilmus Hall was an American self-taught artist from Georgia who made sculptures and 2D works throughout… Read More

Please join us in congratulating UWM Art History MA alumna Dr. Sara Rich on her forthcoming publication, ‘Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny.’ Dr. Rich is a maritime archaeologist, art historian, artist, and author of speculative fiction. She is… Read More