Art Exposé: Richard Leson
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.
Check out the photos of the Jean Arp and Barbara Hepworth bronzes before and after the conservation work by Terri White from the Milwaukee Art Museum.
The 2016 Hoey Prize winner, Abby Armstrong, accepted the award at the reading of her paper, “Performance and/or Performativity in Yates Thompson 13: Constructing the Medieval Female Identity” on Tuesday, May 2, 2017.
Milwaukee Art Museum Object Conservator, Terri White, visited the Department of Art History today to perform conservation on four sculptures in the UWM Art Collection.
Students in Associate Lecturer David Pacifico’s ARTHIST 371: African Art compare UWM Art Collection objects from Nigeria’s Cross River region, Cameroon, and the Congo basin in order to detect and generalize about patterns in African art so as to prepare for their final paper.
Graduate alumna Sara Rich’s recently published book, Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships: Allure, Lore and Metaphor in the Mediterranean Near East, is now out from Archaeopress.
On Thursday, March 30, Tanya Tiffany presented a paper — “Divine Consecration or Demonic Possession: Estefanía de la Encarnación and Miraculous Images in Seventeenth-Century Spain” – at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in Chicago.
Students examine pre-Hispanic ceramic vessels from Colombia and Ecuador in ARTHIST 372: Art of the Incas and their Ancestors, taught by associate lecturer David Pacifico.
Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer’s ARTHIST 463: Cubism and Its Inheritance class viewed six of the thirteen plates from Pablo Picasso’s illustrated etchings from Le chef d’oeuvre inconnu by Honore de Balzac housed in the UWM Art Collection.
On Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 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.