Graduate student Cameron Fontaine and his cat, Pippin, were featured in the UW-Milwaukee Special Collection post series “A Special Collections Caturday” on Saturday, October 15.
On Monday, October 3, Assistant Professor Kay Wells and the students in her course ARTHIST 750: Revival! Visualizing the American Past visited the Chipstone Foundation in Fox Point to discuss the collecting and display of early-American antiques with Curator Sarah Carter.
On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.
Former Visiting Assistant Professor, Matthew Francis Rarey, donated to the Adopt Art program to help preserve and protect an African object from the UWM Art Collection that he discussed in his courses while at UWM.
October 7-8, graduate student and teaching assistant, Evan McAllister, attended the 34th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium at Florida State University and presented his paper “Juana of Austria and Descalzas Reales: Female Habsburg Identity through Devotion.”
On Saturday, October 8, Assistant Professor Kay Wells delivered a paper “Marketing Modernism in Postwar America: The Print Renaissance, the Tapestry Revival, and the Craft of Reproduction” at the Fourth Biennial Symposium of the Association of Historians of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Art City column wrote an article about Thomas Ferrella’s work, including his piece in graduate student Pamela Caserta Hugdahl’s thesis exhibition, ECO Ephemeral.
Art History MA alumna (1994), Virginia Jones Maher, published a new book, Selected Artists of Door County, as part of The Peninsula Bookman’s 3rd Annual Festival of Books and Authors.
In ARTHIST349: American Postmodernism 1960-2000, Department of Art History Senior Lecturer, Linda Brazeau, presented and discussed examples of Op, Neo-Dada, and Pop art culled from the UWM Art Collection, including Victor Vasarely’s Etude-Sur-Ris, Robert Rauschenberg’s Cardbird, Clause Oldenberg’s Spoon Pier, and Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can Shopping Bag.
Alumni from the 2012-2013 ARTHIST 703/704: Introduction to Museum Studies courses donated to the Adopt Art program to preserve two objects from their course exhibition, Fragments of Faith. They adopted a 12th-13th century, silver gilt, German chalice from the Charles Bolles… Read More