News

Tiffany elected to Fine Arts Society board

On Sept. 15, Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany was elected to the board of the Fine Arts Society of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Goundie sculpture on loan to Peck Alumni Exhibition

From now until November 3, you can see George Goundie’s sculpture, Head of a Dancer (1959), on loan from the UWM Art Collection, in Continuum 2016: Sculpture.

ARTHIST 700 visits UWM Art History Gallery for student presentations

On Tuesday, September 20, Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany brought her ARTHIST 700: Proseminar graduate seminar to the UWM Art History Gallery for tow student presentations on objects from the UWM Art Collection.  Ben Teel, a graduate student in Film Studies,… Read More

A Welcomed Visitor to the UWM Art Collection

Director of the UWM Art Collection, Linda Brazeau, and Curator, Christa Story welcomed Lisa Benjamin, the granddaughter of UWM Art Collection donors, Blanche and Henry Rosenberg, to view art in the Rosenberg Collection which includes work by early modern masters such as Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky, Klee, Moore, Arp, Dubuffet and others.

Recent Acquisition from the Mahers

The UWM Art Collection has received another gift of art from Virginia and J. Thomas Maher III.

Welcome New Fall 2016 Graduate Students!

The UWM Department of Art History welcomes three new graduate students to the MA program this fall!

Hendrickson publishes essay in Fwd: Museums journal

An essay entitled “Human Rights Abuses Committed by the Guggenheim and Louvre Museums on Saadiyat Island” written by graduate student Kara Hendrickson has been published in the first edition of the Fwd: Museums journal.

ECO Ephemeral Opens on the UWM Campus

On Friday, September 19, ECO Ephemeral, a thesis exhibition curated by graduate student Pamela Caserta Hugdahl opened.

Story gives gallery talk at Wright Museum of Art

On Tuesday, September 13, Christa Story, Curator, UWM Art Collection, gave a gallery talk at the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit College in conjunction with the UWM Art Collection traveling exhibition Rembrandt Etchings: States, Fakes, and Restrikes.

ARTHIST 700 visits the UWM Art History Gallery

On Tuesday, September 13, Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany brought her ARTHIST 700: Proseminar graduate seminar to the UWM Art History Gallery and had a student present on an object from the UWM Art Collection.