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Art Institute of Chicago Tour

On Friday, May 13, Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany and students from her course, ARTHIST 730: Gender and Art in the Spanish Empire, 1550-1750, visited the Art Institute of Chicago.

Schaefer Talks at MAM

On Thursday, May 12, 2016, Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah C. Schaefer gave a Salon Series Talk at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Story and Bina photograph tapestry from the UWM Art Collection

Curator Christa Story and UWM Art History Gallery Undergraduate Intern April Bina take great care in hanging a ca. 1600 French Altar Frontal in the UWM Art History Gallery.

Tiffany Talks at MAM

On April 28, Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany presented a Milwaukee Art Museum Salon Series talk on Francisco de Zurbarán’s Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb.

Art Exposé: April Bina

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, 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. April… Read More

Painter Talks to ARTHIST 364: Modern Painting II

On Wednesday, May 4th, Shane Walsh an artist and lecturer in Painting & Drawing at the Peck School of the Arts, spoke to Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer’s ARTHIST 364: Modern Painting II: 1900 to the Present. Walsh first spoke… Read More

Lomenzo accesses African Art Collection

Spero Lomenzo, an undergraduate working toward a degree in creative writing, visited the UWM Art History Gallery on Thursday, April 21st to view African Masks in the UWM Art Collection.

Fontaine Interns at UWM Special Collections

Graduate student Cameron Fontaine is interning at the UWM Special Collections in the UWM Library for the Spring 2016 semester.

Brazeau brings class to the Milwaukee Art Museum

On Wednesday April 27, Linda Brazeau, Director, UWM Art Collection and Galleries, presented a talk to her Art History class, ARTHIST 470 Topics in American Art: Re-defining American Landscape: Nature, Mind, Body at the Milwaukee Art Museum, while touring the exhibition, Nature and the American Vision, which features nearly fifty masterpieces from the New-York Historical Society’s acclaimed collection of landscape paintings.

Surrealist Fair

On April 27, Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer’s ARTHIST 465: Dada and Surrealist Art students participated in a SurrealistFair, held at the UWM Art History Gallery.