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.
News
A Glimpse at the Life of an Intern
Abby Armstrong has been a curatorial intern at Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art this spring semester.
2015 Lawrence R. Hoey Memorial Prize
The 2015 Hoey Prize winner, Marianna Cecere, accepted the award at the reading of her paper, “Knowledge and hubris: the Astronomers miniature in the Psalter of Blanche of Castile” on Wednesday, April 27, 2016.
Gorfinkel to give talk at Wayne State University
Associate Professor Elena Gorfinkel will be giving the annual Dennis Turner Memorial Lecture at Wayne State University on Friday, April 22, 2016.
Curators Conversations Spring 2016
On Friday April 15, 2016, Director of the UWMAC, Linda Brazeau and Christa Story, Curator of Collections, attended Curators Conversations organized by David Wells of Edgewood College and held for the first time at the Madison Public Library.
Art Exposé: Tanya Tiffany
On Tuesday, April 19, 2016, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.
Art Exhibition by UWM students visualizes realities of racism and inequality
College students put a contemporary human rights movement under the microscope in an exhibition of artwork produced as part of an honors class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Counts awarded a $100,000 grant from UWM’s Research Growth Initiative program
Prof. Derek B. Counts was recently awarded a $100,000.00 grant from UWM’s Research Growth Initiative program.
Cornish used Hayes Award to Present Research at Australian and New Zealand Studies Conference
Graduate Student Emily Cornish is writing her thesis on the place of Oceanic tattoo in Lisa Reihana’s In Pursuit of Venus [infected] and Joseph Dufour et Cie’s Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique under the supervision of Matthew Rarey and Associate Professor Jennifer Johung.
Art History Featured in L&S In Focus
The Department of Art History was featured in the March 2016 edition of the College of Letters & Science In Focus monthly newsletter.