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.
Prof. Derek B. Counts was recently awarded a $100,000.00 grant from UWM’s Research Growth Initiative program.
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.
The Department of Art History was featured in the March 2016 edition of the College of Letters & Science In Focus monthly newsletter.
Assistant Professor Kay Wells’s History of Modern Design class (ARTHIST 368) explored green furniture from the Chipstone Foundation on Wednesday, March 24th.
This semester the Haggerty Museum of Art is hosting three outstanding interns from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Abby Armstrong and Marianna Cecere are both students in UWM’s Department of Art History Program, while Adam Meister is a student in the ArtsECO program run by UWM’s Peck School of the Arts Department of Art & Design.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.
On March 7th, Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer’s ARTHIST 465: Dada and Surrealist Art students participated in a Dada Fair, held at the UWM Art History Gallery.
Collection Spotlight! This monthly news item highlights an object from the permanent collection with descriptive and interpretive information.
Author: K.L.H. Wells, Assistant Professor Published in: Journal of the History of Collections (257-277) Published by: Oxford University Press Year: 2015 More information