The 2014 Hoey Prize winner, Emily Cornish, accepted the award at the reading of her paper, “Luminism: Shedding Light on a a Contested Iteration of the American Landscape” on Monday, May 11, 2015.

On Tuesday, May, 4, Associate Professor Richard Leson’s colloquium, ARTHIST 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II, visited Jessica Meuninck-Ganger (Assistant Professor, Print and Narrative Forms Area Head) in the Peck School of the Arts to learn the mechanics of Rauschenberg’s approach to printing.

Kenneth Bendiner, UWM Professor Emeritus of Art History, returned to UWM on Thursday, April 30, 2015, to give a lecture on Rauschenberg in the UWM Art History Gallery.

Katherine Murrell, Lecturer for the UWM Department of Art History and an MA alumna, interviewed graduate students from Associate Professor Richard Leson’s ARTHIST 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II colloquium for her Shepherd Express show “Look at This.”

This week Assistant Professor Kay Wells’ ARTHIST 102: Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture discussion sections visited the UWM Art History Gallery to view works from the UWM Art Collection.

Graduate students Kara Hendrickson and Leigh Wilcox attended Professor Yevgeniya Kaganovich’s grow workshop at UWM Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA) on Friday 24, 2015.

Senior Lecturer Michael Ashenbrenner’s ARTHIST 101: Ancient and Medieval Art and Architecture discussion sections visited the UWM Special Collections this week to view facsimiles of famous 7th-9th century illuminated manuscripts with teaching assistants Leigh Wilcox and Kara Hendrickson.