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Prof. Gorfinkel to Give Keynote Address at Cinema and Media Studies Conference

Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel will be giving the keynote address at the University of Chicago’s Cinema and Media Studies 2015 Graduate Student Conference, Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen, on Friday, April 17, 2015.

Snow Attends Asian Studies Conference

Visiting Assistant Professor Hilary Snow presented at the annual Association for Asian Studies conference in Chicago on March 28, 2015.

Alumni Spotlight: Ashley Hussman – MA 2010

In December 2010 I graduated with an MA in Art History and a Certificate in Museum Studies. My thesis exhibition was Rural Tradition and Urban Change: The New Deal and Wisconsin Printmakers. During my time at UWM, I worked as… Read More

Interns in the UWM Art History Gallery

Spring 2015 UWM Art History Gallery Interns, Nick Pipho and Rob Bleeke II, learned the accession process today.

ARTHIST 102 views 19th Century Art

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.

Secretary (2002): Purple pose, indie masochism, bruised romance

Author: Elena Gorfinkel, Assistant Professor Published in: US Independent Film after 1989: Possible Films, edited by Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press Year: 2015 More information

Art History Featured in L&S In Focus

The Department of Art History was featured in the March 2015 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.

“Wierusz-Kowalski” Opens in the UWM Art History Gallery

Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski: Political Struggle and Metaphor opened in the UWM Art History Gallery on Monday, March 23, 2015.

ARTHIST 499 Visits the Milwaukee Public Museum

Associate Lecturer Jocelyn Boor’s ARTHIST 499: Ad Hoc: Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East course visited the the new exhibit,Crossroads of Civilization, at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Undergraduate Students View 18th Century Art

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.