ARTHIST 720 Visits Haggerty Museum of Art
Graduate students in ARTHIST 720: Colloquium in Medieval Art and Architecture: Women and the Book visited the Haggerty Museum of Art on Monday, February 23, 2015.
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Severson Attends Newberry Library Conference
Jordan Severson, a third year graduate student and Advanced Opportunity Program Fellow, attended the 2015 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the Newberry Library in Chicago January 22-24, 2015.
Counts Featured in UWM Research Report
Professor Derek Counts was featured in the UWM 2015 Research Report.
Counts Co-organizes NEH-sponsored Workshop
Derek Counts (Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in AH) is co-organizer of an NEH-sponsored workshop looking at mobile computing in archaeology, the emergence of born-digital data, and the future of ‘paperless’ field projects: Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology.
Rarey Presents at CAA
On February 14, Matthew Francis Rarey presented his paper, “Bolsas de Mandinga and the Art of Survival in the African-Portuguese World” as part of the special panel “The Talisman: A Critical Genealogy,” organized by Yael Rice of Amherst College and Benjamin Anderson of Cornell University, at the 103rd Conference of the College Art Association in New York.
UWM Faculty/Staff Christian Network Visits Gallery
Graduate student Laura Sims gave a tour of her MA thesis exhibition, Reflections on a Collection: The UWM Icons Revisited Fifty Years Later, to members of the UWM Faculty and Staff Christian Network on Tuesday, February 24, 2015.
Brazeau Shows O’Keefe in Class
Lecturing on the topic of Georgia O’Keeffe to her ARTHIST 470 Topics in American Art class, ModernISMS 1900-1940, Senior Lecturer Linda Brazeau discussed the influence of Kandinsky’s “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” on O’Keeffe’s early work with a painting by the artist, Untitled (Abstraction), 1918, from the UWM Art Collection.
Leson Attends Conference in Jerusalem
Associate Professor Richard Leson is attending a conference in Jerusalem this week, February 23-26, 2015.
Rhyner Organizes Panel at CAA Conference
Stephanie Rhyner, a second year graduate student and teaching assistant, went with graduate students Anna Kupiecki and Leigh Wilcox, to the 103rd Annual College Art Association (CAA) Conference in New York from February 11 – February 14, 2015.
Anderson uses Hayes Award to Research in DC and Philly
Graduate student Cortney Anderson is currently writing her thesis on Mary Cassatt, her paintings and pastels of women performing needlecraft (particularly that of her sister in the painting Lydia at a Tapestry Frame), and their engagement with Medievalism.