Robert Olive Little Jackson, a Graduate Student in the Department of Art History, has been awarded the UWM Graduate School Advanced Opportunity Program Fellowship. The Fellowship has already assisted Rob in travels relating to his graduate research. Rob is currently… Read More
UWM Art History Graduate Student Youngchul Shin has researched and installed an exhibition on the UWM Library’s 4th Floor, entitled “Christ, Fully God and Fully Human.” Congratulations to Youngchul on this project! Christ, Fully God and Fully Human An exhibition… Read More
The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, together with the Art History Department, is pleased to announce that a portion of the UWM Art Collection is now available on Artstor! 1,800 images from the collection are now searchable on the Artstor Digital… Read More
UWM Art History graduate student, Youngchul Shin, had the opportunity to work with the “American Women Rebuilding France” exhibit at the UWM Golda Meir Library during the spring semester. The traveling exhibit came to UWM from the American Friends of… Read More
Join us at the Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery for two exciting, new graduate exhibitions: Defining Class Through Fashion: The Costume Prints of Wenceslaus Hollar, and Fluid Lines: Tracing Ryakuga-Shiki in Japan and France. Current Mathis Gallery hours are listed below. Beginning… Read More
Students in Krista Grensavitch’s History 192: Thinking with Things Freshman Seminar visited the Mathis Gallery Wednesday, February 28th to discuss ways we categorize objects and how they can defy those categories in different ways. Each student chose an object in the gallery… Read More
Students in Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer’s Intro to Prints and Printmaking: History and Techniques course visited the Peck School of the Arts intaglio printmaking studio last week. Students watched a demonstration by Savanna Brummel and had the opportunity to make their own etching… Read More
Students in Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany’s Graduate Seminar “Sex in the (Early Modern) City: Gender and Urban Space in the Spanish World” visited the Emile H. Mathis Gallery to view two UWM Art Collection pieces: Wenceslaus Hollar’s etching of A Spanish… Read More
The January 4th Milwaukee Art Museum Gallery Talk featured UWM Art History Department Assistant Professor Kay Wells and Wisconsin Conservatory of Music’s Meaghan Heinrich. Their talk discussed the relationship between art and music in early twentieth-century Paris as seen through… Read More
Assistant Professor Kay Wells recently published the article, “The ‘Merely Imitative Mood’: British Japonisme and Imperial Mimesis” in Volume 27 of 19th Century Studies. Here is a link to the journal’s most recently published article titles. Just follow the “Subscription” link on the left side of the page to find out more about subscribing to the ’19th Century Studies’ journal. http://english.selu.edu/ncs/current_volume.php