Counts has served at UWM for 20 years and is the co-director of the Athienou Archaeological Project in Cyprus. He has made many advancements in the field of archaeology and in 2020, was given the UWM Faculty University Distinguished Service… Read More
On Wednesday, Sept. 14th at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, UWM Honors College faculty member Hilary Snow will give a public lecture on Korean painting as part of the exhibition, “The Unbroken Line: Korean Landscape Painting Through the… Read More
Professor Sarah Schaefer co-curates exhibition, J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript, at the Haggerty Museum of Art. Exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with introductory essays by exhibition co-curators William M. Fliss, PhD and Sarah C. Schaefer, PhD. Video segment… Read More
Two Handled Jar Syrio-Palestinian Late Imperial Rome (ca. 4th-5th C CE) Blown glass with attachments UWM Art Collection, Gift of Edward P. Strothman, 1979.012.02 This small (H-3.5” x W-3.625” x L-3″) Imperial Roman glass jar was acquired by the Emily… Read More
We are happy to showcase the first newsletter of the research project AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700 (https://agenart.org/). AGENART is headed by Prof. María Cruz de Carlos Varona of the Universidad Autónoma… Read More
Please join the UWM Department of Art History on Wednesday, November 10th at 5pm for a book talk by Art History Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer, who will discuss her recently published monograph Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination (Oxford, 2021). The event… Read More
Congratulations to UWM Art History Professor Tanya Tiffany! She has been invited to speak at the VIII Seminario Internacional de Arte y Cultura en la Corte: Mujeres de corte y agencia artística en la España de los Habsburgo in Madrid… Read More
Abby Armstrong Check, Ph.D. Student and guest lecturer in the Department of Art History this fall, recently participated in the International Center for Medieval Art’s Oral History Project, interviewing Art Historian Mary B. Shepard. Check out Episode 8 here and… Read More
Late Ming Dynasty Cup Unknown Chinese artist 17th century Blanc de chine porcelain UWM Art Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Krikorian, 1987.018.13 In a scene from one of my favorite movies, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,… Read More