Students in Assistant Professor Kay Wells’s Introduction to American Art class examined communion chalices and communion tokens from the UWM Art Collection this week! These 18th century items would have been used in Protestant communion ceremonies across the United Kingdom and… Read More

In the first Proseminar presentation of the semester, Art History Graduate Student Michael Lahti spoke on an object from the UWM Art Collection. Lahti examined Diego Rivera’s drawing “Girl Lighting Candle.” Students are asked to conduct independent research on an object related to weekly course… Read More

UW-Milwaukee Art History Department Assistant Professor Kay Wells will be speaking at the Art Institute of Chicago on Friday, September 28th. Her talk is titled ‘The Uncanny Design of the Thorne Miniature Rooms.’ During the 1930s, Narcissa Niblack Thorne created… Read More

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