Former Visiting Assistant Professor, Matthew Francis Rarey, donated to the Adopt Art program to help preserve and protect an African object from the UWM Art Collection that he discussed in his courses while at UWM.
October 7-8, graduate student and teaching assistant, Evan McAllister, attended the 34th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium at Florida State University and presented his paper “Juana of Austria and Descalzas Reales: Female Habsburg Identity through Devotion.”
On Saturday, October 8, Assistant Professor Kay Wells delivered a paper “Marketing Modernism in Postwar America: The Print Renaissance, the Tapestry Revival, and the Craft of Reproduction” at the Fourth Biennial Symposium of the Association of Historians of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Art City column wrote an article about Thomas Ferrella’s work, including his piece in graduate student Pamela Caserta Hugdahl’s thesis exhibition, ECO Ephemeral.
Art History MA alumna (1994), Virginia Jones Maher, published a new book, Selected Artists of Door County, as part of The Peninsula Bookman’s 3rd Annual Festival of Books and Authors.
In ARTHIST349: American Postmodernism 1960-2000, Department of Art History Senior Lecturer, Linda Brazeau, presented and discussed examples of Op, Neo-Dada, and Pop art culled from the UWM Art Collection, including Victor Vasarely’s Etude-Sur-Ris, Robert Rauschenberg’s Cardbird, Clause Oldenberg’s Spoon Pier, and Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can Shopping Bag.
Alumni from the 2012-2013 ARTHIST 703/704: Introduction to Museum Studies courses donated to the Adopt Art program to preserve two objects from their course exhibition, Fragments of Faith. They adopted a 12th-13th century, silver gilt, German chalice from the Charles Bolles… Read More
The Department of Art History was featured in the September 2016 edition of the College of Letters & Science In Focus monthly newsletter.
On Thursday, September 29, Adopt Art donor, Ellen Kowalczyk joined Linda Brazeau, Director, UWM Art Collection and Galleries and Christa Story, Curator, UWM Art Collection to view preservation treatment of her “Adopt Art” selection, Francisco Goya’s Folly on the Wings, an etching and aquatint.
On Tuesday, September 27, UWM Art Collection Director, Linda Brazeau, and Curator, UWM Art Collection, Christa Story gave a behind the scenes tour of the UWM Art History Gallery and the UWM Art Collection (UWMAC) vault to Friends of Art History (FOAH) members at the Art Connoisseur level.