Graduate student Mirel Crumb recently presented her ongoing thesis research at SECAC 2023. SECAC is an academic conference that brings together art historians, art educators, museum professionals, and artists. This year’s conference had the theme of Crossroads and was held in Richmond, Virginia, from October 11th to 14th. Mirel’s presentation, “Max Arthur Cohn and the Rise of Screen Printing as a Fine Art” was a part of the panel session “New Research on 20th Century Art.” She presented findings about the early history of silkscreen printing and the National Serigraph Society gathered during a research trip this past summer to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and National Gallery of Art in D.C. and the NYPL Print Collection in New York City which was supported by a Jeffrey R. Hayes Graduate Research Award. Mirel Crumb is pursuing a coordinated MLIS/MA Art History degree and is working with the expansive collection of artworks by Max Arthur Cohn in the UWM Art Collection at the Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery. She is a 2023-2024 AOP Fellowship recipient and was able to fund her conference expenses through the AOP travel award.
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Mirel Crumb visiting the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA, during SECAC 2023