Athienou Archaeological Project Turns 25
Professor Derek Counts is Associate Director of the Athienou Archaeological Project again this summer in Athienou, Cyprus.
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ARTHIST 499 Visits the Milwaukee Public Museum
Associate Lecturer Jocelyn Boor’s ARTHIST 499: Ad Hoc: Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East course visited the the new exhibit,Crossroads of Civilization, at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
Counts Co-organizes NEH-sponsored Workshop
Derek Counts (Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in AH) is co-organizer of an NEH-sponsored workshop looking at mobile computing in archaeology, the emergence of born-digital data, and the future of ‘paperless’ field projects: Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology.
New Article by Professor Counts
Professor Derek Counts’ article “Myth into art: foreign impulses and local responses in archaic Cypriot sanctuaries” examines a series of sculptural representations of the triple-bodied monster “Geryon” (of Greek mythological fame) in Cypriot sanctuaries of the Archaic and Classical periods (ca. 750-325 BCE).
Paint Like an Egyptian 2014
Using ancient techniques as much as possible, students in Associate Lecturer Jocelyn Boor’s ARTHIST 315: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt constructed paintbrushes, ground natural pigments, drew a square grid, and recreated ancient Egyptian tomb paintings on papyrus.
Art History Featured in L&S In-Focus
The Department of Art History was featured in the October 2014 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.
Mummy Visits ARTHIST 315
On Tuesday, October 21, Richard Hedderman, an educator at the Milwaukee Public Museum, visited Jocelyn Boor’s ARTHIST 315: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt with “Mummy Secrets Unwrapped.”