ARTHIST 102 views 19th Century Art
This week Assistant Professor Kay Wells’ ARTHIST 102: Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture discussion sections visited the UWM Art History Gallery to view works from the UWM Art Collection.
Faculty
Art History Featured in L&S In Focus
The Department of Art History was featured in the March 2015 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.
“Wierusz-Kowalski” Opens in the UWM Art History Gallery
Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski: Political Struggle and Metaphor opened in the UWM Art History Gallery on Monday, March 23, 2015.
Undergraduate Students View 18th Century Art
This week Assistant Professor Kay Wells’ ARTHIST 102: Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture discussion sections visited the UWM Art History Gallery to view works from the UWM Art Collection.
ARTHIST 720 Visits UWM Special Collections
Graduate students in Richard Leson’s ARTHIST 720: Colloquium in Medieval Art and Architecture: Women and the Book visited UWM Special Collections to view medieval manuscript facsimiles as well as sixteenth and seventeenth century original manuscripts on March 2, 2015.
Rarey Presents as part of Africology Seminar Series
Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Francis Rarey presented his talk “Insignificant Things: Assemblage, Occlusion, and the Power of Pouches in the Black Atlantic” as part of the UWM Department of Africology Seminar Series.
Counts Featured in UWM Research Report
Professor Derek Counts was featured in the UWM 2015 Research Report.
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.
Rarey Presents at CAA
On February 14, Matthew Francis Rarey presented his paper, “Bolsas de Mandinga and the Art of Survival in the African-Portuguese World” as part of the special panel “The Talisman: A Critical Genealogy,” organized by Yael Rice of Amherst College and Benjamin Anderson of Cornell University, at the 103rd Conference of the College Art Association in New York.
Leson Attends Conference in Jerusalem
Associate Professor Richard Leson is attending a conference in Jerusalem this week, February 23-26, 2015.