Stephanie Rhyner, a second year graduate student and teaching assistant, presented at the Fifth Annual Feminist Art History Conference in Washington D.C., October 31-November 2.

Department of Art History Lecturer and MA graduate Katherine Murrell has been organizing and installing Extraordinary and Ordinary: Folk Art in the UWM Art Collection in the UWM Art History Gallery all week with the help of Linda Brazeau, Christa Story, and Nora Jimenez.

Last Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Art Net News named Michelle Grabner, a graduate of the MA program, one of the 100 most powerful women in art.

On Wednesday, October 8, Chadwick Noellert, an MA graduate student in the Peck School of the Arts gave a lecture on the process of etching in conjunction with the exhibition Unbelievable Cities: Etchings of Whistler, Haden, and Pennell.

Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Rarey brought a twentieth century Yoruba beaded tunic from Nigeria into his ARTHIST 371:African Art class.

On Thursday, September 18, the Department of Art History held its first Undergraduate Orientation hosted by Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel.

Unbelievable Cites: Etchings of Whistler, Haden, and Pennell opened on Thursday, September 11 in the UWM Art History. Graduate student and curator Leigh Wilcox gave a talk to almost fifty attendees.

Teaching Assistants Matt Rogan and Kara Hendrickson are using the UWM Art Collection with weekly visits to the UWM Art History gallery to enhance the ARTHIST 102: Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture experience.