Meet Leigh Mahlik
Welcome to our newest departmental staff member, Leigh Mahlik, who begins today, January 3, 2017, as Associate Academic Curator.
UWM Art Collection
Art Exposé: David Pacifico
On Tuesday, December 13, 2016, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.
Siercks adopts art from UWM Art Collection
Dan Siercks adopted multiple objects from the the UWM Art Collection Adopt Art program in honor of his wife, art history BA 2011/MA 2013 alumna, Elizabeth Siercks.
ARTHIST 700 presents on objects from UWM Art Collection
On Tuesday, October 11, Associate Professor Tanya Tiffany’s ARTHIST 700: Proseminar visited the UWM Art History Gallery for student presentations on objects from the UWM Art Collection.
Art Exposé: Ying Wang
On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted Art Exposé.
Former Visiting Assistant Professor adopts art from UMW Art Collection
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.
ARTHIST 349 views art from UWM Art Collection
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 adopt art from UWM Art Collection
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
Art History Featured in L&S In Focus
The Department of Art History was featured in the September 2016 edition of the College of Letters & Science In Focus monthly newsletter.
Kolwalczyk views adopted UWM Art Collection object
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.