Orin Zahra, PhD candidate and Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, was featured in a CNN article on the exhibition Graciela Iturbide's Mexico on February 27, 2020.
From February 12 to February 15, department faculty members, graduate students, and one undergraduate major attended the College Art Association's 108th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL
In December 2019, Professor Elizabeth Childs delivered "Gauguin in Colonial Tahiti: Dream, Reality and Encounter" at the National Gallery, London
In Early December 2019, Professor Wallace accompanied five graduate students to Washington DC with the primary goal to see the exceptional exhibitions of Andrea del Verrocchio and Alonso Berruguete at the National Gallery of Art.
For the Center for the Humanities, John Klein marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henri Matisse on December 31 with a meditation on the “slow looking” the artist’s work rewards.
As part of the course "Paul Gauguin in Context," a group of students traveled to London over fall break for an immersive experience studying the artist's work and life.
Max Valsamas, 2020 PhD in Art History and Archaeology, has been appointed Curatorial Assistant - European Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
Dr. Kate Harnish (PhD 2019) was appointed as Curatorial Assistant at the Pulitzer Foundation of Arts, St. Louis, in May 2019.
After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Capidomonte in Naples, Italy, Dr. James Anno (Ph.d. 2017) became the Associate Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in September, 2019.
Doctoral students Kirsten Marples and Allison Perelman both delivered public gallery talks at the Saint Louis Art Museum this past month, in conjunction with the exhibition "Paul Gauguin : The Art of Invention."
Dr. Ila Sheren will give the talk "Border Art for a Border Ecology" at the Liquid Borders/Fronteras Liquidas Conference hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature
Dr. Ila Sheren will be giving a talk, "Human, Nonhuman, Both or Neither? Bear 71 as Border Crosser" at the New Media Caucus Symposium at the University of Michigan on September 20