News
Friday, April 6th
Jonathan Walz (PhD 2010), director of curatorial affairs and curator of American Art at The Columbus Museum is Columbus, Georgia, will be co-curating a major retrospective on Alma Thomas, who is best-known for her abstract compositions created while she lived in Washington DC... [more]
Tuesday, February 13th
The Department is honored to announce the establishment of the biennial Marjorie S. Venit Memorial Lecture in Ancient Mediterranean Art History and/or Archaeology. Made possible by a generous provision by Dr. Venit, who sadly passed away in 2017, and her family, this lecture series will bring to campus distinguished scholars to discuss their work and issues in the Ancient Mediterranean world. The... [more]
Tuesday, February 13th
All undergraduates who have taken 300 or 400-level courses in the Department and have written a research paper on an artist or particular work of art and who would like to present it at a scholarly symposium, please consider submitting your research! Interested students should submit a clean electronic copy to" ASinger4@umd.edu no later than Monday, March... [more]
Tuesday, January 23rd
Professor Jason Kuo has curated an exhibition, The Poet's Brush: Chinese Ink Paintings by Lo Ch'ing, which opens February 1 with a reception at 5 pm at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Professor Kuo has been interested for many years in the work of this... [more]
Monday, January 22nd
Raino Isto has curated an exhibition - False Monarchy - that will open January 31st at the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland. False Monarchy ... [more]
Monday, January 22nd
Michael Vetter has curated Progress and Harmony for Mankind: Art and Technology circa 1970, which will open January 31 (through April 6, 2018) at the University of Maryland Art Gallery. The exhibition focuses on the theme of American artists blending art and technology in the years around 1970. Major lenders to this exhibition include the Estate of David Tudor, the Los Angeles County... [more]
Tuesday, January 16th
Grace Poley ('20), a major in the Department has been awarded the James G. Stemler Study Abroad Scholarship from Alpha Lambda Delta, a National Honor Society for First-Year Students, for study in Italy.
Congratulations Grace and buon viaggio!
Thursday, December 14th
Professor Emerita Renée Ater has been awarded a NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication for her project, Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement, one of 74 Fellowship grants awarded nationwide this year totaling $3.5 million. For more on the grants and fellowship awards, see... [more]
Thursday, December 14th
Dr. Aneta Georgievska-Shine contributed an essay to the catalog of a highly-regarded exhibition on the art of Peter Paul Rubens, Kraft der Verwandlung (Power of Transformation), that is on view in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and which will travel to the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. This show and the catalog focus on Rubens's creative process. in particular is emulation of the... [more]
Thursday, November 30th
Cecilia Wichmann, who completed a master's degree in Art History in the Department, with a specialization in Contemporary Art & Theory, has been named Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In this position Cecilia will specialize in Research, Collections, and Local... [more]
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