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Tuesday, February 18th
The spring exhibition season at the University of Maryland got off with a rousing start at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, where Abby Eron, a PhD candidate in American Art in the Department, opened the exhibition that she has researched and curated the past two years as Curatorial Assistant in the Art Gallery. As the website for the Art Gallery states, the exhibition, "Across the Pane:... [more]
Monday, February 10th
Raino Isto, who graduated last year (spring 2019) from the Department with a PhD in modern and contemporary art in Eastern Europe and whose dissertation, "Monumental Endeavors: Sculpting History in Southeastern Europe, 1960-2016," received the Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award, continues to blaze new and exciting trails. In the space of a few months, Raino has been... [more]
Thursday, February 6th
Department alumna Marcie Wiggins (B.Ss 2014 Chemistry and Art History) recently completed her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Delaware (2019) and now is a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, where she is mastering the technique of x-ray flourescence to investigate objects in the university's collection. She also... [more]
Friday, January 17th
The Department is delighted to announce that Miguel Resendiz is the inaugural winner of the Mark H. Sandler Endowed Undergraduate Experience Award! This award provides annual funds for undergraduate students in the Department so that they may supplement and/or cover the financial costs associated with experiential learning opportunities such as internships and research or service learning.
Saturday, January 4th
At the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Ella Breden, a senior major in the Department, presented "Re-Inventing the (Potter's) Wheel: Modeling 3D Vessels from 2D Drawings" at the poster session, for which she earned First Runner-Up (out of thirty, mostly professional entrants). Ella's poster, on which she collaborated closely with Christian Cloke, Associate Director... [more]
Thursday, October 24th
It is with sadness that we must observe the passing of Dr. Marie Spiro, Associate Professor Emerita, Late Roman and Early Christian Art and Archaeology. A devoted scholar and teacher, Dr. Spiro was a lively and memorable presence for many years in the Department, combining her sharp eye and razor wit with years of field experience in the Mediterranean to expose students to the wonders of ancient-... [more]
Monday, October 21st
Monday, September 2nd
Thanks to an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad awarded by the Center for Advanced Studies in Visual Arts (CASVA), Abby Eron was able to travel this summer to Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland) and explore the landscapes, cityscapes, and cultural contexts of the turn of the twentieth-century Symbolist movement, which is the... [more]
Tuesday, August 27th
Bart Pushaw (PhD, University of Maryland) has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship as part of the Art of Nordic Colonialism project, "which brings together researchers, curators and artists working on art and visual culture related to Nordic colonial projects in the Caribbean, West Africa, India, Greenland, Iceland, and Sápmi." In January Bart will join a team of researchers from... [more]
Monday, August 19th
Marco Polo Juárez, who will start the PhD program this fall under the direction of Professor Abigail McEwen, has been awarded a four-year grant supporting the research of Mexican graduate students focusing on the Fine Arts.... [more]
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