News
Wednesday, August 5th
Patricia Ortega-Miranda, a PhD student in the Department who is a Graduate Assistant in the University of Maryland Art Gallery, has curated a fascinating online summer exhibition Breath & Delirium: Selected Works by Glenda León. Ms. León's work takes as its subject the natural world in... [more]
Wednesday, July 15th
Dr. Aneta Georgievska-Shine recently was promoted to Senior Lecturer in the Department. One of her signature undergraduate courses, taught yearly, focuses on art histoy and museums. Throughout the semester Dr. Georgievska-Shine and students will visit area museums and visit with museum professionals.
Wednesday, July 15th
Dr. Bart Pushaw (PhD 2019) has published "In View: Romans Suta’s Inuit Motif. Inuit Knowledge and Eastern European Art" in the June edition of ARTMargins Online. As it happens, Bart's essay appeared but weeks before Dr.
Sunday, June 28th
The Columbus Museum has been awarded a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for the upcoming exhibition, "Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful," which will open the summer of 2021 at the Chrysler Museum (which is co-organizing), and travel to other venues, including The Phillips Collection, before closing at The Columbus Museum in Georgia. Dr.
Friday, April 17th
Some Good News, Dispatch #1
Lindsay Dupertuis and Abigail "Abby" Upshaw both have been awarded the prestigious Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for use in either Fall or Spring Semester during Academic Year 2020-2021. This program provides support to University of Maryland doctoral candidates who are in the latter stages of writing their dissertations. Many congratulations to Abby and Lindsay...
Friday, April 17th
Some Good News, Dispatch #2
Patricia Ortega-Miranda and Caroline Paganussi both have been awarded the University of Maryland Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship for Dissertation Research. These fellowships provide doctoral students the opportunity to concentrate fully on their own scholarly activities and research, for the duration of a summer, at a critical moment in their graduate... [more]
Friday, April 17th
Some Good News, Dispatch #3
PBS American Masters, in association with UNLADYLIKE2020, is screening a series of 26 short films from March through August profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. As part of this series, Associate Professor Renee Ater was interviewed about Meta Warrick Fuller, an African... [more]
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]
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