Accessing, capturing, and representing experimental performance art is no easy feat. However, Visiting Assistant Professor Emily Capper is working hard to bring this transitory art to new audiences in novel, interactive ways—in a book, the classroom, and a web application.
Martyna Stopyra, a recent graduate with a major in art history, elaborates on her journey as an art history major and the steps she’s taking into the professional world of modern and contemporary art.
The Department of Art History is pleased to announce that Theresa Downing is the recipient of a 2019-20 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, which is supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
The Patricia and Kenneth Puffer Scholarship provides funds to undergraduate Art History majors of high academic standing, in order to encourage and support their intellectual, cultural, and personal growth through foreign travel.
“When you're teaching the Middle Ages you have to account for religion in order to understand what’s happening; the majority of the artwork that's produced in the Middle Ages is religious in nature.” Jennifer Awes-Freeman, visiting assistant professor of medieval studies, shares about her approach to teaching and experience at the U.
Alumna Emily Rohan began her year-long advanced-level internship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum this past September. She reflects on her undergraduate experience at the University and her internship at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, which set her on the path to becoming a museum curator.
"How Light is Spent" In 1551, the German engraver, waxworker, and goldsmith, Matthias Zündt, published a booklet of thirty-one engravings of tableware, entitled Insigne Ac Planè Novum Opis...
"From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art, Christian Objects, and Christian Souls in Early Modern Japan” This talk will explore the idea and category of 'Christian art’ in Tokugawa...
