In 2020, the Custodia Foundation - Frits Lugt Collection in Paris will publish the catalog raisonné of French artist Léon Bonvin (1834-1866), the sum of the research work of Gabriel Weisberg, professor at the University of Minnesota.
While many students were celebrating the midpoint of the semester by packing swimsuits and flip flops for a tropical vacation, 11 University of Minnesota students prepared to depart for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Rome.
Visual art, art history, and English alumna Megan Murphy now runs an art and literary magazine and works at a community based non-profit in Minneapolis.
PhD candidate Nikki Otten studies nineteenth-century French printmaking, a medium that offers a window into a society marked by emerging technologies and by the ideas that flow from new inventions. She examines how artists “used images from the microscope to think about other things that scared them, like changes in society,” including shifts in the role of religion, the spread of feminism, and ideas about mental illness.
Annika Johnson (BA 2011) studies the interaction between indigenous art and representations of indigenous people. She is the Wyeth Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and is back in Minnesota for a year to finish up her dissertation research.
Art history's newest faculty member, Anna Seastrand, specializes in South Asian art. She was drawn to the University of Minnesota’s legacy of fantastic scholarship in that area, and is excited to be working with students at UMN.
The Gabriel Weisberg Curatorial Award is designed to offer financial support for a graduate or undergraduate student in art history to pursue a curatorial internship at a local museum.
