Former University of Minnesota Art History student Emily Rohan was accepted into the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery’s year-long advanced level program in Washington, D.C.

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.

Marit Anderson graduated with her B.A. in Art History in 2017.

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.

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.

Alumnus Dr. Andrew Hennlich recently curated an exhibition titled After the Thrill is Gone: Fashion, Politics and Culture in Contemporary South African Art for the Richmond Center for Visual Arts at Western Michigan University.

Caroline Woodruff (B.A. 2017) has published an essay in the Bowdoin Journal of Art.

Check out our list of course offerings for Fall 2017!