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Close-up of a human sculpture on UMN's West Bank campus

Q&A With Maggie Schuster
Maggie Schuster is currently in her second year PhD program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Mughal architecture commissioned by royal women. A highlight of her undergrad experience was receiving funding from UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) to create an exhibition and symposium with her metal casting class. She appreciates that “many of the art history faculty were extremely helpful in both the application writing process and throughout the course of the project.”
Self-portrait photo of Marit Anderson

Q&A With Marit Anderson
Marit Anderson is currently attending the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, pursuing an MA in art history. Reflecting on her time at the U, she says that the art history program’s capstone class “helped [her] learn to write more clearly for a more diverse audience.”
Self-portrait photo of Nastasya Kosygina

Q&A With Nastasya Kosygina
Nastasya Kosygina currently attends a PhD program in visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. She focuses on the art and archaeology of the late antique Near East and eastern Mediterranean. She says, "[the department] shaped the way I think about material culture… and contributed to my writing and argumentation style.”
Photo of Caitlyn Carr in a tearoom

Q&A With Caitlyn Carr
Caitlyn Carr, a graduate from the U, is currently finishing her Masters in Art History at American University. Her thesis involves ideas of visual culture and postmodern theory. She says, “I appreciate that the department required a senior thesis paper because it gave me some experience when it came to writing mine for my masters program.”
Photo of Laura Wertheim Joseph and Kristin Makholm

Reconstructing a Museum

After being closed for ten years, Executive Director Kristin Makholm and Curator Laura Wertheim Joseph are leading the Minnesota Museum of American Art into the next decade. “It's really about bringing new voices, telling new stories, bringing out hidden narratives that maybe have been neglected or passed over in the past,” Makholm says.
Léon Bonvin (Vaugirard 1834 – 1866 Meudon) Nature morte à la grenade, 1864 (still life painting by the artist)

Léon Bonvin (1834–1866)

The Fondation Custodia – Collection Frits Lugt will publish in 2020 the catalogue raisonné of the French artist Léon Bonvin (1834-1866), under the direction of Gabriel Weisberg, Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. On this occasion, the Fondation Custodia will organize an exhibition dedicated to the artist.
Photo of John Steyaert, Professor Emeritus of Art History

In Memoriam: John Steyaert
John William Steyaert, 77, passed away from pulmonary complications on the 1st of January, 2020, in St. Paul. A Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Minnesota, John was deeply passionate about scholarship, finding great joy and meaning in teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and having an endless fascination with a wide range of topics in cultural history, from ancient to modern.

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