Mcintire Department of Art News Winter 2015/16 from the Chair

McIntire Department of Art news Winter 2015/16 from the chair

he last two years have been ones of transition as we’ve said farewell to one long-time colleague and welcomed new faculty members. This past spring our well-known senior Tcolleague, David Summers, retired after thirty-four years at the University of Virginia, and on April 17, 2015 we held a symposium in his honor, celebrating his scholarship and teaching.

We also hired five new colleagues during the last two new to or long absent from our curriculum. More on our academic years. These include three tenure-track new faculty members is available in this newsletter. assistant professors: Fotini Kondyli in Byzantine art and Another major transition occurred in August 2014 as department as they work to implement and support the in conjunction with a practicum course taught by Beth archaeology, Amanda Phillips in Ottoman material a result of Francesca Fiorani’s agreeing to become, for Art Department’s teaching and research missions. on the series, and this opportunity for student research culture studies and Islamic art, and Christa Robbins one year, Interim Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities continues this coming year with the works on view in Contemporary Art and Critical Theory; and two Among many faculty achievements you will find in this in the College and Graduate School of Arts and through May 2016. The goal is a reconstruction of the full-time lecturers—Amy Chan in Drawing and newsletter, I would like to highlight the series of exhibitions Sciences, the position to which Dean Ian Baucom has now-dispersed series. The Art Department views these Anastasia Dakouri-Hild in Aegean Archeology and that faculty curated in The Fralin Art Museum, beginning now appointed her for the next three years. Dean shows and faculty and student engagement with original ancient Near Eastern art. Our new colleagues bring both with my own exhibition in Spring 2013, Traces of the Baucom asked me to serve as Interim Chair of the Art works of art and new research on these objects as the renewed energy to fields we’ve always taught and Hand: Drawings from the Collection of Frederick and Lucy Department last year, and I agreed to stay in that beginning of a new era of serious academic collaboration welcome opportunities for our students in fields either S. Herman. The still-available online exhibition catalogue position for the next two academic years. While I’m with The Fralin Art Museum. for this show incorporates extensive student research and surprised to find myself department chair again, I find writing. Last year we enjoyed Dan Ehnbom’s ravishing This newsletter results from the dedication, hard it an enormous advantage to have a colleague in exhibition, Realms of Earth and Sky: Indian Painting from work, and patience of Laura Mellusi, who supervised the Dean’s Office who knows intimately both the many the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century displaying the the production process, Lyons Sanchezconcha, excellent qualities of the Art Department and the cream of the extraordinary collection of Indian paintings and the department staff,Ashley Watkins and Keith challenges we face as my colleagues and I look to that he acquired for the University’s museum over the Robertson, who compiled the data for individual develop and sustain our programs. last twenty years, along with masterpieces lent by entries. Thanks to Paul Barolsky, Tracy Cosgriff, and Yet another transition in 2014 was the hiring of new alumni and faculty. The beautiful exhibition catalogue, Allyson Healey who reviewed the text. Paul’s department staff and the reorganization of staff incorporating the work of Dan’s student Krista thorough editing is as always very much appreciated. duties. Laura Mellusi joined us in May 2014 as the Gulbransen, is available both in hard copy and online. Anne Chesnut is our designer; and numerous student, department’s general administrative supervisor We now have on view through December 20, 2015, faculty, and professional photographers provided our

Art overseeing the staff and our ﬁscal and human resource an exhibition of the work of the noted minimalist and illustrations. If we misspelled, omitted, or otherwise transactions, and Keith Robertson was hired as conceptualist artist Sol Lewitt, curated by our misrepresented anything in your news, please accept administrative coordinator primarily supporting academic photography professor, William Wylie. This show our apologies. We’ll happily make corrections next programs. Our existing administrative staff person, includes in the entry gallery of the Museum a Lewitt year. And please keep us informed of your changes Ashley Watkins was promoted, and moved to Ruffin drawing comprised of 25,000 lines, executed to his of address. Hall to provide administrative support to the Studio instructions by Bill and our Studio Art students and This period of transition in the Art Department has program, as well as manage departmental timekeeping alumni. This exhibition is serving this Fall as one focus presented challenges but also opportunities to move our and student hiring. A space in Ruffin was modiﬁed to of Christa Robbins’ seminar on Minimalism and programs to new levels of achievement evident throughout provide an office suitable to her new responsibilities. Conceptualism. Also on view in The Fralin is an exhibition this newsletter. In this time of change and development, Dan Weiss is now the Director of the Visual Resources devoted to the prominent African-American artist, we again thank you for your advice, help, and support. Collection and Victoria Valdes, as Assistant Director, Jacob Lawrence, curated by Professor of Art History Indeed, we’ve met the challenges of recent years in large manages digital production. We also hired a temporary Elizabeth Hutton Turner. This show is devoted to measure through the gifts of our alumni and friends. staff person,Thomas Hartsell, to assist Eric Schmidt, Lawrence’s sequence of thirty pictures titled Struggle: I speak for the entire faculty in expressing appreciation for our studio technician and safety coordinator, in the From the History of the American People, and exhibits your continued support and your continued engagement ever-expanding roster of tasks for which he is responsible. twelve of the paintings assembled by collectors Harvey

McIntire Department of McIntire with our programs and students. Our expanded and reorganized staff has already and Harvey-Ann Ross. The works were initially shown proven an invaluable resource to me and to the whole last year at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, — Larry Goedde, Chair

2 3 from the director of studio

n the last two years, Studio Art has been active in hosting visiting artists, producing exhibitions, expanding our classes, supporting faculty research, and participating in cross-department Iand program collaborations. Working with the Art History department, The Fralin Museum, Off Grounds, the Vice Provost for the Arts, and departments and programs including French, American Studies, Architecture and Drama, we have seen interest in our courses and programs expand. We serve over 70 majors and minors in Studio Art and continue to ﬁnd space in our classes for large numbers of students from across the university who want to stay connected to the creation of art through a speciﬁc practice or craft.

Thanks to a significant endowment from the Peter B. the subject of a monograph published by Phaidon and and Adeline W. Ruffin Foundation in 2012 we hosted a documentary on the PBS series art:21. With Dion’s two Ruffin Distinguished Artists in Residence (Cindy tenure, we are changing the structure of this annual Bernard 2013–14 and Claude Wampler 2014–15) and position. We have shortened the stay from a full are busy preparing for Mark Dion’s residency in the academic year to a semester in order to attract a wider spring. Dion lives in New York and has exhibited his range of internationally important artists and focus work, commissions, and projects around the world on collaboration with students in a single intensive (including the most recent Venice Biennale). He is also class. The new configuration brings our visiting artists to Grounds in the fall prior to their spring residency to give an introductory lecture, meet students, and plan their spring course and exhibition. In Ruffin Gallery, the public face for our department, faculty members organize and curate exhibitions of

important contemporary art for students to experience. Mark Dion, Department of Marine Animal Identification of the City of San More than a dozen exhibitions in the past two years Francisco (Chinatown Division), 1998/2010. Mixed media, dimensions variable included the tri-annual Big Bang exhibit and related Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York events featuring Natalie Jeremijenko (curated by

Art Dean Dass and hosted by the UVA Arts Board), Radio Galaxy (curated by Amy Chan), and Richard Kraft’s Twenty-Five Walkers. In April and May every year, saw the Mark Dion installation). Likewise, the Mountain images together with her poems to explore structures we use the gallery to showcase the final work of our Lake Biological Station continues to offer dynamic of American racism in the new millennium. residencies to our advanced students and selected Distinguished Majors and Fifth Year Fellows. These The Studio Art faculty is always active with their own artists. The Lee Ellen Fleming Painter in Residence rolling weeklong events culminate in packed receptions research and art, and I direct you to the Faculty News Program attracted three outstanding painters—George of family, friends, classmates and the public on every pages for all the details of their accomplishments. floor of Ruffin Hall and include performances, films Nick, Stephen Westfall and Margaret McCann—to and exhibitions of graduating students’ work in every teach and produce their own work in Studio 323. Finally, I am pleased to welcome Amy Chan to the concentration. Other important visiting artists included Thomas Struth, Studio Art Department. We were able to hire Professor The Guerrilla Girls, David Bosun, Andrea Modica, Chan to teach and coordinate our drawing courses Throughout the year, students and faculty produce and Chris Thomas, Scott Teplin, Michael Kempson, and beginning Fall 2014 and she has been an outstanding participate in an incredible variety of arts-related Linda Connor. In an event in planning since January, contributor to the program. activities. This past summer the department’s Italy on November 11, 2015 Studio Art will co-sponsor Stop by and see us when you are in the area and keep courses offered through UVA Summer Programs and with American Studies a reading by the internationally us updated on what is happening in your life. McIntire Department of McIntire Study Abroad took the largest group yet to Rome, renowned poet Claudia Rankine, who weaves visual Tuscany and to the 56th Venice Biennale (where we —William Wylie, Director

4 5 Exhibition as Inquiry UVA Students Explore an Unﬁnished Narrative Cycle by Jacob Lawrence

by n exhibition of twelve panels from Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle: From the History of Elizabeth Hutton Turner the American People is being shown at The Fralin Museum of Art from September 2015 University Professor Auntil June 2016. This exhibition, on loan from the collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross, provides the opportunity to use the Museum as a laboratory for an intensive study of this little-known work.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) came to prominence in the Without grant support Lawrence never had enough time art workshops of Harlem during the 1930s with his and studio space to undertake the project as a single highly original combination of abstracted color shapes campaign. In 1956 & 1958, thirty panels depicting scenes and social-realist content. In 1938 he devised a format from pre-Jacksonian America (1770–1817) were exhibited for narrative painting consisting of multiple same size at the Alan Gallery. In 1959 the panels were sold to a single hardboard panels accompanied by texts. After completing collector, with the stipulation that Lawrence reserved the three narrative cycles depicting the lives of Tousssaint right to publish the work, but he never returned to the L’Ouverture, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, project. Over the course of the next decades the works were Lawrence embarked in 1940 upon an epic series of sixty sold off individually and the Struggle series has never been panels devoted to the migration of African Americans seen or exhibited together again. Over the last twenty from the rural south to the industrial north at the time of years, Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross gathered twelve panels, World War I. The publication of the series in Fortune representing the largest assembly in any one collection. Magazine and its purchase by The Phillips Memorial Out of the remaining eighteen panels, five have been placed Gallery and MOMA, made Lawrence famous as the first in museums, eight have been located in private collections, African American artist to cross the color barrier in the and five remain “lost”. Of those five, two were never highly segregated New York art world. photographed, and as a result, we don’t even know what Jacob Lawrence they look like! We have no property! We have no wives! Lawrence’s Struggle series was produced fifteen years No children! We have no city! No country! later in 1954, at the height of the McCarthy Era and in The current exhibition at The Fralin Museum provides —Petition of many slaves, 1773, 1955 CE Egg tempera; hardwood, 30.5 x 40.6 cm the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. the a rare glimpse into the artist’s narrative invention at Location: Collection of Mr. Harvey Ross Board of Education. A notable feature of this series was mid-century, and also serves as the basis for a practicum © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/ Art Lawrence’s portrayal of American history from the course that combines the intensive reading and research Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York African American perspective—as he saw it through the methods of an art history seminar with the attention lens of “struggle”. This series received little grant support to objects and methods of display and interpretation and was never completed. used in museum studies. firsthand allows us to frame important questions concerning themes such as oppression and protest, individuality and The Struggle series uses the vantage point of the unseen The academic resources of the University enable us to the actions of the artist’s hand. Close examinations of society, or slavery and citizenship. How the series is arranged or under-represented in American history: black freedmen, combine the study of the Struggle series with extensive surfaces can tell us a great deal about Lawrence’s use of in the Museum galleries provides further spatial and visual slaves, women and Native Americans, often shown in the contextual research into Jacob Lawrence, his times and his tempera paint. Phillips Collection conservator Lille Steele clues, leading us to questions concerning the artistic midst of conflict, accompanied by famous quotations sources, what stories are being told, and how they are will lead the discussion as to what more can be known problems posed by this narrative. Each student will be given by Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Tecumseh and Henry told. We are using the UVA Special Collections Library to about his application of paint by unframing and microscopic the unusual opportunity to curate a new arrangement of Clay, as well poignant observations from previously research historical events and textual sources, as well as viewing. Often the backs of the paintings contain clues the Struggle series in the galleries. One of these proposals unrecognized voices Lawrence found in diaries and letters. the events of 1954–1956, such as the Montgomery Bus not only about the exhibition and framing history of panels, will be selected for reinstallation at mid-semester. but they often contain Lawrence’s handwritten notations From Lawrence’s various unsuccessful grant applications, boycott and the murder of Emmet Till. We are emulating The ultimate aim of our study is to provide the initial steps indicating the subject or an alternate numbering or title. we know that he initially proposed to paint eighty panels Lawrence who always began his history paintings at the to find, reunite and publish the entire Struggle series. In the The paintings’ clues send us back the library to conduct from the American Revolution to World War I, which Schomburg Library taking extensive notes in a process of spring, we will convene a scholarly conference that will

McIntire Department of McIntire further research. he later modiﬁed to cover from the Revolution to the 1908 visualization that only later resulted in images. bring us closer to developing plans for an exhibition and Global Sailing of the American Fleet. He also intended for The visual, material and aesthetic information gleaned The inconsistent numbering of the Struggle series calls us deﬁnitive study of the Struggle series not as an assembly these images and texts to become a book. from repeated observation and discussion of the works at to consider alternate sequences that could underscore key of individual paintings but as one narrative work. ■

6 7 Cindy Bernard Ruffin Distinguished Artist in Residence Claude Michelle Wampler Mark Dion

We recently marked the launch of an exciting The inaugural Ruffin Distinguished Artist in The McIntire Department of Art is pleased to new program that allows students and others Residence was Cindy Bernard. Best known for announce the selection of artist Mark Dion as throughout the UVA community to enjoy her photographs and projections that explore the the 2016 Ruffin Distinguished Artist in Residence. a look inside the unique creative processes of relationship between cinema, memory and landscape, Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and Bernard is also known for her strong interest in the some of the world’s most fascinating artists. currently lives in New York City. Throughout his artistic spaces and production of social exchange and the career, Dion has consistently interrogated the ways in The Ruffin Distinguished Artist in Residence relation of art and sound. which knowledge—particularly our understanding of Program, established in 2012 by the Peter B. nature, science, and history—is and has been constructed Following her in 2014–15 was Claude Wampler, and Adeline W. Ruffin Foundation, created an and presented in academic and public institutions across whose continual challenging of the traditional artist/ time and place. Engaging in projects that frequently involve annual teaching position designed to bring audience boundaries have earned her praise around the various sites and community collaborations—from his artists of international stature to the University world. Wampler is a New York/Charlottesville-based pseudo-archaeological excavations along the banks of the artist who specializes in visual art and performance. on a rotating basis. Each artist selected offers a Thames River to his re-installation of museum collections She received her master’s degree in Performance series of unique classes, gives a public lecture in unconventional ways—Dion employs aspects of museum Studies from New York Unversity’s Tisch School of Arts. and has an exhibit or screening of his or her practice and scientiﬁc study to engage dominant narratives work for the university community. In addition, For over two decades, Wampler has been working at the about topics including the environment, politics, activism, the Ruffin Artist in Residence offers a variety intersection of art installation and performance. She and consumer culture. Infusing wit and irony into his art, explores the possibilities for grafting performance Dion charges his viewers to think critically about the of opportunities for personal interaction with techniques onto visual art presentation and vice versa. objective and subjective ways in which information is distinguished majors in the Studio Art program, Employing video, painting, photography, lighting, sound, created, interpreted, and distributed. He is the subject of including seminars and critiques. costume and text, the resulting artworks juxtapose a monograph published by Phaidon and a documentary liveliness with the static art object and the artistry of on the PBS series, art:21. the spectator’s relationship to the artwork. In doing so, Mr. Dion received his BFA and an honorary doctorate Wampler’s projects create the context for her main from the University of Hartford School of Art in Connecticut. interest: the choreography of spectating. He also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York Claude Wampler has been exhibited nationally and and at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent

Art internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of Study Program. The recipient of many awards, Dion has Mark Dion, The Phantom Museum (Wonder Workshop), 2015. Walnut cabinet, American Art (New York), the New Museum for undertaken numerous public commissions and has been objects with white glow in the dark paint, black light; 102 x 96 x 12 in, 259.1 x 243.8 x 30.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Contemporary Art (New York), the Andy Warhol Museum the subject of solo exhibitions in major international (Pittsburgh), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Air de institutions including: Mark Dion: The Academy of Things Hopkins University (2012), and Ship in a Bottle for Port of Paris Galerie (Paris), Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris), (2014, Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany); The Los Angeles Waterfront (2011). Dion has been the recipient Smart Project Space (Amsterdam), Haus der Kulturen Macabre Treasury (2013, Museum Het Domein in Sittard, of the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001), The Joan der Welt (Berlin), Gulbenkian Foundation Center of The Netherlands); Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Mitchell Foundation Award (2007), and the Smithsonian Modern Art (Lisbon), Museumsquartier (Vienna), and Seas (2011, Musée Océanographique de Monaco and American Art Museum's Lucida Art Award (2008). the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei), to name just a few. Nouveau Musée National de Monaco/Villa Paloma in Monaco); The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project As Ruffin Distinguished Artist in Residence, Mr. Dion will One of her latest works, N’a pas un gramme de charisme (2010–11, Oakland Museum of California), to name a few. work with students in a unique semester-long course (“Not an ounce of charisma”) was presented at the His work has been included in major group exhibitions and be in residence throughout the spring 2016 academic Kitchen Center for Art, Video, Music, Dance, Performance, including documenta 13 (2012). Perhaps best-known semeseter. His residency included a public lecture in the Film and Literature in New York in 2013. for his work Neukom Vivarium, an installation in Olympic fall of 2015 and will culminate with an exhibition in the Sculpture Park in Seattle, WA, the artist has also Ruffin Gallery during the spring semester.■ McIntire Department of McIntire completed other public commissions including Den, For more information see: Distinguished Ruffin Artist in Residence a site-speciﬁc installation for the National Tourist Routes www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mark-dion Claude Michelle Wampler (top left) with in Norway (2012), An Archaeology of Knowledge for John UVA students in New York City, 2015 www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/mark-dion/series

8 9 Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture retirement new books in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean: Themes and Problems in the Memoirs, Section IV Fotini Kondyli, Vera Andriopoulou, Eirini Panou, David Summers by art faculty Mary B. Cunningham (eds.) Ashgate, 2014 Experts in different fields—historians, philologists, art historians and archaeologists—have come together in this volume to explore the actions and motives of the various political and religious groups that participated in the Council This past May, the department celebrated the career of Ovid and the Metamorphoses of of Ferrara-Florence. With Syropoulos as their starting Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso David Summers and his many contributions to this point, the contributors of this volume reconstruct the Paul Barolsky department and to the larger enterprise of Art History. living conditions, cross-cultural interaction, artistic and Yale University Press, 2014 Not least among these contributions was his service as commercial exchange in the 15th-century Mediterranean. This publication explores Ovid’s unparalleled influence Chair of the Art Department from 1989 to 1995. David on the visual arts, discussing works by many of the Falmouth, Jamaica: Architecture as History came to the University of Virginia in 1981, after having most famous artists of the past six centuries. Broadly Louis P. Nelson, Edward A. Chappell, taught at Bryn Mawr and the University of Pittsburgh. interdisciplinary, the new understanding of the themes Brian L. Cofrancesco, Emilie Johnson (eds.) of the Metamorphoses revealed here will appeal to those David initially became known as a scholar of Italian University of West Indies Press, 2014 in the fields of Renaissance art, humanism, literature, This book explores the wide range of architecture built Renaissance art by way of a number of very influential history, and classics, among others. by Jamaicans and others in the making of a new port articles and the books, Michelangelo and the Language of town on Jamaica’s north coast, Falmouth. Art and The Judgment of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism Realms of Earth and Sky: Indian Painting from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century and the Rise of Aesthetics. David’s preoccupation with the Motels Where We Lived Daniel Ehnbom, with contributions by Claire Millikin Raymond intellectual underpinnings of Italian art and of Art Krista Gulbransen Unicorn Press, 2014 History as a field culminated in a book on the depiction The Fralin Museum at the University of Virginia, 2014 Her second full-length collection, Millikin explores the of the emotions, and perhaps most ambitiously in An exhibition catalogue. hopefulness and precariousness of youth. Precisely Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western hewn but expansive, these poems take as their materials The Urban Scene: Race, Reginald Marsh Modernism, a work whose full import will become snowy winter evenings, modern art, the life of Greta and American Art Garbo, and more. increasingly recognized in this age of global studies. Carmenita Higginbotham Among many other awards, he was elected a Fellow of Penn State University Press, 2015 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he Higginbotham explores how black figures acted as was nominated for an Emmy for the opening graphic substantive cultural and visual markers in American art sequence of a TV program on Mozart. In addition to and embodied complex concerns about the presence of African Americans in urban centers. being a formidable scholar, David is also an accomplished painter for whom painting is a passion and an intellectual activity complementing his scholarship. The many students and colleagues who gathered to recognize his achievements and the importance of his mentorship were a testimony to the personal impact of his teaching and scholarship on a couple generations of art historians. His ambitious and insightful engagement with art and its history will continue to resonate in and help to shape the History of Art as a discipline for decades to come. ■ Paul Barolsky Carmenita Higginbotham Louis P. Nelson Daniel Ehnbom

10 11 faculty news

Paul Barolsky William Bennett. Loomings, 2014 Amy Chan. Grass of Parnassus, 2014 Anastasia Dakouri-Hild Kevin Everson. Image from Chevelle, 2011 Gouache and screen print on panel, 22 x 30 in

Paul Barolsky will retire from the University of Virginia of Art, he organized the eightieth anniversary exhibition, collaboration with the Center for Library Arts and the Curry at The Fralin Museum of Art August 22 – December 14, in the spring of 2016 after 47 years in the McIntire Cavaliers Collect, a loan exhibition of works from the School of Education. She presented papers at The Fralin 2014. The exhibition is traveling to three other venues Department of Art. His most recent book, Ovid and the collections of UVA alumni, faculty, and friends. It opened Museum, organized colloquiums for Archaeological until Spring of 2016 and is accompanied by an Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso on August 28 and runs through December 20, 2015. Institute of America, and performed a topographical survey illustrated catalogue and an app for iPad and iPhone was published in 2014 by Yale University Press. Paul has His recent publications include: “‘La scoltura è…senza of the Late Bronze Age cemeteries of Thebes resulting in (itunes.apple.com/us/app/fralin-museum-realms-earth/id905700827?mt=8). also recently published essays on various subjects, comparatione’: Tullio Lombardo and the Narrative Relief,” the first accurate map of the tombs using GPS. His article, “Ways of Seeing in Indian Painting: The including three on Raphael. Artibus et Historiae, no. 70 (XXXV), 2014, pp. 83–98; Importance of Format," published in 2006 in The Visual Arts “Lucian Freud: The Transformation of Nature,” Lucian Freud Dean Dass was invited to speak at Calvin College last Gallery Journal (New Delhi) has been selected as one of Malcolm Bell gave the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Etchings (exhibition catalogue, The Fralin Museum of Art spring as part of their endowed lecture series entitled twenty best articles that have been published in The Visual Lectures at nine venues for the Archaeological Institute & Aquavella Galleries), Charlottesville and New York, “Animals and the Kingdom of God.” Dass’ artist’s book Arts Journal since its inception for inclusion in a special of America (with two more still to go), and will receive 2015, pp. 23–29 ; and a review of Bernard Berenson: A Life entitled The Lost Colony was juried into ERROR: the volume, The Best of the Visual Arts Gallery Journal, to be Pompeii Forum the AIA’s Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement at in the Picture Trade and Bernard Berenson: Formation and 7th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2015. published by Penguin-Random House in October 2015, as the Annual Meeting in San Francisco (January 2016). Heritage for The Times Literary Supplement, October 31, 2014. The Triennial opened in Lithuania and is traveling to part of the Gallery’s 15-year anniversary celebrations. He continues as co-director of the American Excavations Germany, Australia, France, Latvia and Italy in 2015–16. Dan gave several public lectures during the last academic at Morgantina. Cammy Brothers was awarded a fellowship to the Unfortunately Dean will miss all of these events, as he year, including: “The Cleveland Pages of the ca. 1520–30 Italian Academy of Columbia University for the fall is hopelessly preoccupied with three grandchildren: Dispersed Bhagavata Purana,” at the Cleveland Museum of Bill Bennett was invited to exhibit his sculpture Loomings semester where she is working on Giuliano da Sangallo Graham, Remy and Haden. Dean’s exhibition entitled Art in September. at Sculpture by the Sea, a major sculpture exhibition along and the Ruins of Rome. Animals and Clouds just opened at the New City Arts the coastal walk from Bondi Beach to Tamarama Beach Initiative’s Welcome Gallery in Charlottesville. Kevin Everson screened several of his films at Gather in Australia. Amy Chan was an Artist in Residence at the Studios of Round, a symposium on his work at the Southeastern Center Key West and Mountain Lake Biological Station in 2014 John Dobbins continues as Director of the Pompeii Forum for Contemporary Art at Winston-Salem State University. Barbara Bernstein’s work and essay, “Drawing a Breath”, and oversaw the Mountain Lake residency in 2015. She Project. In this capacity he and his colleague Larry Ball The symposium included screenings of Fifeville, The Island regarding drawing as phenomenology, was recently has an upcoming solo exhibition in Sacramento, CA. delivered a paper, “The Pompeii Forum Project Assesses of St. Matthews, Erie, and the new films A Saturday Night published in Drawing in the 21st Century: The Politics and the Lucius Mummius Pedestal in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Mansfield Ohio and Grand Finale, as well as a gallery of Francesca Fiorani

Art Poetics of Contemporary Practice by Ashgate. In Spring 2015, Sheila Crane was a Fellow at the Clark at Pompeii,” at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological several short ﬁlms. Kevin screened his documentary Park Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, where she had the Institute of America, Chicago. He gave seven invited Sarah Betzer spent the 2014–2015 academic year as a Lanes at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City opportunity to advance her current book project, lectures in various parts of the country including a keynote member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. last spring and continues to show his ﬁlms at festivals tentatively entitled, Inventing Informality. A related essay, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Classical She joined the editorial board of The Art Bulletin, gave across the world including the Sundance Film Festival and “Rewriting the Battles of Algiers,” will be published in Association of Minnesota, an Archaeological Institute of an invited lecture at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Whitney Biennial. Kevin is a 2014 winner of the Herb Space and Culture in November 2015. Having recently America lecture for the Philadelphia Society, and a presented papers at both the Nordic Conference for Alpert Award in the Arts. returned to Charlottesville, she looks forward to embarking presentation at the National Geographic Society. His topics Eighteenth-Century Studies in Oslo and the “Politeness upon her new role as Director of Graduate Study for the were the Pompeii Forum, the Alexander Mosaic, Antioch Francesca Fiorani has been appointed Associate Dean and Prurience” conference at the University of Edinburgh, Art & Architectural History program. mosaics, and the application of 3D modeling for confronting of the Arts and Humanities. She continues her work on and contributed an essay to Matthew Affron’sÉmilie Charmy. archaeological problems. During the summer of 2014, a forthcoming book on Leonardo da Vinci, which will be With Douglas Fordham, she co-chaired the panel “Materials, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild has received a Technology John was the Study Leader on a Smithsonian Journeys published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Artistic Process, and Meaning in the Eighteenth Century” Incubator Grant from the New Learning Technology Highlights of Italy tour and a lecturer on a UVA Cavalier Douglas Fordham for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Committee (NLTC) and A&S Technology Strategies. She Travels Aegean and Adriatic cruise. John continues his Douglas Fordham just completed a year of research in will use this grant to develop an interactive archaeological efforts as an amateur beekeeper, and he now has some which he visited archives and collections in Western India Bruce Boucher lectured at the Ateneo Veneto in Venice, simulation for material from the Flowerdew Hundred jars of honey as fruit of that labor. and Southern Africa for a book that will examine printmaking

McIntire Department of McIntire Italy, at a symposium in honor of Professor Stefania Mason Plantation. In 2014, she organized the ﬁrst UVA archaeology and the British Empire during the eighteenth century. on April 5, 2014, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of fair drawing 400+ people from the community, followed Daniel Ehnbom was the curator of Realms of Earth Douglas is now teaching a new introductory course on Antiquaries in October of that year. At The Fralin Museum by a K12 teachers’ workshop the following spring in and Sky: Indian Painting from the 15th to the 19th Century “Art and Money,” and a seminar that draws heavily on The Fralin Museum’s prints and drawings collection. 12 13 Megan Marlatt. Final Friday, Big Head Brigade Megan Marlatt, Artist in Residence, Maurie McInnnis Museu Del Joguet De Catalunya (Toy Museum of Catalonia)

Larry Goedde was Interim Chair of the Art Department history and the second focuses on the historical usage of in 2014–15, and will serve as Chair for the next two the Confederate ﬂag after the war. “How the Slave Trade years. His essay on Flemish sixteenth and seventeenth- Built America” was published as an editorial in the New century tempest pictures appeared in the catalogue to York Times. She also lectured at Colonial Williamsburg, the exhibition, La Flandre et la mer, shown at the Musée CASVA, CUNY, Liverpool, and Rutgers, and was published de Flandre in Cassel, France, in 2015. This past summer in the journal Buildings and Landscapes. Her exhibition, To he spoke to the Teacher Institute at the National Gallery Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade, opened in Washington, DC, and in 2014 he accompanied two last October at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. At the Cavalier Travels tours, “Portrait of Italy,” and “Symphony University, she is a member of the President’s Commission on the Blue Danube,” as a lecturer. on Slavery and the University and is leading a digital

3 3 humanities project known as “Jefferson’s University—the Akemi Ohira. The Fieldnote. Lithograph, 2014, 8 ⁄4 x 6 ⁄4 in Pamela Pecchio and William Wylie. Beyond Reach, 2014 Eric Ramirez-Weaver Carmenita Higginbotham published her recent book, Early Life Project.” For this, a team of student researchers The Urban Scene: Race, Reginald Marsh and American Art, is working on transcribing the university’s early records with Penn State University Press (2015). She appeared and making them easily searchable in a web-accessible in a solo exhibition at the University of North Carolina’s Lisa Reilly has agreed to serve as the Chair of the in the documentary film, Walt Disney, produced by the database: juel.iath.virginia.edu. Upper Rowe Gallery, and was included in group exhibitions Architectural History Department. She is widely recognized national history series American Experience/WGBH at New York City’s Aperture Gallery, the Griffin Museum for her teaching excellence with an All University Teaching and aired on PBS. She also delivered lectures at Notre Lydia Moyer is on leave from teaching for the 2015–16 in Winchester, MA, the Washington Projects for the Arts Award and grants for integrating digital technologies into Dame, the University of Massachusetts, and George school year. She recently completed her first feature- (DC), Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, NC, and on the architectural history courses. She was recently a Fulbright Washington University. length video project, which premiered at the Mothlight contemporary photography blog Lenscratch. Other projects Fellow in the History of Art Department at the University Microcinema in Detroit in the Spring 2015. She will be were included in the Humble Arts Foundation’s Group of York, and co-editor with Kevin Murphy of a collection Fotini Kondyli is the lead editor of a book of collected spending a month as an artist in residence in Iceland Show 41: New Cats in Art Photography, Southern Exposures: of essays on skyscraper gothic (forthcoming, UVA Press). essays, Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the over the winter, during which she hopes to both see and The Do Good Fund Photographs at LaGrange College, and Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean: Themes and Problems in record the Northern Lights. Behind the Lens: Women Photographers on the South at Christa Robbins has joined the faculty as an Assistant the Memoirs, Section IV, published by Ashgate in 2014. Eastern Tennessee State University. Professor. Christa was the Mellon Caltech-Huntington Congratulations to Louis Nelson on his promotion to Postdoctoral Instructor in Art History at the California Shiqiao Li joined the Art and Architectural History Full Professor of Architectural History. He has been Amanda Phillips has joined the faculty as an Assistant Institute of Technology. Her research interests are Art Graduate Program joint faculty. awarded the Catherine Bishir Prize of the Vernacular Professor. Professor Phillips received her doctorate in in 20th and 21st century art and art criticism, critical Architecture Forum for his article, “Architecture of Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford and has Megan Marlatt’s Big Head Brigade was shown at two art theory, and media theory. West African Enslavement,” published in Buildings and conducted research at the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art festivals in New York last Fall: Brooklyn’s Dumbo Arts Landscapes last year. His recently published book is and at the University of Birmingham. Her interests are George Sampson has returned to the McIntire Festival in September, and the Art in Odd Places Festival Falmouth, Jamaica: Architecture as History with University Islamic art and material culture with a focus on the Department of Art as Lecturer of Arts Administration. in October 2014. In June the artist collective performed at of West Indies Press. Ottoman Empire. Sampson and his students hosted Artist in Residence the TRIBES Exhibition, Prague Quadrennial 2015 in Prague, D.Y. Begay last spring. Czech Republic. In addition, in July she was an Artist in Akemi Ohira has a solo exhibition this fall at the Arts Eric Ramirez-Weaver was promoted to Associate Residence at the Museu Del Joguet De Catalunya (Toy Center in Orange, VA and participated in nine group Professor. He received a Meiss Publication grant in Rebecca Schoenthal has been appointed Curator of Museum of Catalonia), where she drew toys from the exhibitions in galleries at Ashland University, University support of his manuscript, Saving Science: Capturing the Exhibitions at The Fralin Museum. collection for two weeks and then exhibited her work at of North Georgia, Columbia College, University of Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts (forthcoming) and the Galeria Art Lola Ventos in Figueres, Spain. Richmond, Charlottesville, and the countries of Romania a Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors at the Institute Elizabeth Schoyer’s painting, S. A. Andrée’s Ice Balloon, and Bulgaria. for Advanced Study, Princeton, within the School of was adapted as the book cover to Lantern Puzzle, a Maurie McInnis recently wrote several articles about Historical Studies. With support from the Mead collection of poetry by Ye Chun. the historical impact of slavery. “The First Attack on Pamela Pecchio and Greg Fralish welcomed their second Endowment Dream Idea Program, ten of his students Charleston’s AME Church,” and “Richmond Reoccupied child, a baby girl named Josie, on March 17, 2015. Pam also Margo Smith, the Director and Curator of the Kluge- McIntire Department of McIntire researched the collection of the Walters Art Museum in by the Men Who Wore the Gray,” published in Slate Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, has been named a presented Beyond Reach, a photography exhibit in Cologne, Baltimore as part of a collaborative colloquium, magazine. The first describes the historical connections member of the Order of Australia, an honor ordinarily Germany, with William Wylie and Dave Woody. Work “Medieval Manuscript Illumination.” Eric continues to between the recent shooting in Charleston and Charleston’s conferred only upon Australian citizens. from her current project, Inheritance, opened last September serve on the ICMA Board of Directors.

14 15 recent events

Installation of images made in Carrara

Elizabeth Hutton Turner curated an exhibition from Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series at the Phillips Collection archaeology fair 2014 in January 2015 and The Fralin Museum of Art during 2015–16. Her research includes the development of In October 2014, Dr. Anastasia Dakouri-Hild organized a new practicum course based on Lawrence’s series and our ﬁrst UVa Archaeology Fair. The event raised awareness two public lectures on Calder at the Smithsonian and of archaeology at the university, educated the public the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. A Jacob Lawrence about the goals and methods of the discipline, and made symposium will take place in April 2016. archaeology approachable in the community. This fall Dorothy Wong is completing her book tentatively entitled: Formation of an International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645–770: Buddhist Missionaries and Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Artistic and Cultural Transmission, which consists of six chapters. Her article, “New Research on Amoghapāśa,” (translated into Chinese) was published in the peer-reviewed journal William Wylie. UVA Rotunda capitals being made in Carrara, 2014 Dunhuang and Turfan Studies, vol. 15 (2015): 17–52. This artlab residency October, Wong will participate in the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar, “World Studies Interdisciplinary This summer Amy Chan led the Artlab Residency at Project,” (to be held at U Mass Amherst) and will Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke, VA. present a concept paper on Buddhist monasteries as a The two-week residency brings internationally recognized cultural institution in the formation of knowledge. artists and students together for an intensive period of creation, exploration and collaborative possibilities. Tyler Jo Smith is working with Gregory Lewis, a fourth- William Wylie has been active as both artist and Working alongside biologists on a remote mountaintop year student who received a grant from the UVA College curator. In March he was Artist in Residence at the residency D.Y. Begay in southwestern Virginia, Artlab chooses artists whose Art Council to do research in the application of 3D scanning Sandhills Institute in Nebraska and spent the winter work deals with science or nature. Artists and students and printing technology to reconstruct ancient Greek vases. break continuing his photographic exploration of Professor George Sampson and his arts administration become part of the Station’s close research community, She also received the 2014 Student Council Distinguished Pompeii through a Yale Museum Residency in Italy. classes hosted world-famous Navajo Weaver, D.Y. Begay, fostering the exchange of ideas across disciplines. Teaching Award, a fully student-run award. In May, she His works were shown in a number of exhibitions This year, the artists were Nathalie Miebach as the gave the 19th Trendall Lecture in Melbourne, Australia, a fourth-generation artist for a weeklong interactive including Art of the 21st Century at the Virginia Museum Lucille Walton Fellow, Zehra Khan, the collaborative sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities residency on Grounds last spring. of Fine Arts and Beyond Reach at Köln-Art in Cologne team of Val Molnar and Matt Spahr, and returning and hosted by La Trobe University. Germany. He created a video piece from his football ﬁlm Walton Fellow Stephen Vitiello. Participating Studio Art project Prairie to be included in the traveling exhibition students were Noora Al-Saadawi, Evelina Dubrowsky, David Summers traveled to Rome to present a paper Scrimmage, which opened at Colorado State University entitled “The Great Sabbath: Michelangelo, Pico della Cameron Mankin, Ahn Oh, Hannah Varden, Sandy Art Museum. He continues to document the creation Williams and Jennie Xie. Mirandola and the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.” He presented and installation of the new capitals for the renovated keynote lectures at New York University, the University Rotunda. As a curator Wylie organized Collection: Stephen Vitiello was the Buckner W. Clay Artist in of South Carolina, and a conference in Berlin. He will Sol LeWitt and Photography for The Fralin Museum of Art Residence at the Mountain Lake Biological Station. continue to serve as an advisor to the NYU program and and the Thomas Struth residency at UVA. ■ Thanks to a partnership between the Department of to work on his book, Congruence and Empathy. Biology and the McIntire Department of Art, Mr. Vitiello

McIntire Department of McIntire exhibited A Scuttering Across the Leaves, a sound installation piece at Virginia Tech’s Center for the Arts.

Read more about Artlab: mlbs.org/ArtLab.

16 17 “UVA Hosts Renowned Navajo Weaver for in the news Interactive Arts Residency” March 27, 2015 – UVA Today Last spring, celebrated Navajo weaver D.Y. Begay attended a weeklong interactive residency organized by UVA’s Arts Administration Program.

“UVA Today: OpenGrounds” March 23, 2015 – Newsplex.com Carmenita Higginbotham Rebecca Schoenthal Studio art faculty and students participate in the “Art, Contemplation and Wellness” initiative facilitated by OpenGrounds. save the date April 9, 2016 “Australian Artist Ricardo Idagi for a symposium honoring the academic accomplishments Shares Skills with UVA Students” of Professor Paul Barolsky. October 22, 2014 – YouTube This piece features Bill Bennett and some of his

Leaf from the Rasikapriya of Keshav Das: Krishna as students in the sculpture studio in a video with recent Idea Hero and Lover. Attributed to Sahibdin, Mewar, Artist in Residence Ricardo Idagi of Australia. c. 1630–35. Opaque color and gold on paper. Museum Purchase with Curriculum Support Funds, 2003.1 recent press “New Fralin Museum Exhibit Captures the Dazzle of Early Indian Painting” August 29, 2014 – UVA Today Jessica Burnam “Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at Professor McInnis writes on historical connections to Professor Ehnbom curated an exhibition featuring indian the Metropolitan Museum of Art” current events: paintings from The Fralin collection. September 27, 2015 – New York Times “Richmond Reoccupied by Men A favorable review of Alisa LaGamma’s exhibition and Who Wore the Gray” “Get That Life: How I Became catalogue on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art July 1, 2015 – Slate.com an Urban Farmer and Artist” through January 3, 2017. August 24, 2014 - Cosmopolitan “The First Attack on Charleston’s AME Church” Kate Daughdrill and her neighbors turned their block “UVA Professor Joins PBS June 19, 2015 – Slate.com into an urban farm. Now she eats what she grows and for New Disney Documentary…” “How the Slave Trade Built America” creates art with a green thumb inﬂuence. September 11, 2015 – UVA Today April 3, 2015 – New York Times

Art Professor Carmenita Higginbotham has extensively “Giant Papier-Mâche Heads Depicting studied Disney’s outsized impact on American culture, “Ancient Greeks believed in ZOMBIES” Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz to Roam Dumbo” and she joins a panel of scholars providing commentary June 17, 2015 – DailyMail.com August 19, 2014 – BlouInArtInfo.com for a Disney documentary. George Sampson and Jody Kielbasa, Vice Provost for the Arts, at An article featuring the archaeological research of Big Heads worn by Marlatt and UVA students featured “Art, Contemplation and Wellness,” OpenGrounds Carrie Sulosky Weaver and illustrations by Dan Weiss. in a NYC arts news blog. “New Exhibition Features Rarely Seen Photography of Famed Minimalist Sol LeWitt” “Second ‘Public Day’ to Showcase Exceptional “Meet UVA Grad Kim Dylla, August 13, 2015 – UVA Today Student Research Across Disciplines” Heavy Metal Seamstress” William Wylie curates exhibition including works by Sol April 8, 2015 – UVA Today July 22, 2014 – UVA Today LeWitt and other photographers who inspired his work. Jessica Burnam, a student majoring in studio art Since graduating from the University of Virginia in 2005, presents her thesis artwork on central grounds. Kim Dylla has done a lot of things: played music, helped “New Curator Ushers in Exciting Semester build a digital re-creation of ancient Rome and, most at UVA’s Art Museum” “UVA backs students’ summer research projects” recently, launched a business creating custom-made August 13, 2015 – UVA Today March 27, 2015 – AugustaFreePress.com clothing for rock and metal bands ranging from Journey

McIntire Department of McIntire McIntire Department of Art graduate, Rebecca Two department undergraduates, Shannah Rose and to Machine Head. Schoenthal appointed curator, overseeing The Fralin’s Ty Vancover, receive Harrison Undergraduate Research major exhibitions. funding for the summer. Bill Bennett Megan Marlatt

18 19 alumni news alumni news graduate undergraduate art history art history Paul Barolsky and Mary Echols Cory Korkow Carrie Sulosky Weaver

Glaire Anderson (MA, 1998) is Associate Professor Sara Nair James (PhD, 1994) will soon publish a Monica Adele Shenouda (PhD, 2009) is Associate Melissa (Stroud) Abbe (1988) is a docent instructor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at monumental book on the history of British Art, Art in Resident Director for the UVA School of Architecture at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and recently Chapel Hill. Her specialty is Islamic art and architecture England from the Saxons through the Tudors. Her current Venice Program in Venice, Italy. consulted on a children’s book focused on the collection during the caliphal period, especially Iberia and North research focuses on fourteenth century frescoes of Asian Art at the museum. Africa. Medieval Islamic & Christian artistic interchange depicting the Life of the Virgin at Orvieto. Betsy Dillard Stroud (MA, 1970) co-author of the and female patronage are topics of her current work. book, Moving Toward the Light: Joseph Raffael, is completing Maria Abreu (2010) has returned to UVA Grounds to Anna Marazuela Kim (PhD, 2014) received the a second book on watercolor masters and legends. earn a MBA from the Darden School. Lisa (Frye) Ashe (PhD, 2012) is a visiting lecturer in Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Research art history at the University of Richmond. Forum at Courtauld Institute of Art in London for 2015–16. Jacqueline Taylor (PhD, 2014) taught at the Tulane Kelly Accetta (2010) is a doctoral student at Cambridge School of Architecture, New Orleans. and has recently presented research at an Egyptology Elizabeth Bartlett (PhD, 2015) recently accepted a Cory Korkow (PhD, 2008) has worked at the Cleveland conference in Oxford. permanent teaching position in the Department of Museum of Art since 2008 as Associate Curator of Victoria Young (PhD, 2003) is Professor of Modern World Languages at McDonogh School near Baltimore. European Art. She is the primary author of British Portrait Architectural History at University of St. Thomas, St. Natalie Affinito (2013) worked at Metro Nashville Miniatures at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Paul, MN. She completed a new book, Saint John’s Abbey Public Schools – Creswell School of Arts Nashville, TN Lydia Brandt (PhD, 2011) received the Inaugural Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred and is now pursing a law degree at UVA School of Law. Fellowship at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Michael Maizels (PhD, 2013) recently accepted Space, published by University of Minnesota Press. Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon in 2013–14. a position of Mellon New Media Curator/Lecturer at Stella Ahn (2012) works at Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Wellesley College. Justin Walsh (PhD, 2006) was recently awarded Korea. Leslie Cozzi (PhD, 2012) is Curatorial Associate at the tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Art history Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts at Hammer Museum Susan Maxwell (PhD, 2002) is Chair and Associate and Archaeology at Chapman University. In addition to Adrienne Albright (2012) works at Dominique Levy in Los Angeles. Professor for the Department of Art at the University of publishing the book Consumerism in the Ancient World: Gallery, New York, NY. Wisconsin Oshkosh. She specializes in Renaissance and Imports and Identity Construction (Routledge 2014) and Chris Askew (2015) was accepted to the Post- Jill Deupi (PhD, 2006) became Director of the Lowe Baroque Art and the history of graphic arts. continuing to collaborate on the publication of pottery Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies at the Art Museum in Miami. from Morgantina, he started his own excavation together College of William and Mary. E. Luanne McKinnon (PhD, 2015) is an independent with a Spanish team at the site of Cástulo in Andalucía. Mary Echols (PhD, 1974) was recently featured in an scholar and curator in San Francisco.

Art This project is funded by a grant from the Loeb Classical exhibition at the Beverly Street Studio School in Staunton, Lacey Baradel (2004) was the Tyson Scholar (Post- Library Foundation at Harvard. VA where she has taught and studied art since retiring Elizabeth Merrill (PhD, 2015) has been named to the doctoral Fellow) at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art for 2014–2015, where she researched a from Mary Baldwin College in 1991. editorial board of the journal, Architectural Histories, and Carrie Sulosky Weaver (PhD, 2013) was a current book project on artist Eastman Johnson, tracing she recently published “Pocket-size architectural University of Pittsburgh, Postdoctoral Fellow and has Renee Gondek (PhD, 2013) has been teaching at the the emergence of geographic mobility as a central notebooks and the codiﬁcation of practical knowledge.” published a new book The Bioarchaeology of Classical University of Virginia, George Washington University, theme for genre artists commenting on modern life in The Structures of Practical Knowledge. Ed. M. Valleriani. Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek Sicily. Gainesville: William and Mary, and the Smithsonian while also the United States post-Civil War. Dordrecht: Springer Press, 2015 (forthcoming). University Press of Florida, 2015. serving as a member of the digital humanities project for Stephanie Beck (1998) has been teaching Studio Art ancient pottery (Kerameikos.org). Elizabeth Molacek (PhD, 2010) has been awarded a Dan Weiss (PhD, 2012) has become the Director of at William Paterson University and Touro College. She is curatorial fellowship at the Harvard Art Museums. the Visual Resources Collection at UVA. John Hawley (PhD, 2015) is Curatorial Research also an Artist Educator at the Museum of Arts and Fellow, Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Tanya Paul (PhD, 2008) is the Curator of European Anne Williams (PhD, 2015) is a Visiting Research Design, New York, NY and recipient of a 2014 Chashama Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Fellow and Instructor in the Department of Art History Summer Performance Series Space Grant New York. Alisa LaGamma (PhD, 1988) curated an exhibition and Visual Studies at the University of Victoria, British on Kongo’s history, art forms, and cultural identity, and Dylan Rogers (PhD, 2015) has been appointed Esther Bell (2001) has been appointed Curator in Columbia. published the accompanying catalogue Kongo: Power and Assistant Director of the American School of Classical Charge of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums McIntire Department of McIntire Majesty with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Studies in Athens. of San Francisco. A former Fulbright scholar, she has held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Morgan Library & Museum.

20 21 Michael Ann Bevivino (2007) is the Honorary Michael Kip Coons (1976) was a double major in General Secretary and Council Member of the Royal English and Art History. He is now a freelance writer and Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. She has recently editor after retiring from the Raleigh News & Observer published chapters and articles as a Research Assistant where he oversaw story assignments, editing, placement for the Discovery Programme in Dublin, Ireland. and artwork, and layout and production.

Molly (Scheu) Boarati (2004) has become Assistant Patricia Cuadros (2009) is the Office Manager for Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Information Technology Services at UVA, and she writes television/ﬁlm reviews and conducts artist interviews as Rachel Boate (2009) received a Center for International Molly (Scheu) Boarati, Amanda Douberley, Eleanor (Jones) Harvey, Emily (Hagan) Lazaro, a freelance blogger. Nasher Museum, Duke University School of the Art Institute of Chicago Smithsonian American Art Museum Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship for dissertation research in Paris, France. Chloe Delaney (2012) has become Curatorial Assistant at The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA. Alicia (Ruggiero) Bochi (1994) manages 2500+ Caitlin Harpin (2008) is a Senior Product Editor at Elizabeth Huffer (2008) has become curator of alumni as the new Associate Director for Alumni Relations Amanda Douberley (2000) is Lecturer of Art History, Klutz, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. where she specializes Books and Manuscripts at the Gilder Lehrman Institute at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York City. Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute in editing, writing, mentoring, and craft books. of American History, New York, NY. of Chicago. Bill Bodine (1970) retired in July 2014 after serving for Eleanor (Jones) Harvey (1983) is senior curator at Susan Jarosi (1991) is an Associate Professor of Art 12 years as Director of the Frick Art & Historical Center, Christine (Miller) Droessler (2004) took her love of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and received History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the Pittsburgh, PA. art and co-founded www.framedandmatted.com to give the Smithsonian Secretary’s Distinguished Research University of Louisville. people tools to create a great visual experience in their home. Award for her publication The Civil War and American Art Eliza Bowling (2009) is a Learning and Development published by Yale University Press. Marissa Kessler (2007) has become Associate Specialist at Outbrain, New York. Shannon Emerick (2007) became an Emergency Director – Strategic Projects & Enterprise Communications Medicine Resident at Georgetown University/Washington Lisa Hatchadoorian (1993) became Executive Director at Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta,GA . Barbara Boykin (2003) became a registered architect Hospital Center in Washington, DC. at the Fort Collins Museum of Art, and brings to the and associate at Moseley Architects, Virginia Beach office. position a fourteen-year career as a curator and director in Alanna Kibiloski (2012) has become Membership & Heather Evans (1993) is Associate Professor of Surgery corporate, nonproﬁt, academic and municipal organizations. Development Manager at the Hermitage Museum & Jonathan Broyles (2005) is the executive director of at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, primarily Gardens in Norfolk, VA. Coalition to Transform Advanced Care. based at Harborview Medical Center; she has published Elise Hegret (2012) is founder of Department of Signs Katherine Killeffer (2009) launched katherinekillef- extensively and has been recognized as one of Seattle Met & Symbols, Brooklyn, NY. Debra Cartwright (2010) works at People Magazine fer.com to showcase her art and projects. She is working Magazine’s Top Doctors. as an illustrator. Kate Heckard (2013) is at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, on the illustrations of a children’s book called Love, Daddy. Lisa Florman (1983) serves as Chair of the History of New York, NY. Amory Cervarich (2006) can be found at Betsey Minji Kim (2013) began interning as a collections intern Art Department at Ohio S tate University. Her book, & Iya, a shop featuring handcrafted jewelry designed in Kristin (Ialeggio) Holbrook (1996) is the owner of at the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s Portland, OR. Two Skirts, a women’s boutique in Telluride, CO. Museum of Art and as a documentation intern at the Art (Stanford University Press) was published last spring. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Nichole Charbonnet (1988) creates work that super- Christine (Ossolinski) Hollins (1991) is Director of Janet Francis (2013) works at Christie’s, New York, NY. imposes textures, images, words, and washes of paint Institutional Giving at the Phillips Collection in Washington, Jessica Kitz (2011) has become the Betty Cuningham Art with fabric or paper. She recently exhibited Tales Trails Nicole Gates (2009) is an associate at Bryan Cave LLP, DC, and adjunct faculty at George Mason University’s Gallery Director in New York, NY. Traces at the Tayloe Piggott Gallery in Jackson Hole, WY. Santa Monica, California. Her expertise is in drafting College of Visual and Performing Arts, where she teaches Emily (Hagan) Lazaro (2008) has become an Art business agreements related to advertising, social a fundraising and development course in the Arts Christa Clarke (1987) is the Senior Curator of Arts of Educator at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University media, websites, and privacy concerns. Management master’s degree program. Global Africa at the Newark Museum in New Jersey. She in Stanford, CA, featuring major art exhibitions from continues to teach, publish research, and has received Polly Gellman (2003) teaches second grade at Norfolk Jane (Corey) Holt (1989) directs Student/Alumni around the world. numerous grants for her exhibitions at the Newark Museum. Academy, Norfolk, VA. Engagement for the Weinberg College of Arts & Science at Northwestern University. Lynn Lee (2013) has become Assistant Registrar at Elizabeth (Sarnoff) Cohen (1983) is Development Polly Forster Gravely (1996) went back to school The Fralin Museum of Art. Officer at the Center for Arts Education in New York. leaving journalism to go into counseling. A graduate Frances Holuba (2010) works in Global Engagement, Eda Levent (2014) is working for an art/tech startup from Portland State with an MS in Couples and Family National Security Council, The White House and is the Stephanie (Beck) Cohen (2005) is a PhD candidate called Lofty doing business development for the Counseling in 2013, she established a private practice. recipient of the Executive Staff Champion Award, NAFSA: in African art history at Indiana University, and was Association of International Educators. consignments department. a 2013–2014 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/CLIR Maggie Guggenheimer (2003) works as Assistant to Kimberly Lucas (2006) has become Bicycle Program Dissertation Fellow writing her dissertation on Liberian the President and Communications Officer at Virginia Wei Huang (2015) is the Curatorial Assistant to East Specialist with the District Department of Transportation quilting and diplomatic gifting. Foundation for the Humanities and teaches Arts Marketing: Asian Art Curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. McIntire Department of McIntire in Washington, DC, where she manages Capital Bikeshare Theory and Practice as a lecturer for arts administration and Bicycle Parking programs for the District of Columbia. courses at UVA.

22 23 First Time Filmmakers Initiative (Singapore) and editor alumni news of feature ﬁlm “Ms J Comtemplates Her Choice” which premiered in 2014 with Oak3 Films. undergraduate Leise Hook (2010) is working at the Asia Society Museum, New York, NY. studio Mei-Jean Hsu (2011) works at the Popstar Club in Katherine (Becker) McEnroe, Alexis Pennington, Mary Cate Swadba, Rachel Swartz, Woodland Hills, CA, a creative hub for innovative ideas in Brooklyn Museum Menil Collection, Houston Courtauld Institute, London Philadelphia Museum of Art entertainment including toys, music, lifestyle and media.

Nicholas Leach (2010) is the Lead Graphic Designer Megan Lyders (2002) works for Slalom Consulting: house the Menil Drawing Institute, the first free-standing Nicholas Bacon (2008) co-founded a live-streaming at Video Blocks. Digital and Customer Engagement (DiCE) as an Experience facility in the US built for the exhibition, study, and video business in Chicago with Andrew Mausert- Designer in Denver, CO, solving clients complex business preservation of modern and contemporary drawing. Mooney (also a graduate of the McIntire Dept. of Art in Karen Lillis (1992) was recognized with a 2014 Acker challenges by designing and building strategies and systems. 2008) called Mainstream Media that specializes in Award for Avant Garde Excellence in Fiction for her body Kelsey Petrie (2014) works in the creative department producing multi-cam broadcast for clients such as the of writing. Her latest publication includes a chapbook of Katherine (Becker) McEnroe (2011) is Project Objects of a PR firm, Edelman, as a Video Shooter/Editor in Chicago Emmy’s. poems, The Paul Simon Project, by NightBallet Press. Conservator at the Brooklyn Museum and recipient of Washington, DC. Ione Gedye Prize for Conservation Practice, November Heather Beardsley (2009) is a Continuing Studies Rachel (Callahan) Livedalen (2010) is an 2014, The Institute of Archaeology, London. Stephanie Ross (2011) works at the National Gallery Instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, interdisciplinary artist in print media as seen at of Art as Development Associate for Annual Giving, Chicago, IL, where she completed her MFA in Fibers and www.rachellivedalen.com. She has recently accepted Lauren Mecca (2007) works at Crimson Hexagon, a Washington, DC. Material Studies. a position as Assistant Professor of Printmaking, big data company in Boston, MA. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. Courtney Schaefer (2011) works at the Museum of Douglas Brody (2006) works for KKR Capital Markets Modern Art, New York, NY. Jamie (Hollingsworth) Mehrotra (2007) became in New York, NY and serves on the board of trustees of Maya Mackrandilal (2007) is Program Coordinator, Sales Director for Extraordinary Journeys, a luxury The Hill School, a preparatory boarding school for boys Gallery Weekend Chicago and Gallery Assistant at Grace (Fetty) Shea (2014) is employed by the boutique safari operator based in New York City. and girls. Moniquemeloche Gallery in Chicago, IL. Department of Defense, US Army, 3-38 Cavalry Regiment Jennifer Minogue (2006) is a Digital Sales Account Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Dana Castner (2013) is employed by Grey Advertising, J.J. Meyer (2011) was selected for the Bridge Progressive Executive at ESPN, New York, NY. New York, NY. Arts Initiative second annual Community Supported Katherine (Orsini) Slovik (2007) works for Polskin Art program bringing six juried artists together with Sarah Moore (1985) became Creative Director at Arts and Communications Counselors in New York, NY. Lauren Catlett (2010) explores how art and local food business owners: thebridgepai.org/art- O’Keefe Communications, Inc. and is the recipient of Polskin is a leading firm in public relations supporting the conversation can engage people suffering from dementia, local/2014-artists/joy-meyer/. numerous Best of Show awards for her creative excellence arts and government agencies engaged in cultural initiatives. creating published works and exhibitions that include in films and videos. collaborations with older adults. Joan (Noelker) Moy (2004) is an Emergency Medicine Louise Stellmann (2013) has become Development Physician at Washington University in St. Louis and 2010 Danielle Moses (2010) works for the University of Coordinator, Major Gifts at Central Park Conservancy. Dana (Giacofci) Clark (2004) is print media artist Winner of the Annual Anatomy Drawing Contest at the Art Virginia Health System as a Certified Physician Assistant. and instructor for the School of Art and Visual Studies Whitney Strickler (2008) is an Education Abroad Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. University of Kentucky in Lexington. Marcia (Inger) Navratil (1992) became Acting Adviser at Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. Ann Peyton (Hurt) Millikan (2002) started a fine art Executive Director of Gift and Estate Planning at the Ashley (Parsley) Cox (2012) is working for her own Mary Cate Swadba (2015) was admitted with a business, Peyton Millikan Fine Art in Richmond, VA. Her University of Texas at Austin. company full time (Ashley Cox Photography) as well as fellowship to the Courtauld Institute in London. drawings and prints primarily feature buildings and horizons. a studio manager for Cramer Photo in Charlottesville. Sarah Nyanjom (2010) serves as the Associate Rachel Swartz (2010) is the Manager of Leadership Akosua Adoma Owusu (2005) was recently fea- Director of the UVA Alumni Association’s Admission Kathryn Daughdrill (2007) started Burnside Farms Annual Giving and Travel Programs at the Philadelphia tured online in Elle Magazine’s Women in Society, and Liaison Program. and teaches at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. her film, ‘Intermittent Delight’ is on view at the Whitney Museum of Art. Lydia Paine (2010) is working on her PhD in Organization Kimberly Dylla (2005) is touring North America with Stephen Viviano (2010) is in residency in Plastic and Studies at Boston College Carroll School on Management. legendary metal band GWAR as a new singer. She Reconstructive Surgery at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical Sanjida Rashid (2011) is employed by National continues to make custom stage clothing for bands such Lauren (Paulin) Patton (2010) received Ed.M. in Arts School in NJ. Geographic Kids Books. as Journey and Machine Head with her company Kylla in Education and currently works at The Fralin Museum Custom Rock Wear. Her leather jackets were featured in Danielle Riede (1998) received tenure as Associate of Art at UVA. Mary Wigge (2010) currently works with the this year’s WWE Wrestlemania. Professor in the painting department at Indiana University.

McIntire Department of McIntire University of Virginia’s Papers of George Washington. Alexis Pennington (2012) became Capital and Major Her international exhibition record includes galleries and is pursing a MA in Arts Administration Priscilla Shu Xian Goh (2012) became director of a museums in Mexico City, Athens, Cologne, New York, and Gifts Coordinator at the Menil Collection in Houston, TX Di Wu (2014) half-hour documentary for the Discovery Channel under and is fundraising for their new building, which will at Columbia University. many other cities.

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Meredith (McKee) Ruth (2012) is the owner of Meredith McKee Photography.

Chris Sabbatini (2008) founded a design agency, Sabra Design, in Washington, DC. featuring interactive Two notable events this past year include the April 2015 and multimedia designs. trip to Los Angeles by Professor William Wylie, American Studies Professor Grace Hale and three Rachel Singel (2009) accepted a tenure-track students, Elise Sokolowski, Julia Loman and Quincy position in Printmaking at the University of Louisville. Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing 686 installation Darbyshire, to take part in 100 Walkers, a performance 100 Walkers, spring 2015 at The Fralin, fall 2015 piece by Richard Kraft. 100 Walkers was commissioned Vennesa Yung (2009) completed her MA in Arts by the City of West Hollywood to celebrate the city Management at American University and now works for centennial and involved 100 performers walking the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and School of Creative Media between 3–5 miles through the city dressed as London City University of Hong Kong. bankers carrying signboards. All ﬁve UVA participants had taken part in Kraft’s previous walking performances in Wendover, Utah and Charlottesville. Additionally, new Art History faculty member Christa Robbins, at the time on the faculty of California Institute undergraduate alumni of Technology living in LA, participated as one of highlight the Walkers. After a successful trip to Detroit with Professor Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is widely recognized as one of Dean Dass to visit Kate Daughdrill’s urban farm and the most inﬂuential artists of the last half-century. participate in the Mid-America Print Council conference,

Art Integral to LeWitt’s artistic philosophy were wall drawings students kept the Social Practice momentum going designed to be executed by anyone following simple with Pancakes and Bacon meetings in the Ruffin plans. Former UVA student Rolund Lusk of LeWitt’s sculpture courtyard. Over breakfast and propane stoves New York Studio leads these executions all around students met to develop their own research projects and the world. Wall Drawing 686, was recently installed in helped formulate the Arts Board’s Big Bang residency The Fralin Museum of Art’s main lobby and is on view of Natalie Jerimijenko. until December 20, 2015. Rolund worked with the LeWitt exhibition curator and Director of Studio Art, Professor William Wylie, as well as current and former studio majors, Jesse Timmons, Jessica Burnam, and Hannah Varden to install the wall drawing over a period of seven days using pencils, rulers, compasses, levels, and plumb lines. Check out the installation:

McIntire Department of McIntire arts.virginia.edu/incredible-time-lapse-of-sol-lewitt-wall-drawing-686/ Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing 686 installation Pancakes and Bacon, fall 2014 at The Fralin, fall 2015

26 27 him to conduct preliminary research on his dissertation in news Europe. Recently, Eric was invited by the Walters Art news Museum, Baltimore to present his research at the research forum “Telling Global Stories” which centered on issues of Global/World Art in the museum setting. Eric’s first current article, “Michelangelo’s Strozzi Tondo?: Securing Status undergraduate student with Art,” is set to appear in a forthcoming peer-reviewed graduate students anthology by Brill Press. highlights Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati is the Digital Humanities Fellow in the UVA Scholar’s Lab. Her dissertation project, entitled Music, Performance, and Identity in 4th century BCE Nenette Arroyo received a full scholarship to the South Italian Vase-Painting, explores connections between Emily Cox, a second year art history major from the Visualizing Venice Digital Humanities Workshop this the iconography of musical performance and constructions University of Virginia, received a place on a Fulbright past summer sponsored by Duke University and Venice of identity in Apulia. During her fellowship year, she will be Summer Institute to study at King’s College London, International University and held in Venice. She hopes working with Wayne Graham to optimize her dissertation one of the most prestigious and selective summer to integrate GIS into her research. database and develop visualizations of her research, as scholarship programs operating world-wide. well as experiment with integrating digital tools into the Jennifer Camp and Elizabeth Doe received the Rare practice of iconographical analysis. Sydney Collins may have had little experience in digital Book School-UVA Fellowship this past summer attending photography prior to the fall semester of 2014, but that classes on the history of books and printing and obtaining Murad Khan Mumtaz has been awarded a highly didn’t stop her from honing her craft over the next 14 new tools and methods for engaging with primary source competitive fellowship from The American Institute of months. So much so, in fact, that she’ll be receiving materials in relation to their dissertation research. Indian Studies for research in India next year on his photography credits in the upcoming catalogue associated project, Reconstructing the Dispersed 1730 Baohli Gita Tracy Cosgriff returned from a Fulbright Fellowship in with the exhibition Lifelines: Indigenous Contemporary Art Govinda: An In-depth Stylistic Analysis. Rome and has been awarded the Society of Fellows from Australia at the Musée de la Civilisation in Québec City, Québec. From a fledgling third-year intern to a Reuban Clark Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Corey Piper has been named a Tyson Scholars Residential published photographer, Sydney’s passion for digital Fellow at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art this Alicia Dissinger is the recipient of the Barringer-Lindner projects has clearly served her well. spring. His dissertation project, Animal Pursuits: Hunting Fellowship at The Fralin Museum of Art. and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century America, traces Over the summer of 2014, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Benjamin Gorham co-authored an article, “Recenti scavi the ways in which representations of hunting functioned Collection drafted its first long-range digitization plan, a Morgantina: il progetto Contrada Agnese (2013–2014),” across diverse areas of nineteenth-century life, including targeting not only the permanent collection, but also the and has been appointed Director of Geospatial Studies the natural sciences, Western expansion, and refined museum’s rich archive and library. Hoping to build on this at Morgantina, where he works with the American urban recreation, and examines how such imagery momentum during the academic year, Collections Manager Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project. structured humans’ relationship to the natural world and Nicole Wade sought to enlist the support of an intern. He joined the American Academy in Rome for the furthered a range of political and social ideals. Sydney enrolled in the University Museum Internship summer program on Roman pottery and is working to Art course (ARTH 4951/GDS 4591 and ARTH 4952/GDS 4592) is a Junior Fellow in publish an article on the project’s findings. Camille (Benke) Shamble Garden and Landscape Studies at Harvard University’s and was selected to intern at Kluge-Ruhe. With the newly minted digitization plan in-hand, she was entrusted Justin Greenlee has just published “Quo vocatur Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Sydney Collins with researching all aspects of digitization from analyzing paradise: the Pigna and the Atrium at Old St. Peter’s,” Washington, DC (2015–2016). She also has an and modeling workflows to lighting, image processing in the journal Athanor, XXXII, Department of Art E. Peter Mauk, Jr./Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Fellowship at the to metadata standards. History, Florida State University. Huntington Library in San Marino, CA for next summer department. Her research will explore the ways in which 2016. These fellowships support her dissertation: This yearlong intensive research, paired with her academic museums and their collections can effectively interact Catherine Hundley recently returned from a two-year Growing Children Out of Doors: California’s Open Air background, made Sydney integral to executing the with source communities through digital technologies, Kress Fellowship to the Warburg Institute in London where Schools and Children's Health, 1907–1917. digitization plan over the summer of 2015. Seizing the how these technologies have been utilized for the benefit she was researching her dissertation, The Round Church opportunity, she applied for and received a second of those communities, and how they could be better Movement in Twelfth-Century England: Crusaders, Pilgrims, Edward Triplett was awarded a Postdoctoral internship with Kluge-Ruhe via the Institute for Public and the Holy Sepulchre. In the coming year, Catherine will Fellowship in Data Curation for Visual Studies at Duke employed to support source communities in the future. History. Bringing her trademark drive and energy to the undertake comparative round church studies in Germany, University Wired! Lab. The fellowship draws on Ed’s Today, Sydney works part-time for the Kluge-Ruhe implementation phase of the project, she gained Italy, France and Spain, thanks to the support of the recent dissertation, his experience as a Graduate Fellow Aboriginal Art Collection, and continues to photograph extensive hands-on experience handling and photographing Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship. in Digital Humantities at UVA’s Scholar’s Lab, and as a the museum’s exceptional collection of Indigenous

McIntire Department of McIntire visualization specialist at UVA’s Institute for Advanced the museum’s permanent collection. Australian art. Having already digitized a quarter of the Eric R. Hupe was the recipient of the Art, Humanities Technology in the Humanities. Currently in her 4th year, Sydney has embarked upon museum’s holdings, she plans to push the museum and Social Sciences (AHSS) Summer Research Fellowship a Distinguished Major’s project through the Art History and the Yalden-Thomson Summer Grant, which allowed closer to its goal, one frame at a time.

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