UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON 2005 DEPARTMENT of ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER
Promotions of Art History Faculty Members In This Issue: We are delighted to announce that three members of our faculty— Ann Smart Martin, Thomas E.A. Dale, and Nicholas D. Cahill— received promotions this year. Our Benefactors Ann Smart Martin was approved as associate professor with p. 2 tenure in February 2005. Since her arrival in 1998 she has played a leading role in developing material culture studies on campus and introduced students to new ways of thinking about objects Art History and their contexts. She is the author of numerous articles and Establishes catalogues, and last year her book manuscript “Buying into the Development World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia” was Committee accepted for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 2 Looking ahead, she is excited to embark on a new direction in her scholarship. The planned new book, “Seeking Wonder, Creating Delight,” will assemble a compelling array of material culture evidence to ask questions about creating, seeing and imagining Undergraduates as avenues to pleasure from the middle of the eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth and Publishing centuries. In many ways, it draws its sensibility from a broadside posted in Salem, NC p. 3 around 1815 that closes with the promise of a physical and sensory experience: “The Eye Deceived—the Ear Amused—the Mind Astonished.” She is building on the work of scholars who have Partnerships and delineated how the means and systems by which Collaborations rational thinking and modern science evolved were p. 3 accompanied by a fascination with the unusual, the fanciful, and the bizarre. Faculty News Thomas Dale was promoted to full professor. In p. 4 the department, he has been especially active in graduate student mentoring and program development. He also plays a major role in the intellectual life of the campus through his Undergraduate work with Medieval Studies and participation in Mellon workshops. Since being awarded Student News tenure in May 2000, he has completed one book project and made significant progress p. 5 on two other ongoing research projects. Shaping Sacred Space and Institutional Identity in Romanesque Mural Painting (London: The Pindar Press, 2004) provides the first collection of essays devoted to the contextual interpretation of Romanesque mural painting, and a Graduate long overdue methodological introduction to the field. The second project, “Romanesque Student News p. 6 Corporealities,” is a broader study of the meaning of the body and corporeal metaphors in twelfth-century European art. He has published, or has in press, four articles related to this project, focusing on portraiture and monstrosity. With the Alumni/ae News support of a prestigious Vilas Associate Award, he plans to p. 9 complete research and writing of this book by Fall 2007. His third project focuses on the theme of cultural appropriation in Venice in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Your Gift Makes Nicholas Cahill was also promoted to full professor. From a Difference his arrival, he has worked to make our department a leader p. 11 in adapting to the digital age. The major focus of his research remains archaeological fieldwork at Sardis in Turkey, where he serves as Deputy Director and Senior Archaeologist of the (continued on next page) (Promotions, cont’d) NOTE FROM THE CHAIR excavation, responsible for much of the overall research Gene Phillips strategy as well as the day-to-day fieldwork and in line to be the next field director of this major American Every ten years, the departments in Letters and archaeological excavation. His book on Lydian houses Science face a major review, and Art History’s began and their contents is now largely finished, and will be this year with the preparation of a self-study for published in the Sardis Reports series by Harvard University presentation to the deans. Such a task inevitably Press. This will be an extensive publication, with a catalog brings with it a great deal of anxiety, but we of hundreds of vases, artifacts of metal, glass, stone, bone, approached it this time with a sense of confidence ivory, faience and other materials; foodstuffs; one of and completed it with a sense of pride. While Turkey’s earliest glass workshops; and important new budgetary constraints have presented challenges, the discoveries on ancient cooking, weaving and other department has remained vital and prosperous. Our household tasks. He was just awarded a grant from the major has never been so popular and has attracted National Endowment for the Humanities, administered increasing numbers of outstanding, award-winning by the American Research Institute in Turkey, for research undergraduates, while our record of placing our in Ankara on city planning in ancient Anatolia, focusing M.A. and Ph.D. recipients in significant museum and on cities that were organized in ways other than the university positions is outstanding. At the same time, standard grid plan. our stature as a home to art historical research has risen considerably, as faculty members have published important books, taken leadership roles in their fields, and won prestigious awards. We have ART HISTORY ESTABLISHES also been buoyed by our benefactors, both those DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE who have been regular supporters and those who have surprised us with a sudden gift. John Broda, The department has established a Development for example, wanted to thank us for the opportunity Committee with Professor Thomas Dale as its chair. Its of auditing our classes and made a special donation goal is to find creative ways of enhancing the department’s to support our hard-working TAs. Needless to say, educational mission, with the support of alumni/ae, friends they were very appreciative, as were we all. To all of and private foundations. One of our primary concerns is you, I once again say thanks. our graduate program. Preparing the scholars, curators and educators of tomorrow is one of the important missions of any department in a major research institution. A healthy graduate program is also essential to recruiting Our Benefactors, 2004-05 and retaining top faculty and to supplying quality graders We thank all our generous supporters. We hope and teaching assistants for large lecture courses. It this is a complete list. If we somehow therefore benefits the department on every level. In recent missed you, please let us know. years, it has become increasingly difficult to compete with our peer institutions in attracting and maintaining the best Peter & Emmy Anderson Janice Myers students. Madeline Cirillo Archer Luvie Myers We are exploring various funding opportunities: 1) to Peter & Melissa Arnett Lillah Nussbaum establish at least one four-year graduate fellowship; 2) to Adam Berkoff Robert Paulson establish a curatorial fellowship in collaboration with the John Broda Elizabeth Quinn Chazen Museum; 3) to establish a teaching fellowship Barbara Buenger Lauren Reichbach & Richard Cleary Brian Epstein that would allow an advanced Ph.D. candidate to develop Molly O’Brien Cody Renae Ryan his/her own undergraduate course; 4) to supplement Richard & Leslie T. Curtis Christie Stephany existing travel funds to facilitate both advanced Arnold & Karen Engman Kay Kroeff Streng undergraduate and graduate field research. Evan Firestone Leon Swerin We will be formulating a more detailed set of objectives Robert & Lynn Grueneberg Robert Ten Eyck & in the fall and will inform our alumni/ae and friends of Christina Henige Anne Berssenbrugge further developments then. In the meantime, we invite Joan Kill Melinda Turnbull creative suggestions for raising money and enhancing Louise La Fond Andrew Underwood- our educational programs. Please contact Prof. Dale, Tracy Lewis Bultmann Lauren Lofton A. Erick Weber Chair of Development, Department of Art History, 800 Joan Marie Ludwig Christa Weinstein University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Susan McLeod ([email protected]).
2 UNDERGRADUATES AND PUBLISHING This year saw the launch of Illumination: The Undergraduate Journal of Humanities (http://illumination.library.wisc.edu/), with significant contribu- tions from Art History. There were three majors on the staff: Marieka Brouwer (Art Editor/Layout Design), Roshelle Born (Marketing and Promotions Director), and Ashley Hall (Marketing and Promotions Assistant). Another major, Sarah MinsloffMinsloff, contributed an article: “A Vague Sweetness: Accessory as the Intersection of Ethics and Aesthetics in The Ambassadors.” Christena GuntherGunther, who serves as director of the Wisconsin Union Direc- torate Art Committee, became a published author through an internship last summer. As the art collections intern at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI last summer, she devoted much of her time to working with installation artist Patrick Dougherty in creating the monumental installation Putting Two and Two Together. Her resulting article on Dougherty, entitled “Sculpture with a Twist,” was published in the November/December 2004 issue of Wildlife Art. Three of our majors gained valuable professional experience in publishing through internships at the University of Wisconsin Press with Outreach Direc- tor Sheila Leary. The first was Claire Tommomm, whose primary responsibility was to schedule a national lecture and book- signing tour promoting Jo Ortel’s book Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe. Related events include a lecture and reception scheduled for November 2005 on the UW-Madison campus to kick off National American Indian Heritage month. Tricia Hyland worked towards the intended 2006 publication of Museums, Zoos, and Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin: A Comprehensive Guide by museum specialist Anton Rajer. She sufficiently impressed the author of the book that he hired her as a research assistant for the summer. Jennifer Kramer assisted with the promotion and fund raising for various art-related projects, including the two above, and Permission to Paint, Please! by artist Evelyn Terry, scheduled to be published in Fall 2006.
PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS Art History thrives on its connections across campus. Individual faculty members have affiliations with Early Modern Studies, Global Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, and various geographically defined centers and programs, such as East Asian Studies. We have especially deep ties as a department to three units: the art museum, Material Culture Studies, and Visual Culture Studies. The big news on this end of campus was the renaming of the museum to the Chazen Museum of Art. This was done in honor of Simone and Jerome A. Chazen, who provided an extremely generous lead gift of $20 million to fund a new building. Art History and the Kohler Art Library, along with most of the museum offices and the current galleries, will remain in what is now the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building. As other museum functions move to the new building, the department and the library look forward to gaining some much needed space. We are also excited by the prospect of new galleries and other facilities that will aid our educational mission. For more see http://chazen.wisc.edu. After several years of hard work, the Material Culture Group has gained approval for certificate programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our own Ann Smart Martin, together with Terry Boyd in Environment, Textiles and Design, and Jean Lee in History spearheaded these efforts. For more see http://www. materialculture.wisc.edu. The Visual Culture Group has had a very active year, bringing numerous well-known scholars, such as Irit Rogoff, to campus. A nice reciprocal relation is developing in that Art History was co-sponsor for two of Visual Culture’s speakers and Visual Culture in turn cooperated with our Grad Forum in bringing Anthony Lee to campus. The Visual Culture Studies executive committee continued to work toward the establishment of a degree program, planning for an international conference, and an international exchange program for students and faculty between (thus far) UW-Madison and the new Master’s degree program in “Cultura Visuale” at the Università degli Studi di Bari in Bari, Italy. Jill Casid from our department was asked to take on a leadership role in drafting the documents for the organizational structure of the cluster, the degree program, and a proposal for a Visual Culture Studies research center. For more see http://www.visualculture.wisc.edu.
3 Queer Visual Culture at the Leonardo” at the Italian Workmen’s FACULTY NEWS Crossroads” Conference at CUNY Club in Madison. (July 2004-June 2005) Graduate Center where she gave a presentation, ”Shadow Flesh: Vola- JANE C. HUTCHISON attended the tile Bodies in the Photographic 2005 CAA annual meeting in Atlanta ANNA V. ANDRZEJEWSKI submitted Archive,” based on research for her in February, and the annual meeting for publication her book manuscript next book project on the history of of the Midwest Art History Society in “Building Power: Architecture & the photography. In April, she gave the Cincinnati in April. She also attended Ideology of Surveillance in Modern Visual Culture Colloquium for the meetings of the Print Council of America” to Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Art at America in Chicago (May 2004) and Press in February. In March, she gave Cornell University in New York. Williamstown, MA and at Smith two lectures at the Sotheby’s Institute College in June (2005), and the of Art in New York. In April, she THOMAS E.A. DALE (see cover story) Sixteenth Century Studies Conference attended the 25th Anniversary Meeting presented a number of papers, annual meeting in Toronto in October of the Vernacular Architecture Forum including: “Pictorial Models for Public (2004) as a member of the Editorial in Tucson, Arizona, where she and Private Ritual in the Thirteenth- Board. In November she gave a talk, presented “Shifting Perspectives: PVA Century Mosaics of San Marco in “James Watrous: Mentor, Colleague, and the study of Vernacular Venice” (Moscow, summer 2004); and Friend,” at the opening of the Architecture in North America,” which “Origins, Functions and Meaning of inaugural exhibition of the Wisconsin will be published as part of the 25th the Pulpits of San Marco in Venice” Academy’s James Watrous Gallery in anniversary collection of papers. This (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, the Overture Center. She also served July, she was the Neville Thompson October); “Early Christian Relics from as Chair of the ROTC Officer Fellow at the Winterthur Museum and the East and the Reconquista: A Education Committee. Library. Spanish Romanesque Reliquary of Saints Adrian and Natalia in the Art NANCY ROSE MARSHALL has in BARBARA C. BUENGER lectured in Institute of Chicago” (UW, Novem- progress a book manuscript, “Site- June 2004 to UW alumni in San ber); “Le portrait comme image Seeing: Representations of Victorian Francisco on Art Deco 1910-1939, an imprimée et le concept de l’individu London.” exhibition at the Palace of the Legion à l’époque romane” (Geneva, of Honor. During the academic year Switzerland, December); and “The ANN SMART MARTIN (see cover story) she twice traveled to New York for the Dogaressa and Saint Clement: The will have the article “Ribbons of Desire: Richard L. Feigen & Co. exhibition Place of the Doge’s Consort in San Gendered Stories in the World of Beckmann-Picasso/Picasso- Marco in Venice” (Medieval Academy Goods” appear in Gender, Taste, and Beckmann, for which she wrote the of America, April). Material in Britain and America in the gallery essay, “Proteus and Prome- Long Eighteenth Century (Yale, 2006) theus,” and lectured. She received two HENRY J. DREWAL will be on leave and “Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals Wisconsin/Hilldale Undergraduate/ during the academic year 2005-06 of Power and Place in Colonial Faculty Research Awards for 2005-06 conducting his Guggenheim Fellow- America” in Furnishing the Eighteenth to work with Katherine Clements and ship research and writing on “Senses Century (Routledge, 2005). In March Nathaniel Kingdon, both of whom and Understandings of Art.” An intro- she presented “Eagles, Urns and used part of their prize money for duction to this work will appear as Fylfots: Fashion and Tradition in a New summer honors’ thesis research in Italy the “First Word” essay in the summer Nation” at the 37th Annual Tryon (see p. 6). 2005 issue of African Arts. In Novem- Palace Decorative Arts Symposium in ber he will be a member of a UW New Bern, North Carolina. NICHOLAS D. CAHILL (see cover delegation to South Africa, where he story) will be on sabbatical leave will lecture on South African art under JULIA K. MURRAY was on leave 2004- during the 2005-06 academic year. the title “Journeys to Inner Space: 05 to pursue research on the Kongzhai From Rock Art to Art that Rocks.” In shrine to Confucius. Her most recent JILL H. CASID’S book Sowing Empire: January 2006, he will chair a panel book manuscript, “Narrative Illustra- Landscape and Colonization, was on Siddi quilting arts at the First tion in China: Art and Confucian Ideo- published by the University of International Conference on the logy,” was accepted for publication by Minnesota Press, which also accepted African Diaspora in Asia, to be held the University of Hawai’i Press. Her for publication her manuscript in Goa, India. article “Didactic Illustrations in Printed “Shadows of Enlightenment: The Books” was published in Printing and Magic Lantern and Technologies of GAIL L. GEIGER was on sabbatical Book Culture in Late Imperial China, Projection.” In November, she leave Fall 2004-05. In February, she edited by Cynthia Brokaw and Kaiwing participated in the “Intersexions: gave a lecture on “The Ever-Present Chow (University of California Press).
4 She attended or presented papers at Adjunct Faculty and Fellows: several international conferences. In PEG WATROUS Spring 2005, she received a DoIT (1910-2005) GLENN ADAMSON and his wife Adaptation Award to develop a Alicia decided to take up new posi- Margaret Modie Watrous, ConceptTutor module for her Fall tions in London, England this fall. widow of long-time Art History 2005 course on Early Chinese Art (Art Glenn will be Head of Graduate professor, James Watrous, History 307). Studies in the Research department at and friend of the department, the Victoria and Albert Museum, peacefully passed away on QUITMAN E. PHILLIPS continues to which will involve taking up the April 1, 2005 at the age of serve as editor and chapter author for leadership of a course on the history 94. Peg graduated from the The History of Japanese Art, Vol. 2 of design and decorative art co- university in 1933, with a ma- Early Modern, 1500-1868, under administrated with the Royal College jor in romance languages. In contract with the University of Hawai’i of Art. He will also be involved in the the 1930s she was an instruc- Press. He is currently revising two planning of V&A temporary exhibitions tor and social director at the article manuscripts, one on the and permanent collection installa- Wisconsin Union on campus. material culture of pre-emptive tions. She was a longtime volunteer mortuary rites in Japan and the other with the Madison Civic Mu- on images of mirrors in religious DAN FULLER continues as Director of sic Association, United Giv- painting in Japan. He had accepted the General Wisconsin Bioscope ers and the University of his proposal for a campus Mellon Company. This year saw the premiere Wisconsin Arboretum, receiv- Workshop, “Monstrosity and Alterity.” of three new silent films: The Starving ing the Arboretum’s Out- Artist, The Dancer, and The Sick Child. standing Volunteer Award in Emeritus Faculty: 1988. In 1994, Peg was Honorary Fellow STEVEN N. ORSO given the Wisconsin Nature describes the past year as one of Conservancy’s Outstanding ROBERT BEETEMBEETEM, having survived a “flying under the radar” owing to per- Achievement Award for her triple bypass (1999) and pancreatitis sonal commitments that proved more 29 years of service as the (2000), is now active in Berkeley’s Art time-consuming than he had anti- organization’s membership Alumni Group, sponsored by the Art cipated. Besides refereeing articles on chair and trustee. Practice Department (formerly the Art Spanish art history for scholarly Department, where Bob did his B.A. journals, he served on the selection and M.A. in the 1950s.) He lectured committee for the American Society to the group on “Hans Hoffmann and nection to which he will deliver two for Hispanic Art Historical Studies’ Berkeley, Erle Loran and Roy Lichten- lectures. This summer, Professor annual distinguished publication stein: From Expressive Composition to Dennis assisted with an installation award. His occasional travels enabled Irony.” An alumna of our own, Lisa created by artist Laurel Lueders for him to attend major exhibitions Calden (see p. 9,) pulled his slides for Gallery Twenty-Four, Berlin. devoted to Raphael (London), Rubens him. (New York), and Rembrandt (Wash- FRANK HORLBECK continues his ington, DC), and to see Christo’s JAMES DENNIS continues with his two travels and photography despite two “Gates” project first-hand. historical houses, his scholarship, and recent knee replacements. Most his curatorial activities. Restoration of recently he has been to Russia and the 1560, half-timbered house in the Ukraine, where he shot in Kiev Quedlinburg, Germany is now the earliest Orthodox church in the STUDENT NEWS complete, and the Wright-designed region, Saint Sophia, with its First Herbert and Katherine Jacobs Byzantine-style mosaics as well as the House, 1936-37 received its National extraordinary wooden churches on UNDERGRADUATE Landmark bronze plaque from the the island of Kizhi in the North. National Park Service on May 7th. Although he has taken photographs Graduating Seniors Professor Dennis has written “Grant everywhere from Peru to China to (Summer 04-Spring 05) Wood Works on Paper: Cartooning Australia, his focus has been on the [D=With Distinction; H=Honors in the Major] One Way or The Other,” one of four architecture of medieval Christen- essays for Grant Wood’s Studio, dom. Just as his personal library was Laura Amundson (H), Sarah Arnett, Birthplace of American Gothic. Its always meant for donation to the Aimee Barbeau, Damon Bates, James publication will coincide with the Kohler Art Library, his remarkable Berland, Melissa Bohlig, Lindsey opening of a retrospective at the Cedar slide collection will be donated to the Booth, Marieka Brouwer (D), Laura Rapids Museum in September in con- department. (continued on next page)
5 Cecil, Wendy Colletti, Kimberly Cook Art as the curatorial intern, under the JILL SKLANSKY did an internship in (D), Meghan Cummings, Rebekah direction of the Curator of Exhibitions, New York this past summer at Magnum Diehl, Margaret Fink (D), Holly Jane Simon. Photos Inc., a photography agency Fondow, Amanda Freda, Amanda and co-op for many famous jour- Frederick, Emily Griffin, Christina TRICIA HYLAND did an internship last nalistic photographers. She gained Grunwald, Laura Haertel (D), Erin summer at the Mars Gallery in experience in various areas, from Hanke, Lauren Hankey, Nadja Chicago. archiving to working in a gallery, to Hansen, Sean Higgins, Natalie meeting photographers and PR event Hinckley, Erin Hooper (D), Hilary NATHANIEL KINGDON received a planning. Huebner, Rebekah Hunt, Anna Huntley Wisconsin/Hilldale Undergraduate/ (D), Tricia Hyland, Kathryn Jensen (D), Faculty Research Award for 2005-06, IMIN YEH interned this summer at The Kathryn Keehr, Tanya Kinsman, Jordan with advisor Barbara Buenger. The Library and Research Center at the Koel, Anthony Krug, Mary Kuhn, working title of his thesis is “In Search National Museum of Women in the Rebecca Maas, Rebecca Manuel (D), of Nineteenth Century Italian Senti- Arts in New York. She assisted with the Dorothy Nieciecki (H,D), Jennifer mental Sculpture.” Database of Women Artists Web Olander, Caitlin O’Neal, Smitha Access Project. In April, she gave a Pennepalli, Ana Peterson (D), Kristen KLOE KORBY interned at Christie’s presentation on her seven-month Pichelman, Ross Pollard (D), Jess Rao in New York this summer. journey exploring contemporary (D), Stacey Rondorf, Melanie Roth, Chinese art, made possible by her Meredith Salmi, Rebecca Schepps, DANIELLE LINDENBERG and EVA Hilldale Award (see Newsletter 2004). Juliana Schultz, Erica Schwartzberg, QUIGLEY co-curated Starving Artists: Jill Sklansky, Kari Squires, Eric Stanton, Public Works Art Project Artwork at Anika Sterba, Leo Sylvester, Thea Wisconsin Union Galleries (Lakefront Thompson, Stephanie Wallace, Molly on Langdon Gallery). GRADUATE Wells, Erin White, Stacey Zim, Joy Zotalis (D) DOROTHY NIECIECKI presented her M.A. Candidates: Senior Honors Thesis to the depart- Linde Brady, Sabrina Checkai, NEWS: ment on April 21, 2005 (advisor Nick Cahill). Her thesis was entitled, “Color Christine Gesick, Marcela Guerrero, in Vergina’s Tomb of Persephone.” Marsely Kehoe, Martha Monroe, The following AH majors were Abayomi Ola, Emily Pfotenhauer, inducted this spring into the Phi Beta JENNIFER OLANDER (double major Cory Pillen, Gregory Seiffert, Elizabeth Kappa Honor Society: Marieka in Art History and Spanish) will be Wohlers Brouwer, Christena Gunther, Kathleen attending the Master’s program in Kiefaber. Historic Preservation at the University M.A. Degrees Awarded: of Kentucky in Lexington. It is a two- LAURA AMUNDSON started a new year program and she will be taking KEVIN KRAPF (8/04), “Changing position this summer as Assistant advantage of a generous research Curatorship at Documenta 11 and the Curator at the Racine Art Museum in assistantship position awarded by the 50th Venice Biennale,” Buenger*, Racine, WI. She presented her Senior university. Geiger Honors Thesis to the department on April 21, 2005 (advisor Jill Casid). ELIZABETH ROSENTHAL interned at ELIZABETH TUCKER (8/04), “Within Her thesis was entitled, “Addressing an art gallery in Sydney, Australia this the Quota: Gerald Murphy’s Dadaist the Female Mannequin: Sonia Mosse spring, through the study abroad Vision of America,” Andrzejewski*, and the Hall of Mannequins at the internship program offered by the UW Buenger Surrealist Exhibition of 1938”. Office of International Academic Programs. ERICA SCHOCK (12/04), “Altar- KATHERINE CLEMENTS received a pieces and Altering Pieces: The Candy Wisconsin/Hilldale Undergraduate/ MARY SAVIG presented her Senior Spills of Felix Gonzalez-Torres,” Casid, Faculty Research Award for 2005-06, Honors Thesis to the department on Marshall* with advisor Barbara Buenger. The December 9, 2004 (advisor Nick working title of her thesis is “Evocative Cahill). Research for her thesis, MICHELLE CRAIG (5/14/05), “Bori’s Visions: Illustrations of the Divine entitled “The Daskyleion Bullae: Assertive Creativity: The Artistry of a Comedy by Italian Liberty Artists.” Identifying Local Styles in Achaemenid Hausa Possession Cult,” Casid, Court Imagery,” was supported by a Drewal* ANTJE GAMBLE worked at the Trewartha Undergraduate Honors Madison Museum of Contemporary Research Grant. RAE DACHILLE (5/14/05), “Con-
6 tainers of Love, Containers of Wisdom: Composing a Poetics of Pahari Mini- Ph.D. student Nichole ature Painting,” Dale, Phillips* Bridges with Wyatt Mac- Gaffey, Professor Emeritus, MEGHAN DOHERTY (5/14/05), Department of Anthropol- ogy, Haverford College, ex- “Robert Thornton’s A New Illustration: amining the tusk featured in Imaging and Imagining Nation and “African Carved Ivory: A Empire,” Casid*, Martin Mini-Conference on Local Images & Global Connec- TAMARA HUREMOVIC (5/14/05), tions of a 19th Century Loango Tusk,” held at the “Herbert Bayer and the Trilogy of Spencer Art Museum on National Socialist Propaganda,” April 13, 2005. Nichole, Buenger*, Casid who is Smithsonian Doc- toral Fellow at the National PETER MARINUCCI (5/14/05), Museum of African Art, “Dynamic Sensation Itself Giacomo spoke at the conference on the subject of Ivory Trade Photo by John M. Janzen, Director, Kansas African Balla’s Paintings of 1912: The Art. She won a Vilas Travel Studies Center, Professor of Anthropology, University Transformation of the Futurist Style,” Award in 2004. of Kansas. Buenger*, Casid
NANCY PALM (5/14/05), “’Where There’s Smoke’: The Specter of Indian SABRINA CHECKAI presented a Transit” at Purdue University in April. Removal in Thomas Cole’s View on paper at the Wisconsin Symposium on She curated the exhibition About Face: the Catskill,” Andrzejewski*, Casid Cuba in March entitled, “A Case Study Toussaint L’Ouverture and the African- in Visual Transculture: The National American Image at the Milwaukee Art Ph.D. Candidates: Art Schools, Havana, Cuba,” part of Museum, on view from June 30 - the panel on “Cuban Studies’ New November 27. Over the summer, she Nichole Bridges, Robert Cozzolino, Scholars.” was curatorial assistant at Tandem Mark Dieter, Meghan Doherty, Press. She will be entering the Ph.D. Amanda Flaata, Kirsten Gilderhus, ROBERT COZZOLINO is Assistant program in Art History at UCLA this Elizabeth Hooper-Lane, Michelle Curator at the Pennsylvania Academy fall. Yun-Ju Huang, Tamara Huremovic, of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, which Linda James, Saadia Lawton, Laurentia is celebrating its 200th anniversary RAE DACHILLE received a FLAS Award McIntosh, Laura Mueller, Amy Ortiz- this year. Bob has helped with the for the 2005-06 academic year Holmes, Jae-suk Park, Soo Yeon celebrations and curated Light, Line through Languages and Cultures of Park, Vanessa Rousseau, Sooyun and Color, an exhibition of over 200 Asia. She was curatorial assistant at Sohn, Joann Skrypzak, Janet Lee works on paper from the permanent Tandem Press in the spring semester. Spurgeon collection. At the Chazen Museum, he curated With Friends: Six Magic MEGHAN DOHERTY presented her Realists, 1940-1965 (on view June paper, “Robert Thornton’s New Ph.D. Degrees Awarded: 18-September 18) and gave a gallery Illustration: Imaging and Imagining talk and lecture. The papers that he Nation and Empire,” at the Art Institute PAUL BACON (12/04), “A Mirror of and Jordi Falgàs presented last year of Chicago’s annual Graduate Stu- a Christian Prince: Frederick the Wise at the Dali symposium in St. Peters- dent Symposium in April. and Art Patronage at the Electoral burg, FL have just been published as Saxon Court, 1486-1525”, Dale, part of the new book Persistence and JORDI FALGÀS presented a lecture Geiger, Hutchison*, Phillips, Wandel Memory: New Critical Perspectives on as part of the University of Tennessee Dali at the Centennial (Padova, Italy: at Martin International Lecture Series NEWS: Bompiani and The Salvador Dali in March; he spoke on “101 Years of Museum, 2004). Avida Dollars: Salvador Dali, Where Art Meets Business.” In April he LINDE BRADY received a graduate MICHELLE CRAIG presented “After traveled to the Philadelphia Museum student summer internship at the Haile Gerima’s Sankofa: Screening of Art to present “At Top Speed Toward Guggenheim in New York. She has the Transcultural Body” at “Trans/ Absolute Nothingness” at the Dali been working with curator Jennifer Positions: Transnational, Transgender, Renaissance Symposium. Also that Blessing on their contemporary Transdisciplinary, Transcultural – A month he gave a lecture entitled photography collection. Conference on Feminist Inquiry in (continued on next page)
7 “Echoes and Origins of the Avant- Indian Removal in Hudson River Garde in Barcelona (1900-1939)” at DOUGLAS SCHEWE AWARD: School Landscapes” (an excerpt from the Department of Modern Lang- her master’s thesis) won the Butkin uages and Literatures, Case Western Jordi Falgàs won the Douglas Prize for the most outstanding paper Reserve University. Schewe Award for best gradu- in nineteenth-century art at the 2005 ate paper of 2004. His paper Cleveland Symposium for graduate KIKI GILDERHUS wrote an essay for (for Prof. Buenger’s AH 856 in students, “Addressing Ideologies: Art the catalogue of the 2006 exhibition Fall 2003-04) was entitled, in Context,” held at the Cleveland of Joseph Albers in Mexico (the “Surrealist Stockings: Dali’s Ad- Museum of Art on April 15. Nancy will subject of her dissertation) at the vertising in the United States be starting the Ph.D. program at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina during the 1940’s.” Indiana University this fall, with the Sofía, Madrid. She has also been support of their Ruth Halls Fellowship doing some adjunct teaching at Kent in American Art. State (western survey) and Akron University (western survey and a torial assistant at Tandem Press in the EMILY PFOTENHAUER received a course on Latin American art). fall semester. student scholarship to attend the 57th Annual Colonial Williamsburg AMANDA FLAATA completed all LINDA JAMES received an inter- Antiques Forum in Williamsburg, VA, requirements for the preliminary national Vilas Travel Award, ad- February 27-March 3, 2005. This examination for the Ph.D. and is a ministered by the Graduate School. summer, she did an internship at Ten dissertator as of Spring 2005 (advisor, The award allowed her to travel to Chimneys (historic home of actors Cahill). She was accepted to spend Paris, France in January to research Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) in one year in Athens as a Regular her dissertation topic, the French artist Genesee Depot, WI. Member at the American School of Yves Klein. Classical Studies; she has also CORY PILLEN has been an intern at received a Fulbright Grant for study SAADIA LAWTON did a 3-month the Kohler Foundation this year, cata- in Greece (2005-2006). Amanda internship with the University of loguing all of the works in the home also taught a course at UW- Liverpool, England in the spring. She of artist Mary Nohl in Fox Point, WI. Milwaukee (AH 412: Cities and worked with the widening Partici- Sanctuaries of Ancient Greece) in the pation project, developing a curri- VANESSA ROUSSEAU completed all spring. culum for students in primary and requirements for the preliminary secondary levels dealing with the examination for the Ph.D. and is a MARCELA GUERRERO presented trans-Atlantic slave trade. dissertator as of Spring 2005 (advisor, “Island Hopping: Transculturation of Cahill). Her son, Nicholas Rousseau Puerto Rican Identity” at the con- PETER MARINUCCI will be entering Buharin, was born on June 8, 2004. ference “Caribbean Migrations: Ne- into the Ph.D. program at the gotiating Borders” held in July 2005 Graduate Center, CUNY, New York GREGORY SEIFFERT received the at Ryerson University, Toronto. this fall with full financial support. Foreign Language HEA Fellowship for the summer 2005 awarded by the ELIZABETH HOOPER-LANE com- LAURA MUELLER’S exhibition cata- Center for East Asia, for the study of pleted all requirements for the logue Strong Women, Beautiful Chinese at UW-Madison’s Tianjin preliminary examination for the Ph.D. Men: Japanese Portrait Prints from the Program in China. and is a dissertator as of Spring 2005 Toledo Museum of Art (Hotei Pub.) (advisor, Martin). She received spe- will appear in Dec. 2005. She is Van LEE SPURGEON received the cial funding from Professor Françoise Vleck Curatorial Intern at the Chazen Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for research Forster-Hahn and the National Museum of Art, with primary re- during 2005 on her dissertation pro- Committee for the History of Art, sponsibility for the planning and ject, “Constructing the Classical Past: matched by the Art History Depart- execution of an exhibition and ma- History Painting in the Meiji Period.” ment, to attend the 31st Congress of jor catalogue on the Utagawa She has been working through the the Comité international de l’Histoire School. She has just returned from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts de l’Art (CIHC) in Montréal, in August a year in Japan, where she worked and Music in Tokyo. She also received 2004. She taught ETD 422, History on her dissertation, also on the Uta- a FLAS (Foreign Language Area of American Interiors, 1620-1950, in gawa School. Studies) award for further study in the spring at UW-Madison. Japan, and was awarded a University NANCY PALM’S paper, “‘Where Dissertator Fellowship for one semester TAMARA HUREMOVIC was cura- There’s Smoke’: The Specter of for 2005-06.
8 Economics. company that offers a line of ALUMNI/AE NEWS: sweatshop free t-shirts and ac- JENIFER BLAKEMORE DISMUKES cessories. You can check out their KATHERINE BAKER (B.A. 2003) has (B.A. 1980, formerly MacConnell) is website at http://www.bellwether won the President’s Fellowship for Managing Editor of the Archives of store.com. three years of supported graduate American Art Journal at the study at the University of Virginia. Smithsonian Institution. INGRID GREENFIELD (B.A. 2003) has been an intern at the Museum of SUSAN BENFORADO BAKEWELL LISA CALDEN (B.A. 1974) has been Modern Art in New York, in the (B.A. 1974) is Visiting Assistant Pro- Registrar of Berkeley’s Museum of curatorial department. She has been fessor at the University of Texas at Art since 1992. working primarily on an upcoming Arlington, specializing in the arts of exhibition on Odilon Redon (fall Europe and the Americas in the 18th- BOLAJI CAMPBELL (Ph.D. 2001) is 2005), doing primary and secondary 20th centuries. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Rhode source research, provenance re- preparing a book manuscript, “El Island School of Design. Last spring, search, and compiling bibliogra- claustro de Procesiones de San he was among three artists featured phies. Esteban de Salamanca,” about the in an exhibition at Brown University’s mid-19th c. restoration of a cloister Hillel House, Crossing Borders. LISA GUIDO (B.A. 2002) received a as a museum, an expanded version Borsa di Studio to the University of of a 2001 article published by the GRETCHEN DYKSTRA (B.A. 1970) Bari in order to pursue an M.A. in University of Salamanca (with Peter J. was just named President of the Cultural, Communicative and Visual Bakewell, SMU.) Before UTA, Susan World Trade Center Memorial Foun- Cultural Studies. The program also taught at Austin College and SMU dation. includes an internship in the field of and in Georgia at Kennesaw State entertainment and the arts. Previous- University; she also taught in Sevilla, CALVIN ERIKSEN (M.A. 2003) will ly, Lisa (a double major in Art History Spain for the UW and on the Alamo be entering Medical School at Tulane and Italian) taught Italian at Kenosha Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. University in New Orleans, LA this Tremper Senior High School. She was curator at the Museum of fall. He will be pursuing a dual Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM from 1987- Masters of Public Health and MD HEIDI HANSEN (B.A. 2003) was 89 and continues as research curator. degree. Tulane also has an ex- accepted into the M.A. program at She received her Ph.D. from the change program with Keio University the Courtauld Institute. University of New Mexico. in Japan, of which Calvin hopes to take advantage as a student there. LISA HENDRICKSON’S (M.A. 2004) CYNTHIA BECKER (M.A. 1991, Ph.D. son Asher was born on June 1, 2005. 2000) has just accepted an appoint- JACOB ESSELSTROM’S (M.A. ment as Assistant Professor of African 2003) daughter Annika Berit KAREN KETTERING (B.A. 1988) is Art History at Boston University. Her Esselstrom was born on February 27, curator for Russian and Eastern book on Berber women’s arts is being 2005. European Art at Hillwood Museum & published by the University of Texas- Gardens. In spring 2005, she cur- Austin. NOELLE GIUFFRIDA (M.A. 1999) is ated the exhibition Eva Zeisel: The flourishing in the University of Kansas Playful Search for Beauty. JANE BIANCO (M.A. 2004) curated Ph.D. program. She is using her the exhibition Mary Nohl, Smaller Chiang Ching-kuo fellowship to FRANCESCA KONKLE (B.A. 2004) Works at the Kohler Art Library in the travel the world and collect material is a Real Estate Sales Associate with spring. She works at the Kohler Art for her dissertation, on the Daoist Heffron & Associates, Inc. in Prairie Center in Sheboygan as a Collec- god Zhenwu. She also gave a paper du Sac, WI. She is also a local artist, tions Assistant in the Permanent on her research at CAA, “Investi- and among her projects is the Collections vaults, assisting Larry gating the Appeal of Images of historical mural along Water Street Donoval, the Registrar; she will be Zhenwu (the Perfected Warrior): A in Sauk City, painted for the village’s assisting the Curator of the Art Center, Study of the British Museum’s Bronze Sequicentennial Celebration in 2004. Leslie Umberger, with the exhibition Sculpture.” She has her own business, Pet project for 2006. Portraits by Francie, and also includes KINDRA GOEHLER (B.F.A. 2004) is painting in selling real estate, pro- NINA BRANTLEY (B.A. 2002) was co-owner (with brother Andrew) of viding buyers with oil paintings of their admitted to the London School of Bellwether, a Madison-based homes. (continued on next page)
9 (Alumni News, cont’d) past seven years has been enjoying ELENA SAPORTA (B.A. 1973) is the a rewarding career as a sales rep president of Elena Saporta Landscape SARA KRAJEWSKI (B.A. 1992) for a company called Reindl Printing, Architect, a firm based in Cambridge, recently accepted a position at the covering the Madison area (including MA, specializing in urban parks and Henry Art Gallery (University of some projects for the UW.) streetscapes, as well as environmental Washington) as assistant curator/ design. educator. She has been in Seattle KATHARINE LUNDE (B.A. 2003) will since January 2003, working as an be entering the UW-Madison Law ERICA SCHOCK (M.A. 2004) is independent curator and writing School in Fall 2005. Editorial Assistant for the Wisconsin criticism. She co-curated the CAA Historical Society, Public History membership exhibition Sonic KEVIN MCMANAMY (M.A. 1993, division. Absorption held in conjunction with Ph.D. 2000) returned to Madison in the annual meeting in Seattle, Spring 2004 to continue his work on a KAY KROEFF STRENG (B.A. 1979) 2004. Previously she was curator of second degree in Educational is Technical Services Librarian at the exhibitions at the Madison Art Center Administration, while concurrently Minneapolis College of Art & Design (WI) from 1997-2002. taking a UW position with IceCube, a project sponsored by the National ELIZABETH TUCKER (M.A. 2004) ANDRE LAMAL (M.A. 1970) is a film Science Foundation to build a taught the Ancient to Medieval Art producer whose most recent film, The neutrino telescope at the South Pole. History survey at Carroll College in Last Kiss, includes footage shot in Previously, he was a Visiting Professor Waukesha, and the same course at Madison. He currently resides in at UW-Eau Claire. In 2005 he saw Beloit College. France, and has produced a number the publication of multiple articles in of films including Wicker Park (2004), the Fitzroy Encyclopedia of Sculpture GRETCHEN WAGNER (B.S. 1998) is and The Human Stain (2003). He on entries related to German Curatorial Assistant of Research and co-produced Autumn in New York Medieval Art, and the re-release of Collections in the Department of Prints (2000) and Passion of Mind (2000), his English translation of the original and Illustrated Books at the Museum and while at Lakeshore Entertainment German version of The Cologne of Modern Art in New York. he also co-produced 200 Cigarettes, Cathedral: A Virtual Tour (Deutscher Phoenix, Homegrown, Box of Kunstverlag, Munich, 1999). JENNIFER WARREN (B.A. 1963) is Moonlight, and Going All the Way. a director and producer of films as Lamal started his production career KIMBERLY MILLER’S (M.A. 1995, well as an actress of film and at Beacon Communications where he Ph.D. 2003) daughter Grace Eleanor television. Her credentials include served as production executive on A Miller-Trabold was born on June 28, directing Partners in Crime (2000) and Midnight Clear and Sugar Hill. 2004. producing You Don’t have to Die (1988). Jennifer has acted in films WILLIAM C. LIPKE (Ph.D. 1966) is THOMAS O’BRIEN (M.A. 1992, including Fatal Beauty (1987) and Ice Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Ph.D. 1998) and KAREN LEVITOV Castles (1978) as well as television University of Vermont. He is an author (M.A. 1996) are the proud parents series Murder She Wrote (1994), Life of catalogues on Vermont artist of a new son, Henry. Goes On (1990), and Cagney and Thomas Waterman Wood and was Lacy (1983). She remains very active co-editor of Vermont Landscape KEELY ORGEMAN (B.A. 2003) en- in the entertainment industry, and Images, 1776–1976. The latter in- tered the Ph.D. program in Art History teaches “scene study” full-time at cluded a major study of the work of at Boston University, and was USC. She is particularly proud of her Charles Louis Heyde, the subject of awarded the Adelson Fellowship in work with the female directors group, a retrospective exhibition at the Robert American Art. as these are women who faced many Hull Fleming Museum for which he barriers early in their careers. contributed a catalog essay. DEIDRE HELMSTETTER SANDVICK (M.A. 1996) is Director of Individual ABIGAIL WINOGRAD (B.A. 2004) SHARON LUBKEMAN (B.A. 1982) Gifts at San Diego Opera. She has worked as an intern at the Art Institute has been working in the printing been fundraising for the Opera for of Chicago, under the guidance of industry since graduation and for the the past six years. Martha Tedeschi, curator of drawings.
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