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September 2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Art History Newsletter September 2013 Think Tank Lays Foundation for Curatorial Studies Curriculum What makes a successful and innovative curator in the twenty- trained professionals, but also a broader public. In the case of first-century, and how can we create a responsive, forward- American Indian culture, he argued, it was essential to give voice looking curriculum that takes advantage of the distinctive re- to communities who were invested in cultural ownership of the sources—faculty, staff, collections and exhibition spaces—at material. In displaying museum objects, curators must think UW-Madison? At the end of April, the Department of Art Histo- increasingly about cultural interactions. ry collaborated with the Chipstone Foundation of Milwaukee to Anne-Marie Bouttiaux, curator at the Royal Museum for Central host a Think Tank on Curatorial Studies that attempted to answer Africa, Tervuren, Belgium proposed that the ideal mode of curat- these questions. Participants included guest speakers from muse- ing is one in which the curator becomes an “artist” with the free- ums around the United States and abroad, as well as alumni, fac- dom to think, dream and scheme over a long period of time— ulty, academic staff and graduate students from the Departments what she terms “slow curation.” Curators should engage the of Art History, Art, Design Studies, History of Science, and Zo- public by challenging stereotypes, and mixing time periods, ge- ology, as well as curators and staff from the Chazen Museum of ographies, different categories of objects. Art, the Kohler Art Library, the Design Gallery, Ebling Library, Special Collections of the Memorial Library, the Zoology Muse- Art History alumna, Karen Levitov (M.A. ’96), Associate Cura- um, the Chipstone Foundation of Milwaukee, and the James Wa- tor at the Jewish Museum in New York, focused on the curator’s trous Gallery of the Wisconsin. role in re-engaging permanent collections at her own institution by mounting short-term thematic exhibitions that engage outside On the first day of the gathering, five distinguished speakers curators and artists to re-imagine a common group of objects in gave their visions of innovations in curatorial practice. W. Rich- different ways. She also described another innovative, interac- ard West, CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West and tive aspect of curatorial practice, in which contemporary artists founding Director of the National Museum of the American Indi- were invited to curate and/or interact with the permanent collec- an, the Smithsonian Institution, affirmed that curating needs to be tion of the Jewish Museum. a form of collaboration that involves not only academically Prof. Ivan Gaskell, Curator and Head of the Focus Gallery Pro- ject at the Bard Graduate Center in New York emphasized that successful and innovative curation depends on an ability to rec- oncile the curatorial and academic worlds, object-based study and theory. The Bard program takes an integrated, collaborative and multidisciplinary approach, offering students the opportunity to engage in every stage of the exhibition process and the dis- semination of research. Objects of study, drawn from cultures worldwide, are as varied as the approaches to the material, drawn from multiple cultures and media. The final presentation was given by our artist in residence through the Arts Institute, Faisal Abdu’allah of the University of (Think Tank (cont’d on p. 4) Autry CEO, Richard West INSIDE THIS ISSUE Letter from the Chair 2 Julia Murray Retires 9 Material Culture/ Internships / Faisal Abdu’Allah 3 Anna Andrzejewski promoted / Faculty Updates 10 Development News/Think Tank, cont’d 4 Faculty Updates cont’d/ Faculty Book shelf 11 Vagantes Conference/ / Mueller Research Award 5 Graduate Student news 12 Venice Biennale Exhibition / Sardis Excavation Update 6 Alumni News 13-15 Focus on Alumni: Eleanor Nett 7 Recent Graduates 16 New Art History Faculty 8-9 Coming Events 16 Letter from the Chair specifically engages curatorial practice. Appleton, WI. This has been an eventful year for our de- We are also pleased to celebrate the signif- Among the many accomplishments of our partment. We have celebrated the careers icant achievements of our students, faculty faculty, outlined more extensively in the of two recently retired faculty —Jane and alumni. Among the highlights from Faculty News section, let me highlight just Campbell Hutchison and Julia K. Mur- our recent graduates, Kyrie Caldwell a few here. Anna Andrzejewski has been ray—and we have hired two new faculty: (B.A. 2013) won UW-Madison’s prestig- promoted to full Professor effective this Jennifer Pruitt our department’s first Is- ious Iwanter Prize for her honors thesis, fall. Jill Casid, has co-edited a timely con- lamicist, and Yuhang Li, who works on “Digital "Fayth" and Ritual "Play": A ference volume on Global Culture for the the material and visual culture of late im- Study in Religious Participation and Audi- Clark Institute: Art History in the Wake of perial China. We also welcome the trans- ovisual Affect in Contemporary Video the Global Turn, Clark Studies in the Visu- fer of our long-standing affiliate from the Games;” Marsely Kehoe (PhD 2012) was al Arts (New Haven: Yale University Department of Languages and Cultures of awarded a two-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Press, 2013). Complementing our curricu- Asia, Preeti Chopra, who studies archi- Award at Columbia University to recast lar initiative in curatorial studies, a number tecture and urbanism of colonial and post- her dissertation the role of global trade in of faculty members have been engaged in colonial India. A fourth colleague, Shira the artistic and architectural projects of the significant curatorial projects and exhibi- Brisman, specialist in Early Modern Ger- Dutch Golden Age and prepare it for publi- tions. Last fall, Nancy Rose Marshall and man Print Culture, will join us in fall 2014. cation; and Amy Powell (Ph.D. 2012) was her seminar on Victorian Networks co- All of these hires will contribute to the awarded the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Post- curated an exhibition for the Chazen Muse- continuing vitality of our department, en- doctoral Curatorial Fellowship at the um of Art, The Golden Age of British Wa- hancing our global profile in terms of geo- Blaffer Art Museum. Our current gradu- tercolors, 1790-1910, including works graphical and cultural scope, and at least ates have also fared extremely well this from the Chazen permanent collection as two of the positions promise to greatly year: Giovanni Bottero was awarded an well as loans for the Yale Center for Brit- strengthen the burgeoning program in ar- internship at the Freer/Sackler Museum, ish Art. Over the summer, Prof. Nancy chitectural history. Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC Marie Mithlo led the Venice Biennale for the summer; Peter Bovenmyer won a exhibition initiative Air, Land, Seed with We have worked hard this year on two of fellowship from the Mellon Foundation to Prof. Henry Drewal at the University of our department’s strategic goals, reforming support his participation in the summer Venice Ca' Foscari. Ph.D. candidates Sa- the requirements for the undergraduate seminar of the Pontifical Institute of Medi- rah Stolte and Katie Apsey served respec- major and building a new curriculum in eval Studies (Toronto) in Rome; Daniel tively as co-curator and contributor to the curatorial studies. The new undergraduate Cochran was awarded a second year of exhibition catalogue. Meanwhile Ann major, officially in place as of the fall se- FLAS to support the study of Turkish lan- Smart Martin has been working under- mester 2013, recognizes the greatly ex- guage and culture and also a Heritage Ex- graduates and graduate students in to cre- panded cultural range now taught in our cavation Fellowship through the American ate a new permanent exhibition, Age of department and promotes an awareness of Schools of Oriental Research to support Enterprise for the Museum of American global cultural interaction. Students will his participation in the Troy Excavations History in the Smithsonian Institution in now be required to take courses in at least this summer under the direction of our Washington, D. C. on the material culture three of five geographic categories—Cross affiliate William Aylward; Matt Rarey and economic history of colonial America. -Cultural/Diaspora; Africa/Middle East; won a Mellon dissertation completion fel- Asia; Europe; and the Americas. They In the coming year, I look forward to meet- lowship for the upcoming year; Caitlin will also be required to take courses in ing many of you at our public lectures and Silberman was awarded a Vilas Travel each of four chronological ranges— other events hosted by the department. grants to pursue dissertation research in Ancient to Medieval, Early Modern, Mod- Paul Jaskot will give a public lecture in England and a fellowship from the Hun- ern, and Contemporary (post-1945). Final- November on how contemporary German tingdon in Pasadena; Sarah Stolte began ly they will be required to take one course artists responded to the Holocaust, and in dissertation research in the fall semester emphasizing theory and method. the Spring semester we will welcome with the support of a Visiting Scholar Fel- Richard Guy Wilson of the University of As mentioned in the cover story, we have lowship at the Museum of the American Virginia, to give the first annual Narciso developed further our ideas for a curatorial Indian at the Smithsonian Institution in Menocal Lecture in Architectural history studies curriculum during a Think Tank on Washington, D. C.; and Matt Westerby (for details see www.arthistory.wisc.edu). Curatorial Studies in April, sponsored by won the Fanny Lemoine Dissertation Re- the Art History Fund and the Chipstone search Award from Medieval Studies as As we prepare to implement a new curato- Foundation of Milwaukee.
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