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SECAC 2018 IN BIRMINGHAM SECAC met for the 74th time in Birmingham, , hosted by the at Birmingham. 561 members attended, and of those, 102 were students. 284 institutions were represented throughout more than 120 dynamic sessions and a standout juried exhibition. Wednesday evening’s welcome reception took place at the conference hotel, the Sheraton Birmingham. Sessions and panels began the next morning and continued

through Saturday afternoon. Thursday interim chair Jessica Dallow, professor Doug evening saw members at Birmingham Barrett, and staff Monica Diltz, Heather Museum of Art for the keynote address by Holmes, and Laura Merrill, in addition to Andrew Freear of Auburn University’s Rural AEIVA staff John Fields, Christina McClellan, Studio. Friday evening took SECAC across and Samantha Arceneaux. the Magic City to a reception at UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SECAC 2018 MENTORING for the 2018 SECAC Annual Juried PROGRAM Exhibition, juried by Peter Baldaia, and 2017 In the eighth year of the SECAC mentoring SECAC Artist’s Fellowship Exhibition: program, participation remained high with Stacey Holloway—Not to be Otherwise. A 40 members meeting as mentors and successful conference always requires the mentees. Thanks to Heather Stark of efforts of many, and in the spirit of Marshall University for organizing the partnership, openness, and inclusivity, the program and to the following members for 2018 conference greatly benefitted through volunteering as mentors: Caroline a diverse group of Birmingham community Covington, Al Denyer, Jason Guynes, Claire co-sponsors, including: Birmingham- Kovacs, Tony Morris, Debra Murphy, Roja Southern College, Samford University, Najafi, Jennifer Printz, Carol Prusa, Sandra Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Four Corners Reed, Danielle Rosen, Jeff Schwartz, Karen Gallery, Space One Eleven, and Forstall Art Shelby, Greg Shelnutt, Jessica Stephenson, Supply. Heartfelt thanks are due conference Kelly Wacker, Eileen Yanoviak, and Valerie director Jared Ragland and UAB’s dedicated Zimany. Stark has been appointed to a faculty, staff, and students—especially the second three-year term as Mentor UAB Department of Art and Art History Program Coordinator.

1 fall 2018 SECAC AWARDS PRESENTED positioning through artistic and cultural The 2018 SECAC Award for Excellence relations with South America.” in Teaching was awarded to Wendy DesChene, Professor of Art at Auburn The 2018 SECAC Award for University. This award is made in Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of was presented to recognition of outstanding teaching by a Historical Materials for In the Eyes of the SECAC member who demonstrates an Keri Watson Hungry: Florida’s Changing Landscape, exceptional command of his or her exhibited at the UCF Art Gallery and the discipline through the ability to teach Terrence Gallery at the Orlando City Hall effectively, impart knowledge, and inspire in 2017. This award recognizes an students. In bestowing the award, First exhibition (within the last two years) of Vice-President Lawrence Jenkens quoted historical materials, which by its design, the colleague who nominated DesChene installation, and/or catalog is considered for this recognition: “Wendy upholds an exemplary. The Awards Committee noted incredibly strong research record while that the exhibition, “Inspired by John committing a great deal of time to Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, brought teaching and providing her students with together historical and contemporary art opportunities to engage with the that contributes to conversations about community through outreach and enabling the impact of demographic, geographical, them to become young emerging and ecological shifts with an emphasis on professionals with her mentoring. She is human relationships with the tireless and remarkable!” environment.” The committee was particularly impressed by the scope of the The 2018 SECAC Award for Excellence exhibition and recognized Watson for her in Scholarly Research and Publication scholarship and for bringing together a was awarded to Olga U. Herrera, Director diverse range of objects and images. They of the Washington Office of the Inter- observed that, “In the context of the University Program for Latino Research politics and economics of food production, (IUPLR) headquartered at the University of this exhibition has real currency.” Houston. This award recognizes outstanding research shown in the recent The publication (within the last two years) of a 2018 SECAC Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of book, article or series of articles. Herrera Contemporary Materials was given to received the award for American Vesna Pavlovi´c, Associate Professor of Art Interventions and Modern Art in South at Vanderbilt University, for Vesna America, published by the University Press Pavlovi ´c ’s Lost Art. This award recognizes of Florida in 2017. The Awards Committee an exhibition (within the last two years) of was particularly impressed by the ambitious contemporary materials, which by its scope of this study and commended design, installation, and/or catalog is Herrera for, “Offering a paradigm shift in considered exemplary. The Awards our understanding of US global strategic Committee noted in particular the value of

2 fall 2018 the catalog, edited by Pavlovi´c and Morna THE 2018 WILLIAM R. LEVIN O’Neill, as it, “Contextualizes Pavlovi´c’s AWARD FOR RESEARCH IN photographs within the broader history of ART HISTORY art and the legacy of the Cold War in Andrew Wasserman, Visiting Assistant Eastern Europe.” They were especially Professor at the University of North impressed that the essays in the catalog, Carolina at Greensboro, won the 2018 “Offer accessible, provocative, and Levin Award for his project Bang! We’re All sophisticated insights into this artist’s Dead! The Places of Nuclear Fear in 1980s work and its impact on the viewer’s/ America which investigates public art, reader’s understanding of history, architecture, and urban design born of photography, display, memory, and nuclear fear in American cities between identity.” 1979 and 1991, the period bracketed by the partial meltdown of the reactor at the SECAC ARTIST’S Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating FELLOWSHIP 2018 Station and the formal dissolution of the From a wide array of excellent submissions, Soviet Union. Wasserman was selected as the Artist’s Fellowship Committee selected the fifth recipient of the Levin Award from My Other Body: Trans-Culture, Transgender a broad field of applicants whose Cuba/Alabama, an exhibition and innovative and varied proposals conversation on transgender and queer demonstrate the ongoing vigor of art rights in Cuba and Alabama, as the 2018 historical research among the SECAC Fellowship Award winner. This membership of SECAC. Thanks to the group endeavor will be undertaken by generosity of William R. Levin, Professor photographer Karen Graffeo, Professor of Emeritus at Centre College, Danville, Art at the University of Montevallo, author Kentucky, SECAC offers an award of an and photojournalist Julio Larramendi, annual total of $5,000 to one or more art photographer and editor at Ediciones historians who are members of the Polymita in Cuba, photographer Sonja organization. Dr. Levin has been a member Rieger, Professor of Photography at the of SECAC since 1987; served on the Board University of Alabama at Birmingham, and of Directors; published in the scholarly Alabama-based photographer and journal Art Inquiries; received the SECAC filmmakerCarolyn Sherer. The Fellowship Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research Committee was particularly impressed by and Publication in 2004; and been the combination of “deeply human recognized with two of the organization’s concerns” expressed in “strong images and highest honors, the Excellence in Teaching set within a meaningful context” of Award and the Exemplary Achievement narratives, interviews, and films.My Other Award. Body: Trans-Culture, Transgender Cuba/ Alabama will be on view at SECAC 2019 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

3 fall 2018 2019 SECAC AWARDS JUROR AWARDS ($300): Members are encouraged to nominate Joshua Brinlee, University of Mississippi, deserving individuals for future awards. for Self-Portrait as Provider, 2017 For the 2019 awards, the deadline for all Lily Kuonen, Jacksonville University, materials to be submitted is February 6, Hewn, 2017 2019, except for the Artist’s Fellowship Jessica Mongeon, Arkansas Tech and Levin Award. See the Awards page at University, for Drunken Trees: Permafrost https://secacart.org/page/awards for more Melts, Leaving Uneven Ground, 2017 information and submission guidelines. Duane Paxson, Independent Artist, for Denying Dendera, 2018 , University of SECAC 2018 ANNUAL John Douglas Powers Tennessee–Knoxville, for Terra Nuova, 2017 JURIED EXHIBITION The SECAC 2018 Annual Juried Exhibition GULNAR BOSCH TRAVEL AWARDS was held at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts and the University of The Gulnar Bosch Travel Awards provide Alabama at Birmingham. Juror Peter J. limited travel funds for select graduate Baldaia, Director of Curatorial Affairs at students whose papers or works have the Huntsville Museum of Art, described been accepted for juried presentation so his charge as follows: “I welcomed the that they can attend the SECAC Annual challenge of reviewing such a large and Meeting. It was Gulnar Bosch’s intent, diverse group of material with the aim through a bequest to SECAC, that interest of creating a kaleidoscopic yet cohesive generated from funds invested by SECAC showcase of current work from across the would be used to encourage graduate region and country. The submissions did student participation in SECAC and their not disappoint, with strong work evident future involvement in the organization. across a wide range of media. I was excited Gulnar Kheirallah Bosch served as SECAC to discover great pieces by artists with president in 1958 and often presented whom I was not familiar, alongside some papers at the annual meeting. She was born of the Southeast’s most recognizable in 1909 on the Oglala Sioux Reservation talents.” Of the 114 artists who submitted in South Dakota, where her father was a their work, 43 were selected to participate doctor. The family moved to Chicago where in the exhibition. Bosch completed high school at the age of 15, and after a time of extensive travel Awards made: and study, she returned to Chicago to earn BEST IN SHOW a doctorate from the Oriental Institute Stacy Isenberger, University of Idaho, for of the University of Chicago. Her college Over There To Here (Gatlinburg), 2018 teaching career began in 1941 at Florida State College of Women, now Florida State University, and following teaching appointments in Georgia and Louisiana, she

4 fall 2018 returned to Florida State in 1960 as head Kimiko Matsumura, Rutgers University of the art department, a post she held until Mary Mazurek, IDSVA 1977. Gulnar Bosch continued as an active , Case Western Reserve member of SECAC for many years following Reed O’Mara University her retirement. She died on October 9, 1998. Ellie Perendy, Baruch College The 2018 winners were: Kathleen Pierce, Rutgers University Virginia Badgett, Catherine Popovici, University of California, Santa Barbara The University of Texas at Austin Gráinne Coughlan, Ali Printz, Dublin Institute of Technology Tyler School of Art, Temple University Stephanie Crawford, Rutgers University Lily F. Scott, Temple University Erin Davenport, Roberta Serra, Université Paul Valéry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lauren Elizabeth Shea, Julia Detchon, University of Texas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Parissa Farmoudehyamcheh, Jeff Siemers, IDSVA Georgia Southern University Lauryn Smith, Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos, Case Western Reserve University Tyler School of Art, Temple University Tracy Spencer Stonestreet, Elyse D. Gerstenecker, Virginia Commonwealth University University of Virginia Sarah Tietje-Mietz, Syracuse University Caroline Gillaspie, The Graduate Center, CUNY Vanessa S. Troiano, The Graduate Center, CUNY Amy Catherine Hulshoff, University of New Mexico Angela Whitlock, IDSVA Manami Ishimura, Hayley Woodward, Tulane University Texas A&M Corpus Christi Ally Johnson, 2018 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BUSINESS MEETING Tacie Jones, Virginia Tech University Complete minutes are posted https:// secacart.org/page/BusinessMinutes. Holly Kelly, A summary of actions: University of Tennessee, Knoxville • A motion was made to amend Section Sharon Khalifa-Gueta, II of the SECAC Constitution in order Ben Gurion University of the Negev to define Adjunct/Independent Patricia Lagarde, Tulane University membership; the motion was seconded Mia Laufer, and approved by the membership. Washington University in St. Louis

5 fall 2018 • A motion was made to amend Section Student member registration rate: III of the SECAC Constitution; it early $95 | regular $110 | on-site $140 was seconded and approved by the Retired member registration rate: early membership. A summary of the changes $105 | regular $125 | on-site $150 made by this motion include: • Carolyn Porter Phinizy, Virginia • Adding the Conference Director(s), Commonwealth University, has been Chair of the Levin Award, and appointed Conference Director for Coordinator of the Mentor Program SECAC 2020 in Richmond. as Officers; • An invitation was accepted from the • Limiting the Executive Committee University of Kentucky for SECAC 2021. to: President, 1st Vice-President, 2nd • Future conference sites needed for 2022, Vice-President, Past-President; and 2024, and beyond. Secretary-Treasurer (which will be split into two positions at the 2019 meeting). The Conference Director 2019 BOARD OF will no longer be a member of the DIRECTORS ELECTION Executive Committee; Open seats for the ballot are: Arkansas (Dito Morales is eligible for re-election); • A motion was made to approve purchase Florida (Jeff Schwartz is eligible for of event and board insurance; the election); Mississippi (Kris Belden-Adams motion was seconded and approved by is eligible for re-election); Tennessee the membership. (Tony Morris is eligible for re-election); • A motion was made to move $50,000 and the At-Large #1 position (Dennis from SECAC’s money market account Ichiyama is eligible for re-election). Send to establish two endowments: $25,000 all nominations to 1st Vice President each to create the Artists Fellowship and Lawrence Jenkens at [email protected]. the Gulnar Bosch endowments, to which DEADLINE: January 15, 2019. we hope members may contribute to create fully functional endowments that SECAC 2019 fund these worthy grants. The motion The University of Tennessee at was seconded and approved by the Chattanooga is excited to host SECAC 2019 membership. at the Chattanoogan Hotel from October • It was announced that committees 16–19, 2019. The Conference draws on have been formed to develop a SECAC Chattanooga’s rich history as a regional member survey and to draft a statement crossroads to fulfill SECAC’s mission of on non-discrimination. promoting inclusive dialogue and fostering • Maximum rates approved for SECAC 2019: compelling avenues of exchange. Individual member registration rate: early $190 | regular $220 | on-site $280 All sessions will take place at the Chattanoogan Hotel, conveniently located Adjunct/Independent registration rate: in the heart of our lively downtown and early $130 | regular $175 | on-site $250

6 fall 2018 steps away from many cafes, restaurants, NEW SECAC WEBSITES and attractions. Centrally located in In 2018, SECAC launched a new southeastern Tennessee, our “Scenic City” submissions platform at https://secac. sits along the Tennessee River, tucked in secure-platform.com/a/organizations/ the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. main/home and migrated to a more Chattanooga was twice named “Best Town sophisticated membership platform Ever” by Outside Magazine and serves as at https://secacart.org/. If you need a destination for adventure seekers and assistance with either site, please contact outdoor enthusiasts. Also coined “Gig City,” SECAC Administrator Christine Tate at Chattanooga boasts the fastest internet [email protected] or 302-575-1575. in the nation, and the city prides itself on cultivating a spirit of entrepreneurship SECAC ON SOCIAL MEDIA and innovation. The Hunter Museum of American Art, outdoor sculpture park SECAC has a presence on Instagram, Sculpture Fields, and a growing gallery Twitter, and Facebook. Please follow us at scene also contribute to a burgeoning @secacart. Our Facebook page is open reputation for the arts in our city. and members are welcome to post content related to their professional interests— We are currently seeking proposals for including articles, news, and job postings. panels that speak to the diversity of The quality of the SECAC Facebook page research interests, theoretical questions, relies on diverse posts from our members so and professional criticisms that currently please include us in your social media plan. abound in studio art, design, and art history. We also encourage sessions that embrace SECAC INSTITUTIONAL alternate presentation formats, including MEMBERSHIPS performances, workshops, demonstrations, Institutional members play an important roundtables, and multimedia presentations. role for SECAC. For $150 annually, The call for session proposals is open institutional members receive job postings through January 2 at https://secac. at no additional cost, both on the SECAC secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/ website and in emails to members by home/4. Contact Conference Directors subscription, copies of Art Inquiries sent to Katie Hargrave and Christina Vogel at the member department and to the [email protected] with any questions. institution’s library, listing and linking on the SECAC website, listing in Art Inquiries SECAC 2020 and in the annual conference program, October 21–24, 2020 and one individual membership, a $70 Virginia Commonwealth University benefit. This means that one department (Richmond VA) designee may forego individual SECAC membership when utilizing his or her institution’s SECAC membership, making the difference for adding institutional benefits just $80.

7 fall 2018 A GREAT LOSS 2018, curated by Professor Gary Chapman Steve Gaddis, architect and dedicated at the Birmingham Public Library Art SECAC member, died at home peacefully Gallery, September 9–October 25, 2018. Her on December 12, 2018. He was the work is now on view through January 25, husband of SECAC Secretary-Treasurer, 2019, at the Birmingham Public Library Art Beth Mulvaney. His full obituary can be Gallery in the exhibition For Freedoms— read at: https://www.hallwynne.com/ Alabama ‘50 State Initiative, a non-partisan, steven-earl-gaddis/. Steve will be missed nationwide campaign to use art as a means by many SECAC colleagues. of inspiring civic participation in the 2018 mid-term election and beyond. NEWS OF MEMBERS Leda Cempellin has presented the paper A solo exhibition of sculpture by Michael “Intersections between Daniel Spoerri and Aurbach, Professor of Art, emeritus, Ray Johnson Within and Beyond Fluxus” Vanderbilt, was held at the University of at the Colloquium Daniel Spoerri’s North Carolina Wilmington from August Topographies: Networks of Exchange, 28–September 30, 2018. In October, held at the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de Aurbach participated on a panel dealing l’Art—DFK in October, 2018. Cempellin, with promotion, tenure, and peer reviews Professor in the History of Art and Design at the SECAC conference and in a critique at South Dakota State University, of student work at the University of represented the United States at this Kansas in Lawrence In November. He was international event, which included scholars a guest artist at Sterling College in Sterling, from Europe, Canada, and New Zealand. Kansas. In February, 2019, Aurbach will be a panelist on a session dealing with artistic In October, Professor of Art History at limits in the classroom at the College Art Arizona State University Julie Codell was Association conference in New York, where invited to conduct a seminar on visuality he will also conduct a studio art workshop for the North American Victorian Studies for those facing probationary reviews and Association conference in St. Petersburg, serve as a mentor in their Career FL, where she also organized a panel, Development Workshop. In March 2019, “Looking Outward, Past Seeing,” and Aurbach will be a guest artist at McPherson presented a paper, “Looking Outward College in McPherson, Kansas and at Within: Reverie and Rossetti’s Female Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. Figures.” In November, Codell gave a paper entitled “Back to the Pre-Raphaelite Work by Lanette Blankenship, art Future: Mutable Time, Suspended History instructor at Lawson State Community and the End of Progress” at the Victorian College, was seen at the exhibition Water of Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Alabama at Paperworkers Local’s gallery in Western United States in Palm Springs, CA. Birmingham, Alabama from August 23– October 11, 2018. Her paintings by were included in the exhibition Painters@UAB

8 fall 2018 Bridget Conn’s work was selected for operations the best among the Navy’s Size Matters, a juried exhibition organized large ships afloat world-wide. Craig’s as part of the Medium Festival of efforts (worthy of Corporal Klinger or Mr. Photography in San Diego, CA, and Roberts) are today referenced on a kiosk exhibited at Clamp Art in at the ship museum and are recounted in from October 20 through November 11. one of Craig’s essays in Red Rivers entitled Conn’s solo exhibition, Language “Interior Decorator for a Warship.” Acquisition, was on view at the Frances Sewell Plunkett Gallery of Mercer The University College Design Association University in Macon, GA from October 29 invited Virginia Tech Assistant Professor through November 30. Conn delivered a Meaghan Dee and University of South demonstration for students and a gallery Alabama Professor Diane Gibbs to speak talk open to the public on November 16. at the organization’s national conference Conn is an Assistant Professor of Art at in Grand Rapids, Michigan in September. Georgia Southern University in Savannah. Dee presented “Design for Immersive, Mixed, and Virtual Environments” and Robert M. Craig, Professor Emeritus “The Role of Graphic Design in Smart Built (Architectural History), Georgia Tech, has Environments,” and Gibbs presented edited and contributed essays and a poem “Using Analogies to Explain Design to to Red Rivers in a Yellow Field: Memoirs of Clients and Students” and “Design the Vietnam Era published by Hellgate Leaders: Why the Best Leaders Eat Last.” Press. The book is an illustrated anthology of memoirs written by 34 military veterans Work by Al Denyer was exhibited in the of the Vietnam Era, and includes (among following international juried exhibitions in Craig’s several contributions) an essay by 2018: II International Triennial of Graphic Craig on the Vietnam Wall. Professor Craig Arts in the Novosibirsk State Art Museum, (Lt., USN), served from 1968–70 aboard Russia; Inkmasters 2018 International the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11), Exhibition, Inkmasters Gallery, Cairns, now a national historic landmark and Australia; Abstraction At Large International docked in New York as the Intrepid Sea, Juried Exhibition, Site Brooklyn, NY; the Air, and Space Museum. As part of the Southern Printmaking Biennial VIII historic ship museum’s permanent exhibit International, Visual Arts Gallery, University on the life of sailors aboard the (now of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA, US; and 75-year old) carrier, curators have recently in the following 2018 national juried and reinstated features of the mess decks, which invitational exhibitions: Sitelines, Utah Craig redesigned in 1969–70 as theme Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; West, rooms, including a western room and Modern West Fine Art Gallery, Salt Lake “French café.” The carrier had just returned City, UT; the Valdosta National 2018, Dedo from three deployments in Vietnam, and Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, GA; Craig’s rehabilitation effort was recognized the 31st Annual McNeese Works on Paper at the time in the Ney Award competition, Exhibition, the Grand Gallery, McNeese which judged Intrepid’s food service State University, Lake Charles, LA. Her work

9 fall 2018 was recently included in the State of Utah Mary D. Edwards, Adjunct Professor with Art Collection, Salt Lake City. Denyer is Tenure at Pratt Institute, completed her Head of Painting and Drawing and entry, “Simone Martini,” for the editors of Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia Online at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. this past spring. In May she read a paper on the 14th-century cycle of St. James by Joelle Dietrick was awarded a North Altichiero and Avanzo in the Basilica of St. Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship jointly Anthony in Padua at the 53rd International with Owen Mundy. This fellowship supports Congress on Medieval Studies in many ongoing projects, including The Speed Kalamazoo in a session entitled Holy of Thinking, a mobile game and related Marketing. In October she presented a series of prints and animation. Upcoming paper at the 43rd Conference on Patristic, related events include an installation at Penn Medieval and Renaissance Studies at State University (October 2018–October Villanova University on these same 2019), Joelle’s Fulbright to Hong Kong frescoes showing how they reflect the life (December 2018), and their exhibition at the of the patron, Bonifazio Lupo. Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University in Philadelphia, opening Wednesday, February Christine Filippone has published the 13, 2019 with a panel discussion with Drexel following essays: “Alice Aycock: Systems of Professor Mimi Sheller and Frank Lee and Energy”, Sculpture magazine (March University of Pennsylvania Professor Daniel 2018); “For the Blood of Gaia: Betsy Aldana Cohen. Joelle is a professor at Damon’s Quest for Living Water”, Woman’s Davidson College near Charlotte, NC. Art Journal (Spring 2018); and “Patricia Johanson: Ecological Practice as Craig Drennen was a recipient of a 2018 Conceptual Art”, (reprint) Center for Guggenheim Fellowship award. Drennen is Sustainable Practice in the Arts Quarterly an Associate Professor at Georgia State (Spring 2018). She has also begun a new University in . area of research on the role of cybernetics and systems theory in Latin American In October, Heather Dunn presented a conceptual art and gave the paper, paper entitled “Graffiti, Street Art, “Desalineación as Open System in Technology, & Fashion” at LIM College’s Tucumán Arde: The Disruption of Fashion Now & Then Annual Conference in Informational Circuits as Social New York, and had two sculptural works Transformation,” at the conference for the accepted to Blot, curated by Brad Adams, Society for Literature, Science, and the at the Moon Gallery, Mount Berry, GA. Her Arts (SLSA), in Tempe, AZ in November essay, “Street Art, Political Activism, and 2017. In January of 2018, she became Surveillance” will be included in The Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Revolution Will Be Live! Social Practice Art in Studies, a role she relishes. Filippone is Turbulent Times, edited by Kristina Olson Associate Professor of Art History at and Eric Schruers, forthcoming from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Routledge. Dunn is an instructor at IDSVA.

10 fall 2018 Ruthann Godollei was awarded a Fulbright Yale University Press has published Research Chair in printmaking at the Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada for Artists in Paris between the Wars by Michele 2018–2019. Godollei is the Wallace Greet, President of the Association for Professor of Art at Macalester College. Latin American Art and Director of the Art History Program at George Mason Since September, 2018, work by Reni University. Routledge has published Art Gower, Professor, Painting and Printmaking Museums of Latin America: Structuring Department, Virginia Commonwealth Representation, co-edited by Greet and University, has been featured in solo Gina M. Tarver, in the imprint’s series, exhibitions at Tony Hungerford Memorial Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions. Gallery, College of Southern Maryland, LaPlata, MD (Proof Perfect) and the Bloomsbury published Daniel Haxall’s Gorevin Gallery, Cabrini University, Radnor, edited volume, Picturing the Beautiful PA, (Tiles and Tessellations). A two-person Game: A History of Soccer in Visual exhibition with VCU professor Jorge Culture and Art. Haxall is Professor of Art Benitez (Knotworks) is planned for History and Chair of the Department of Art December at Offsite Gallery, Norfolk, VA. & Art History at Kutztown University. Gower’s artwork is featured nationally at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Lawrence Jenkens, Associate Dean of the Birmingham, AL; Academy Center of the College of the Visual and Performing Arts Arts, Lynchburg, VA; and the Frederick O. at the University of North Carolina at Watson Gallery, Naples Art Association, Greensboro, has been appointed Interim Naples, FL. Showings in 2019 are planned Dean of the same unit beginning on for A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina January 1, 2019. Pembroke, Pembroke, NC; Charles W. Lamar Studio Gallery, Pensacola State College, An exhibition of digital prints by Jerry Pensacola, FL; and the Eleanor D. Wilson Johnson, Professor of Design at Troy Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA. University, is now on display through Geometric Aljamia: A Cultural December 2018 at the TROY Phenix City Transliteration will travel to The Phillips Riverfront Campus in A Joyous Exchange: Museum, Franklin & Marshall College, The Art of Collaboration. The exhibition is Lancaster, PA in January. Gower and Benitez the culmination of a six-year collaboration will conduct a collaborative workshop there. between Johnson and his colleague at Compulsory Measures will also launch in Troy, musician/writer Diane Orlofsky. January at the Esther Prangley Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD. Gower During the summer of 2018, Tacie Jones will co-moderate the session, “Art Happens: received a grant to help develop Longevity to Legacy” at the 2019 College curriculum for the emerging Creative Art Association conference in February in Technologies + Experiences minor at New York. Virginia Tech. In September 2018, she was awarded funding for the transdisciplinary

11 fall 2018 project Memory Bank, which uses EEG Facing Pilgrimage: Tenon Head Sculptures technology in an interactive art at the Ceremonial Center of Chavín de installation. Jones’s video and projection Huántar, Peru. Lagarde is a PhD Candidate mapping were recently on view at the and Instructor at Tulane University. Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech and the Airlift + Vaporware Carnival Ball, in New William R. Levin (Centre College, Orleans. Jones is currently dually enrolled in emeritus) authored “The Bigallo Triptych: A the MFA in Creative Technologies and the Document of Confraternal Charity in Human-Centered Design interdisciplinary Fourteenth-Century Florence” in PhD programs at Virginia Tech. Confraternitas, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 55-101, with eight reproductions. The Sharon Khalifa-Gueta, a doctoral article considers the style, form, content, candidate and Rotenstreich Scholar at commission, and purpose of a long- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, recognized masterpiece of early Italian recently published three items: a Machar- painting within the theological climate of its Award winning article entitled “Leonardo’s time, and is also available online at https:// Dragons—The ‘Rider Fighting a Dragon’ jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/confrat/ Sketch as an Allegory of Leonardo’s article/view/29895. The journal is published Concept of Knowledge,” in Explorations in by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Culture, Spring 2018; “The Renaissance Studies on behalf of the Rising of the Soul in the Fresco from the Society for Confraternity Studies, both Sleeping Chambers in a Villa from headquartered at the University of Toronto. Boscotrecase of Pompeii,” in Historia, July, 2018; and “The Evolution of the Western Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor at Dragon,” in Athens Journal of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has Mediterranean Studies, October, 2018. a print of a ring-tailed lemur with the head of Charles Darwin in Animalis, a national Sarah Kleinman is a Fulbright Fellow in juried exhibition at Manifest Gallery in Trinidad & Tobago, where she is Cincinnati, November 9–December 7, conducting research for her forthcoming 2018. He also has a print in the Pacific dissertation, The Curatorial Practice and States Printmaking Biennial in Hilo Hawaii Exhibitions of Kynaston McShine, 1966– from November 2–December 28, 2018. 1971. Kleinman, a PhD candidate in the Lyons is presenting “Printmaking, Department of Art History at Virginia Pedagogy, and Public Discourse,” featuring Commonwealth University, is also the several recent public service class projects recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine for the poster sessions at the 2019 College Arts (VMFA) Graduate Fellowship in Art Art Association conference in New York. History for the 2018–2019 academic year. Jennifer McComas’s exhibition, Patricia Lagarde was awarded a Americans Abroad: Landscape and Artistic Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Exchange, 1800-1920, opened at the Research Abroad Grant for her dissertation Tsinghua University Art Museum in Beijing

12 fall 2018 on September 20, 2018. Throughout 2018, Art History, University of Miami was McComas participated in the German/ published in Source: Notes in the History American Provenance Research Exchange of Art, Spring 2018. Program for Museum Professionals. McComas is Curator of European and Roberta Serra’s essay on the Union des American Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs, for the Art, Indiana University. catalog of the exhibition Virginie Demont- Breton, at the Fine Arts Museum of Choice, the journal of the Association of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France was published in College and Research Libraries, will the journal Invenit. Serra is a lecturer at Paul publish an essay by Travis Nygard and Valéry University of Montpellier, France and Lauren S. Weingarden entitled “Cognitive main curator of the Historical Archives of and Neuroscientific Approaches to the the Pericle Fazzini Foundation in Rome. Arts,” in their December issue. Nygard is an Associate Professor of art history at Ripon The University of South Carolina press College and Weingarden is a Professor of published Selling Andrew Jackson: Ralph art history at Florida State University. E. W. Earl and the Politics of Portraiture by Rachel Stephens. Stephens is an John Ott received a 2018-19 Project Assistant Professor of Art History at The Development Grant from the American University of Alabama and currently a Council of Learned Societies for the book Tyson Fellow at Crystal Bridges Museum of project Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures American Art. of Racial Integration, 1931–1954. His essay “Metropolitan, Inc.: Public Subsidy and Mary Stewart has recently retired from Private Gain at the Genesis of the American full-time teaching at Florida State Art Museum” appeared in New York, University. In November, she completed Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age, edited a month-long artist’s residency at Jentel by Margaret R. Laster and Chelsea Bruner in Wyoming, resulting in five 32” x 96” and published by Routledge. Ott is a digital murals. Professor of Art History at James Madison University. Wanda Sullivan, Professor of Fine Arts at Spring Hill College, had ten paintings in 2Leaf Press/The University of Chicago Raise 251 at the Alabama Contemporary Press published Claire Millikin Raymond’s Art Center in Mobile, AL. In addition, she book, Substance of Fire: Gender and Race had a painting accepted to the B18 in the College Classroom. Raymond is a Wiregrass Biennial at the Wiregrass Lecturer for the Program in Art History at Museum of Art in Dothan, AL, was the University of Virginia. included in the group exhibition, Process, at Berry College’s Moon Gallery in Rome, “Saints Bovu and Eligius in a Sixteenth- GA, and had one painting in When the Century Altarpiece from the Piedmont” by Winters Were Still Really Cold at the Perri Lee Roberts, Professor Emeritus of Usable Space Gallery in Milwaukee, WI.

13 fall 2018 Illustrations by Marius Valdes were SECAC AT CAA selected for American Illustration 37, Rachel Stephens, University of Alabama, published in November, 2018. Valdes is an will chair the SECAC affiliate session, Associate Professor at The University of Below the Mason-Dixon Line: Artists and South Carolina. Historians Considering the South, at the CAA Annual Conference. The session will Drake University Assistant Professor of be held in the New York Hilton Midtown Graphic Design Neil Ward has completed Rendezvous Trianon room on Friday, the first season of Tell It To Neil, a podcast February 15, 2019 at 2 pm. Discussion will exploring design educators’ paths to tenure. follow these presentations: “Between Two It is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Worlds: Portrait of William McIntosh, Google Play Music, Spotify, Tune In, blubrry, Southern Slave Owner and Lower Creek and on TellitToNeil.com/interviews. Chief” by Naomi Hood Slipp, Auburn University at Montgomery; “Where You AFFILIATE NEWS Come From is Gone: Reinhabiting the FATE’s 17th Biennial Conference, Ruins of the Native South” by Catherine J. Foundations in Flux, will be hosted by Wilkins, University of South Florida and Columbus College of Art & Design in Jared Ragland, University of Alabama at Columbus, Ohio on April 4th-6th, 2019. Birmingham; “Louisiana Trail Riders” by FATE’s 2019 National Juried Members Jeremiah A. Ariaz, Louisiana State Exhibition is now accepting submissions. University; “Menace and Glory: An Artist Please consider applying with your artwork Comes to Grips with the South’s by December 15th, 2018. The prospectus Checkered Past” by Kristin M. Casaletto, and link to apply are found on the Augusta University; and “Nostos Algos: A conference website at https://www. Collaboration about Return” by artist Nell foundations-art.org/conference. Gottlieb.

This exhibition will be held at the Angela SECAC Past President and Representative Meleca Gallery (one block from the to CAA Jason Guynes, University of conference hotel) and will include artwork Alabama, will lead the 2019 Business informed by the FATE conference theme Meeting on Saturday, February 16, 2019 of Flux. A broad range of materials, media, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in the New York styles and interpretations are encouraged Hilton Midtown Bryant Suite. All members surrounding the ideas of flux, change, are encouraged to attend. evolution, growth, shifting paradigms and/ or reinvention. The juror will be Michael Goodson, Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

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Charles (Randy) Mack, long-time SECAC Toward a Contextual Understanding member and past president of the (University of Michigan Press, 2005), organization, died in Columbia, SC on Talking with the Turners: Conversations October 31, 2018. He was 78. with Southern Folk Potters (USC Press, 2006), European Art in the Columbia Mack received his bachelor’s degree Museum of Art, Including the Samuel H. in history from the University of North Kress Collection: The Thirteenth Through Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1962, and his Ph.D. the Sixteenth Century, (USC Press, 2009), in Art History from the same institution as well as the co-authored The Roman in 1973. He joined the Department of Art Remains: John Izard Middletons’s Visual of the University of South Carolina in Souvenirs of 1820-23 (USC Press, 1997). 1970 as a specialist in Italian Renaissance He was the author of numerous chapters, and Ancient Art and Architecture and essays, and articles appearing in regional, was promoted to Professor in 1985. He national, and international publications, was appointed the William Joseph Todd including several (co-authored with his Professor of the Italian Renaissance in wife Ilona Schulze Mack) on German folk 1992, and also was a Louise Fry Scudder pottery and decorated European Professor of Liberal Arts. Mack’s teaching enamelwares. He also co-edited (with and research interests were broad, Ilona Schulze Mack) Like a Sponge Thrown extending to the history of drawing and into Water: Francis Lieber’s European printmaking, the history of American and Travel Journal of 1844-1845 (USC Press, German ceramics, and travel accounts 2005) and Francis Lieber and the Culture of 19th-century Americans in Europe. of the Mind (USC Press, 2005). In 2004, he was the recipient of the University of South Carolina’s Educational Mack joined SECAC in 1970 and played an Foundation’s Award for Research in the active role in the organization, serving Humanities and Social Sciences. At his twice as president, first in 1975-76, and retirement in 2005, in recognition of his again in 2003-05, as vice-president in enthusiasm for teaching and of his thirty- 2000-03, and as board member from five years of service to the University of 1984-90. He also co-edited the SECAC South Carolina, the Department of Art Review (1973-75) and chaired the Annual established an undergraduate art history Meeting in 1976. He attended his first scholarship in his name. SECAC Annual Meeting in 1972 and thereafter was faithful in his attendance, His books on art historical subjects include missing only one meeting (when on Pienza: The Creation of a Renaissance sabbatical leave in Italy) until prevented City (Cornell University Press, 1987), from attending by declining health in Looking at the Renaissance: Essays 2005. Over the years, he presented

15 fall 2018 sixteen papers and chaired ten sessions at in-law, Russell H. Daniels, and grandchild SECAC Annual Meetings, and nine of his Gabriele Nicole Daniels, all of Columbia. articles appeared in the SECAC Review. In 1993, he received SECAC’s Award for A memorial service will be held at Rutledge Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of Chapel of the University of South Carolina Historical Materials for Paper Pleasures: at a later date. Donations in his memory Five Centuries of Drawings and may be made to the Charles R. Mack Watercolors, and in 1998 he was the Undergraduate Art History Scholarship recipient of the Annual Award for Scholarly Fund at the USC Department of Art or to Research and Publication for the book The the national Parkinson’s Foundation. Roman Remains: John Izard Middletons’s Visual Souvenirs of 1820–23. He received SECAC will honor the memory of this the SECAC Award of Distinction in 2004. beloved and caring member at the 2019 conference through a donation, its Surviving are his wife Ilona Schulze Mack, publications, and dedicated sessions. their daughter, Katrina Mack Daniels, son-

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