2018-19 Newsletter

2018-19 NEWSLETTER Dear Friends and Colleagues: Hollis Clayson’s latest book, Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the After more than two terms as chair, Belle Époque, was published by the Professor Jesús Escobar went on University of Chicago Press. Emeritus a well-earned research leave and Professor David Van Zanten was named handed me the key to the chair’s a Fellow of the Society of Architectural office. Although things were rosy Historians. Rebecca Zorach’s book Art when I was merely “incoming,” the for People’s Sake: Artists and Community first thing I encountered as chair was in Black Chicago, 1965–1975 was a newly imposed, university-wide published by Duke University Press. regime of fiscal austerity. Fortunately Ann Gunter’s 700-page Companion our dedicated and creative staff, Mary to the Art of the Ancient Near East, an Clare Meyer and Mel Keiser, collaborat- edited volume that she organized, ed with me to devise ways to maintain shaped, and to which she contributed our student-first values under the new was released by Wiley-Blackwell. Books constraints. by several other faculty members are in the hands of publishers so we Nothing, however, could have prepared should have a similarly extensive list to us for the devastating loss of our celebrate next year. third-year graduate student, Sasha Novozhenova, at the end of January. Three grad students completed their It was a shock that still reverber- Ph.D.s this year: Douglas Gabriel, ates among students and faculty. It Ashley Dunn, and Aisha Motlani. C.C. casts a lingering shadow even over McKee, a Ph.D. candidate, will the astounding successes of our join the Department of the History of undergraduate majors, graduate Art at Bryn Mawr College, and alumna students, and faculty. Despite it all or Zirwat Chowdhury (Ph.D. 2012) was perhaps because of it all, we cannot named Assistant Professor in help feeling especially proud of their Chair's letter continued on page 11 accomplishments. This year's faculty highlights include FACULTY NEWS 2 the investiture of Krista Thompson STAFF NEWS 11 as the Mary Jane Crowe Chair in Art EVENTS 12 History, celebrated on April 30. Huey PROGRAMMING 15 Copeland received the High Museum’s IN MEMORIAM 16 David C. Driskell Prize for African- GRADUATE NEWS 17 UNDERGRADUATE NEWS 22 American Art History and the Arthur ALUMNI NEWS 24 Andersen Teaching and Research UPCOMING EVENTS 28 Professorship here at Northwestern. of Contents Table Faculty News S. Hollis Clayson program, followed by service as Faculty in Chicago and Evanston. A mid-June Host on a 10-day Alumni Travel trip, celebration of the book takes place in “Rivieras and Islands: France Italy London (IAS UCL) followed by a lecture Spain.” The highpoints were visits to at the University of Nottingham. Bonifacio, Lucca, and Cinque Terre. She The Arts Club of Chicago is hosting a was back in Paris mid-November to mid-July salute. On campus, her spring participate in the “Impressionisme Noir” seminar studying World's Fairs (1851- symposium at the Centre Allemand. 1939) attracted 22 students, and she Mid-February found her in San Marino oversaw the Honors Colloquium and serving on a Huntington Fellowship the NAR Art Career Panel as Director of Committee. In March, she keynoted the Undergraduate Studies. She presented MAHS conference in Cincinnati, and new research at the department Spring participated in the Morisot Exhibition Colloquium in mid-May alongside Ph.D. Study Day and Symposium at the Dallas candidate, Aisha Motlani, who defended Museum of Art. She was in Philadelphia her dissertation with distinction in mid-April as the moderator of the late June. Ashley Dunn defended her “Impressionism Around the World” dissertation in April. Congratulations, symposium sponsored by the PMA Ashley and Aisha! and Penn. An essay on the Eiffel Tower appeared in nonsite.org #27, an issue dedicated to new work on 19th-century Professor Clayson discovering the Art A packed year began with Hollis art. Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Institute of Chicago is just like the Eiffel Clayson's late September lectures Lighting in the Belle Époque (University of Tower. in Paris for Northwestern's ALCET Chicago Press) was launched at events Huey Copeland During his leave in 2018-19, Huey new projects by curator Meg Onli and Art at Bryn Mawr College. In the fall, Copeland's research and writing artist Steffani Jemison in the pages of Copeland looks forward to returning to were supported by l'École des Hautes Artforum. He also had the opportunity campus where he will serve as interim Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), to present his scholarship at venues Director of the Black Arts Initiative. Paris where he was a Visiting Professor ranging from the Los Angeles Museum in November at the invitation of Anne of Contemporary Art to the Centre for Lafont; and the Hutchins Center for Humanities Research at South Africa's African and African American Research University of the Western Cape. In April at Harvard University where he spent he was thrilled to receive the David C. Spring semester as a Cohen Fellow. Driskell Prize in African American Art Thanks to this support, he completed and Art History from the High Museum a full draft of his book, "Touched by of Art and to learn that his advisee, C.C. the Mother: On Black Men, Artistic McKee, had garnered a tenure-track Practice, and Other Feminist Horizons, post as Assistant Professor of History of 1966-2016" (University of Chicago Press). At the same time, Copeland continued to explore the transformative work of Professor Copeland (center) in front of Harvard University's Ethelbert Cooper black women cultural practitioners, Gallery with fellow Hutchins Center both in researching his next Fellows Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun monograph, "In the Shadow of the (left) and Matthew Morrison (right). Negress," and in engaging ambitious 2 Faculty News Stephen Eisenman Stephen F. Eisenman was on leave two Bills) at Princeton, the University of their environmental non-profit, Winter and Spring, 2018-19, but in of Michigan, and the University of Anthropocene Alliance. “Aa House” as it Fall taught a seminar on William Morris San Diego. He published essays and is called, is also their part-time home. and Ecology, the prequel to his Summer reviews on Charles White, Eugene He recently mounted a small exhibition Seminar in England this August. That Delacroix, and others in Art in America. Coe/Goya/Blake there. trip will feature visits to major design He is currently collaborating with John collections in London, with field trips to Murphy (Ph.D. 2018) on a book about see Morris (and Phillip Webb) designed Blake, Morris and E.P. Thompson. houses in Essex, Oxfordshire and West Eisenman and his wife have also just Sussex. Eisenman also lectured on completed the building and furnishing William Blake and William Morris (the of the new, Florida headquarters Professor Eisenman’s Florida headquarters of the environmental non-profit, Anthropocene Alliance. Jesús Escobar Jesús Escobar spent the academic Curves of an Art Historical Concept” year on research leave based at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in primarily in Chicago, where he refined Florence. He continued his work as a book manuscript about government Editor for the Penn State University architecture in seventeenth-century Press series, Buildings, Landscapes, and Madrid that will be delivered to his Societies, reviewing proposals and editor in August. During the year, acquiring one new book project, as Escobar also traveled to Madrid, Seville, well as ongoing editorial duties for the Santiago de Compostela, and Rome Grove Encyclopedia of Latin American Art to undertake archival research for a which is scheduled to go to press in new project exploring architectural 2020. exchange in the transatlantic empire of the Spanish Habsburgs. In February, he delivered a response for the National Professor Escobar along the bank of the Committee for the History of Art Aare River in Solothurn, Switzerland. session at the CAA Annual Conference Photo: Lynn Hammel. in New York and, in June, spoke at the conference “Baroque to Neo-Baroque: 3 Faculty News Hannah Feldman work on several projects, including a book Talk about When We Talk about Time.” about globalization, temporality, and Throughout the year, Feldman continued historiography in relationship to art and her tenure as Affiliate Faculty/Scholar aesthetic discourse in the contemporary in Residence at the CORE Program. Middle East. She spent a chilly spring in She was especially proud to see Katie Paris as an invited senior researcher at Rothstein, whom she co-advised with the Institut national d'histoire de l'art Hollis Clayson, graduate with honors where she finished a project about urban and the Carson Webster Prize for her and museological memorializations of thesis on Aline Saarinen. Finally, she is the Algerian Revolution in Algiers. She extremely proud of her advisee Douglas delivered lectures and keynotes at several Gabriel, who defended his extraordinary institutions, including Université Paris III, dissertation on North and South Korean University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Art and heads to Harvard University as a Hannah Feldman began the the American University of Beirut, the postdoctoral fellow. academic year on the heels of having Sharjah Art Foundation, the Glassell taught the glorious first year Summer School of Art, and chaired a panel on “The Seminar in Beirut (page 15). Fall was spent Illusory People of Europe” at the ASAP Writer Yasmine El Rashidi, curator in residence, teaching and serving as annual meeting. Publications included Omar Kholeif, writer Tarek El-Ariss, Director of Undergraduate Studies before “Before the After There Was Then,” about and Professor Feldman at the March sabbatical in Winter and Spring.

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