@w Departmentof Art History Newsletter Spring2006 Vol.11

':. ir* +-h- -" Chair's Letter Adjunctprofessorship at Delawareand will continueto advise %..F: and co-advisehis DelawarePh.D students.

Our faculty* severalmembers of which were out on DearAlumni and Friendsof the Departmentof Art Historyat prestigiousfellowships for part of last year - was backfull "wholeness" the Universityof Delaware, steam in the Fall. This generateda nicefeeling of but one that is not goingto lastfor long. BothAnn Gibsonand year year The academic 2005-06marks the second of my PerryChapman are goingto be awayagain in Springand Fall tenureas ActingChair. ProfessorBernard Herman has been 2006with Guggenheimgrants, and LawrenceNees is planning appointedby the Deanas Chairbeginning in September2006. to take a whole sabbaticalyear off to devoteto his researchin 2006-2007. I use this opportunityto thankthe followingamong my for their colleagues supportand excellentwork on behalfof our Just as in years past,our currentlecture series, the resultof program: ProfessorLauren Petersen, Associate Chair and the hardwork of a graduatestudent committee advised by ProfessorDavid Stone, Graduate Studies Director. Professor Professor:Monica Dominguez Torres, features a set of LindaPellecchia worked ably and hardas Directorof distinguishedspeakers. They include,among others, Sarah Undergraduate Studies. Greenough,Curator and Headof the Departmentof Photographsat the NationalGallery who offeredthe Williaml. I am veryhappy to announcethe additionof a new memberto Homerlecture in Photographyin the Fall,an annualevent (Ph.D. our faculty,Professor Vimalin Rujivacharakul Berkeley) madepossible by the generosityof Charleslsaacs and Carol joining (seep.2). pre-doctoral who will be us in Spring2006 A Nigro. In the springwe lookforward to anotherdistinguished past year, Gettyfellow during the Dr. Rujivacharakulis a native speaker,Oleg Grabar,professor emeritus of lslamicArt at the of Thailand.With recentfaculty hires specializing in varieties Institutefor AdvancedStudy in Princeton.Grabar will deliver fields, of non-westernart historical includingAfrican and Latin the Wayne CravenAnnual Lectureon the subjectof "Shared American Vimalin's art, specialresearch interest, Chinese Objects:7-Bth Century Silver from the Atlanticto the Pacificand further architecture,expands even the scopeof our course the Originsof lslamicArt." We are thankfulto BillAllen for his in fulfillment global offerings of our department'sall-embracing, supportover the yearsfor this lecture. visionof art history. Entering GraduateStudents Lookingahead, we are eagerlyanticipating the presence amongus of ProfessorAlan Wallach as DistinguishedVisiting Professorof AmericanArt in Spring2006. As a searchfor a scholarin Americanart beginsin the Fallof 2006to replace professorMichael Leja, we are delightedto be able to invite anothersenior Americanist to offer a graduateseminar next year. ProfessorElizabeth Johns, Professor Emerita of the Historyof Art at the Universityof Pennsylvania,has accepted our offerto join our departmentin Fall2006 as Distinguished VisitingProfessor of AmericanArt. ProfessorJohns is known for her path breakingscholarship on a numberof subjects relatingto 19tncentury American art and culture,including two prizewinningbooks, one on ThomasEakins, the otheron Americangenre painting. The topicof her seminarfor our department,Genre in AmericanArt from the lgth to the Earty 20thCentu4y, taps on researchstemming from that book and Bottom Left to Right: SarahRuhland, Jessica Waldmann, more recentresearch she is conductingin relationto a major Tess Schwab,Jennifer Kozerawski Top Left to Right: exhibitionin New York. Professor Leja,now at the University lsabelleHavet, Stephanie Lambe, Catherine Reed, Sarah of Pennsylvania,is thankfullynot too far away. He holdsan Rector An exceptionallydynamic group of new graduatestudents, eightin all,have joined the departmentbringing in their enthusiasmand fresh ideas. Amongthe moreseasoned group of oldergraduates, several are makingtheir markon the professionalscene. Janet Dees has been selectedto representthe departmentin the graduatesymposium held at the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art; lsabelleLachat will be our speakerat the Mid-AtlanticSymposium in April. I am delighted to announce,moreover, that the recipientof the first SewellC. Biggsaward - a fellowshipthat partlysupports students who will be completingtheir dissertationwithin the awardyear - is our very own Teresa Nevins. Terri is finishinga dissertationon a 9tn-centuryilluminated manuscript under the supervisionof professorLawrence Nees.

It is a pleasure,finally, to announceanother addition to our department,Ms. TracieAlbanese who joined our officestaff this semester. Traciereplaces Tina Trimblewho movedup to the full-timeadministrative position left vacant by the retirement of CarolynRifino. Her presencein the officeadds to our sense Dawn Morehouseand Dr. PerryChapman of privilegefor havingsuch an efficientand helpfulstaff to help us all along,indeed wonderfully, headed as alwaysby Eileen Larson. Eileen'schange of lastname, by the way, is the result of a happyevent: last springEileen married Marty Larson. Congratulations!

Lastly,on December7 our annualholiday party brought us togetheronce againwith good food, and the warmthand good spiritthat is so distinctiveof our professionaland intellectual partnership.

With warmestwishes, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer

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EileenLarson, Dr. NinaAthanassoglou-Kallmyer and Janet Dees

Dr.Wendy Bellion and son Luke holdsa Master'sin Architecturefrom the Universityof Michigan New Faculty Profile at Ann Arbor,and a Bachelor'sin Architecturewith High Honorsfrom ChulalongkornUniversity in Thailand.

Vimalin RujivacharakuI In April 2006, ProfessorRujivacharakul is co-chairinga session titled"Architecture, Anime, and AlternateLandscape" for the ProfessorVimalin Annual Meetingof the Societyof ArchitecturalHistorians. Rujivacharakulwill Delaware'sundergraduates are lookingforward to Professor join the facultythis Rujivacharakul'sspring lecture course, The Historyof springfollowing a Architecture,while graduatestudents are eagerlyawaiting a one-yearPre- seminaron Theoriesand Methodsof Non-Western doctoralResidential Architecturescheduled for the followingacademic year. She "looking Getty Research will be movingto Newarkin Januaryand is fonryardto Fellowshipat the joiningthe intellectualcommunity at the Universityof Getty Research Delaware." Institutein Southern AnnieCounter California. Professor Rujivacharakul's area of specializationis the historyand theoryof architecture. She previouslytaught courses in the art historydepartment at Faculty News the Universityof Californiaat Berkeleyon the historyof d.r'! architectureand urbanism. ProfessorRujivacharakul has held researchpositions at the NeedhamResearch Institute at the NinaAthanassoglou-Kal lmyer Universityof Cambridge,the Insti,tuteof ModernChinese Nina Kallmyercontinues for a secondyear as Acting Chair. ArchitecturalHistory and HistoricPreservation at Tsinghua Her impressionsfrom one year of chairingwere positive. University,and the lnstituteof EastAsian Studiesat the Undoubtedlythis is a demandingposition that taps skills much Universityof Californiaat Berkeley, She also co-organizedthe differentfrom those traditionallyexpected from a strictly exhibitionChrnese-styte Brackef Sysfems at the Universityof academicjob. Surprisingly,however, she finds that chairing Californiaat Berkeley. and scholarshipare not so far apart,indeed they have one "Architects (unexpected)feature in common:they are both incentivesthat VimalinRujivacharakul's publications include and rely on imaginativeand creativethinking. the Game of Heroicization:The Rise of Architectural Professionin China,1840s-1949i in Ciflesin Motion,eds. In betweengoing to meetingsand signingletters, therefore, ShermanCochran, David Strand, and Wen-HsinYeh "Reread she pursuedher currentresearch on Classicismand modern (forthco mi ng ; ing Chi nese Architectu ral Histo ) ry: art relentlessly.Several talks resultedfrom it: a CAA Cross-CulturalReading of the Riseof ChineseArchitecture, presentationin February;a presentationat the annualmeeting 1860s-1930s,"in WorldAnthology of ArchitecturalHistory, eds. of the Associationof Art Historiansin Bristol(England) in April; PaulaLupkin and ParkerJames (forthcoming); as wellas "Twentieth a lectureat BrownUniversity in May; and a lectureat the entriesfor CenturyArchitecture in Bangkok"and AmericanSchool of ClassicalStudies in Athens (Greece)in "Baiyok Tower," in Encyclopediaof Twentieth-Century November2005. At the same time, two of her essays Architecture(Chicago, London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2003). She "The appearedin the collectedpapers of past conferences,Re- is currentlypreparing articles titled Emperor,the Jesuits, 'China penserla Restaurationand Paris 1820,both held in Paris and a Concubine:Contested Meanings of and the West' "Toyo (France). She has just sent in the manuscriptfor yet another in Early ModernArchitecture," and Dongyang:Japanese paperto be publishedin a volumeof essaysfrom a conference ArchitecturalHistorians and the Searchfor'Oriental' Roots in "Preserve held in Torontoon the theme of the Mediterraneanin the China,"and China:Meanings of a Templeand Sino- modernartistic imag inary. JapanesePolitics of Historicization."

Exhibitionsalso becamea focus of her activitiesthis year and ProfessorRujivacharakul has just receivedher Ph.D.from the for the year to come. Part of her contributionto the exhibition Universityof Californiaat Berkeley,where she wrote a "The The Legacy of Homer. Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole dissertationtitled Riseof ChineseArchitecture: Cross- Nationaledes BeauxArts, jointly on displayat the Dahesh CulturalStudies and the Makingof ModernKnowledge." She Museum(New York) and the Art Museum(Princeton has been awardedfellowships from numerousinstitutions "Possessing University),included a talktitled Home/'in a besidesthe Getty,including the Societyof Architectural symposiumheld at PrincetonUniversity in October2005. In Historiansand UC Berkeley.Vimalin Rujivacharakul also Housea 2006,she will be offeringlectures at the SmithsonianInstitution to speakabout the futureof the field at the Reynold a session and at the NationalGallery in conjunctionwith the museum's Museumof AmericanArt. She also organized "Figuring meetingof majorshow C|zanne in Provenceand will be coordinatinga entitled Washington"for the third biennial presented relatedsymposium. In Fall2006, she will alsobe partof a the Societyof EarlyAmericanists. This fall, she "lnvisibleLady" - a symposiumcelebrating the show'sEuropean opening in Aix- materialfroma book chapterabout the America- en-Provence,C6zanne's home town' wildlypopular illusionistic spectacle in Jeffersonian to the women's studies departmentat UD and the columbia Universityseminar on EarlyAmerican History. In December, she was invitedto presentnew researchon iconoclasmduring the AmericanRevolution as partof a conferenceinaugurating the new McNeilcenter for EarlyAmerican studies buildingat the Universityof Pennsylvania.This spring,she'll be speaking at cAA; as part of the ThomasJefferson Distinguished Lecture Seriesat the Universityof Virginia;and as a respondentat the fourthannual Emerging Scholars symposium, organized by the center for Materialculture studies and co-chairedby UD art historygraduate student Lori Miller.

Hilton Brown ProfessorBrown taught his new courseMSSTMOMS 215 Queer Sexuallmagery in the VisualArts for the firsttime duringspring, 2005. This coursewill be repeatedfor the first time duringspring, 2006. ProfessorBrown has a new website on the internet.The websitepresents a selectionof 45 years his teaching,writing, curating, etc. The URL is: Dr. NinaAthanassoglou-Kallmyer lecturing at the AmericanSchool for of his artwork, n.co m . ClassicalStudies in Athens,November 2005 http: //Ww. h.ilto nb rgw

Dr. Brownhas exhibitedseven new drawingsin the GALA VisualArts, 2005 InvitationalGroup Show at the HighWire Wendy Bellion Gallery,Philadelphia during May-June, 2005' ProfessorBrown Wendy Bellionenjoyed a busyfirst year as the newest completedtwo oil paintingreconstructions on a commission Americanistto join the department.Her courseofferings have receivedfrom the DelawareArt Museumafter two paintingsin includedan undergraduatesurvey of earlyAmerican art, an that collectionfor docenteducation. He reconstructioned "lllusionism "Return undergraduateseminar on in AmericanArt," and sectionsof paintingsby BenjaminWest: to Tobias"and "Vision "La two graduateseminars: and Virtualityin Eighteenth DanteGabriel Rossetti: Bella Mano." In October,2005 "Art CenturyBritain and NorthAmerica" and and Revolutionin Brownpresented a lectureat the DelawareArt Museumabout EarlyAmerica," for whichshe was awardeda UD Global the oil paintingmaterials and techniquesof West and Rossetti' "Breaking CitizenshipFaculty Fellowship. She is nearingcompletion on Dr. Brown'sfilm project: Eggs; MakingPaint" her book manuscript,Citizen Spectator:Art, lllusion,and producedby the BrandywineRiver Museumand fundedin part Discernmentin Earty NationalAmerica, which will be published by a $15,000.00grant receivedfrom the NationalEndowment by Universityof NorthCarolina Press for the Omohundro for the Humanities,2005. Completedan egg temperapanel lnstitutefor EarlyAmerican History and Culture. In addition, paintingreconstruction of a sectionof an egg temperapanel she publishedbook reviews in The Williamand Mary Quafterly paintingby SimoneMartini of S. Andrewin the Collectionof the and Common-place.org,plus a state-of-the-fieldessay on MetropolitanMuseum of Art. ProfessorBrown demonstrated scholarshipin earlyAmerican art in the smithsonianjournal the materialsand techniquesof egg temperapainting on AmericanArd. She also had the pleasureof workingwith camera. The cd may be purchasedfrom the BrandywineRiver Winterthurstudents and staffas part of the executive Museum. committeefor the UD-WinterthurProgram in EarlyAmerican Culture,and she initiatedand organizeda year-longfaculty "Material colloquiumon Culturesof the AtlanticWorld" for the Monica Dominguez-Torres Centerfor MaterialCulture Studies. In January2005, Prof. Dominguezco-directed the Winter BrazilStudy Abroad program, which took27 undergraduate ProfessorBellion has also been activebeyond Newark with studentsto Rio de Janeiro,Ouro Pretoand JoSo Pessoa. In "Native speakingengagements. Last spring,she was invitedto lecture April,she presentedtwo papersat the UD campus: on GilbertStuart as part of the Edgar P. Richardson Hieroglyphicson the Roadto Salvation"at the Medieval- Symposiumon AmericanArt at the NationalGallery of Art and RenaissanceColloquium organized by the English sharedwith students,colleagues, and friendsof the "Artistic published Department,and Dis/Placementsin Colonial department.In additionto Townhouse,Dr. Herman Maracaibo"at the LatinAmerican Cities Symposium, a chapteron the art of ThorntonDial in ThorTonDiat in the 21't sponsoredby the GreaterPhiladelphia Latin American Studies Century,the book that accompaniedthe show of Dial'swork at the Consortium(GPLASC). This last paperwas publishedin the the Museumof FineArts in Houston. His essayexplored June issue of DelawareReview of Latin American Sfudies relationshipbetween Dial's recent art and the African-American (DeRLAS). In August,she traveledto BogotS,Colombia, to quiltmakingtraditions that the artistknew as a childgrowing up "A presentthe paper frustratedvision? Mexican paintings and in Alabamaand more recentlythrough the recognitionof the projects the Jesuitsin colonialMaracaibo" at the SecondInternational quiltsof Gee's Bend. Herman'songoing book include lnterdisciplinarySymposium of Colonialistsof the Americas, an architecturalhistory of the first period(c' 1680-1740) organizedby the ColonialAmericas Studies Organization buildingsof the DelawareValley and a collectionof essayson "On (CASO). ln November2005, she presentedthe paper awakeningthe spatialimagination in everydaylife (c. 1600- "Architecture lmages,Friars and lndians:Monastic Ornament as Spaceof 1800). His work on the of Gee's Bend Quilt"will CulturalNegotiation in 1Oth-CenturyNew Spain"at the appearin the springof 2006. "ArtS, InternationalSymposium Scienceand Lettersin Colonial LatinAmerica" sponsored by the NationalLibrary in Buenos ln the fall of 2005 he offeredhis seminarVernacular Aires,Argentina. In September2005, she was officially Architecture.ln a departurefrom past practice,he encouraged granteda jointappointment in LatinAmerican Studies. Prof. studentsto undertakethematically linked research projects that Domfnguezwill be on leaveduring the Spring2006, and during investigatedthe earlybuildings of the Philadelphiaregion. that time she will be a visitingfellow at the Centerfor Althoughmany of thesebuildings are well known,the class Reformationand RenaissanceStudies at the Universityof soon discoveredthat they were not well understood.The Toronto,Canada. She is planningto use this time awayfrom resultingpresentations and papersproduced insights and teachingto completeher upcomingbook Arma Indorum: questionsabout the region'sformative building traditions. their Chivalric lmagesand Valuesin the MonasticDecoration of Severalseminar participants have continuedto develop New Spaln(1540-1580). researchfor conferencepapers. The previousspring he offereda new readingseminar called Writing Material Culture that introducedstudents to a rangeof interdisciplinary Ann Gibson methodologiesand perspectivesthat can be broughtto bear Ann Gibsongave talks in 2005at the MinneapolisMuseum of on all aspectsof art and materialculture' ln the fall 2006 he Art, the New York Campusof the State Universityof New York will offer his seminaron the arts and architectureof the at Purchase,at the State Universityof New York at Purchase, PennsylvaniaGermans with the addedopportunity for students and in January2006 at the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art. to work with collectionsand exhibitioninitiatives at boththe WinterthurMuseum and the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art' "lt This springshe published ls: A Magazinefor AbstractArt," in NeuzYork School:AnotherView (Albany,N.Y.: The Sage He is in the final year of his role as Directorof the Centerfor "On Colfeges,Jan.24 - Mar.20,2005 and NormanLewis's MaterialCulture Studies, which now offersan interdisciplinary Civil RightsSeries," in CosmopolitanModernisms, ed' Kobena Ph.D.in PreservationStudies. The big newsfrom the Center, Mercer,London: Institute of InternationalVisual Art. She though,is the publicationof People Were C/ose. Compiled continueson the editorialboard of GendersMagazine, on the and designedentirely by undergraduates,the 112-pagebook EducationCommittee of the WhitneyMuseum of AmericanArt, celebratesthe historyof Newark'shistoric African-American and has becomea memberof the editorialboard of the community.The fourteenstudents who workedon the book AmericanArt Journal. includedArt Historymajors and minorsas well as students from FineArts and VisualCommunications, Anthropology, and ConsumerStudies. The project,which is beginningto receive Bernard Herman nationalattention, inspired a secondstudent-made volume, In NovemberBernard Herman saw the publicationof Food, Poems,and Stories.The new bookwill be releasedin Townhouse:Architecture and Material Life in the Early May and containsa collectionof recipesand narrativesabout "roof- AmericanCity, 1780-1830,University of NorthCarolina Press food in the community. lf you ever neededa recipefor for the OhmohundroInstitute for EarlyAmerican History and top strawberryjam" or sweet potatopie, this will be the source. Culture. The resultof a decadeof fieldworkand documentary researchin citieson both sides of the Atlantic,Townhouse Dr. Herman also worked with studentsto curate Quiltvoices, interpretsurban dwellings through the ways in whichpeople an exhibitionof contemporaryquilts and quiltmakers'words designed,occupied, experienced, and understooddomestic abouttheir work. Producedin partnershipwith the University environmentsranging from servants'quartersto merchant Museumsand The Alliancefor AmericanQuilts, the exhibition families'dining rooms and parlors. The bookwould never also presentedpublic programs that includedgallery talks, a have come into beingwithout the many conversationshe symposium,a two-daycampus visit by Mary Lee Bendolphof "quilt-in" Gee's bend and filmmakerMatt Arnett, and a one-day ProfessorNees continuedto serveon the Boardof Directorsof where studentsand facultypieced and quiltednearly two the InternationalCenter of MedievalArt, and also on the dozenquilts for hospitalizedchildren. Councilof the MedievalAcademy of America,and expectsto serve each of these scholarlyorganizations for two more years He also participatedin symposiaand presentednumerous in this capacity. He also continuedto serveon the special talks. These includeda visitto the campusof Texas Christian advisorycommittee for the reinstallationof the Medievaland Universityas the Green HonorsScholar, James Madison Renaissancegalleries at the Victoriaand Albert Museumin Universityto keynotetheir undergraduateart history London,a projectnow literallytaking shape with the symposium,the Universityof Bonnto givea paperat an involvementof architectsand the reallydetailed and difficult internationalconference on contemporaryvisual and material questionsof installationbeing addressed. He begana term of culture,and the Yale Centerfor BritishArt for a workshop service as Co-Editorof the journal Sfudiesin lconography, feadingto the publicationof Gender, Tasteand Material which is now publishedat the lndexof ChristianArt at Culture in Britain and NorthAmerica. PrincetonUniversity.

Still in pressbut scheduledto appearearly in 2006 are the Lawrence Nees followingarticles: "The Jonathan Gospels (Vatican, B.A.V. Duringthe springterm ProfessorNees offeredan cod. Pal. Lat.46)," in Susan L'Engle,et al., eds.,Tribute to undergraduatecourse on Arts of the lslamicWorld and a Jonathan J.G. Alexander: Making and Meaning in the Middle "lmages "Godescalec's graduateseminar on and Cult,"from which he learned Ages and the Renaissance,and careerand the 'lnfluence'," a great deal, reportsand papershaving been offeredon a Problemsof in Alixe Bovev,ed., Underthe fascinatingrange of topicsincluding Salvador Dali and lnfluence: The Conceptof 'lnfluence'and the Studyof monumentalrecent sculpture in Brazilamong others. He also llluminatedManuscnpfs, the latter having been extensively taughta graduatecourse on early lslamicart at Temple revisedfor publicationthis year. Articleswritten this year and University,standing in for Prof. ElizabethBolman while she now in press,scheduled to appearin 2006,are the following: "Alcuin held a researchfellowship at DumbartonOaks. Duringthe fall and manuscriptillumination," in ErnstTremp, ed., term he taughtthe largeintroductory survey course, and Alkuin von York (um 730-804) und die geistige Grundlegung "Weaving enjoyedworking with a terrificgroup of teachingassistants, Europas; Garnets:Thoughts about two 'excessively and also offereda new FreshmanHonors Colloquium on rare' belt mountsfrom SuttonHoo," in RachelMoss, ed., Rulers'lmages from Augustusto the Present. He was very Making and Meaning. Proceedings of the Fifth lnternational proudwhen one of the recentPh.D.s in the medievalarea, Conferenceon lnsular Art; and "Peoplesor Persons?Ethnicity AudreyScanlan-Teller, won the Adele DalsimerPrize for the as a paradigmfor the study of early medievalart," to appearin outstandingAmerican dissertation in any area of lrishstudies. Celia Chazelleand FeliceLifschitz, eds., Paradigms and Two other medievalists,Terri Nevinsand lsabelleLachat, are Methods in Late Ancient and Early MedievalSfudies:A makingsplendid progress on their dissertationsin the medieval Reconsideration.(Dublin Ireland]. He also publisheda book area,for the completionof which duringthe currentyear Terri review in The CatholicHistoical Review, and several reviews was awardedthe first BiggsFellowship in the Departmentof in Choice. He is also workingon a book'manuscript, Art History. LauraCochrane completed her pre-doctoral tentativelyentitled llluminatingthe Word: On the beginningsof examinations,and is gettingstarted on her dissertation,and medievalbook decoration,which he hopesto completeduring deservesspecial congratulations for winningthe Alison the next academicyear. GoddardElliot Award at the annualconference of graduate studentsfrom the northeasternUnited States, at Brown He presentedconference papers at the DumbartonOaks University.Lynley Herbert is workingtoward her M.A.degree Centerfor ByzantineStudies in Washington,D.C.; at the with a specialfocus on medievalart, and expectssoon to AmericanAcademy of Religion/Societyof BiblicalLiterature completeher thesison the spectacularnew paintingby Duccio jointannual conference in Philadelphia;at the Fifth recentlypurchased and exhibitedat the MetropolitanMuseum InternationalConference on InsularArt, "Makingand Meaning," of Art. lt is greatthat they are all workingso well togetherin a in Dublin(lreland), in this case the invitedkeynote lecture for "The mutuallysupportive and beneficialway, includingextensive the conference;and at Cambridgellluminations: Ten car-poolingwhile drivingto lecturesand conferencesin Centuriesof Book Productionin the MedievalWest," Washington,Princeton, Philadelphia and Baltimore,and FitzwilliamMuseum and CambridgeUniversity Library. He teachingProfessor Nees a good deal alongthe way. In was chosenas the third ChaneyLecturer in MedievalStudies addition,he was the outsideexaminer for Ph.D.oral and at LawrenceUniversity (the first two havingbeen faculty writtenexaminations for Andrewlrving, a studentin The membersat the Institutefor AdvancedStudy in Princetonand MedievalInstitute at NotreDame University,and will be at HarvardU.) In additionhe attendedmany conferences, workingwith Andrew on his dissertation.Finally, Ellen includingthe MedievalAcademy of Americaand the Seagraves(nee Tweed) completed a fine undergraduate lnternationalMedieval Congress at Kalamazoo. Professor HonorsThesis on the BayeuxTapestry. Nees presenteda lecturein the seriesResearch on Race, "Courtyards, Ethnicityand Culturesponsored by the Women'sStudies in Londonon Staircases,and Renaissance Departmentat the Universityof Delaware. Reliefs:the Exampleof GiulianoGondi's Quattrocento Palace."

One of the hiEhlightsof her stay abroad,however, was getting lkem Okoye to know FrankGehry and takinghim aroundFlorence for three This year was a most interestingand successfulone for days. Throughhim, she alsomet DavidChilds of SOM and Professorlkem StanleyOkoye, having completed a term as HarryCobb of l.M.Pei. The three architects,of nationaland AssociateChair of the Department,given three paper internationalfame, were delightful.Frank has a wonderfulwry presentationsat majorscholarly events, published an senseof humor. Davidand Harrywere stimulatingto be importantpaper, and participatedin colloquia(both scholarly around. The experienceof seeingMichelangelo's Laurentian and professional-servicerelated) here and abroad. He library,arguable the most exceptionalwork of Renaissance presented"The Ends of Worlds are with Twinning"at a architectureever built,with three of the top architectsliving symposiumheld last January (2005) at TulaneUniversity, and todaywas extraordinary. "Double in November Time:Narratives of Similarityand ArchitecturalInfluence in a SoutheastNigerian Christian milieu ProfessorPellecchia continues to be Directorof c 1930"at the AfricanStudies Association annual conference UndergraduateStudies and to have a secondaryappointment "Linger (WashingtonDC). His paper or Flee?:Pieter Aertsen, withWomen's Studies. In the fall,she taughther 'lgueghaUhe,' MichelLeiris" was publishedin Anthropologies undergraduatelecture course on ltalianRenaissance of Art (editedby MaridtWestermann and publishedout of the architecture.aswell as her undergraduateseminar on ClarkArt lnstitute). RenaissanceWomen, Art, and Society.

Okoyewas a participantat a Mellonfunded workshop convenedat ColumbiaUniversity, part of a researchproject investigatingthe natureof the recentdifficulties encountered by art historiansin the contemporarybook publishing climate (a preambleto doingsomething to changeit). At the University of lllinoisUrbana-Champaign, he was partof a groupof leadingscholars of Africanarchitectural history brainstorming on a proposededited volume, possibly a first ever text book, on Africanarchitecture and its history. As a memberof the DiversityCommittee of the Societyof ArchitecturalHistorians, ProfessorOkoye contributedto the first phases of the implementationof the Society'spush to activelycourt and embracea more diverseset of scholarlyand professional interests,foci and agendasthan it has tendedto in the recent past.

"Medium, Okoyehas alsotaught two newgraduate seminars. Mode,Histories, Representation: Art Congo/ArtKongo" explored17th and 18thcentury Kongolese art and visualculture as a prefaceto a fresh engagementwith Congoleseand FrankGehry "Art Angolanart in the 20thcentury, while and Ethnicity:the Bightsof Beninand Biafra"set the stagefor new ways of imaginingthe backgroundsto the art of Africaprior to the Europeanpresence as an entryto describingalternative Lauren Hackworth Petersen constellationsof Africanart. On sabbaticalleave in spring2005, ProfessorPetersen compfetedher book manuscript,The Freedmanin Roman Art and Aft History,forthcoming from CambridgeUniversity Press. "Beyond Linda Pellecchia Lastyear, she alsogave a paper, the'Villaas Model': DuringMarch through July, Professor Pellecchia was in Simulacrain RomanHouses," at the CollegeArt Association Londonand Florencedoing researchon Renaissancefables. Annual Meetingin a sessionon new approachesto domestic Duringthis period,she was ableto use the unparalleled architecturein the ancientMediterranean. With a General collectionsof the WarburgInstitute and the BritishLibrary as UniversityResearch grant, ProfessorPetersen spent part of wellas thosein Florence.In Marchshe gavea paperin the the summerat the AmericanAcademy in Rome beforeheading internationalconference at the Henry MooreInstitute in Leeds to Naplesto undertakeresearch for her new projecton religion that was jointlysponsored by the Victoriaand Albert Museum in ancientRoman society. She presentedher latestwork on lsis and thingsEgyptian in Romanart this pastfall at the tour of the show by the NationalGallery's ltalian Paintings "lsis lnstituteof FineArts in New York with a paper, Unveiled: curatorDawson Carr, one of the exhibition'sorganizers. The Meaningsof an EgyptianGoddess in RomanSociety." She continuesto serveon the EditorialBoard for the University With ProfessorBeatrice Buscaroli (Universitd di Ravenna), of DelawarePress and on the SteeringCommittee for the Stone editedan exhibitioncatalogue, llGesfo Trattenuto: Tornaa Bologna un affrescodel Guercino(Bologna: Bononia Women'sClassical Caucus. "'Frescante UniversityPress, 2006) and wrote the main essay: Riluttant6:Gli affreschidel Guercinogiovane e la Madonna Chandra L. Reedy che offre un bocciotodi rosaal Bambino." ln January 2006 he Professor,Museum Studies and Art History,Dr' Reedy presenteda lecturein ltalianon Guercinoas a Muralistat the continuesto teachtwo coursesfor the departmenton a regular exhibitionopening (Fondazione Cassa di Risparmioin basis:Art of Tibet,and Scienceand the Detectionof Art Bologna,Casa Saraceni) in Bologna. Forgeries(the only Art Historycourse to meet a Group D sciencerequirement for the college!).Both are usuallytaught In November2005, Stone presenteda lectureat the Universi$ "Art, in an on-lineformat. Forthe designof thesecourses, Dr. of Maltaentitled Crime,and Self-Mutilationin the Reedyrecently won UD's lnnovativeTeaching Award in Paintingsof Caravaggio."Stone is a contributorto the DistanceEducation and an ExemplaryApplication of WebCt forthcomingexhibition catalogue on the Painter-Etcheledited award. Duringthe past year she gave lectureson her research by MichaelCole, Larry Silver, and MadeleineViljoen, to be art historyof Asianart at the Walter'sArt Museum publishedin $pring 2006 by Penn State UniversityPress. A in technical "Self in Baltimore,the Los AngelesCounty Museum of Art, and the revisedand expandedversion of Stone'sessay, and Myth Freer/SacklerGalleries in Washington,D.C. She had three in Caravaggio'sDavid and Goliafh,"will appearshortly in book chaptersand one journalarticle that went into presson Caravaggio: Realismand Rebellion,ed. GenevieveWanryick, varioustechnical art historytopics: technological style and publishedby the Universityof DelawarePress. changein Sri Lankanbronzes; provenance studies of Cambodianbronzes through analysis of castingcore materials; In September2005, Professorstone was appointedDirector of multiplefunctions and historiesof Tibetanvotive clay tablets GraduateStudies. (tsa-tsas);and new applicationsof digitalimage analysis in art conservationresearch. She receiveda grantfrom the Center for InternationalStudies to initiatea new projecton preservationand changein traditionalTibetan craft technologies,for which she is preparinga seriesof fieldwork tripsto northernIndia, Tibet, China, and Mongolia'

David Stone In February,2006 (in collaborationwith Prof.Keith Sciberras, Universityof Malta),Professor Stone publisheda book entitled Caravaggio: Art, Knighthood,and Malta. Printedby Midsea Bookson behalfof the Historyof Art Programme,University of Malta,this monographpresents two new chapterson Caravaggio'slate periodin additionto two revisedand greatly expandedessays originally published in Caravaggio,The Final Years,the catalogueof the popularexhibition held at the NationalGallery, London, in Spring2005. The Stone- Sciberrasexhibition essays were singledout for praiserecently in the New York Review of Books,the BurlingtonMagazine, Simiolus,and the TimesLiteranJ Supplemenf. The exhibition "Exhibition itselfrecently won Apollo magazine'sprize for of the Year."

Thanksto generousgrants from UD's Centeffor International Studiesand the Departmentof Art History,six graduate studentswere able to fly to Londonfor a week to visit the Final Yearsexhibition with ProfessorStone in March2005 (see photo). ErikaSuffern, Christa Aube, Scott Mangieri, Molly Zillman,Sarah Bavelli and LorenaBaines also got a private for Rimbaud'sA Seasonln MargaretWerth Mapplethorpeused as illustrations Kelly' As Directorof GraduateStudies, Faculty Advisor for the Hell, andprints by FrankStella and Ellsworth department'slecture series, and also teachingthe Introduction to Art History(154) in springsemester, Margaret werth had a Wayne Graven very busy academicyear in 2004-05! Amongthe lecturesfor wayne craven's book stanford white: Decoratorin opulence the serieswere Leah Dickermanof the NationalGallery and Deaterin Antiquifleswas publishedby ColumbiaUniversity (speakingon Dada,the exhibitionopens this spring) and Tom Pressin May. He is now completingthe writingof his next cummins of HarvardUniversity. Last springwe also had our book,which will be titled:Gitded Mansions and Marble Halls. first-evergraduate Teaching Roundtable, attracting lots of graduatestudent participants for a livelydiscussion of teaching issuesand strategies.Despite the busy year, Margaretfound WilliamHomer time to write an essay on Mafisse for MatisseMasterpieces af "Nude william L Homer,H. Rodneysharp EmeritusProfessor of Art sfafens Museumfor Kunst,copenhagen entitled with a History,retired since 2000, remainsactive in the field. He is WhiteScarf: A Thickand FullMaterial," which was publishedin continuinghis work on his book of Thomas Eakins'letters, August. She continuesto work on her book on representations which is beingsupported by a 2005 grantfrom the Wyeth of the face between1870-1930, and gave lectureson the Foundationfor AmericanArt. He has recentlyput the finishing projectat Bryn Mawr'sVisual culture cqlloquiumin December. toucheson an interview-articleon GeorgiaO'Keeffe, which will She took time out from that projectto visit Giverny,France last "Colonizing serve as one of severalpieces on the artistto be publishedby summerwhere she gavea publiclecture AmericanArt. The cataloguingand conservationof his lmpressionism:Visions of Landscapeat Giverny"-at the extensiveEarly American Modernism archive, now housedat Mus6ed'art am6ricainGiverny and a seminaron late 19th the GeorgeO'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, has been supported centuryportraiture with an emphasison Americanexamples as by a $100,000grant from the HenryLuce Foundation' In VisitingScholar at the Terra Foundationin Give'rny'(A additionto his researchand writing,he is advisingseveral delightfulpart of that trip includedtraveling to partsof Universityof Delawaredissertations and consultingwith Normandyshe had nevervisited!) This academicyear her studentsand professionalson variousart historicalproblems. coursesand researchhave focused on connectionbetween .. Muchof his time is spentorganizing his researcharchives for literatureand art, text and imagein the late 19thand early20'n donationto publicinstitutions. In 2005,gifts have been made century. she had a greattime teachinga new undergraduate of pictorialphotographs to the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art, seminaron the subjectthis fall that includedlots of media photographicephemera and periodicalsto the Universityof (painting,prints, photography, film, poetry, drama, novels, DelawareLibrary, and originalcolor transparencies of soHo criticism),a classtrip to the.Redonexhibition at MoMA and to and the EastVillage art sceneto the Department'sSlide the MarkSamuels Lasner Collection and SpecialCollections at collection. In his sparetime he enjoysthe tranquillife of UD, and seminarvisits from Art Historygraduate students Greenvilleand centreville(no billboards),close to the idyllic Pepperstetler and KerryRoeder, who sharedtheir research settingsof the Winterthurand Hagleylibraries. and interestin early photobooksand earlycomics.

DamieStillman AlthoughDamie Stillman is no longerEditor-in-Chief of Emeritus Faculty Buildingsof the Unitedstates, havingretired a secondtime, *: .,:aa *4 position,he has .-,*SLrff *.? first from the Universityand then from this continuedto read manuscriptsfor the series,including that for forthcoming Buildingsof Delaware. He is also continuing MauriceGope the with his remainingPh.D. students. During the year he ln retirementProfessor Maurice Cope continuesto collect to work chair of the Developmentcommittee of the printsand drawingsof the sort which he often used as adjuncts was appointed of ArchitecturalHistorians; and he continuesto serve to his teaching. Some of these are now beinglent to an society Governor'sconsulting committee on the National exhibitionof etchingsfrom the sixteenthto eighteenthcenturies on the of HistoricPlaces for Maryland,the Boardof Directors to open this April at the Universityof Pennsylvaniaand travel Register ArchitecturalFoundation, and the advisory to the RinglingMuseum in sarasotaand smith college, He is of the Baltimore for a Getty-fundedproject on a survey of delightedthat one of his recentRenaissance acquisitions is committee planningand landscapeon the Americancollege from the famousseventeenth century Pierre Mariette architecture, sponsoredby the councilof Independentcolleges. collection,which is beingstudied by one of our current campus, to read manuscriptsfor the graduatestudents, Kristel Smentek, for her dissertation. He has also continued Magazine of History and Biography and to Recentlyhe has enlargedthe scopeof his collectionto include Pennsylvania for that journal,as well as for cHolcE. In 2005 FrenchRomantic, Barbizon, lmpressionist, Post-lmpressionist, reviewbooks publishedtwo articles: Cubistand even such modernworks as the first he Dada/Surrealistbook by Max Ernst,the photographsby possibleand whereverneeded at the "The United States Capitol: lcon of the Republic"ln Capital volunteeringwhenever takingadditional courses in art history Drawings:Deslgns for Washington,D.C., from the Library of Royalontario Museum, her French. Duringher spare Congress,ed. C. Ford Peatross,pp. 59-86. Baltimore:Johns and German,and strengthening "Six makingjewelry, Middle Eastern dancing, HopkinsUniversity Press, 2005; Housesfor the time, Jenniferenjoys of Romanhistory, and tending President," PennsylvaniaMagazine of History and Biography tryingto graspthe vast expanse dogs. Jenniferis excitedand 129, No. 4 (Oct.2005): 411-31. Both of these are relatedto to the whims of her two small to study art history at the his continuingwork on his book on Neo-c/assiclsmin America: very gratefulfor the opportunity She looksforward to confrontingnew The Architectureof the Young Republic. Also relatedto this Universityof Delaware. "The possibilities,and makingnew friends. projectis a lecturehe gave in october: Emergenceof the challenges,exploring Villain the NewAmerican Republic," savannah college of Art and Design,Oct.6, 2005. STEPHANIELAMBE Lambewas born and raisedin Raleigh,NC' She He and his wife have continuedto travel,having visited Greece Stephanie fell in love with Art Historyduring an Art Historycourse in in May and Northernltaly in Septemberof 2005. first her senioryear of highschool. LeavingRaleigh, she developedher passionat Lake Forestcollege. Herjunior

J@i;r:#il(.;* 't{llll;@,i llrr While in Paris, .*..-; *. ;: I lL r-*;t,...... ,.l,.;,,i.t.* ", I;lt&'tBi year,stephanie studied in Parisand Greece. she internedin a smallart gallerycalled FOOD. Returningfor 2005-2006 her senior!ear, Stephaniecombined her experiencesabroad Department of Art History Incomitg with her interestin eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Frenchpainting. Her seniorthesis explored the relationship GraduateStudents betweenFrance and Greeceduring the GreekWar of Independence,as shownin EugdneDelacroix's paintings. she graduatedfrom Lake Forestcollege in May 2005 with a double ISABELLE HAVET majorin Art Historyand French' Stephanieis excitedto lsabellegrew up in san Franciscoand movedto the Boston immerseherself in Art Historyscholarship with the facultyand area to attendBra.ndeis University. She was very disappointed studentsat the Universityof Delaware' to find that she couldn'tmajor in everything,and eventually settledon Art History,English and AmericanLiterature, and Europeancultural studies. In 2003she internedat childs SARAH RECTOR Gallery,where she researchedand cataloguednineteenth- Sarah Rector,a Denvernative, graduated from Yale University centuryprints about Napoleon. During this internshipshe also with a degreein Historyof Art in 2004 afterhaving switched came to be in chargeof tracingloaned artworks that the gallery her majorfrom architecturethe year previously.Since then "misplaced." had temporarily ln 2004lsabelleinterned at the she has movedon to the DallasMuseum of Art for a dual RoseArt Museumas a curatorialassistant' She had the internshipin the Americanand DecorativeArts departments. wonderfulopportunity to planthe contemporaryart show For the past year she has concentratedon industrialAmerican ,,Domestic Archaeology,"help write the exhibitioncatalogue, silverproduction of the last centuryfor the DMA's upcoming and take part in a performancepiece. In 2005 she was offered exhibition,Modernism in American Silver. Sarah looks fonruard to TA an Art Historysurvey course at Brandeis,which she to continuingher dual interestsin Americanart and countedas one of her most rewardingexperiences. Besides architectureat the Universityof Delawarein the fall, as well as studyingall that is nineteenth-centuryculture, lsabelle loves pursuingher interestsin Medievalart and turn of the century horsebackriding, skiing, and traveling. Germanart and architecture.Besides art, sarah enjoystennis, golf,playing piano, reading, and fishing.

JENNIFERANN (ANIA) KOZER.AWSKI Originallyfrom Warsaw, Poland, Jennifer immigrated to CATHERINEREED Canadawith herfamily as a childand grew up in Toronto. Catherinegrew up in Texasand Georgia,although her Along with her Europeanroots and the influenceof her Northern-bredparents ensured that she speakwithout an mother'sgreat enthusiasmfor traveland adventure,Jennifer accent. she attendedYale as an undergraduate,majoring in developedan earlywanderlust, taking her throughoutEurope, art history,and returnedto schoolthe followingyear to pursue the MiddleEast, and northernAfrica. An earlytrip o Greece, a Ph.D.at RutgersUniversity. She intendedto becomea and laterto ltaly,proved particularly persuasive, and eventually modernist,exploring topics like the early rootsof abstraction led Jenniferto the world and studyof art history,particularly in and AbstractExpressionism's ties to ColdWar politicsbefore the areasof Greekand Romanart. As an undergraduateat realizingthat her true interestlay in Americanart of the the Universityof Toronto,Jennifer completed her honors nineteenthcentury, thanks to the teachingof wendy Bellionat degreein ArchitecturalDesign and Art History. Since her Rutgersand John Wilmerdingat Princeton.Her Master's ,,ut graduationlast June, Jennifer has spenther time working, thesis, picturemusica: The changingNature of Visionin 10 NineteenthCentury American Aesthetics" explored the to CAA conferencesand also createdand implementedthe art scientificand poeticconnections between sight and hearing. historydepartment's first honorsprogram. Jessieis looking She has spentthe past year teachingthe art historysuryey, fonrvardto beginningher graduatecareer at the Universityof and spentthe summerteaching a seminaron nineteenth-and Delawarewith a concentrationin eighteenth-and nineteenth- twentieth-centuryAfrican-American art at Rutgers. She thinks centuryFrench art. She also hopesthat someoneat the that moving,starting at Delaware,and gettingmarried (in Universitycan teach her how to cook othenrviseshe will be October2005) shouldbe enoughexcitement for the livingon pizzaand peanutbutter sandwiches for the restof her foreseeablefuture, but she is thrilledabout the prospectsof all life. three. "_'.nir':i}9?jlt r\wsrlNr,l:.:;::::::r:i::t{1il I lrr*q\I-t GradFat 4--+ry SARAH RUHLAND {.i ffiYr":"rryrffffi Sarah Ruhlandoften receivedstrange looks by visitorsat CarlsbadCaverns National Park afterexplaining that she, as a Ph.D. Degrees cavingpark ranger,had a degreein Art History. She graduatedfrom the Collegeof Williamand Maryin 2003 and Kelly Baum, Spring 2005 immediatelydrove 2,000 miles to New Mexico,and then back The Politicsof Pleasure:Gender, Desire , and Ddtournementin to Virginia,and thento Kansas,then backto New Mexico,.... the Art of the SituationistInternational, 1957-1972 Eventuallyall that drivinggot to her, as well as the desert (Gibson) summers,and she will now be pursuingher master'sin art history,never having been able to shakea nagginginterest in Audrey Scanlan-Teller,Winter 2005 the subject. She plansto concentrateon Americanart, Bishops,Abbots, Kings, and Crosses:Twelfth-Century lrish materialculture, and museumstudies. Her hobbiesinclude High Crossesin Munsteras Monumentsof Ecclesiastical bakingdisasters, irresponsible crafting with crazyglue, and Reform(Nees) walkingpainfully slow up the sidesof mountains. PamelaWarner, Winter 2005 Word and lmage in Art Criticismof the ConcourtBrothers TESSSCHWAB (Kallmyer) Tess Schwabgraduated from the Universityof lllinoisin May of 2005 with her BFA in Art History. Sincegraduation she has beenworking at the DallasMuseum of Art, as a curatorial M.A. Degrees internfor the SeniorCurator of Paintingand Sculpture. with projects,she has been Althoughconstantly bombarded Lorena Baines,Summer 2005 Dialogues:Duchamp, concentratingon an exhibitionentitled, The Artists'sDevices: lllusionism and lmaginationin Gerrit in September Cornell,Johns, and Rauschenberg,which opens Dou's"Painter with a Pipeand Book" 2005. This exhibitionhas increasedher interestin modernart, (Chapman) specificallyAmerican art that dealswith issuesof race and/or gender. Tess looksfonrvard to movingto Delaware,as she in lllinois,and has Janet Dees,Summer 2005 was bornin San Antonio,Texas and raised "Palimpsest" yet to live anywhereon the east coast. When she has free Rewritingthe Body:Carl and Karen Pope's time,Tess enjoysreading books, going to concerts,taking (Gibson) photographs,and sleeping. Ryan Dougherty, Summer 2005 StagingSensation and ArchitecturalAbsorption: Theatrical JESSICAWALDMANN Re(-)Presentationand Eighteenth-CenturyFrench Aesthetic JessieWaldmann spent the majorityof her earlyyears in Theory (Kallmyer) Loveland,OH, beforereceiving her BA in Art Historyfrom MiamiUniversity in Oxford,OH (notFlorida!). Jessie began Andrea Renner,Summer 2005 her collegecareer as a pre-medstudent but drastically A Nationthat BathesTogether: Finding Class in Turn-of-the- changedher goalsafter taking an introductoryart historyclass. CenturyNew York City PublicBaths Sincethen, Jessiehas pursuedher interestin art historyby (Herman) volunteeringat variousCincinnati museums, working as an Assistantto the Curatorof Educationat the MiamiUniversity Adam Rudolphi,Spring 2005 Art Museumand by beinginvolved in Miami'sArt History Manifestoin Fire and Air: A New lnterpretationof Paris Association.While at Miami,Jessie worked as an editorfor Bordone'sAthena Scorning the Advancesof Hephaestus the University'sart historicalmagazine, organizedgroup trips (Stone) 11 f _- /:e*'e the ThomasJefferson University in Philadelphia,and she will "Rhythm GraduateStudent Awards, Papers, delivera paperentitled Nationfrom Jazz to Hip Hop: Publications & News Musicand its lmpacton African-AmericanVisualArtists."

ChristinaAube Jeff Jara "Collage In March,2005, Christina Aube presentedher paper Jeff Jara will teach an upper level undergraduatesurvey and the Politicsof Paul Rand:lDirectionl 1938-45" at the coursein AmericanFolk and OutsiderArt at the Universityof "Collageas CulturalPractice" Obermann Humanities Wisconsin-Milwaukeeduring Spring Semester 2006. Symposiumat the Universityof lowa.

Ellen Menefee year of a full'timetenure track positionat Jobyl Boone Ellenis in her second where she teachesSurvey and JobylA. Boonechaired an Americanart open sessionat the HarfordCommunity College Ellenwill be designingan SoutheasternCollege Art Conferencein LittleRock, Arkansas AmericanArt and Architecture. thatshe willteach beginning next Fall. in late October. In early Octobershe beganworking as a part- HonorsSurvey Course for the ChesapeakeGallery at time researchassistant in the Departmentof Printsand Ellenis alsothe Coordinator whichshows work of regional, Photographsat the NationalPortrait Gallery, Smithsonian HarfordCommunity College, lnstitution, contemporaryartists. "The In January,Ellen will presenta paperentitled Rhetoricof Arthur DiFuria the FurnishedModel Home at the Turn of the 21" Century"in ArthurDiFuria conducted research in Berlin,Brussels, London, Honoluluat the Hawaiilnternational Conference on Arts and Besancon,and Rome,courtesy of a Kress FoundationTravel Humanities.She presenteda paperlast spring at MIT's Fellowshipin the Historyof Art. conference,The Work of Stories;Storytelling as Cultural "The Practice,entitled StoriesEmbedded in Today'sModel "The'Serlian Arthurgave a paperentitled Backdrop'inthe Homes". PrintDesigns of Maertenvan Heemskerck"at a conference "Representing called Space in the Renaissance"at the Ellenis tryingto find a few more hours in each day in orderto Universityof Warwick,July 2005. He also reviewedLisa Pon's finalizeher dissertation.The final editsto the last two chapters new book'. Raphael,D1rer, and MarcantonioRaimondi: and insertingillustrations are all that is betweennow and the Copyingand the ltalian RenalssancePrint (New Haven: Yale defense. '05 UniversityPress, 2004) for the Winter issueof the SixteenthCentury Jou rnal. Ellenis now a singleparent (her name is legallyEllen Avitts now) raisingtwo wonderfulbut tryingteenage daughters.

Adrian Duran Adrian Duranhas taken a post as AssistantProfessor of Art Jessica Murphy the MemphisCollege of Art. He has recentlygiven In March2005, Jessica Murphy presented a papertitled Historyat "Breaking papersat "All-Over:Abstract Expressionism's Global Context" the Traditions'of Modernism:Katharine Rhoades at SUNY Stony-Brook,Manhattan and the Associationfor the and MarionBeckett at291 FifthAvenue" at the symposium "ltaly "Redressing Studyof Modernltaly's 2005 conference at war 1935- AmericanModernism," held at the BrighamYoung 2005"in Edinburgh,Scotland and will delivera paperat the UniversityArt Museum. ln October2005, she acceptedthe 27tnAnnual Meeting of the SouthwestTexas Pop Culture positionof ResearchAssociate in the Departmentof Modern Association/American Cu ltu re Association in Albuq uerque, and ContemporaryArt at the MetropolitanMuseum of Art, New Mexicoin February2006. Adriancan now be reachedat where she is researchingthe Museum'sAlfred Stieglitz [email protected]. Collectionand contributingto the writingof an accompanying catalogue.

NikkiGreene This pastsummer Nikki Greene received a SamuelS. Fels Mark ParkerMiller Fund grantto updatethe inventoryon the African-Americanart Thisfall, in additionto teachingAmerican Art Since1865, Mark collectionsat the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art. Nikkiwill also co-taughtUNlV601 Pedagogy in the UniversityClassroom, "Explorations be teachingan art historycourse in African- part of UD's HigherEducation Teaching Certification Program AmericanArt and ldentity"in conjunctionwith the Beauford (for graduatestudents who planto becomeprofessors). Delaneyexhibition in January2006 at the PMA. Additionally, Nikkiis an invitedspeaker in honorof BlackHeritage Month at t2 Kristel Smentek KristelSmentek was awardedan AndrewW. MellonCuratorial Fellowshipat the FrickCollection in New York (Sept.2005 throughSept. 2007),where she is finishingher dissertation *- and workingon a few upcomingexhibitions, including a show a* " .,#.i. on the eighteenth-centuryartist Jean-Etienne Liotard that "A opensin June2006. ln April,Kristel will presenta paper, Printsellerand his Clientsin Pre-RevolutionaryParis" at the Outstanding Senior Award for Eighteenth-CenturyStudies conference AmericanSociety Kathrvn LaPrad in Montreal, "+

Erika Suffern ErikaSuffern was the 2005-2006Recipient of the American Trudy Vinson Award Friendsof the MauritshuisFellowship. for Outstanding |unior Amanda Antonucci qFI Jeroen van den Hurk Jeroenreceived the inauguralQuinn Foundation Dissertation Fellowshipfor the studyof New Netherlandand the Dutch AtlanticWorld, through the McNeilCenter for EarlyAmerican Woman of Promise Studiesat the Universityof Pennsylvania.He spentthe fall Danielle Delaney semesterin Albanyworking on his dissertationat the New I Netherlandlnstitute, which is locatedin the CulturalEducation iF Center,across from the StateCapitol in Albanyat the opposite end of the EmpireState Plaza. In the springhe will be commutingback and forth to Philadelphiafrom Newark,and plansto finishhis dissertationat the end of the spring Arts and Humanities Scholarship semester. At the end of Marchhe will presenta papertitled, MargaretFerger Origins and Suruival of Netherlandic Building Traditionsin NorlhAmerica, based on his dissertationresearch, at the # secondInternational Congress on ConstructionHistory, at Queens'College, in CambridgeEngland.

2005Awards

Robert T. and Anne R. Silver Award In PepperStetler tu*'A::; ll"r*t'-14 + Melvin P. Lader,Ph.D. 1981 Outstanding Achievement In In Art History GraduateStudies 2001 Melody Deusner Roxanna Cummings, David Meschutt, Ph.D. 2006

13 .*-",." "''i#:li Art History Club w-ffi;::,ffi Alumni News

The Art HistoryClub has had an excitingand eventfulyear. Jody Abzug (M.A.1994) The club'spresidents', Jenny Stettler and AmandaAntonucci Thoughstill professionallyin the developmentworld Jody's keptthe membersbusy with trips to localmuseums, including passionand interestsremain in the art world. Jody is on the the Guggenheimin November,and the DelawareArt Museum boardof the WallingfordSymphony Orchestra and is a in October. Therewere plentyof fun filledactivities such as a memberof the Arts Councilof GreaterNew Haven. tripto PhiladelphiaOld City,the GhostWalk at the University of DelawareCampus, as wellas othercampus events. The Jody has seven-year-oldtwins who are in the first grade. Her membersgraciously hosted the annualAd HistoryClub husbandis directorof Summerprograms at ChoateRosemary Luncheonwhich was enjoyedvery much by the Faculty,Staff, Hallwhere Jody is Directorof the ParentsFund. and studentsof the Art HistoryDepartment. [email protected]

Allan Antliff (M.A.,1995; Ph.D. 1998) AllanAntilff is the CanadaResearch Chair in ModernArt at the Universityof Victoria,Canada.

ln 2004 he publishedOnly a Beginning:An Anarchist Anthology(Arsenal Pulp Press,406 pgs.). This book is a compendiumof anarchisttheory and practicein Canadafrom 1976to the presentand includesa sectiondevoted to the arts (music,fine art, installations,film, poetryand literature).Only a Beginninghas attractedconsiderable media attention in Canada,Allan has appearedon television("lnterview with DanielRichler," CBC TV and "NoamChomsky, Allan Antliff, and SusanSontag": Big ldeasTV Ontario-lectureand discussion).A sampleradio interview can be accessed throughthe Internet("The Anarchy in You and Me: Interview with LisaChristiansen" CBC Radio3. AiredDecember 2-9, 2004. Web page article:www.cbcradio?. com/issuls). Allan Art HistoryClub FacultyLuncheon has also giventalks relatedto his book in Montreal,Toronto, Edmonton,Vancouver, Los Angeles,and New York. In additionto Onlya Beginninghe has publishedfour essays: "The AllanAntliff and MarcusMilwright, PublicHumiliation of SaddamHussein," Anarchist Sfudles No. 1 (2005):78-82; "VisionarySeer for a Post-lndustrialAge: Anada Coomaraswamy'sNietzsche," I am Not a Man, I am Dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzscheand the AnarchistTradition, ed. John "Lucy Moore. Autonomedia(2005):39-47; PullenOn the Marginsof Art and Life,"Canadian Art Magazine21 no. 4 "Pop (200a):66-69; and AgainstPop," Subversive Pop: Robert Dowd'sPaintings from the 1960's(exhibition catalogue) Detroit:Center Galleries. 2004: 4-5.

"Terrorvision," He also has been activewriting art reviews: Exit Art, New York, CanadianArt Magazine22 no.3 (2004): 147- 48; "Dax Morrison:Day by Day," WindsorArt Gallery,C "Silver, Magazineno. 83 (Fall,2004\:46; Dreams,Screens, and Theories,"Att Galleryof Greater Victoria,Canadian Art "Memoirs Magazine21 no. 2 (200$:93-94; and of Water," Station,Houston C Magazineno. 46 (Summer,2004):84. Allan'sessay, "Palestine Without Borders," Made in Palestine, ed. Jim Harithas(exhibition catalogue) Station Art Gallery Q00a):86-87, merits mention. This controversialexhibition t4 openedin Houstonand has sincetraveled to San Francisco.lt Alan Braddock (Ph.D. 2OO2l will soon be openingin New York City and is slatedto go to Alan Braddockis now in the fourthyear of a tenure-track Toronto. positionin AmericanArt Historyat SyracuseUniversity. He Montrealand "Art recentlycreated two new undergraduatecourses: and "Native He has given a numberof scholarlypresentations. In 2004 he Environmentin AmericanCulture since 1800" and "lnterrogating "'Jeff gave a paper FascistOrganism," at the NorthAmerican Art." His article CollegeBoys': Thomas ModernistStudies Association 6tn Annual Conference and Eakins,Dr. Forbes,and AnatomicalFraternity in Postbellum "Herbert spokeon Read and the Abstractlmperative in Philadelphia"appeared in the June2005 issue of American "Shooting AnarchistArt" at Tate Britain,London (this paper was Quarterly.Another article, the Beholder:Charles presentedat a conferenceon the Englishart criticHerbert Schreyvogeland the Spectacleof Gun Vision,"will appearin Read). He continuesto serve as art editorfor the UK journal the journalAmerican Aftin 2006. He continuesto revisehis AnarchistSfudies and is on the editorialboard of the book No Lrnesin Nature:Thomas Eakinson the Thresholdof Washington,DC-based political affairs magazine, Alternative Culture,which is under reviewat the Universityof California Press Review. [email protected] Press. He has also begunwork on a new book entitledGun Vision:American Art and LogisticalPerception, 1861-1918. ln "The November,2005, he chaireda sessionon Environmental Julie Aronson (Ph.D.1995) lmagination:Toward a Green Historyof AmericanArt" at the JulieAronson, Curator of AmericanPainting and Sculptureat AmericanStudies Association conference in Washington,DC. the CincinnatiArt Museum,is the co-curatorwith Betsy ab raddbc@ m a i I box. sv r. ed u Wiesman,another Delawarean, of the upcomingexhibition Perfect Llkeness; European and American Portrait Miniatures from the CincinnatiArt Museum(opens March 4). This GatherineGhudzik (M.A. 1989) contextualexhibition provides a windowonto the most intimate CatherineChudzik worked as an editorat WinterthurMuseum and personalof artworksand their exquisitecraftsmanship. beforebeginning a careerin teachingat GlasgowHigh School Julieand Betsyjointly authored the catalogue,to be published in Newark. She receivedNational Board Certification in by Yale UniversityPress. In other projects,Julie oversaw the Adolescentand YoungAdulthood Social Studies in 2001 and acquisitionof ArthurDove's painting Sowing Wheat of 1934 currentlyteaches AP EuropeanHistory and World Civilizations. and the Cincinnatipresentation of Strokesof Genius: She is elated to be offeringthe first AP Art Historyclass at Mastenvorksfrom the New BritainMuseum of AmericanArt. Glasgowthis year and revivingher electiveclass, Art She also wrote a successfulgrant applicationto the Henry Humanitiesnext year. She also plansto returnsoon to finish Luce Foundationin supportof BessiePotter Vonnoh: Sculpture her Ph.D.work as retirementapproaches. of Women,an exhibitionand publicationplanned for 2008 ch udzikc@ ch ri gtina. k1 2.de. us drawnon her [email protected]

Linnea Dietrich(Ph.D. 1972) Kelly Baum LinneaDietrich has becomevery interestedin contemporary KellyBaum is assistantcurator of Americanand Contemporary art in the nearand middleeast and has beenteaching courses art at the BlantonMuseum of Art at The Universityof Texas in to learnmore. Austin. She co-editedher department'scollection catalogue "Huda and is helpingto organizeprograms and exhibitionsfor the Linnea'spublications include Lutfi:A Contemporary museum'snew building.Her independentcuratorial projects Artist in Egypt,",in Woman'sArt Journal,Fall 2000Minter "Prehistoric, includean exhibitionof work by CarolBove, to openin July 20CI1,Yo|.21,#2,pp. 12-15. AncientNear 2006,as well as a groupshow on contemporaryart tentatively Eastern,and EgyptianArt', Boulder,CO.: Ihe Reindeer "Art\Market\and titled anotheron contemporarypainting Company, 2002. The Art Historian Pocket Reference Series, "Orientalism's currentlytitled\Siren's Song," both to open in 2007. Book 7. Interlocutors:Painting, Architecture, kcbau m@m a i l. utex a s. ed u Photography",Edited by Jill Beaulieuand Mary Roberts.Duke University,2002.Review in Woman'sArt Journal,Fall 'rContemporary 2004/Winter2005, Volume 25, #2 pp. 31-33. Jack Becker (M.A. 2002; Ph.D. 20021 Arab Women'sArt: Dialoguesof the Presenf',Edited by Fran In 2005 Jack Beckerwas appointedPresidenVCEO of Lloyd. London:Women's Art Library,1999. Reviewin CheekwoodBotanical Garden and Museumof Art in Nashville, Woman'sAft Journal, Spring/Summer,2005, Volume26, #1, TN. Beckeralso completedhis MBA from the Universityof "Change MiamiUniversity, Nov.4, "Championing pp. 56-57. in EgyptianArt," Michiganin May2005. Hisessay Tonal 1996. "lssuesin ContemporaryFeminist Art: OpenDoors and Painting:The LotosClub," was publishedin the exhibition GlobalFamilies," The AmericanUniversity in Cairo,Egypt, "Contemporary catalogue, The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism,for March11, 1997. Pedagogiesfor Ancient SpaniermanGallery, in November,2005. EgyptianArt and Architecture,"American Research Center in ibe cke r@ c h eekwood.orq 15 Egypt'sInternational Conference, Ann Arbor, April12, 1997. MarjorieHall (M.A.1975) "(Re)ConceptualizingOtherness: Egypt,Education and MarjorieJ. Hall(Ph.D. University of Michigan,1984) is the CulturalStudies-Contemporary Egyptian Art and lts Other(s)," Associate Professorof Art Historyand the Chair of the Arts the AmericanResearch Center in Egypt'sInternational Departmentat WheelockCollege in Boston,MA. She recently "Narrative Conference,Los Angeles,April 25, 1998. "ContemporaryArab published: Strategiesin Medievallmages of the and PersianWomen Artists," ARLIS, Cincinnati Art Museum, Journeyto Emmaaus,"Arfe MedievaleXIV (2000),pp. 1-13. October3, 2003. [email protected] [email protected]

Cynthia Fowler (Ph.D. 2002) Peter Kaellgren(Ph.D. 1987) CynthiaFowler is AssistantProfessor at WentworthInstitute of Petercontinues as curatorin the EuropeanSection of the Technologyin Boston,MA. Her articles,Gender Departmentof World Culturesat the RoyalOntario Museum, Representationin the Art of Jaune Quick Io See Smlfh, was Toronto. While servingas Curator-in-Chargeof European publishedthis year in Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art (1989-1994),he headedthe teamthat created the southwing vt (2005). of the SamuelEuropean Galleries where periodrooms and decorativearts from the ROM collectiondocument the Cynthiawas awardeda one-monthfellowship to researchthe evolutionof stylefrom c. 1100 to 1940. He has been hookedrug collectionof HenryFrancis Dupont at the responsiblefor developingan annualDecorative Arts WinterthurMuseum this year. Sympo$ium,now in its 16thyear, which brings together speakersfrom NorthAmerica, Britain and Europe. The "Representations She presentedthe followingpapers: of upcomingprogram is lhe History of Dining: Reflectionsfrom GenderComplementarity in ContemporaryAmerican lndian the Decorative Arts, April20-22,2006. In recent years, Peter's Art" presentedat the annualconference of the Women's researchhas focusedon the silvercollection at the Royal HistoryNetwork, Southampton Solent University, OntarioMuseum. Since 1981 , numerousgifts and bequests Southampton,UK . "Batikas Art in EarlyTwentieth Century have createdone of the top ten museumcollections of British New York",at the InternationalBatik Conference, and Europeansilver in NorthAmerica. A new state-of-the-art MassachusettsCollege of Art, Boston,MA. She will co-chaira SilverVault was openedin 2004. An annualscholarly lecture "lnterrogating panel Bostonas a Site for ContemporaryArt," at for silverhas been established,and Peterhas pursued the 2006 annualconference of the CollegeArt Associationin researchon early Englishsilver toys and the Lee Collection. Boston. Lord Lee of Fareham,one of the foundersof the Courtauld lnstituteand a leadingfigure in the Londonart world duringthe An Exhibitionof batikart of Belgiancontemporary batik artist 1920sand 1930s,donated his collectionof silver,gold and RitaTrefois was held at Wentworth's CasellaGallery during manuscriptsto Torontoin 1947. Peterwas appointedchair of the monthof June. The Exhibitionwas part of the lnternational the Art & ArchaeologyEditorial Board last fall. His exhibition BatikConference sponsored by the MassachusettsCollege of Ddco Lalique,drawn from the ROM collection,showcases Art. Cynthiais organizingan exhibitionwith the Bostonbranch Laliqueglass and its imitations.lt is on view untilJanuary, of the Women'sCaucus for Art titled"Local Women in a Global 2007.Recent publications include catalogue entries for A. World: Perspectivesof BostonWomen Artists"to be held at Duncan,High Style:Masterworks from the Bernard and Sylvia Wentworth'sCasella Gallery in conjunctionwith the annual Ostry Collectionin the Royal OntarioMuseum (ROM, Toronto, conferenceof the Women'sArt Caucus,which runs at the 2005: distributedby the AntiqueCollectors' Club). You can same time as CAA. Wentworthaffiliates are invitedto the contactPeter at the RoyalOntario Museum, 100 Queen's openingreception, date and time TBA. fo,[email protected] Park,Toronto, Ontario MsS 2C6, Canada.Tel.416-586-5706 or [email protected] and his partnerJohn Alexander just purchaseda largerhome in the east end of Toronto. RandaltG. Griffin (Ph.D.1994) RandallC. Griffinis Chairof the Art HistoryDepartment at SouthernMethodist University. He has a forthcoming EllenLandau, (Ph.D. 1981) monograph,Winslow Homer: An American Vision,which EllenLandau was a visitingscholar at the AmericanAcademy PhaidonPress is publishingin the Springof 2006. His book, in Rome:July 2005. She publishedand editedvolume with Homer, Eakins,and Anshutz: The Search for American ldentity extensiveintroductory essay, Reading AbstractExpressionism: in the GildedAge, was awardedthe DallasMuseum of Art's Contextand Critique(Yale UniversityPress, 2005). Currently "Pollock VasariAward for the best art historybook authoredby a Ellenis curating Matters":international touring scholarin Texas. [email protected] exhibitionset to open August,2006; accompanyingbook to be publishedby HarryN. [email protected]

16 fantasticChicago courtesy of a Mellonfellowship at the Joan Marter (Ph.D. 1974) NewberryLibrary. Upon his return,he establisheda three- Joan Marterhas recentlybecome Editor-in-Chief of Woman's weeksummer field school in Falmouth,Jamaica, as a means Art Journal,which is now co-sponsoredby RutgersUniversity of integratinghis teachingand his researchinterests in the and Old CityPublishing, Inc. Martercontinues as a memberof architecturesand culturesof the GreaterBritish Caribbean. the Boardof Directorsof the CollegeArt Association,and has His volumeof editedessays entitled American Sanctuary: recentlybeen appointedChair of the ExhibitionsCommittee. UnderstandingSacred Spaces is due out from lndiana "Arcadian Currentpublications include: Nightmares:The UniversityPress early in 2006. In6n@cms'mail'virqinia'edu Evolutionof DavidSmith and DorothyDehner's Work in Bolton Landing"in Reading AbstractExpresslonism, Context and Critiqueedited by EllenG. Landau(Yale UniversityPress, MichelineGelestine Nilsen (Ph.D.2OO3) 2005). At the annualconference of the CAA in 2005, Marter MichelineNilsen is in her secondyear of a tenure-trackart presented"science Fictionand TechnologicalInterface: historyteaching position at IndianaUniversity South Bend. for the ConstructivistSculpture of the 40s and 50s". LastApril she She has also been appointedCampus Theme Director "All-Over: an organizeda symposiumentitled Abstract 2005-2006academic year, for which she has been awarded Expressionism'sInternational Context" at Stony Brook IndianaUniversity New PerspectiveGrant. Thanksto a University.Marter is DistinguishedProfessor of Art Historyat FacultyResearch grant, she spentthe Summer2005 doing RutgersUniversity and Directorof the CertificateProgram in additionalresearch on her dissertationtopic in London,Paris, CuratorialStudies. [email protected] Berlinand Brussels.She is hopingto spendnext summer revisingher dissertationfor publication.ln the past year, she deliveredpapers at Hagleyand CAA and is preparinganother W. BarksdaleMaynard (M.A. 1994; Ph.D. 1997) for a nationalconference in April. She contributedseveral W. BarksdaleMaynard's book, Walden Pond: A History entriesto a forthcomingEncyclopedia of Urbanism. A proposal (Oxford,2004) has receivedtwo awards, a Certificateof for a Minorin Art Historyat IUSB has just been approvedand Commendationfrom the AmericanAssociation for Stateand work is undenruayfor extensivecurriculum revision and a LocalHistory and the BostonAuthors Club JuliaWard Howe Major. New coursesare providingexciting research and SpecialAward. [email protected] classroomdevelopments. [email protected]

David McGarthy,(M.A. 1988; Ph.D. 1992) PenelopeO'Sullivan (M.A. 1999) DavidMcCarthy was promotedto professorin the spring2005 PenelopeO'Sullivan, the former PenelopeBass Cope, is a NH. She finished and currentlyholds the James F. RuffinProfessorship of Art gardenwriter and designernear Portsmouth, her 1Othbook, Miracle Gro's Beautiful Perennials Made Easy, and Archaeologyat RhodesCollege. This pastsummer he last summer and has two books scheduledfor publicationin participatedin a six-weekNEH seminaron the Vietnamwar, 2007. [email protected] and recentlypublished an essayon JamesGill's Vietnam paintingsin UncommonPlaces: The Art of James FrancisGill (SanAngelo, Texas: San AngeloMuseum of FineArts, 2005). Marina Pacini (M.A.1988) In Octoberhe gave a paperon Americanartists and mass MarinaPacini, Chief Curator at the MemphisBrooks Museum "Ernest mediaduring the Vietnamwar at the SECACconference. He of Art, curated Withers& Memphis:Capturing a City," "From is currentlyresearching a book entitledAgainst lmperium: "Un/Bound:A Surveyof Artists'Books," and Byzantine AmericanArtlsfs in an Age of Global War, 1936to the Present. lconsto Nefertiti:The Jewelryof WilliamBartholomew." She "Pop [email protected] also delivereda paperentitled Art and Religion:Marisol's The [Holy]Family," at the SoutheasternCollege Art Conferencein LittleRock, Arkansas. (Ph.D.1971) William Morgan, ma ri n a .p a elni @b ro o kqnLu s e um. o rq WilliamMorgan has beenwriting full time following his last teachingjob as a sabbaticalreplacement at Wheaton. Two books came out in 2004:American Country Churches Joyce Hill Stoner (Ph.D.1995) (Abrams) and The AbramsGuide to American House Sfy/es. Dr. JoyceHill Stoner (Ph.D. 1995) is the Directorof the new ln the Springof 2006, PrincetonArchitectural Press will publish PreservationStudies Doctoral Program at the Universityof "Art Th e Ca p e Cod Cotta g e. d_ivin e p roylsle n [email protected] e"ri zo n. n et Delawareand is chairinga sessionat CAA on Historian- Art ConservatorAlliances." She finishedher term as Vice Presidentof CAA in May 2005. [email protected] Louis Nelson(Ph.D. 2001) LouisNelson continues to enjoy his positionas Assistant Professorof ArchitecturalHistory at the Universityof Virginia. He and his family havejust returnedfrom a sabbaticalleave in T7 ThayerTolles (M.A.1990) 2005. She is continuingresearch on the Goncourtbrothers in ThayerTolles delivered a paperat CAA last Februaryin view of publishinga book basedon her dissertation. Atlantain the sessionon Americansculpture historiography. pa m e I a. w a rn e r@v a g a d e I a p I a i n e. o rq The paperwas titled,'Writing for a Cause:Late-Nineteenth- CenturyCritics, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and American Sculptures."ln the SpringThayer published an articlefor Judith Zilczer(Ph.D. 1975) "The AmericanArt, Saint-GaudensNational Historic Site," and JudithZilczer, Curator Emerita at the HirshhornMuseum and currentlyis co-curatinga show at the UBS Galleryin New SculptureGarden, co-organized the exhibition,Visual Music, "Nine York, ContemporarySculptors: Fellows of the Saint- 1905-2005,on view at the Museumof ContemporaryArt, Los GaudensMemorial." thayer.tol|[email protected] Angeles,from February13-May 22, 2005 at the Hirshhorn Museumfrom June 23-September 11, 2005. Her essay"Music for the Eyes:Abstract Painting and LightArt" servedas the CatherineTurrill, (Ph.D.1986) leadessay for the accompanyingcatalogue, published by CatherineTurrill is now in her secondthree-year term as Chair Thamesand Hudson. In addition, Dr. Zilczer contributed of the Art Departmentat CaliforniaState University, entrieson RaymondDuchamp-Villon for the catalogue Sacramento.She also is the chairof the StudentAffairs Collecting Modernism: European Masterworks from the Committeeof the AcademicCouncil on InternationalPrograms Munson-Williams-ProctorAris lnstitute (2005). She was for the CSU system(this committee has the delightfultask of invitedto contributean essay,"L'univers symbolique de selectingstudents for the year-longforeign study programs RichardLindner," to the cataloguefor the exhibition,Richard sponsoredby CaliforniaState University).In Spring2006, she Lindner: Adults Only, at the Musee de Ia Vie Romantique, will be teachinga shortseminar on Dan Brown'snovel,/ The Paris(2005). Currently,Dr. Zilczeris workingon a monograph Da Vinci Codei,for the Collegeof ContinuingEducation at on the art of Willemde Kooningfor PhaidonPress, London.. [email protected] SacramentoState. This last task was acceptedin the spiritof mountinga crusade,as she hasfairly strong opinions about the book and its.presentationof Renaissanceart and culture. tAfillc@csus"edu

Beth Venn (M.A.1998) BethVenn recentlyaccepted the positionof Curatorof Modern and ContemporaryArt and SeniorCurator of the Departmentof AmericanArt at the NewarkMuseum in New Jersey. [email protected]

PamelaWarner (M.A.2004; Ph.D. 2005) PamelaWarner beganteaching art historyfull'time at the Universityof Massachusetts-Dartmouthin September,2005. She marriedin Parisin Januaryand willshare her time betweenthe UnitedStates and France. Her translationof Max Ernstletters was publishedin a new catalogueraisonne edited by Werner Spies,Max Ernst:Life and WorkCologne: Dumont,

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