Art History Newsletter Looking Back at 2016– 2017 Welcome to the annual newsletter of the Art History program at The University of Texas at Austin, which features an overview of the previous year’s activities by faculty, students, and alumni. Students and alumni, friends and supporters, if you have news of awards, publications, conference papers, etc. for the current year, please send that information, since we’ll be gathering news for next year’s newsletter during 2017–2018. Nassos Papalexandrou, editor [email protected] Congratulations to our 2016–2017 undergraduate BA recipients! FALL 2016 Soffiyah Ali Cassondra Huckle Arielle Epstein Marisa Hunt SPRING 2017 Daniel Beattie Danielle Meyer Kaylan Burnette Madeline Nastala Daniel Clay Adeleye Omotosho Stephanie Gardea Margaret Phippin Katherine Ghiselli Jacqueline Slivka Sarah Kennedy Abigail Weller Philippa Maples 2016 – 2017 Art History Newsletter 2 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Awards and News Amy Anderson Noel Rivera • McCalla (Maline Gilbert) study abroad award • Learning Tuscany scholarship for Learning Tuscany Tyler Tschirhart June Chee • Semi-finalist, University Co-op / George H. • Roark Endowed Scholarship for Learning Mitchell Award Tuscany • In 2017–2018: Georgetown School of Law Daniel Clay Francesca Zwang • Plan II scholarship and year of Arabic study in • Summer-long internship, Department of Meknes, Morocco with the American Councils Antiquities, Princeton University Art Museum, Arabic Overseas Flagship Program Princeton, NJ Carlos Moreno • Member, Teen Programs Advisory Council, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston Moreno’s focus is to provide cross-disciplinary perspectives and input for the planning of a large- scale national conference: Building Brave Spaces: Mobilizing Teen Arts Education (November 2018) Honors Recipients Daniel Clay Philippa Maples Ade Omotosho Tyler Tschirhart 2016 – 2017 Art History Newsletter 3 Congratulations to our 2016–2017 recipients of graduate degrees! MA Amy Beth Angell Patricia Ortega Miranda Caitlin Irene Dimartino Allison Michelle Porambo Katrina Erni Elizabeth Srsic Kelsey Hoffman Sarah Charlotte Topping Katie Alexandra Hooker Christopher Wood Erin McClain Keelin Xiaoyu Zeng PhD Mari Rodriguez Binnie Anastasia Rees Sarah Celentano Hannah Wong Kimberli Gant 2016 – 2017 Art History Newsletter 4 GRADUATE STUDENTS Fellowships, Curatorships, Internships, Awards, and other News Jessamine Batario Julia Detchon • Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow, The Menil • Peter C. Marzio Award for Outstanding Research in Collection, Houston, 2017–2018 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art, 2016 PRESENTATIONS • Tinker Field Research Grant, LLILAS, summer 2017 • “Breaking and Making History: Clement Greenberg’s Byzantine Modernism,” Historical • Mellon Director’s Initiative Research Fellowship, Modernisms Conference, School of Advanced Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, summer 2017 Study, Institute of English Studies, University • Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Art, of London (December 2016) Blanton Museum, 2017–2018 • “Opaque Accumulations: Julie Mehretu and Abstraction,” in the public event, “Beyond the Jessi DiTillio Model: Women in Art History,” hosted by • University of Texas at Austin Graduate School HIVE Collective, Austin, TX (August 2017) Summer Fellowship, summer 2017 • “Ryan Hawk,” in Trouble: 2017 Studio Art • Newberry Library Seminar on American Art MFA Thesis Exhibition (Austin: University of Fellowship Texas Press, 2017); colloquium discussant in the MFA Thesis Exhibition • Curator, “Nobody’s Darling: Women and Representation,” Christian–Green Gallery, Dorota Biczel The University of Texas at Austin • Curator, Exercises in Constructivists Oscillations, Kendyll Gross W Austin, TX, 2016 • Intern, New Orleans Museum of Art, summer 2017 • Curator, Moving Mountains: Extractive Landscapes of Peru by Edi Hirose & Nancy La Rosa, Mezzanine Gilles Heno–Coe Gallery, Visual Arts Center, 2016 • Günther Stamm Prize for Excellence for “The • Three exhibitions at The Courtyard Gallery, Mind of Matter: The Ink on Plastic Drawings of Austin, TX, 2016–2017 Jasper Johns,” Art History Graduate Symposium, • Curator, Alec Dempster: Jarocho Impressions– Florida State University, 2016 Musical Motives from Southern Veracruz, MECA, Houston, TX, 2017 Claire Howard • Dissertation Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center Taylor Bradley Research Fellowships in the Humanities, • Mellon Fellowship, Prints and Drawings / 2016–2017 European Painting, Blanton Museum of Art, • Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellowship, 2017–2018 The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, 2016–2017 Douglas Cushing • Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of • Houghton Library Fellowship Texas at Austin • University Continuing Fellowship for 2017–2018 • Curator, Goya: Mad Reason, Blanton Museum of Art 2016 – 2017 Art History Newsletter 5 GRADUATE STUDENTS Fellowships, Curatorships, Internships, Awards, and other News Claire Howard cont’d Jennifer Muslin PRESENTATIONS ARTICLES • Panelist and co-organizer, “A Multi-Layered • “Heu me Miserum! The Rhetoric of Misericordia Friendship: Gertrude Stein, Francis Picabia, in Roman Depictions of the Fall of Troy,” in Acts and the Transparencies,” in session “Friendships of the XII International Conference, Association and Their Formations: Creative Friendships, Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique Aesthetics, and Politics in Modernist Literature (AIPMA), Supplement Series of BABESCH, and Art,” Culture Industries: Modernist Studies edited by Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric M. Association Conference 18, Pasadena, CA Moormann. (2017) 143–149 (November 2016) • “Preliminary Notes on Two Seasons of Research at • Invited lecture, “Marcel Duchamp’s Étant Oplontis B,” Ivo van der Graaff, Jennifer L. Muslin, donnés,” Willamette University, Salem, OR Michael L. Thomas, Paul Wilkinson, John R. (November 2016) Clarke, and Nayla K. Muntasser. FOLD&R 362, 2016 • Organizer and moderator, “Surrealism and the • “Use and Reuse of Amphorae. Wine residues Art of the 1960s,” Vivian L. Smith Foundation in Dressel 2-4 amphorae from Oplontis Villa B Symposium, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (Torre Annunziata, Italy),” Alessandra Pecci, (May 2017) John Clarke, Michael Thomas, Jennifer Muslin, Ivo van der Graaff, Luana Toniolo, Domenico Allison Kim Miriello, Gino Crisci, Mauro Buonincontri, and Gaetano Di Pasquale, Journal of Archaeological • American Association of University Women Science: Reports, 12 (2017): 515–521 Austin Branch Fellowship for Doctoral Candidates, 2017–2018 CONFERENCE PAPERS • “L’Agro Oplontino: il paesaggio antico, gli Elliot López–Finn insediamenti, e lo sfruttamento delle risorse del • Scholar in Residence, Arquetopia Foundation territorio vesuviano,” J.R. Clarke, G. Di Maio, J. Mexico City, summer 2017 Muslin, A. Pecci, M.L. Thomas, I. van der Graaff, Extra Moenia: Abitare il territorio della regione Jeannie McKetta vesuviana, convegno internazionale. Pompei, Italy. June 23, 2017 • College of Fine Arts Continuing Fellowship • “Changing Perspectives: Catullus, Lucretius, and PUBLICATIONS Architectural Transformations in the Palatine • “Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,” Exhibition Magna Mater Sanctuary,” Society for Classical Review for CAA Reviews (November, 2016) Studies Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. January 6, 2017 • “Cy Twombly Letter to Leo 1963.” In Pen to Paper: Artists’ Handwritten Letters from the • “Everyday Luxury: Material Perspectives on Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, edited Working and Living in Oplontis B,” Reframing by Mary Savig (Princeton Architectural Press, Roman Luxury, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Princeton 2016) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. April 2, 2016 2016 – 2017 Art History Newsletter 6 GRADUATE STUDENTS Fellowships, Curatorships, Internships, Awards, and other News Allison Myers Deirdre Smith • Mellon Fellowship, Modern and Contemporary • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Art, Blanton Museum, 2017–2018 Center for European Studies, The University of Texas at Austin Julia Neal Phillip A. Townsend • J. William Fulbright Graduate Fellowship for Germany, 2017–2018 • Drs. Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon Fellow in African American Art, Blanton Museum of Art • Terra Foundation for American Art Travel Grant (2016–2017) Fellow, fall 2017 • Curator, Light and Life: St. Louis Cemetery No.1 Patricia Ortega–Miranda Reframed through the Lens of John Pinderhughes, John L. Warfield Center for African and African • Mellon Director’s Initiative Intern, ICAA American Studies (2016) (MFAH), summer 2016 • Outstanding Graduate Student Award, John L. • University Engagement Fellow, Blanton Museum Warfield Center for African and African American of Art, spring 2017 Studies (2016) Catherine H. Popovici Elizabeth Tuggle • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, • UT Medieval Studies Fellowship to study Arabic, Institute of the Study of the Americas, University summer 2017 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for Yucatec Maya Summer Institute Elizabeth Welch • E.D. Farmer International Fellowship, • New York Public Library Short Term Fellowship, Mexico Center of the Teresa Lozano Long 2017–2018 Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), The University of Texas at Austin Robin Williams Catherine Powell • Ford Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2017–2018 • Kimbell Art Foundation Graduate Art History Student Research and Travel Fund Award for Christopher Wood pre-dissertation research, The Netherlands • Blanton Graduate Teaching Fellowship,