Recently retired Evjue-Bascom Professor Henry Drewal was named a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. for the months of …
Year: 2019
UW-Madison Alumnus Virgil Abloh Capsule Collection and Exhibition
UW-Madison Alumnus Virgil Abloh, creative director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear since 2018, has released a capsule collection in conjunction with the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris. In the Designboom article, …
Affiliate Faculty Prof. Sarah Anne Carter’s Forthcoming Edited Volume
Art History Affiliate Faculty Professor Sarah Anne Carter has co-edited the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture. Congratulations Prof. Carter!!!!! The book will be available in February 2020.
Interview with an Auditor Series: Dr. George Savage
Our second Interview with an Auditor is HERE! Check out our interview with Dr. George Savage, UW-Madison alumnus, senior auditor, and former American literature professor at UW-Whitewater through our Interview with an Auditor Series tab.
Faculty Spotlight: Prof. Yuhang Li at “Teaching Textiles”
On Friday, December 6th, Prof. Yuhang Li presented her paper “Teaching about Teaching Embroidery: Rethinking an Embroidery Manuel in Early Modern China” at the Teaching Textiles: Histories of Craft Instruction Symposium organized by Art History …
Alumni News: Prof. Ray Hernández-Durán (M.A., 1994)
Prof. Ray Hernández-Durán (M.A., 1994) was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico during the summer of 2019. He completed his M.A. in 1994 with Prof. Henry …
Current Class Spotlight: Prof. Dale’s Byzantine Art Class at the Chazen
The day before Thanksgiving Professor Tom Dale’s AH 310 “Icons, Religion, and Empire: Early Christian and Byzantine Art, ca. 200–1453” class toured the Russian icons in the Chazen Museum of Art in both the galleries …
Encore Screening and Talkback
On Tuesday, December 10 at 5:30 PM, in recognition of the 30th Annual Day (With)Out Art, the Chazen Museum of Art will screen STILL BEGINNING, organized by Visual AIDS. The program of seven newly commissioned videos by Shanti …
Faculty Spotlight: Prof. Henry Drewal’s Exhibition “Striking Iron” Opens in Paris!
Professor Henry Drewal’s exhibition “Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths” opened November 19th, 2019 at the Musee du quai Branly Jacques Chirac in Paris, France. The exhibition will close March 20th, 2020. Prof. Drewal …
Student Spotlight: Kendra Greendeer’s “The Land Remembers Native Histories”
PhD Student, Kendra Greendeer (Ho-Chunk), considers what the land remembers and the labor of commemoration in her article “The Land Remembers Native Histories” for Edge Effects. She tackles how land-grant universities must reckon with the …