On January 25th, Professor Jill Casid and artist Sunny Leerasanthanah lead a conversation at the Kohler Arts Center in the Social STUDIO focused on the short story “The Bad Graft” by Karen Russell, published in …
Month: February 2024
Student Spotlight | Professor Pruitt to Give Lecture At UChicago
Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be giving a lecture as part of the Smart Lecture Series at the University of Chicago on February 29th, 2024. The talk will explore a portion of her new book-in-progress, Inheriting an Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in …
Student Spotlight | A Winter Show Wonderland
In January, Eva Kushner (’24) visited the 70th edition of The Winter Show located at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City to experience the booth of esteemed UW–Madison alum, art dealer, and …
Student Spotlight | Medievalists’ Haggerty Exhibition Sneak Peak
Ph.D. Candidates Abby Armstrong Check, Claire Kilgore, and Tania Kolarik are co-curating a forthcoming exhibition on American Catholic collecting practices at the Haggerty Museum of Art on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. The show, which will take place …
Student Spotlight | Claire Kilgore Featured by Graduate School
Ph.D. Candidate Claire Kilgore was recently profiled by the UW–Madison Graduate School as a WARF-Funded graduate student. You can read the full write-up about Claire’s current research and forthcoming projects here.
Fill the Hill Spirit | Art Historical Flamingo Support in Texas
The Fill the Hill Spirit is alive and well in Southeast Texas! 2023 Fill the Hill donor Penny Robertson is excited to share her 175th Anniversary Flamingo in it’s new home amongst her plants and …
Student Spotlight | Laura Hoekstra Begins New Position
Laura Hoekstra (Ph.D. Candidate) is beginning a new position with the Wisconsin Historical Society as the Architectural Historian for the Museum Archaeology Program (MAP). MAP engages in the identification and preservation of Wisconsin’s cultural resources and …
CAA February 14–17, 2024
The UW–Madison Department of Art History will have a strong showing at this year’s College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago. Here is the schedule of our department’s faculty and students by day of the conference: Thursday, February …
Student Spotlight | Claire Kilgore Publishes Exhibition Report in ICMA Newsletter
While conducting dissertation research in Germany this summer, Claire Kilgore (Ph.D. Candidate) visited the exhibition Das Mittelalter—die Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts (The Middle Ages—The Art of the 15th Century) at the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg. In addition to …
Happy Lunar New Year 2024!!! 🐉 🐲
Happy Lunar New Year!!! 🐉🐲