Professor Jill Casid debuted a specially commissioned film, Untitled (Melancholy as Medium) on Wednesday, June 9th. Casid conceived the fifth chapter Melancholy as Medium of the exhibition Indisposable: Structures of Support after the ADA curated by UW Art History Ph.D. candidate Jessica A. …
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Student & Faculty Spotlight: Cooley and Prof. Casid Collaboration
We are pleased to announce the next online chapter of Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, co-curated by Jessica Cooley (UW–Madison, Art History, Ph.D. Candidate) and Ann M. Fox on Wednesday, June 9th from …
Faculty News: Greener-Pastures Borghesi-Mellon Workshop Continues in 2021–22
Greener-Pastures: Remembering the Past and Reimagining the Future of America’s Dairyland, a Borghesi-Mellon Workshop through the Center for the Humanities, will continue in 2021–22. Please contact Prof. Anna Andrzejewski if you are interested in becoming involved.
Faculty News: Prof. Ann Smart Martin Consulted for “The Underground Railroad”
Professor Ann Smart Martin served as a consultant on a tea-drinking scene in the Academy award-winning director Barry Jenkins’ filming of The Underground Railroad. Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, the multi-part series …
Faculty News: Prof. Andrzejewski’s Florida Research
Professor Anna Andrzejewski will be giving another paper on her research on retirement housing in South Florida. She will deliver “Building Paradise: Shaping the Architecture of Retirement in South Florida, 1945–1965,” focusing on Orange Lake Village in …
Invaluable Support: Japanese Art History and the Legacy of Joan B. Mirviss
The Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to announce the full endowment of the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art through the generosity of alumna Joan B. Mirviss. The …
Morgridge Match creates Faculty Fellowship in Art History
The UW–Madison Department of Art History, founded in 1925, announces the creation of an endowed faculty fellowship that signals the department’s strong commitment to faculty excellence as it sets the stage for the next century. …
Faculty News: Prof. Cahill Gives Lecture on Sardis Excavations
Wednesday, April 7th | 5:00–6:30pm CT Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Zoom Join Professor Nicholas Cahill for the biennial lecture on research and discoveries at Sardis, one of the great ancient cities of western Turkey from the Bronze …
Faculty News: Casid’s Mentorship Honored on Artnet
Under the banner headline, “meet 26 women who’ve inspired the art world,” for International Women’s Day this year (March 8, 2021), Artnet News ran the feature article, “26 Art-World Women Celebrate the Women Who Inspire …
Faculty News: Prof. Pruitt Writes Blog Post on her “Personal Canon”
Professor Jennifer Pruitt recently contributed a blog post for Yale University Press, documenting her “Personal Canon” of five influential texts. Read more to find out the works that inspired her most in writing her 2020 …