PhD Candidate Tania Kolarik has been spending part of her summer quarantine embroidering the 50th anniversary Kohler Art Library tote bag as a way to de-stress. Tania, who has made quilts and her own clothes, works on fourteenth …
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Student Spotlight: Jessica Cooley Curating for the Ford Foundation Art Gallery
Jessica Cooley (PhD Candidate) has been commissioned by Ford Foundation’s Art Gallery where she is co-curating a yearlong online and physical exhibition titled INDISPOSABLE: Structures of Support after the ADA. Stay tuned for updates on …
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Student Spotlight: Lindsay Wells Writes Encyclopedia Entry
Lindsay Wells (PhD Candidate) recently published the entry on “Horticulture” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing (2020, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham). This entry chronicles the contributions that women such as Jane Loudon, Elizabeth A. …
Student Spotlight: Kendra Greendeer’s (PhD Candidate) Fall Exhibition Now Online
Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas curated by indigenous scholars Kendra Greendeer (Ho-Chunk) and Dakota Mace (Diné) explores the material interrelationships among cultures with long histories of exchange throughout the Americas. “As Indigenous curators, we felt that it was important …
Student Spotlight: Tania Kolarik & Claire Kilgore Accepted to Newberry Dissertation Seminar
Tania Kolarik (PhD Candidate) and Claire Kilgore (PhD Student) have been accepted to the Newberry Library’s Dissertation Seminar on Gender, Power and Culture. This seminar begins in September and will end in May 2021. It provides an interdisciplinary community …
Student Spotlight: Kendra Greendeer Wins Place in CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice
Kendra Greendeer (PhD Candidate) has won a place in the prestigious CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. The seminar takes place over two weeks in New York City and provides an in-depth introduction for Art History PhD …
Student Spotlight: Opening Day of “Gender Euphoria”
Today is the opening of incoming PhD Student Becca Owen‘s exhibition Gender Euphoria: Contemporary Art Beyond the Binary! It begins with a Drag Performance by Hailey Tayathy at 9:00pm CST. You can register here: https://linktr.ee/gender_euphoria_art
Student Spotlight: Trans Art Show Curated by Becca Owen (Incoming PhD Student)
Gender Euphoria: Contemporary Art Beyond the Binary opens on July 9! Becca Owen, an incoming student to the Art History PhD program, curated Gender Euphoria for Five Oaks Museum. The exhibition features twelve contemporary transgender …
Student Spotlight: Fernanda Villarroel Featured by the UW–Madison Graduate School
The UW Graduate School published a feature report on Art History PhD candidate Fernanda Villarroel‘s research. As Megan Chua reports, Villarroel has received two national fellowships that support her scholarship exploring the concept of the …